Sears.com hot deals and clearance thread

[Hexen]

my kmart isn't available as an option for the 3 items in my cart--but it was as of yesterday

Still no change all day on my closing store being available as a pickup destination for online orders. Not sure if the liquidator just wasn't ready to step in at all the stores when originally scheduled, or if the skeleton crew left at Sears HQ is running late on deactivating stores from the website. Either way, no way to tell when this temporary reprieve will end.

 

[timoboy]

I print the policy that Hexen cited. In the store, I would call/chat with Sears.com and ask them if this is a new store-wide policy. If not, sears.com can tell the manager that s/he needs to comply with store policy and price match.

It’s been this way at some stores for years. My local one that is happily closing would never match anything online, competitors or otherwise. Wouldn’t warranty anything that wasn’t in stock. Wouldn’t warranty any ratchet that couldn’t be rebuilt, etc. Wouldn’t warranty anything with a spec of rust.

Stores only can be held to account when corporate exists to keep them in line. Once you could no longer call Sears corporate just an overseas call center employee with an unintelligible accent it was every store for themselves and nothing much could be done.

Heck I once had to cart a pile of the 8” drill presses that rang up $99.99 at that store to the one across town for the $24.94 price that they called and verified the price with but still wouldn’t match. They just never put anything on sale and overrode all the super clearance system prices. And that was years ago.

And I’ve said it before, but if buying with warranty in mind, Sears/craftsman is the wrong place even at a good store/through them directly. Too many oddball tools that have no current production or hoops to jump through. Ace is getting their craftsman from SBD now too so it’s days as a warranty location are likely numbered as well. My store would give out whole new ratchets and stuff which was cool for sure.


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[Hexen]

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And I’ve said it before, but if buying with warranty in mind, Sears/craftsman is the wrong place even at a good store/through them directly. Too many oddball tools that have no current production or hoops to jump through. Ace is getting their craftsman from SBD now too so it’s days as a warranty location are likely numbered as well. My store would give out whole new ratchets and stuff which was cool for sure.

And at Lowe's, even for SBD Craftsman items bought there, I've heard it's very difficult get them to do a warranty exchange without treating it as a return without receipt - which goes into the hellish 'TRE' (The Retail Equation) database under your driver's license, which they use to ban you (after some very small number of occasions) from ever returning/exchanging *anything* without a receipt at Lowe's ever again. If you ever try to do a Craftsman (or Kobalt or anything else they sell) warranty transaction at a Lowe's, do NOT let them record your driver's license. Save your receipts and do it under the receipt if the tool was purchased from a Lowe's. If you don't have a receipt, demand to speak to the tools department manager or the overall store manager; they reportedly have the ability to authorize an exchange without recording it under your DL.

 

[Hexen]

I’m not 100% sure the Ultimate Collection stuff are exactly crescent copies even if it is from Apex. My dad picked up a Crescent set somewhere just recently on clearance to keep in his car so I can check that when I go over to his house.

The speed handles are not the same as the individual ones they sell separately which I’d assume were Apex sourced unless they’ve changed the design and the ones the store had were somewhat different. They’re slightly different shape and feel heavier, the finish on the handle is somewhat better.

I mean I suppose the thing could be comprised of part from different companies then packaged but that seems like unnecessary effort.

The ratchets seems unique to these though it looks like they tried to do a knockoff of a Mac/Snap on design but the handle is flattened offset than typical.

The wrenches look like whoever they were using as a better Companion source in that other set I have.

Later this evening when I’m home I’ll take a few pics of the individual sockets, ratchet and maybe a side by side of the speed handle.
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Another Toolguyd comment about the Ultimate Collection ratchets, FWIW:

"That Ratchet appears to be based upon the USA Made Premium Ratchets that Sears sold up to about 2015 or so. Those were Danaher/Matco quality ratchets and today are going for about 200.00 a ratchet on eBay."

 

[yrly]

Here’s some pics of the Ultimate Collection ratchet. I also took some of the speed spinner, a socket, the breaker bar ratchet attachment I’ll post separately.

 

[yrly]

This is a 12 point socket, a universal socket, speed spinner, the socket handle and ratcheting adapter from the set. The speed spinner has a different bend than the one they carry open stock. I dunno if anything can be told from the design of the socket as to who made it. The socket handle to use as a nut driver is considerably heavier than similar looking ones. I dunno if anyone makes a ratcheting adapter for a breaker bar like that. I have a snap on one but they have a totally different design.

