Ben,

Thank you...thank you...

Patrick S.

> On Dec 6, 2016, at 7:05 PM, BenT <syncro@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> My Mod, my Mod, why hast thou forsaken the off topic discussion on Friday only rule.
> 
> 
> BenT
> sent from my electronic leash
> 
>> On Dec 6, 2016, at 6:07 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
>> 
>> And their online store is full of ripoff storefronts.  It's a sin and a
>> shame.  They used to be looked up to.  Time was they sent kit houses out by
>> rail, good ones, and people built them.  I've seen one not so many years
>> ago around Blairstown NJ.  When I was a kid their catalog was three inches
>> thick, and everyone had one.  Monkey Wards, same same.
>> 
>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 7:52 PM, David McNeely <davmcneely40@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Sears is just about gone.  Certainly, it is on the ropes.  For what little
>>> is left of the brand, I have no regrets, given that the past two decades it
>>> has proven to be a travesty of a retailer.  It used to be THE source for
>>> lots of products, tools among them.  Their appliances couldn't be beaten,
>>> you could check Consumer Reports and determine which model was simply a
>>> Kenmore branded one identical to a specific Whirlpool or Amanda. No more.
>>> Craftsman tools were high quality, and guaranteed forever.  Now they are
>>> sold at Ace Hardware and are just run of the mill.
>>> 
>>> Sorry for the rant.
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Parkway City had a Wards, I don't remember a Sears. The one that is
>>> closing
>>>> is at Madison Square. I asked the clerk what was going to happen to the
>>>> property and he said "they are going to make it into a lake." Just what
>>> we
>>>> need, a lake.
>>>> 
>>>> Jim
>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 5:58 PM joe kallo <quietglow@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Parkway mall Sears?! If so, that was my default tool store for years.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016, 5:51 PM Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I was headed on errands at lunch and saw a "STORE CLOSING" banner
>>> across
>>>>> the side of our local Sears. I had to go in. They were having a pretty
>>>> lame
>>>>> sale for folks who were about to have their building (part of a corpse
>>>> on a
>>>>> 1980s mall) torn down, but I found some things I could use anyway. Very
>>>> sad
>>>>> to see such a great tool retailer leave town after all these years.
>>> Good
>>>>> thing I already own all the tools I need to work on a Vanagon.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jim
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>