Spotted this on a message board. Craftsman tools sourced from Sears being sold in competition with not only Sears but the Stanley Craftsman stuff as well.
https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/category_craftsman
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That does appear to be Sears-versioned Craftsman. Most likely what happened is this: Sears placed an order and then didn't pay the supplier (could have been due to the bankruptcy). In those cases, the suppliers are free to sell the inventory to the "off-price" market. This explains why somebody saw it at a Gabe's store. This happens often even in cases without bankruptcy...a store may place an initial order at a certain quantity but then place the final order at a smaller quantity. The manufacturer likely already ran production at the higher quantity.
Last week I saw Sears Craftsman combination wrench sets at Gabe's in Wilkes Barre PA.
@ggm . Stanley Craftsman is Stanley Craftsman, not Sears Craftsman, which is real Craftsman. Stanley Craftsman will always be Stanley Craftsman. I'm not suggesting that it's not a better tool currently, because it is. But it's still Stanley Craftsman.
If SBD were smart, they would differentiate themselves officially as well. Doing so would go a long ways to making a point that they are a new and better product. As it is, there are an insane amount of people that believe Craftsman is a Sears thing and that it's being sold at Lowe's.
Probably just reselling. Sears is practically giving away everything in their stores, so would make sense.
The tool sets from Sears (real) Craftsman are not sets that are currently available at Sears.
Strange. I have to think they're old stock or something. Or maybe just selling directly as a resale situation. Some of the other things Sears does sell. For more money (no surprise there).