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Re:Sears's History Predicts Almost Everything Amazon's Doing by jstarfish on Monday September 25, 2017 @01:33PM (#15332337)
> Craftsman used to be tools that would last you for decades, but you paid. Now it’s the same crap everyone else is selling with a different logo thrown on.

Only certain items. They certainly have fallen victim to slapping the Craftsman label on cheap plastic "things" out of desperation which has definitely impacted their reputation as of late, but for those of us who can't pay Snap-on prices for everything what remains of Sears' actual tools are still light years better than the malleable/rusty junk Lowe's, Home Depot, Amazon and Walmart sell.

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Re:Sears's History Predicts Almost Everything Amazon's Doing by lotsofpulp on Monday September 25, 2017 @04:48PM (#15334002)
http://pressurewashr.com/tool-industry-behemoths/

Here's a list of which companies own which brands. A lot of them probably come out of the same assembly lines with different names slapped on.

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Re:Sears's History Predicts Almost Everything Amazon's Doing by dugditches on Monday September 25, 2017 @03:10PM (#15333138)
Dewalt, Makita, Milwauke, etc are 'malleable/rusty junk'?

The only Craftsmen tools I see on job sites now are wrenches and screwdrivers.

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Re:Sears's History Predicts Almost Everything Amazon's Doing by jstarfish on Monday September 25, 2017 @04:59PM (#15334083)
No, I didn't have power tools in mind when I said that. Anything with a motor or more than a few moving parts is worth shopping around.

The basic hand tools and precision instruments are the Craftsman products I find are still worth using. The wrenches, torque wrenches, calipers, hammers, screwdrivers and the like. Nothing electronic or mostly plastic.

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Re:Sears's History Predicts Almost Everything Amazon's Doing by Aloha on Monday September 25, 2017 @03:21PM (#15333224)
Those are the durable ones that craftsman makes.
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Re:Sears's History Predicts Almost Everything Amazon's Doing by kps on Monday September 25, 2017 @05:11PM (#15334193)
Sears sold the Craftsman brand this year to Stanley Black & Decker (who also own DeWalt, Porter Cable, Bostich, and Mac among others).
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