Sad to hear another great shop is closing. Reading some comments sounds like the "Sky's falling the sky's falling", but as been said, life goes on. Thank goodness there are online stores that will take up the slack. But to me nothing compares to actually visiting the store and handling merchandise and triggering the impulse buy and immediacy of seeing it run on your layout (as well as contributing to local economy and keeping store lights on). Nothing compares to seeing the actual colors or fine detail that a picture shows.
So yeah I will miss MTH but at least there are other vendors to provide product as good as or better than MTH.