All made in China now anyways. At this point, might as well buy the Husky or Kobalt store-brand tools you find yourself needing at Home Depot or Lowe's instead of driving out of the way to Sears.
Shame, too. Sears was an American institution ran into the ground by inept top-level management.
At one time they carried everything and had a burgeoning catalog operation. They should have owned the internet. All the Internet is is an electric catalog. They still can't get their website and on line distribution correct. to allow upstarts like Walmart at first then Target & Kohl's to eat into their market share just shows a stupidity of management.
Their management is so terrible they missed every opportunity to remain successful. It is almost as if they where trying to destroy the company.
Husky or Kobalt are far superior now to Craftsman tools. Back in the 70’s Craftsman was THE tool brand to own. Now it’s just Chinese die cast junk.
“All made in China now anyways. At this point, might as well buy the Husky or Kobalt store-brand tools you find yourself needing at Home Depot or Lowe’s instead of driving out of the way to Sears.”
You just as well buy Harbor-Freight hand tools. They are lifetime guarantee, just like craftsmen used to be.
Some of Harbor Freight's stuff is at least made in Taiwan.
It's already there.
The last thing I bought from them was a nice little spare set of ratchet/sockets for a great sale price.
The chrome wasn't its usual beautiful look. It had an obvious ugly brown tinge. Stuff rusted like crazy. I've got Craftsman sockets from 40 years ago that look like new.
I agree with the Husky/Kobalt tools. A lot of them are better than the latest Craftsman tools and certainly at a lower price.