They won't be competing with themselves Stan.

A vendor IS lost, the front offices will be consolodated, one group of people will be making decisions not two independent groups.

You will be buying from one entity when you choose either brand as long as the absorbed brand is allowed to exist.

Forced choice is no choce at all.

If the industry was in fact healthy B&P would not have been sold.

"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble