My local Woodcraft is in Santa Rosa, which Google Maps informs me is 22.2 miles away. We moved into this place in January, and we've probably spent around $2500 there so far this year. We'll definitely be spending at least that in the next six months with a local store that has similar stock, I don't know if it'll be Woodcraft.
If the option is reasonable, I'll buy from a local store rather than from the Internet because I'd rather pay sales tax than shipping, and because it's worth a premium to me to have a local store with stuff in stock, and with salespeople who can help me.
Therein lies my real problem: I've had a couple of bad suggestions for them, in one case it cost me well over a hundred bucks in veneer and lumber (contact cement and veneer over baltic birch ply = bad idea), and in another case they didn't have a very common part, didn't even know what it was, so they set me up with a makeshift substitute (the bag tubes and assembly for a DeWalt 735 planer).
In both cases, the Internet showed me the right solution, had I gone to the net first I would have saved money and frustration. So I'm very open to finding another dealer that carries the tools I like and the materials I use, and the Woodcraft brand has a fairly neutral connotation to me. The good part, and the reason I'll probably end up back there, is that unlike the real shops they're open on weekends, but when it comes time to buy the drawer slides for the kitchen I'll be going elsewhere because they only stock Accuride slides, and though they've got some okay lumber most of the good stuff has been picked over (probably by the staff) by the time I've gotten there, so… well… as I've written this I've decided it's time to visit the other Festool dealer in Santa Rosa, and make sure my account is set up with the hardwood and hardware dealer that has the good slides and serious wood selection.
My favorite woodworking store is about 220 miles away, in Fresno. Part of that is that my brother in law works there, but they're a serious place catering to professionals first (they're the secondary showroom of a saw sharpening outfit), they have staff who actively make stuff professionally, they have a decent selection and are willing to tell you when they don't carry the best in breed for your application, and though they sell Rockler stuff, they don't limit themselves to that.
I think a Woodcraft franchise may be a good place to start, but I think to be a good woodworking store you have to go beyond Woodcraft's stock and brands.