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I thought it was a merger, not one company buying the other out. Kmarts are shuttng down all over, I doubt they are buying a good portion of sears.

As far as tools go, I do not think craftsman is any better than the rest of them. I have broken probly 5 rachets now (3 1/2 drive, 2 3/8 drive). Any good hardware store will warranty their products. Ace Hardware carries a lifetime warranty on all ACE tools also. I cannot speak for the rest of the smaller hardware stores but we do not carry any cheap tools. The last thing you want to do is get your name behind a crappy product. The larger stores carry bigger lines and will stock cheap-crappy tools (Menards for example with their tool shop brand). Sears is a larger company with more of an advertising budget that is why nobody knows about the smaller stores like ACE having the same warrantee. This is John under James' name...