 

[yrly]

my kmart isn't available as an option for the 3 items in my cart--but it was as of yesterday

Order pickups can be turned on and off at store level by a manager.

 

[bds1984]

Thanks for the info, added to my manufacturers list. Also finished adding a couple other companies I remembered hearing about making Craftsman stuff in the past few years, and more info from the invoices for some of the ones already listed. I think that just about exhausts what I can find, unless someone else has any more company suggestions.

The only tool manufacturer of the tools I have I would like to see identified is the 151.xxxxxx models. I suspect they are Stanley Black & Decker but I do not know for sure. I guess I never realized how many of the C3 tools Chervon made in the later years; the few I have and have used perform well and aside from the brushless drill, I really wish TTI and Sears could have avoided the path they did (I wish they could have avoided this fate all together since this is the first holiday season without a Sears close by to me.) I walked through a Home Depot yesterday out of boredom and even all theses years later many of the green Ryobi models still look A LOT like my old C3 tools; I still cannot bring myself to buy the Ryobi mainly because of the color so I resort to watching CL and FB market place to score a deal or six or seven.

 

[Hexen]

The only tool manufacturer of the tools I have I would like to see identified is the 151.xxxxxx models. I suspect they are Stanley Black & Decker but I do not know for sure. ...

I had no idea even what kind of tools that would be... typing '151' into Sears Parts Direct comes up with a cordless chainsaw numbered 151.74941, among other lawn/garden things... The number 74941 on Sears.com comes up as the Craftsman CLCS2410S-N 10” Electric Cordless Chainsaw. Is that the right product line you're interested in? The product description repeatedly mentions 20V, but the photos say 24V. If it is indeed 24V, then I found a comment earlier today pointing out that the recent 24V lawn/garden tools look like rebrands from 'whoever makes Lawnmaster', which is Cleva. Unfortunately Cleva's viewable invoices only covered their vacuum products.

(What appears to be the same saw or very close to it is still an active product under the slightly different number 74931, btw.)

 

[Hexen]

Huh, apparently Sears is killing their in-store WiFi. Supposedly to be restored some time next year, but who really knows. I think they're trying to discourage people from checking the online prices while in-store and placing pickup orders.

 

[yrly]

Huh, apparently Sears is killing their in-store WiFi. Supposedly to be restored some time next year, but who really knows. I think they're trying to discourage people from checking the online prices while in-store and placing pickup orders.

This is most likely the case since there really isn’t any other reason to as the store itself would still need it. Plus I see a lot of Sears stuff on eBay people are probably buying with SYW if certain tools are selling on eBay at a good price then SYW people can snap them up then flip them. Some of the stuff we’ve talked about here is commanding more on eBay than you can get it for at Sears even if you have to have it delivered.

For Example those ultimate ratchets we’ve been discussing.... https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-CRAFTS...059228?hash=item547a6a991c:g:b5gAAOSwpshd1UxE

That’s three of the ultimate collection ratchets, assume he got fairly close to $60 for them, now keep in mind the $99 104 piece service set had two of these. Add a $6 item and you’d get two of these, a complete set of tools and $100 back in points.

If people start checking this stuff it just undermines the store. Now factor in people figuring in that the stuff is cheaper online even if they aren’t flippers, there go more customers.

 

[giants]

And at Lowe's, even for SBD Craftsman items bought there, I've heard it's very difficult get them to do a warranty exchange without treating it as a return without receipt - which goes into the hellish 'TRE' (The Retail Equation) database under your driver's license, which they use to ban you (after some very small number of occasions) from ever returning/exchanging *anything* without a receipt at Lowe's ever again. If you ever try to do a Craftsman (or Kobalt or anything else they sell) warranty transaction at a Lowe's, do NOT let them record your driver's license. Save your receipts and do it under the receipt if the tool was purchased from a Lowe's. If you don't have a receipt, demand to speak to the tools department manager or the overall store manager; they reportedly have the ability to authorize an exchange without recording it under your DL.

That shipped sailed for me. How about using a passport?

 

[yrly]

That shipped sailed for me. How about using a passport?

Doubt it would be any different, what about a fake ID

 

[giants]

Here’s some pics of the Ultimate Collection ratchet. I also took some of the speed spinner, a socket, the breaker bar ratchet attachment I’ll post separately.

I can't find Ultimate Collection ratchets.

What are the part numbers for your Ultimate Collection ratchets?

Did you buy them as a set of ratchets, or part of a larger tool set?

