Outdoor Power Equipment (Lawn Mowers, Snow Blowers, Chain Saws and more) Discussions

A few weeks ago I posted about how impressed I was with Simplicity's new 208cc SS unit, looked well built and much more appealing over the Toro. Anyway long story short I was just looking for some tools at Sears.com and noticed the Craftsman  88782 thou I would probably never buy a craftsman again this thing looks really nice! Anyone have any insight on this machine?

aa335, " I hate to Sears go."

Sears are not going out of business. It was a poor choice to buy the over 100 K-Mart stores  and now they are closing or selling these K-Mart stores

 and keeping and improving the Sears stores.   

In Canada there hasn't been any K-Mart stores for many years so there is none to  close or sell

royster wrote:
Sounds like it was a poor decision for a failing business to buy another failing business.

Like I said, I hate to see Sears go away.  Let's hope they can turn around and improve their business.

My local Ace Hardware now sells Craftsman hand tools. I stopped using their power tools in the 80's, but the sockets, etc. still seem as good as my old (60's & 70's) ones. They'll outlive me easily.

Bill_H wrote:

Believe it or not I use to think the same thing, both Sears's that I frequent said they see more broken sockets that ratchets....While I never had an issue with even one socket they said its an everyday occurance. IDK