2015, Sears won't see it.

[theGinsue]

Well, my friends, I fear that Wal (China) Mart will be the only game in town soon. Then they will finally have the market cornered and will raise their prices. There will be no choice but to pay them since all the other competitors have gone the way of the Dodo bird. I used to drive past 2 Wal-Marts to get to the KMart at 120th & Sheridan because I despise Wal-Mart so much. Then, of course, they built another Wal-Mart right next door. God forbid we dont have a Wal-Mart every 2 miles.

Sad, but seemingly true. Reminds me of this:

I bought a Craftman torque wrench in the 80's, lifetime warranty. It broke in 2009 and when I brought it back to Sears they would not honor the warranty I will never buy from sears again.

What reason did they give you?

I went out looking for a torque wrench 2 years ago and my first stop was Sears. Aside from the cheap traditional one for $30+ dollars, the cheapest of the good modern style ones was $70+ dollars and they had others for well over $100. I felt $70+ dollars was awfully steep, but if it had a lifetime replacement warranty.... So, before making the purchase on the $70 one, I asked the tools section employee about the lifetime warranty since I didn't see anything mentioning it on the packaging. He gave me a look like "are you dumb" as he told me that none of the torque wrenches they carried had lifetime/replacement warranties. I walked out of the store without a torque wrench. I'm still looking for a good one that's still reasonably priced (I really need one too)