Hopefully BM has a plan in place to recruit new storefront dealers with incentives for them to stock and sell BM products. Also, it may be interesting to see what they consider a storefront. If you sell via the internet out of your house, what limits you from calling your house a storefront?
BM told me that you have to have a viable storefront (no residential), be open at least 5 days a week, and if they question that you have a store front they will send a local rep to check it out. How true all of this is, I don't know.
JL waters in bloomington is a benchmade dealer and while they aren't full line they do have a fair amount and told me they would order whatever I wanted.