Topic: Goodby Craftsman!!!

[Ken (OP)]

Sears selling Craftsman brand for nearly $1 billion

Sears said today it has agreed to sell its iconic, 89-year-old Craftsman brand of tools to Stanley Black & Decker.

This is a sad day for 'Tool Nuts' (like me) here in the US because these tools have been around for generations and it hurts to see the brand to be taken over by B&D because they have this nasty habit of turning companies and products into junk.

[Skhilled]

Agreed! Better buy 'em up while ya can...

[Maxx]

Sad day indeed

This has been happening to many fine USA products and it will never stop, We already owe our buts to other countries. many speak of changing this, but it's way late for that, I feel!

[Skhilled]

I just saw on the news that also 150 Kmart or Sears stores will be closing this spring. You can find the list of stores here:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/01/05/sears-kmart-stores-closing/96195504/

We haven't shopped at either one in ages. The local Kmart had already closed about a year or two ago and we rarely shop at Sears.