Can anyone make a case for China Craftsman?

[FergusonTO35]

I don't mind paying a premium for a USA made tool that I know is quality and will serve me well for decades. There is a place in the world for cheap tools but I have the luxury of avoiding it for the most part. That certainly wasn't the case when I started my auto career in 1997 so I bought what I could afford at the time.

If I find a Craftsman tool that I like I will buy it. I bought a ball pein hammer from them on Saturday, it's USA made and I've always liked their hammers. That said, Craftsman is a venerable old American brand and they should be above peddling a cheap, mostly chicom line of products. If they think that is all they can sell to people, at least sell them under a sub-brand such as Companion or even just plain old Sears. When I worked there this actually how they did it, one of the few things Sears was doing right at the time.

 

[zendriver]

Maybe the fact, that harbor freight tools quality gets better, why all the quality of sears tools gets worse, might just be a sign of the times.

We grew up poor, but my neighbor - who worked at the post office, insisted on only buying Sears clothes for his kids. Clothes from other stores including Kmart (who had no relationship to Sears at all at that time) we're just garbage or threads hanging off of them.

Well, shop at any Sears today and the clothes exact same type of garbage that Walmart sells even the Mexican made carrharts. Their small appliances are the exact same junk. Their Kenmore appliances are the same quality you get at Menards.

Selling a higher quality tools is not going to save them. Certainly the bean counters are only looking at what's left of the bottom-line.


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