Your second photo shows a part number of 41960; Sears found nothing, while Amazon, the Craftsman Thin Profile (not Ultimate Collection) came up:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002JYLS7E/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[yrly]

I was checking some stuff I had recently ordered and it seems more and more stuff is becoming unavailable entirely. Wonder if we are actually finally reaching the end. That and the continued $100 on $100 should deplete almost everything that already isn’t.

 

[yrly]

I can't find Ultimate Collection ratchets.

What are the part numbers for your Ultimate Collection ratchets?

The second photo shows a part number of 41960; Sears found nothing, while Amazon, the Craftsman Thin Profile (not Ultimate Collection) came up:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002JYLS7E/?tag=atomicindus08-20

Hmm, for all I know they could be gone for good already see my other post about things starting to become unavailable.

Oh, and $89.95 for the thin profiles is crazy. In 2016 they were a pack in to a mechanics set they were selling for $175 and there were a ton of points back on top of that. I have the modern ones but my dad has similar ones made in the USA still.

 

[Hexen]

Hmm, for all I know they could be gone for good already see my other post about things starting to become unavailable.

Oh, and $89.95 for the thin profiles is crazy. In 2016 they were a pack in to a mechanics set they were selling for $175 and there were a ton of points back on top of that. I have the modern ones but my dad has similar ones made in the USA still.

Most of the Craftsman stuff being sold on Amazon is from small third-party resellers at usually inflated prices... sure enough, the thin profile ratchets are "Sold by Discount T3ch and Fulfilled by Amazon." The same thing happens with Harbor Freight items; just yesterday I was reading reviews on one that can be had for $20 most of the time, and it's being resold on Amazon for about twice as much. But I'd rather these things be listed on Amazon than not, even if it's at prices we find ludicrous, since it gives a place for additional product reviews and Q&As to be found.

And yeah, the unavailability plague was quite evident when I went back through my purchase history to put it all into a spreadsheet last week. That's why when I came to a few of the better items that actually were still available and on sale, I made a few 'surprised you can still get this' posts. It is nice that Sears doesn't remove product webpages for the most part, as long as you can find or figure out the URL to still get to it; about 94% of the pages still existed, though a huge amount (I didn't keep track, but it was at least a majority) were "Temporarily Unavailable" or at least unorderable in my area.

 

[bds1984]

I had no idea even what kind of tools that would be... typing '151' into Sears Parts Direct comes up with a cordless chainsaw numbered 151.74941, among other lawn/garden things... The number 74941 on Sears.com comes up as the Craftsman CLCS2410S-N 10” Electric Cordless Chainsaw. Is that the right product line you're interested in? The product description repeatedly mentions 20V, but the photos say 24V. If it is indeed 24V, then I found a comment earlier today pointing out that the recent 24V lawn/garden tools look like rebrands from 'whoever makes Lawnmaster', which is Cleva. Unfortunately Cleva's viewable invoices only covered their vacuum products.

(What appears to be the same saw or very close to it is still an active product under the slightly different number 74931, btw.)

The specific tools that I have with the 151 prefix is a corded leaf blower that I bought last September/October. It is the two-speed model and works quite well.

 

[Hexen]

The specific tools that I have with the 151 prefix is a corded leaf blower that I bought last September/October. It is the two-speed model and works quite well.

OK, I suspect that (this?) is from Cleva too since it shares the same prefix, and is from the right time period. (They've been doing a lot of cordless tools for Sears in the past couple years, while also doing their corded vacuums, so other corded stuff is certainly plausible.)

 

[timoboy]

FYI not sure if it’s been discussed yet, but the point back deals right now appear to stack. I got $48 worth of shoes and a $59.99 tool then used just enough points to keep the order at $100 OOP exactly.

This morning I had the $10 from $40 clothes purchase AND the $25 installment of the spend $100 sitting in my account. And they never deducted my points I spent for some reason. I’ve never seen anything like that before, given outside the shoes purchase I only spent $59.99 minis points on the tool.


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[Jesrf]

FYI not sure if it’s been discussed yet, but the point back deals right now appear to stack. I got $48 worth of shoes and a $59.99 tool then used just enough points to keep the order at $100 OOP exactly.

This morning I had the $10 from $40 clothes purchase AND the $25 installment of the spend $100 sitting in my account. And they never deducted my points I spent for some reason. I’ve never seen anything like that before, given outside the shoes purchase I only spent $59.99 minis points on the tool.


