Like many of you, I built up my hand tool collection from Sears. I have two rolling mechanic's tool chests in the garage, and just about all the sockets, ratchets, breaker bars, nut drivers, etc. are Craftsman. When my wife was alive, any time we went to the mall she would leave me in the Sears hardware department while she would do her thing, and we'd agree to meet in food court a half hour or an hour later.
The Sears in both malls within range of home have been closed for several years. There were also two Sears Hardware stores within range, and they both folded several years ago.
Even before the end, things were clearly going downhill. The size of the tools and hardware department was constantly shrinking within the stores. When I was young, if you managed to break a Craftsman ratchet they replaced it with a new one from stock. Toward the end, they maintained a cache of (poorly) repaired, used ones under the counter, so if you returned one they replaced it with a rebuilt. Which offered about a 50/50 chance of being any better than you one you were turning in.