Socket wrenches
I think its a trend now that American companies are bringing manufacturing back ......so I have faith that Sears will wake up before its too late.
its has to end good for Sears .....we cant lose them like Montgomery Wards......I wasn't here when M. Wards was here but my adoptive family has so much stuff from M.wards around the house .....good stuff and a shame a good store went down. The same cant happen to Sears and if my support helps any, then I will stick with Sears.
I would love to see Sears stay, but i think that they are on the way out.
The craftsman tools from the 70's and earlier are great, but in the 80's they started trying to reduce the cost and sacrificed quality.
I have used an broken many craftsman hand tools. I stopped using their taps after breaking 3-4 of them in oil pan bolt holes and had to Heli-coil them. The reason that I learned how to Heli-coil is to repair the f*cked up threads from breaking off the cheap taps that wouldn't shatter out (Like properly hardened ones would do) with an air chisel, and messed up the threads.
I switched to Hanson, now Irwin/Hanson taps and dies and haven't broken any of their taps in over 25 years, like with the Crapsman.
As I mentioned in my other post, now when you buy a new tool kit from Sears, you have to inventory every tool, to catch which ones they gave you doubles and which ones that you have missing.... No excuse for that. I could fix that problem for them easily, they don't seem interested in it.
When I was going to college, I did work at Sears in the garage as a mechanic. They were very busy back then. Now I go to the same store that I used to work at back then, and the auto center is almost empty. Barely 2 or 3 cars in the garage if they are lucky.... Not to mention that they close the auto repair center an hour or two before the rest of the store here....
and they own K-mart. K-mart sucks now. They have a "Super K" here that opened up about 20 years ago and was the place to go back then. Now, I barely see any cars in their parking lot. The stores are not well kept, and seem messy and cluttered. They opened up a Super Wal-Mart a mile and a half from there, and they are always busy.
If they don't wake up and change their ways, they will not be here much longer. They need to bench mark Wal-Mart and surpass them to get ahead and survive this economy.
I love Sears and still call it the Sears Tower, not "Willis Tower". Willis Tower reminds me of Todd Bridges.... "Whachu talking about Willis?"
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