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Sears is selling the Craftsman brand
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Sears has been in financial trouble for decades. Closing stores, re-aligning lines. Surprised it took them this long.
On another forum I thought I had read the Craftsman line went to China for manufacture some time ago..as in, no longer "Made in the USA".
On another forum I thought I had read the Craftsman line went to China for manufacture some time ago..as in, no longer "Made in the USA".
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It'd have to be some extreme adaptation, because if it's online shopping that people want, there needn't BE any brick and mortar stores...
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This raises the inevitable question:
No brick and mortar stores - where will those people work?
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I'd be curious, does it take more people to staff a Home Depot (or Walmart, etc.) or more drivers to deliver all the Amazon stuff?
Of course once self-driving trucks and drones take over... our economy is a-changing!
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Probably the former. But one thing that is nice about stores like Home Depot is you can actually see, touch, hold stuff. Much different than just viewing something online. My 2 cents.
Much prefer Brick and Mortar stores. Sometimes when I have a home repair problem I will go up and down various ails in Home Depot and see something I had not thought of which is a perfect solution. I try to buy at a B & M store and check to see where it was made. Buy US made if possible but sometimes there is no option but chinese made.
Hate the on-line shopping where they keep pushing pop ups in front of you. "Other shoppers have bought this item" type adds. But the availability of things on line is what the Instant Gratification generation want and stores seem to stock less and less now.
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Hate the on-line shopping where they keep pushing pop ups in front of you. "Other shoppers have bought this item" type adds. But the availability of things on line is what the Instant Gratification generation want and stores seem to stock less and less now.
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I prefer real stores for some things - like home repair stuff, appliances, etc., but for certain items, I'm fine with online. For example, I buy nearly all my Camera gear online. I try to ignore the ads and just buy what I went there to buy (I say I try - not saying I'm always successful LOL)
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Which is the joke to me. Having to wait for the item to be shipped. Not acceptable when something like your heater breaks.
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I find our local hardware stores & lumberyard offer better quality stuff than Home Depot at prices that are at least competitive, if not better at times. I'm also in & out a lot faster. The only chain store I go to often is Barnes & Noble because we have no good local alternative. But nothing local can beat the net for some things.
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Do think we are also talking apples and oranges - We are particularly talking the demise of Department Stores (Macy's & Sears) And Sears has been lost in the woods for quite a while now - that said, yes this is a massive transition - online but also speciality shops. (Of course a good healthy chunk of we have seen the enemy and it is us 
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That said, this appeared on Hemmings today:
https://blog.hemmings.com/index.php...bution-and-domestic-manufacturing/?refer=news
Maybe even a silver lining if the quality and manufacturing stays on this side of the ocean.
)That said, this appeared on Hemmings today:
https://blog.hemmings.com/index.php...bution-and-domestic-manufacturing/?refer=news
Maybe even a silver lining if the quality and manufacturing stays on this side of the ocean.
Sears kind of falls into a never-neverland of retail. They are not WalMart or Target in terms of being a bargain place, but they are not upscale like many other chains.
It is sad to see a national institution like Sears failing. I remember getting the "Wish Book" Catalog every year and poring over the pages looking at the toys that I wanted. Later, I started looking at some of the automotive stuff they offered. They weren't quite as extensive as J.C. Whitney, but some of the stuff you could get from the Sears Catalog was really quite surprising for a department store.
It is sad to see a national institution like Sears failing. I remember getting the "Wish Book" Catalog every year and poring over the pages looking at the toys that I wanted. Later, I started looking at some of the automotive stuff they offered. They weren't quite as extensive as J.C. Whitney, but some of the stuff you could get from the Sears Catalog was really quite surprising for a department store.