Why people don't buy craftsman anymore

Yeah, that happened to me around 1989.

My extremely well cared for, fine tooth ratchet started skipping.

Took it back and they handed me a beat to death coarse tooth model.

I was young and poor, and it was my only ratchet at the time and I was in the middle of fixing something on my only car.

...so I basically had to take it, but I gave them a ration of **** about the condition of mine vs the one they were pawning off on me.

LOUDLY.

That's exactly what happened to me...... They lost me over a Ratchet. But other tool Manufacturer's were starting to eat into them pretty good and so the story goes. Greed runs in the Sears name and will so til the end....

JW