Scrapstores closing

Hi All, I saw the very sad news this week that a store near to me is closing.  How do people feel about coming closer to support each other.  More local networks happening to try and keep smaller stores alive.  We should all feed into each other.  What do people think?  I would definitely be interested in getting a West Midlands Network up and running - we talked about it for a long time but nothing really came of it.  Thoughts appreciated.