I can't speak to Scottsdale, but NYC has plenty of brick-and-mortar sources for components, solder, tools, etc that don't require waiting 2-3 days for shipping like a damn chump.

Local Resources / Parts - NYC Resistor Wiki

It's a shame that some of the locations can't be bought up by either Google, Fry's Electronics, or Maker Labs, though. Sprint (the prospective buyer) is an abomination in all senses of the term.

And I hope that the series of execs that ran the company into the ground over the past 20 years get an incurable case of flesh-eating staph in the nether regions. A pox on their loins.