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I’ve seen this happen before but it’s been awhile. Just curious, did it show $110 back in points at checkout or just the $100?


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[yrly]

It’s been a while since point stacking. It almost always used to work that way too. I can’t test it at the moment but do have points coming before the 7th when the promo ends. It may be a glitch. I placed an order emptied all my current points, spend like $15 out of pocket used the SEARS5OFF50 coupon and after checkout received $5 in points for no obvious reason. It’s like it doubled the 5 off $50 and kicked $5 to my points total. I quickly ordered something else in case it was a system glitch.

 

[kasander]

Deleted post, disregard.

 

[Hexen]

FYI not sure if it’s been discussed yet, but the point back deals right now appear to stack. I got $48 worth of shoes and a $59.99 tool then used just enough points to keep the order at $100 OOP exactly.

This morning I had the $10 from $40 clothes purchase AND the $25 installment of the spend $100 sitting in my account. And they never deducted my points I spent for some reason. I’ve never seen anything like that before, given outside the shoes purchase I only spent $59.99 minis points on the tool.

I vaguely recall posting about a combo deal like that some time in the past few months, but don't remember the details. Very nice when it works out like that. They are really being generous on their way out, except for the usual jacked-up in-store liquidation pricing. Hoping for some more rounds of those in-store texting coupons, but in the meantime, so far so good on my store not disappearing from the website yet.

 

[Hexen]

Oh wow, I just found out that the "Z"-code tools (which I believe includes all my punches/chisels that I missed out on WF versions of, as well as the Ultimate Collection stuff) are NOT from an Apex Chinese factory, they're from a direct-from-China company I hadn't heard of before - Great Star Tools (Hangzhou Great Star Industrial Co., Ltd.). Haven't found any invoices for them though, probably came through some other affiliated company name. (Edit: Still can't figure out what name they invoiced through, or maybe Sears actually kept up with paying them, unlike all the other suppliers. And I realized I had actually heard of them - they were the manufacturer listed for the folding reusable shopping bag I bought at Sears in the tools dept several years ago, lol.)


While trying to find that invoice, I found the one for the famous Kenmore Ovation stand mixers (grey and burgundy). (Anyone who's played the SYW game video spins has seen them repeatedly - SYW still hasn't taken that video out of rotation even though they're all sold out - and they were quite popular on SD.) Those came from Beijing Industrial Development Co., and Sears was supposed to pay the manufacturer $168.30 each, but $3 million of that company's invoices went unpaid. The regular price on them was originally $299.99, later increased to closer to $400. But Sears has been nearly giving them away for the past year - $250 last holiday season with $250 back in points (equivalent to paying ~$125 for the mixer), $225 with $52.50 back in points in Jan 2019 (that deal wasn't as good, ~$199 equivalent), and the last of them cleared out at $109.99 and $99.99 in Sep 2019.

 

[yrly]

Oh wow, I just found out that the "Z"-code tools (which I believe includes all my punches/chisels that I missed out on WF versions of, as well as the Ultimate Collection stuff) are NOT from an Apex Chinese factory, they're from a direct-from-China company I hadn't heard of before - Great Star Tools (Hangzhou Great Star Industrial Co., Ltd.). Haven't found any invoices for them though, probably came through some other affiliated company name.

Just came to say I just read that too. Never heard of them.

Speaking of Ovation mixers though they’re mysteriously back in stock at $299 on Amazon from Amazon meaning they must have come from Sears.

 

[Jesrf]

Oh wow, I just found out that the "Z"-code tools (which I believe includes all my punches/chisels that I missed out on WF versions of, as well as the Ultimate Collection stuff) are NOT from an Apex Chinese factory, they're from a direct-from-China company I hadn't heard of before - Great Star Tools (Hangzhou Great Star Industrial Co., Ltd.). Haven't found any invoices for them though, probably came through some other affiliated company name. (Edit: Still can't figure out what name they invoiced through, or maybe Sears actually kept up with paying them, unlike all the other suppliers. And I realized I had actually heard of them - they were the manufacturer listed for the folding reusable shopping bag I bought at Sears in the tools dept several years ago, lol.)


