This reminds me of those bright red tags I saw on Kmart jewelry. They said "Wow! Low Price!" or something of the sort. The "Low Price" on the red tag was the same as the "retail value" on the back of the box.

Maybe it's Spanish. "It's leaving!"

This cannot be legal.

I guess they figured if it worked for Target...

@The Name's Ash78, Housewares: I like it. I guess technically it would be "it leaves!" since "it's leaving!" would be "saliendo!" but it's still funny.

well, technically it is FOR sale

@Tremblor: LOL. My 4 year old niece was shopping with us the other day. She asked the rather brilliant question, "If they lowered the price, and they want you to buy it, isn't it on BUY instead of SALE?"

I had no counter-argument.

I took a Craftsman torque wrench back recently. Craftsman prominently displayed on the handle.

It as busted. Just quit working. I took it back expecting a return or discount.

No dice. They wanted absolutely nothing to do with it.

No question, that will be the last tool I buy from Sears.

Bu-bye.

I remember the great Craftsman warranty. Break it - get a new one. I managed to break a nice pair of plyers. Took it in, clerk looked at it and gave me a bigger one. No problem.

Not anymore. I miss that warranty......

@bmwloco:

Depends on how long you had it. Only hand tools (further defined - hand tools with no mechanical moving parts, like screwdrivers/wrenches/hammers/etc ) all have a lifetime warranty.

Torque wrenches aren't covered. It's stupid, I know, and I found that out the hard way as well.

Is there no warranty anymore?

Granted, at my FYE we never had stupid signs like THAT, but many times someone would pick up a CD that was regular price and ask if it was "on sale"...I would reply that it was "FOR sale but not ON sale"...perhaps, this is what Sears means by this sign?

The Craftsman warranty has been a topic of debate with Mr. Bohemian as we are purchasing tools for the garage. He remembers the way Sears and Craftsman used to be. I keep pointing out the way Sears is now. I have heard plenty of people state that the tool warranty has been restricted from what it once was. I also don't think Sears will be around much longer so that warranty may be moot. You can also get tools cheaper at the big box hardware stores. If the warranty is the motivator for buying the current state of Sears needs to be part of the equation.

I wonder if the fire extinguishers have a "NO SALE!" sign on them. That might clear it up.

Why do I get the feeling that to save money they printed some price stickers up on the 'sale' cards. Simply put, they had more 'sale' price signs than the regular pricing signs. I was in Loews the other day and found several signs like that one at Sears all over the plumbing aisle. Even saw Wal-Mart* doing the same thing.

@bmwloco: I remember something like a limited one year warranty on the insert for the Craftsman torque wrench I bought a few years back.

Last tool I took back was a flat head screw driver that I unburied while cleaning outside of an old garage. Some miscreants had sharpened the blade to make a shank plus drilled a hole in the handle for a shoelace to hold it on your hand -given the area it had probably been used for muggings or gang fights. I put the blade in a vise and snapped it off with some effort. Took it in and got a new one no questions asked...but this was a couple years ago.

Is Sears circling the drain:
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Oh noes... what if they start incorporating RE-Sale into their vocabulary.

@edebaby: Why? They're selling it aren't they? It is technically on 'sale', or even 'On SALE!!!!' if you like. They clearly state you save f**k-all, so if you stop reading the sign at 'Sale!' and take it to the register, you're a moron and deserve everything you get. No-one but a card-carrying idiot would fall for the tactic anyway.

@The Name's Ash78, Housewares: Well, you do have to take extra precautions with most of the people who work in these places. Staff training: Things on shelves: 'SALE'. Shelves things are on: 'NO SALE'. 'SALE' good, 'NO SALE' bad. Everyone keeping up?

To anyone that has worked retail in a chain, it's pretty obvious that someone in corporate screwed up. The store got the orders to print new tags, the machine printed them and they have to put them up. I used to toss tags like that, but would get lectured when caught and told to put them all up without validating them. No wonder CompUSA went under, and Sears is quickly following. Do not think retail drone, just do.

This could also be something leftover from Black Friday sales that they got in specifically for it, and so they don't actually have a sale price on it, but want to draw attention to it anyway to hopefully get rid of it.

