Ridiculous! If you are assuming these folks that were buying mailorder will be forced to drive 25-100 miles you are dead wrong. If they did mail order before they still will. There are many mail order operations that have legitimate storefronts. Caboose Hobbies and MB Kleines to name but two of very many. How long do you think it'll take these places from setting up accounts with Horizon? I'd say no more than 30 minutes. If you think Accurails sales will increase big time I'd say you were wrong. Folks buy models based on #1 roadnames and #2 era modeled. If one manufacturer or another makes it it doesn't matter drastically to the consumer.
Dave