I just got back from my store. I was thinking about getting that and the
wide-capacity pliers ($30, on sale for an unprecedented $13.69) to use my $15 in-store-only offer. That didn't work out, for reasons I'll explain next, but first I wanted to say that in spite of the universally favorable reviews (the only 1-star review is from some silly person who clearly meant 5-stars) on that digger (short-handled mattock), it didn't look as nice in-person as on the website.
Very visibly uneven castings on the heads (one with about a quarter-inch divot in the thinnest part where it wraps around the shaft), one had stress marks and scrapes on the fiberglass shaft near the head like they had trouble getting it on, and the other ones had scrape marks all up and down the handle. Made in India, which is usually worse than China. (The only tool from India I've been impressed with so far is the micro flush cutters from Harbor Freight, for cutting zip ties.) HF has a similar mattock that is hopefully not as disappointing-looking in person, but it does cost twice as much as this Sears sale price, so I was going to give the Sears one a shot anyway, after picking out the one with the least-uneven-looking head.
Buuut the unpleasant people on duty at my store this evening refused to price-match the Sears website, one BS excuse after another, first time in probably a year and a half that I haven't gotten a price-match when I asked for it (regardless of whether the website says "online only"), since they had decided they wanted people buying in-store as much as possible. Apparently they don't care anymore. So I put both of those back and was about to leave in disgust, but then I saw something on an unadvertised in-store-only sale that had been on my wish list.
Craftsman 3pc Door Trim Tool Kit
https://www.sears.com/craftsman-3pc-door-trim-took-kit/p-00949290000P
$10.99 in-store-only sale Nov 4 to Dec 1; $18.31 previous-best-seen-sale, $24.99 regularly
And to get over the $15 total I needed, I added the bottle opener that looks like a wrench - been wanting to pick one up eventually, and it turned out to be on sale in-store all month for the same price as the website (and until today when the website price dropped from $6.99 to $5.99, it was even beating the website price... but with the ridiculous way Sears runs things, there was no way to know without wandering through the store).
Craftsman Cap Wrench Bottle Opener
https://www.sears.com/craftsman-cap-wrench-bottle-opener/p-A011714711
$5.99 sale, $14.99 regularly
So at least I didn't leave empty-handed, got the $15 out of the way, and a different cashier opened another register right before it was my turn to check out so I didn't have to talk to the rude ones again.
Another item on an in-store-only sale that I spotted, didn't work out for my combination but could be a good filler for someone else:
Craftsman 4oz Cutting Fluid
http://www.sears.com/craftsman-4-oz-general-purpose-cutting-fluid/p-00952329000P
~$2.79 (it was somewhere in the upper $2s) in-store-only sale Nov 4 to Dec 1,
$4.00 previous-best-seen-sale (though I haven't watched it that closely),
$4.99 regularly
For the record, if you have less-unpleasant people running the registers at your local stores, the actual policy on price-matching the website is supposed to be that they can't do it from this Thursday (Thanksgiving) through the following Wednesday. There were several reports of people at other stores being able to get price-matches in-store during this big online sale.
Oh, and one more thing, I saw someone buying one of those rolling seats with storage that some of you have been eyeing - during the first 20 minutes of the doorbuster preview event this evening. I didn't see how many they had in stock, but it seems like it's going to be a big seller, so you might want to buy yours sooner rather than later if possible.
