[Boatanchors] Sears was. was soldering/desoldering

[Bonddaleena at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/20/2006 8:02:54 AM Eastern  Standard Time, 
dufferjames at hotmail.com writes:


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>I'll  agree for the most part with your first five points but Sears has been
>in  the appliance busines for at least most of my life.  First washer and  
>dryer
>I ever bought came from Sears Roebuck.  Circa 1970  when I bought my first
>house.  All of the major appliances in my  current home except for the 
>central
>heating and AC unit and the  hot water heater came from Sears.  BTW, 
>whatever
>happened to  Roebuck?

I don't know what happened to Roebuck, he must of went to the  same place 
that the catalog went.  As a kid I use to love those  catalogs.  As some of 
you may remember, you could order just about  everything from Sears and 
Roebuck.  Dynamite, a Henry J automobile, Jim  Walter houses just to name a 
few.  In fact I was lead to believe that  babies were ordered from Sears, 
understandable when you viewed those baby  layouts, with diapers, belly bands 
and baby. Now we know it is the stork  that delivers those babies.  Oh yes, 
don't forget the baby  chickens.  I can imagine the red tape now for buying 
dynamite which was  used  for removing stumps and other farm work.

73, Jim  wd4air


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Hi, I am a retired EE and work at the local Sears about 20 hr/wk for 'tool  
and radio play money'. I have to say that the amount of items stolen from our  
store is just unbelievable! This, combined with the policy of free 
'replacement'  of hand tools will be putting a nail in Sears coffin in the not to distant 
 future. Don't get me wrong, if you have a wrench or screwdriver that breaks 
or  wears out, fine. However, we have a BUNCH of people that bring in tools by 
the  bucket and want them replaced because they are dirty or rusty. Sure, 
there's a  bunch of mark-up involved with this stuff, but these guys buy these 
tools at  flea markets for a few cents and turn around and sell them for almost 
list  price. They also have the ba--s to brag about it.
 
However, this is changing. Tape measures must have specific things wrong  
before we'll exchange them. (a guy brought in a half a bucket of tape measures  
that his carpenters had sawed the ends off of). He went ballistic when the 
store  Mgr told him, "sorry we don't cover that type of failure".
 
These same people can't understand why an increasing number of our tools  
come from the same country that Wal-Mart is making rich....China!
 
 
ron
 
N4UE