Find them one that can do it consistently and affordably and I think they would thank you. The problem is finding someone who not only has the time to make the trip once or twice a week for what LFS can afford to pay, who also knows what they are looking at and for, who also will continue to do it long term in order to develop and continue business relationships. Finding a decent employee to simply help customers is difficult, finding someone to do the LA run is near impossible - which is why so few stores in the SF Bay Area do it.
One guy did it for a while. He had a small shop and when he was doing the run he had problems finding someone decent to run the shop, and on those days it was very difficult to actually buy something. He couldn't afford to hire someone 'good', and eventually his schedule caught up with him and he closed the shop.
Its expensive, its hard and at the end of the day, you are still buying animals that might die and might not sell. Most LFS around here have enough problems without throwing money away to try to get the bestest most trendy corals in LA. The LFS customers in SFBA aren't that much different from those in the rest of the country and just because a store has great corals doesn't mean they are going to be selling them.
