Yeah, this is like the second wave of retailer reform (first was the "no websites").

Soon GW will be requiring all people with trade accounts to only offer whole boxes products (no bits, no sprues) and if you have a distributor account you have to promise that everyone you sell to also follows the rules for people with GW trade accounts.

It basically takes the best part of GW-- tremendous library of bits and convertibility-- and makes it more expensive.