November 1st has come and gone. Does anyone know if the price has gone up or down since then? If this sign is still up today, well... I guess it's nice of them to extend the offer an extra month. Sort of...

@econobiker: You should have run a lost and found ad in the paper.

Found: Possible murder weapon. To claim, send description to econobiker@econobiking.com, will make arrangements to pick up or deliver.

I'd be willing to pay full-price for some Craftsman swivel-head (black plastic body with blue/red/green/yellow head) screwdrivers - my store has been sold out of P00 and P000 for MONTHS - will they ever re-stock!? It's Christmas...

"I have heard plenty of people state that the tool warranty has been restricted from what it once was."

Yes ... I was in Sears buying a hammer when this guy brought in a circular saw for warranty service and he got the big run-around. Had to produce proof-of-purchase, a receipt or something. He didn't have it. I left as the saga was unfolding, so I don't know how it concluded, but it was a portable Craftsman power saw.

@ShamimSimpson: you're both wrong.

it means "on fire" in swedish. it's from the irregular verb conjugation of "salieri" which means "to set on fire," or in this case, "to sell everything before it catches on fire and becomes worthless."

I'm no snob, but why are you buying jewelry at KMart?

I worked at a bookstore back in high school when the "______ for Dummies" books were really popular. We had a big sale for them and lots of signs in the stores and for the windows and on every single one the company spelled it "Dummmies". It was hilarious, but we had to use them anyway: corporate policy.

@Trencher93: I can sell you some P00, no problem! Let me just have a squat over here... :)

@savvy9999: Your niece is brilliant!

a couple months ago while I was still at Best Buy, We had a financing sign that said "No interest until 2111". Thank god it was only one sign but it was quite interesting how our merch guys didn't even notice it.

Sears is such a stupid store. Could the employee not see the idiocy in this when they printed off the label?

@The Name's Ash78, Housewares: you son of a bitch, get back in your cage at Jalopnik NOW!

OMG a misprint! Seriously, do we have to get wound up about every time some grunt hangs up an incorrectly printed sale sign?

@Kimbeegrin:

If you were printing and hanging these for a few hundred products, would you have noticed?>

@Kimbeegrin: Did you not see the multiple replies by various former retail drones on here that stated that they also had to put up such erroneous signs, per corporate policy? Don't blame this on the employee, blame it on the company.

@jimv2000: but stupidity is funnyyyyyyyy.

@edebaby:

Unfortunatly it is legal, because they are 'selling' the item, however it is a pretty big scumbag move.

@econobiker:

I put the blade in a vise and snapped it off with some effort

@Difdi: Oh, I think that's jumping to a conclusion. It's totally plausible that someone just planned on using it for a crime and didn't get around to it.

does this mean that after the 11/1/08, the sale ends and the price goes back to, oh.. um.. $99.99? lol. how silly...

@Dashrashi: Is it really ethical to perform deliberate abuse on a tool and expect them to replace it? Sure, you may be able to fool them into thinking it was accidental, but that's not really the point.

@Geblah187: I've had ractchet wrenches replaced or repaired without incident. Normally they just snap off the cover and put in new guts. Repair works as well as replacement for me.

I was at Kmart recently and saw 'Featured Item' at 11.99. Regular price was, you guessed it, 11.99.

(Still waiting for Consumerist to post the picture I sent them.)

this is likely a software glitch. the stocker didn't check to see the issue before they taped it up.

It's always been this way. I worked for Sears over 10 years ago and they did this. "SALE" only means that it's promoted in the weekly ad, not that the price has been reduced. That's "REDUCED" ...

They are technically selling it so it is technically a "sale."

@econobiker:

So you basically stole a screwdriver from Sears by abusing the warranty policy?

You are the very reason that there are such draconian return policies in the first place. I mean seriously, how can you complain about a store going down the drain when you are accelerating the process through petty theft.

Just goes to show that the idiocy extends to both sides of the counter.

@jimv2000: Yes, but I doubt they would have paid me enough to care and I would have just hung the sign up anyways. The person hanging the sign may have even sent in the picture.