While trying to find that invoice, I found the one for the famous Kenmore Ovation stand mixers (grey and burgundy). (Anyone who's played the SYW game video spins has seen them repeatedly - SYW still hasn't taken that video out of rotation even though they're all sold out - and they were quite popular on SD.) Those came from Beijing Industrial Development Co., and Sears was supposed to pay the manufacturer $168.30 each, but $3 million of that company's invoices went unpaid. The regular price on them was originally $299.99, later increased to closer to $400. But Sears has been nearly giving them away for the past year - $250 last holiday season with $250 back in points (equivalent to paying ~$125 for the mixer), $225 with $52.50 back in points in Jan 2019 (that deal wasn't as good, ~$199 equivalent), and the last of them cleared out at $109.99 and $99.99 in Sep 2019.

Some discussion of greatstar tools here there’s also a link to who makes what tool in the first post:


https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6997041



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[Hexen]

Some discussion of greatstar tools here there’s also a link to who makes what tool in the first post:

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6997041

Thanks, I did find that thread earlier this afternoon while trying to find anything about Great Star. There's some good info in that PDF, should get me some more stuff to add to my list once I manage to go through it all. Looks like a leaked document straight out of Sears HQ.

 

[Jesrf]

Thanks, I did find that thread earlier this afternoon while trying to find anything about Great Star. There's some good info in that PDF, should get me some more stuff to add to my list once I manage to go through it all. Looks like a leaked document straight out of Sears HQ.

I threw the question out to the lay-off this afternoon (about new vendor rumors) to see what would come out - looks like it turned out to be a wealth of information - troubling info but... better than guessing!


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[Hexen]

I threw the question out to the lay-off this afternoon (about new vendor rumors) to see what would come out - looks like it turned out to be a wealth of information - troubling info but... better than guessing!

Thanks! I haven't been able to post or comment there in months (I can submit but it disappears into a void), but thank goodness I can still read there. There's a lot of junk posted, but some good info mixed in. Could you ask this guy to be more specific about which store he's talking about?

Also new today, rumors that the remaining clothing suppliers haven't been paid in 2 months, and that a liquidation team hasn't been paid in 6 weeks.

 

[yrly]

Thanks! I haven't been able to post or comment there in months (I can submit but it disappears into a void), but thank goodness I can still read there. There's a lot of junk posted, but some good info mixed in. Could you ask this guy to be more specific about which store he's talking about?

Also new today, rumors that the remaining clothing suppliers haven't been paid in 2 months, and that a liquidation team hasn't been paid in 6 weeks.

Some of those people don’t understand the buying process, you can do 30, 60, 90 day out on payments depending on what is ordered from where. It’s pretty much the norm.

Eddie uses that Abacus Advisors as the liquidation team he’s apparently friends with them. They then use an outside company to do the actual liquidation. So if anyone isn’t paying anyone Abacus probably hasn’t paid the 3rd party. There were supposed to be slightly more closings from what I heard but Abacus didn’t have the ability to start as many stores spread out so far so quickly.

 

[Hexen]

Some of those people don’t understand the buying process, you can do 30, 60, 90 day out on payments depending on what is ordered from where. It’s pretty much the norm.
...

There's always a *lead time* on the payments (though nooobody is going to be giving Sears months of lead time anymore), but they're talking about a change from the norm - a *gap* in all the payments. Just like when they had a months-long gap before last year's bankruptcy filing. Nothing official, of course, but concerning if true.

 

[Jesrf]

Thanks! I haven't been able to post or comment there in months (I can submit but it disappears into a void), but thank goodness I can still read there. There's a lot of junk posted, but some good info mixed in. Could you ask this guy to be more specific about which store he's talking about?

Also new today, rumors that the remaining clothing suppliers haven't been paid in 2 months, and that a liquidation team hasn't been paid in 6 weeks. [emoji33]

I was blocked there too for awhile, lol. On my phone for almost a year, I think they just unblocked me from home IP and my phone and I honestly have no idea why. I’ll see what I can find out.

What are the last three characters of the post ID so I know for sure who I’m asking on that thread?


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[Hexen]

I was blocked there too for awhile, lol. On my phone for almost a year, I think they just unblocked me from home IP and my phone and I honestly have no idea why. I’ll see what I can find out.

What are the last three characters of the post ID so I know for sure who I’m asking on that thread?

1lqu, the one the link in my post should go to. That's a number 1, and then a lower-case letter L.


BTW, a tip for anyone else who might run into this while trying to browse the Sears website... For the past few days now, I've been experiencing occasional issues where the first time I load a particular product page, it sometimes says 'Temporarily Unavailable' on something that should still be available. Then when I reload the page a few seconds later, it's back to normal. So you can't believe any TU statuses anymore until you've refreshed the page once or twice. The inventory has still already been decimated, but it looked like it was getting even worse till I realized this new glitch was going on. I'm guessing the back-end server that provides the inventory data is getting rickety.

