Ace won't warranty Craftsman tools that weren't purchased there.
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Oh Sears, please don't die
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Ace won't warranty Craftsman tools that weren't purchased there.
Craftsman hasn’t been a Sears brand for a while now. Stanley Black & Decker bought it in 2017.
Stanley owns MAC Tools as well.
Maybe I can give my broken Craftsman stuff to the MAC dealer?
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Stanley Black & Decker is apparently going to leverage the Craftsman brand to the max.
Press Releases | CRAFTSMAN ®
Press Releases | CRAFTSMAN ®
Sears Canada died last year after all the million dollar bonuses were paid out to execs and the workers were properly and thoroughly screwed most of the doors closed, A tragic end for a once mighty giant
I did, too. Same year. It was a white Explorer copy with built in effects.
My first bass was a $35 Silvertone...bought used, off the wall, at Poughkeepsie Music.
Day Um!
What would I trade for that very guitar today...almost a half-century later?!!
We used to have a Sears parts store/scratch and dent outlet just a few blocks from where I lived.
They closed that, dropped the scratch and dent but kept the parts and moved it to some out of the way side entrance at a distant K-Mart. That was closed down a couple of years ago.
In the garage band, our guitarist’s first rig was a Silvertone guitar with the amp built into the guitar case.
Sears seeks OK to pay out $19 million quarterly executive bonuses - CNN
You mean like how the execs are getting $19 million bonuses right now?
I will definitely miss Sears when it finally vaporizes, but mostly for nostalgic reasons. I still own and use lots of stuff that was purchased there, ranging from a '60s Silvertone acoustic, various Craftsman tools, a Sony boombox and a Braun electric razor. And up until a few years ago, I actually went out of my way to shop there, hoping that every small purchase I made might somehow help. But my nearest store is now 20+ miles away, and they downsized that location's footprint by about 50%. Oh, well.
Exactly that while the employee struggle to save any scraps of their pensions while bonuses after bonuses went out for exec performance, How that happens in a sinking company is beyond me but here we are in bizzaro world
The logic is that skilled executives and managers are needed to save the organization or at least salvage its maximum value in the best interest of debt holders. Without the “usual” compensation of competitive salary and bonuses, the executives and managers flee for better opportunities, and the company is doomed for failure — faster failure — due to talent drain. That’s the logic the bankruptcy court, the shareholders, the dept holders and management are working with. All want to maximize the value of the business or what’s left of it. If the reorganization is successful, employees keep their jobs, but they often have little input in these proceedings. The optics are clearly unfair to the Sears wage earners.
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
Guys, look it up. The intent was never to save the company. This is what the guy does.
