I'm fortunate enough to have a local seller. They don't stock everything, but they offer a complete product line competitive with just about anyone, once you are a regular customer. They drop ship to me what they don't have from usually Dallas or Houston, so I get it next day at ground rates. The keep a pretty good stock of carbide and end mills, taps and drills....all the standard stuff. I usually don't have the luxury of time to wait on sales, but then, my tooling cost is amortized over a job, or at least absorbed in the shop rate. I do browse the sales fliers from Enco, MSC (my second source), Travers, Wholesale Tool...and a few other specialty houses I that somehow ended up on their mailing list. Once in a while, I'll replace something worn out while it's on sale.