In addition to accidental inventory errors, the system is supposed to intentionally not count the last one of an item in a store for website availability. (So when inventory is accurate, it will say online that a particular store is out of a particular product when it still has 1 left. Unfortunately this looks/acts exactly like when the store really has 0 left, unless you go in person.)
I was at my Hometown store today talking to the owner. I remembered to look over all the C3 and he has one of the HD impacts left. I told him Sears.com doesn't even show it anymore on their website. The hometown store showed he had 2 in stock.
He went to the computer and he updated the system to only show the 1 he had. Likewise he was able to tell me the last time he got a shipment in and how often that item sold... Like 2 per YEAR... lol... I need to build up points to grab that impact driver, with my luck someone will grab it in the next week...
I also found one of the older style C3 hammer drills in the back stock room! lol.. Everything else I saw was just duplicates of what was already on the shelves.
He was telling me about how Sears will only send him ONE individual screwdriver (now China of course) of each kind to put out now. He had some guy come in literally the day he just put them out to exchange some and wiped out what little he had. He does have a bunch of packaged sets, even some small USA ones still... Just odd there is no individual stock, I mean screwdrivers aren't exactly a high dollar item...
I swear I saw some CMan 20v lithium batteries, I vaguely remember a professional line but I think those got discontinued a while back. Crazy he has batteries for them.
Finally as for the Hoses... I took a pic of the USA 50' while I was there for you guys.
EDIT - As for so many items dropping out of the system... Don't discount the idea that some low payed coder made a big oops and borked a lot of items out of the database by accident. Give it a week and see if they re-appear...