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An estimated $900 million
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As long as their hand tools are warrantied I'm OK. Most of it is made in China now anyway.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. --Winston Churchill
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Wonder who will end up with Diehard Batteries?
Larry *********** "Speed is fine but accuracy is final" - Bill Jordan "We do not exaggerate when we state positively that the remodelled Springfield is the best and most suitable "all 'round" rifle".......Seymour Griffin, GRIFFIN & HOWE, Inc.
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Maybe the new owner will resurrect it.
For $900,000,000 I could have built a brand from scratch.
The Craftsman brand was bled dry.
Sears was bought for it's real estate portfolio and gutted.
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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We used to go to Sears every couple of weeks, now they are gone around here. I'll probably never go in another one.
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When i was a kid our Christmas was from sears.
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We used to go to Sears every couple of weeks, now they are gone around here. I'll probably never go in another one. This.
America needs to understand that our troops are not 'disposable'. Each represents a family; Fathers, Mothers, Sons, Daughters, Cousins, Uncles, Aunts... Our Citizens are our most valuable treasure; we waste far too many.
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When i was a kid our Christmas was from sears. When I was a kid the toilet paper came from Sears.
===================== Boots were made for walking Winds were blowing change Boys fall in the jungle As I Came of Age
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This is a tragedy for blue collar tradition. That said, I hope Stanley restores quality to pre-80's levels. I have some Stanley wrenches, and like them.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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Wonder who will end up with Diehard Batteries? I don't know, but someone had to manufacture the Diehard line. I have a Diehard Gold that came with my truck when I bought it in 2000 and as long as I keep the cells topped off, it kicks the engine over just like new even at -40* F.
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Going up in the Sears Tower is kinda depressing.
They were a good example of what innovation, hard work, and American made could represent.
Now they just suck.
Dave
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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When i was a kid our Christmas was from sears. When I was a kid the toilet paper came from Sears. When I was a youngster, we would await the new Sears catalog with great expectations for the bra section.
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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This area was settled starting about 1905. There are a lot of Sears kit houses here. They came in by rail and were hauled to the building sites with horses & wagons.
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It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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When i was a kid our Christmas was from sears. Same here. Between Sears and Roebuck and Montgomery Ward, as a boy I would spend endless hours laying on the living room floor with their big thick catalogs and dream about all the hunting and fishing gear within. The trouble is that we were so poor, if I got ANYTHING I was lucky.
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Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. - Plato
Deuteronomy 22:5
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Wonder who will end up with Diehard Batteries? I don't know, but someone had to manufacture the Diehard line. I have a Diehard Gold that came with my truck when I bought it in 2000 and as long as I keep the cells topped off, it kicks the engine over just like new even at -40* F. The Die Hard batteries are probably just made by Deka or Johnson Controls like most batteries in the US. There really aren't that many battery 'manufacturers'.
Mercy ceases to be a virtue when it enables further injustice. -Brent Weeks
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Sears is circling the drain. It won't be long now.
The internet is the new "catalog" and Amazon is the new Sears.
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Sears is almost finished and a real problem exists for those employees that worked for them for 30 years. Those guys have a retirement program and it will no longer be funded.
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Company held retirement accounts are usually the 1st source of cash for companies in trouble. You're far better off with your retirement held outside the company where they can't get at it. I've seen a number of companies get in trouble and that's happened every time. 401K's aren't the best retirement funds out there but at least they're safer than company held funds. I worked for a large trucking company for nearly 20 years. It went down in the late 80's. My retirement was through the union and I'm drawing it now. All the management people lost theirs since the company drained it immediately when things got tough.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
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So here's a question for folks. I have a nephew, some here have met him at one of the TN pig hunts, who is graduating high school here in a few months and will be heading to Purdue next year for Mechanical Engineering. When I graduated High School my Dad's gift to me was a several hundred piece Craftsman tool set. Here it is 35 years later and it's rare that a couple days don't go by that I don't still use that gift which makes it a great gift in my mind. I would really prefer to buy something made in USA, or at least not China. Looked at Snap On. Um, no. $1600 for a 3/4" ratchet set. Who makes a decent set? Typical stuff, multiple ratchet sets, open end wrenches, screwdrivers etc for less than a grand? If not Chicom will go with pretty much anyplace else.
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