Stanley B&d Buying Craftsman

Yea, The whole Sears is full of problems, My daughter worked for them a couple of years ago and quite after they gave her a hard time. She was injured, and had to do something, they would not let her work around it and basically said if she could not do what they initially hired her for injury or not she was gone. Then come to find out the only people in the store that had been there longer than a few months was people who had been there so long they would have to pay the pension stuff to them if they left, Which it seemed they no longer offered. She said it was like a revolving door for personnel, and I believe it

Home Depot/ Lowes sell tools with a lifetime warranty not made in america but still pretty good. Its sad but things change and Sears couldn't/wouldn't adapt.

I still have the Craftsman socket and ratchet set my father bought for me in 1970 when I was 19. Replaced the 1/2" ratchet once around 1975 when, as a 24-year-old, learned that using the ratchet to remove frozen VW lugnuts by jumping on the tool was not the best idea but the set has served me well. A couple of years ago, I bought a second Craftsman 1/2" ratchet to keep in another toolbox. This one is made in China. It appears it will do the job, but the tool is definitely rougher in quality - not as smooth nor comfortable to hold. I agree with those who've posted about the Sears experience in general. The stores are depressing, the merchandise shoddy. The last thing I was still buying there was filters for my Sears humidifier, but I can get them much cheaper on the Web so no reason to go to Sears anymore.