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The Kirkland house brand is often backed by one of the name brands they sell. They have quality metrics for Kirkland and they check the products regularly. If t
by 39896880 2y ago
The Kirkland house brand is often backed by one of the name brands they sell. They have quality metrics for Kirkland and they check the products regularly. If the quality dips, they swap out the provider.
- rainbowzootsuit 2y agoThis used to be the Sears Kenmore & Craftsman model where appliances were really Whirlpool, or Maytag, Carrier{1}. Hand tools variously came from many OEMs like SK, Plumb, Knipex, and Williams{2}. I suppose they still do, now at Lowes, but the OEM is Chinese. {1}https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/How_to_identify_who_made_your_Kenmore_appliance https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/How_to_identify_who_made_your_Ke... {2}https://forum.toolsinaction.com/topic/2118-craftsman-date-codesstampings/ https://forum.toolsinaction.com/topic/2118-craftsman-date-co...
- dghlsakjg 2y agoThe big thing with Sears Craftsman (formerly), and Costco (currently) is that the company will back the product. If I want to return a product to Costco, I have really strong confidence that they will take it back.
- throwadobe 2y agoTBF to Amazon they take all my shit back on the reg
- dghlsakjg 2y agoAmazon will accept returns, but not like Costco will or sears did. Sears would exchange any broken craftsman tool for a new one even decades after purchase. Costco is much the same. Used, year old stuff with missing parts will gladly be refunded in full.
- bombcar 2y agoTo be fair to Costco you have to understand that the way they do that is they just send the item back to the vendor and deduct it from the next purchase. The vendors only option is to not sell stuff to Costco anymore.
- ChoGGi 2y agoWhich provides an incentive to the manufacturer to produce at least decent quality products.
- xeromal 2y agoI've seen people drop off stained mattresses at Costco for return.
- akira2501 2y agoI think it's the other way around. Kirkland takes the "B quality stock" and sells it under it's own label. This is why they have an essentially no questions asked return policy. If the quality dips it eats into this margin and the provider is back to making next to nothing on units that fail to pass their own more stringent brand QA checks.