Standard for Chemistry Supplies In searching for chemistry kits it often leads to stuff like this:



I have seen some nicer "boxed sets" for the ~$500 range, but I don't think this is really ideal. This one looks a little nicer. I am wondering two things:


Where the best "complete" home/DIY chemistry set is that you can get online. Including the chemicals themselves, and the equipment like beakers, pipettes, etc.
Where the standard places are that smaller or bigger labs like University student or research labs get their supplies.


I feel like I read somewhere a while back that it is being outlawed because of bad behavior, but I wanted to ask to see what is possible in terms of doing chemistry experiments/analysis in a DIY/bootstrap fashion to learn about things like way in the past. I don't know much about chemistry but it would be interesting to perhaps learn how to do analysis like you might (I imagine) find in biology, geoscience, ecology, or agriculture.
Answer on question 2. 

As a former chemistry student, I saw that most chemicals were ordered at:


Sigma Aldrich
Biosolve
Fisher Scientific
ThermoFisher Scientific
Local pharmacy (at least in Holland)


Equipment was often ordered directly at the manufacturer (like an HPLC) unless the device is pretty general, like a rotary evaporator.