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Dec 27, 2018

Sears. Craftsman, Die Hard, Adios

Sears, the 125-year-old icon, has 24 hours to survive.

The employer of more than 68,000 filed for bankruptcy in October. Its last shot at survival is a $4.6 billion proposal put forward by its chairman, Eddie Lampert, to buy the company out of bankruptcy through his hedge fund, ESL Investments. ESL is the only party offering to buy Sears as a whole, people familiar with the situation tell CNBC. Without that bid or another like it, liquidators will break the company up into pieces.

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  • SEARS has been in trouble for quite a while now. Bought a Radial arm saw in Aug 2014 and had to wait for it to ship from China. I was so disappointed. Saw is ok, but I'm still disheartened it came from China and not USA made. That was the last item i bought from Sears. No wonder they are going under.
  • Sad to see. I have a garage full of Craftsmen tools. My Dad was a 40-year Sears man.
  • Craftsmanmtools used to be quality like SnapOn. Now its junk like the cheapest Harbot Freight tools. I uave thousands of dollars of Lifetime warranty Craftsman tools that I can no longer get replaced.
  • craftsman tools, at least the product name if not the quality, are available at Lowes.

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