 

[yrly]

1lqu, the one the link in my post should go to. That's a number 1, and then a lower-case letter L.


BTW, a tip for anyone else who might run into this while trying to browse the Sears website... For the past few days now, I've been experiencing occasional issues where the first time I load a particular product page, it sometimes says 'Temporarily Unavailable' on something that should still be available. Then when I reload the page a few seconds later, it's back to normal. So you can't believe any TU statuses anymore until you've refreshed the page once or twice. The inventory has still already been decimated, but it looked like it was getting even worse till I realized this new glitch was going on. I'm guessing the back-end server that provides the inventory data is getting rickety.

Well I usually have a computer with an ad blocker so yesterday I went on a laptop without one. As it turns out some of the side banner ads were obviously for Sears since where else do I really browse for deals? Now the interesting part is some of the stuff was the blowout sale stuff that was out of stock but if you used the click through ad links they still had stock for shipping or so it claimed. I was half tempted to order a few things to test but I don’t have any points (or at least not enough since I zereod them out yesterday and have all of $.36 after the previous purchase and the sweeps) and didn’t I feel like paying shipping (oh it wouldn’t let you send it to a store either).

Perhaps there is a small reserved quantity for click through ads? A few of the things do qualify for free shipping so maybe if I can cobble together enough of the free shipping ones I’ll order them in case they end up cancelling any.

Speaking of in stock/out of stock

https://www.sears.com/craftsman-pin...SellerId=Sears&prdNo=1&blockNo=1&blockType=G1

During the start of the blowout sale these were in stock at a store (supposedly) and I ordered them. They didn’t have any. Website showed out after that for shipping or pickup. They came back again a few days later so I tried ordering for ship to store. Order cancelled. Then it showed out of stock entirely again. Now they’re in stock for shipping but no store pickup.

 

[Hexen]

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Speaking of in stock/out of stock

https://www.sears.com/craftsman-pin-end-scroll-saw-blade-assortment-pack-repl/p-00929448000P

During the start of the blowout sale these were in stock at a store (supposedly) and I ordered them. They didn’t have any. Website showed out after that for shipping or pickup. They came back again a few days later so I tried ordering for ship to store. Order cancelled. Then it showed out of stock entirely again. Now they’re in stock for shipping but no store pickup.

And here, I'm seeing those as available for home shipping *and* ship-to-store (my kinda-maybe-liquidating-any-day-now store).

 

[Hexen]

There's an Associated Press news article making the rounds this morning about how Sears is "limping" into the holiday season with a "dingy" shopping experience. One interesting tidbit, a Sears Auto Center manager at a closing location says that even as recently as 2 years ago, he was receiving deliveries of 100 tires at a time, and lately he received a delivery of only 9 tires. (I'm guessing/hoping that was due to a customer with a full-size spare ordering a set of 5 shipped to the store, lol.)

 

[nealric]

There's an Associated Press news article making the rounds this morning about how Sears is "limping" into the holiday season with a "dingy" shopping experience. One interesting tidbit, a Sears Auto Center manager at a closing location says that even as recently as 2 years ago, he was receiving deliveries of 100 tires at a time, and lately he received a delivery of only 9 tires. (I'm guessing/hoping that was due to a customer with a full-size spare ordering a set of 5 shipped to the store, lol.)

I somewhat doubt they are going to make it to next year's holiday season. My only hope is that they manage to deliver my workbench (was supposed to arrive 2 days ago) before meeting their demise. In the meantime, I've picked up a free set of screwdrivers with the points from the purchase I still haven't gotten

 

[Super Sport]

There's an Associated Press news article making the rounds this morning about how Sears is "limping" into the holiday season with a "dingy" shopping experience. One interesting tidbit, a Sears Auto Center manager at a closing location says that even as recently as 2 years ago, he was receiving deliveries of 100 tires at a time, and lately he received a delivery of only 9 tires. (I'm guessing/hoping that was due to a customer with a full-size spare ordering a set of 5 shipped to the store, lol.)

Sears Auto (the few that remain) have such a limited number of suppliers I'm not surprised. They had no snow tires available this year for our 3 vehicles. I've always purchased my tires from Sears, but I had to find another retailer this year.

 

[yrly]

The non closing stores really don’t look all too bad that I’ve been in, I wouldn’t classify it so much as dingy but dated. There seemed to be enough merchandise.