My local Home Depot stores have finally brought out some Dewalt tool deals!
New Dewalt promo displays have replaced the Milwaukee M18 cordless power tool and accessory deals that sat in the main aisle throughout the spring and early summer seasons.
Home Depot’s Dewalt tools savings event features special pricing on Dewalt drills, a reciprocating saw, jig saw, angle grinders, and sanders.
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Note: these are all corded AC-powered tools. It has been a very long time since we’ve seen Dewalt corded power tool deals in the main aisle at Home Depot stores.
They had a couple of Dewalt 20V Max and Atomic cordless power tool deals as well.
These deals include the 20V Max 6Ah and 4Ah starter kit for $199, a new and exclusive Atomic hammer drill kit at $179, an impact driver kit at $179, an Atomic oscillating multi-tool at $149, and 3/8″ cordless ratchet at $179.
Home Depot has the tool-only Dewalt oscillating tool as a $149 “special buy” online as well, which they say was discounted from $179.
Alternatively, you can save an extra $50 if you opt for a kit with the better-featured XR model at Home Depot, Amazon, Acme Tools, and elsewhere right now.
They also have a couple of Dewalt XR brushless tool deals. For example, Home Depot’s Tool Savings include the Dewalt XR brushless impact driver for $179.
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First, they made a mistake with the image – this shows the DCF845, which you can get in a kit with compact and PowerStack batteries and a charger for $149 right now at Amazon and also at Lowe’s.
If you look closely, it lists the model number as DCF860B.
Home Depot has an online bundle deal on the DCF860 right now, where you can get the impact driver plus starter kit with charger and 6Ah battery for $199. In other words, $20 more gets you a full kit.
There were a couple of more Dewalt 20V Max cordless power tool deals, including an Atomic 4-tool combo kit at $399, and some of their first generation brushed motor tools from 14 years ago at a premium.
The Dewalt Atomic 4-tool combo is $100 more expensive than it was for Black Friday.
Home Depot has the brushed motor Dewalt 20V Max cordless reciprocating saw for $129. The same tool has consistently been $99 at Amazon.
Lowe’s also has that same Dewalt cordless reciprocating saw for $99 right now, both in stores and online.
It’s good to see Dewalt deals finally return to Home Depot stores. However, they’re not all going to be good values or even competitively priced, so be sure to shop around.
As an aside, I meant it – when’s the last time you saw Dewalt corded power tools – air compressors, table saws, and miter saws excluded – in the main promo aisle at Home Depot stores?
When is the last time that Home Depot featured Dewalt deals that couldn’t match active pricing at Lowe’s stores or Amazon?
See Also: Things are Weird for Dewalt Atomic Power Tools at Home Depot
Amazon price on the DCS380B recip saw: $99
Lowe’s price on the DCS380B recip saw: $99
Home Depot price on the DCS380B recip saw: $129
This is not typical, let alone for a tool featured in a Home Depot main aisle “tool savings” floor display.
SkOnnage
I was told to stay away from the DeWalt Atomic line of tools. I hear they are all garbage. Home Depot just isn’t what it used to be. Such a shame.
Stuart
You heard wrong.
isosceles
Stuart, what would you say is the point of the Atomic line? I.e. what differentiates it from other 20V stuff? For a while, I’d assumed that the Atomic stuff was meant to be smaller/more compact, but I’ve seen comments here and there that make me think that might not be right.
Stuart
Marketing: more compact and lighter!
Reality (as I see it): 50% more compact and lighter, 50% cheaper entry point pricing.
For example, I see the DCF809 impact driver as being a cheaper entry price point model, while the DCF850 is truer to the marketing claims, and the same with the rotary hammer.
When Porter Cable launched their 20V Max cordless power tool system, the drill and impact driver were quite good. Most of the tools they launched after that were not on-par.
Similarly, not all Dewalt Atomic tools are on part with each other.
Dewalt has added enough new and upgraded models that there are fewer “entry point” tools.
The new multi-head drill/driver is part of the Atomic line, and it’s price aligns more with that of Dewalt solutions rather than their mass market “gateway” tools. https://toolguyd.com/dewalt-20v-multi-head-drill-driver-dcd803/
You can’t paint the entire system with the same brush.
In some cases Atomic tools could very well be XR. In others they’re more compact, and some tools are less featured and cheaper.
I think that at this point Dewalt has moved the line closer to Atomic’s “compact and light” brand identity.
DanFromMass
When looking to replace my 3rd gen m12 impact that died, I went with an Atomic Impact driver.
Fairly comparable in size.
Bonnie
Nah they’re solid, and some are fantastic.
Tdot77
Sounds like you heard the OPINION of one person, stated as a fact that has zero reasoning behind it. “I don’t like this tool (for whatever reason), so you shouldn’t buy it!”
Don’t listen to hearsay opinions, do your own research and you’ll find there’s nothing wrong with them. The Atomics are just compact versions of tools and work just fine.
Rog
I have the shorty Atomic impact and it’s awesome, someone lied to you.
Lincoln
The atomic quiet hydrolic impact driver is on another level entirely. Super compact 2″ body, ridiculous power, and won’t kill your ears.
Stuart
It’s XR, not Atomic.
Paul
Don’t go by other people’s opinions. Do your own research. I’m a general contractor and I have some DeWalt Atomic tools for over 5 years now. My employees & I use them everyday. Trust me, my employees didn’t buy them so you know how that goes. But like any tool when you buy it. If you treat it right it will last you. But I’m also just another opinion. Do your own research?.
DH
This narrative is absurd, don’t believe it. I have every level of DeWalt, they are all excellent tools.
eddiesky
Do you think they even know they’re pricing is skewed? You have to know if its a value or not. (note, I use their wifi at HD to check pricing live…am I THAT guy?) LOL…
EG. How is a 3am corded sander a value at $84 when its $69 at AcmeTool?
Stuart
It’s also $69 at Amazon – https://www.amazon.com/DEWALT-Random-Sander-Variable-DWE6423/dp/B0858C7X3M/?tag=toolguyd-20 .
The Bosch is $59 and apparently there’s an additional “Amazon credit on any 1 or more” right now – https://www.amazon.com/Bosch-Random-Polisher-ROS20VSC-Carrying/dp/B00BD5G9VA/?tag=toolguyd-20 .
I assume that Home Depot’s merchandising execs know that Lowe’s, Amazon, and independent authorized dealers are offering better deals and pricing on Dewalt tools right now. How could they not?
Randy
I am a long time lurker of the site but I am in the market for a corded random orbit and/or quarter sheet sander. The Bosch looks like a good deal, is it as good starter sander? I don’t have a Festool budget but I do want quality.
Stuart
YES. A long time ago I bought the next-best 5″ ROS model because I had a HD gift card and they didn’t carry the Bosch, and a Bosch 1/4″ sheet finish sander.
I am sure the Dewalt is fine, but Bosch is 100% my top pick for sanders under $100.
TomWV
Bosch is hard to beat for value on sanders in my opinion. I use Bosch sanders on hardwoods hours every week.
MM
I own many Dewalt power tools but I don’t think all that highly of their oscillating sanders. When I had my machining business we used them to deburr laser and plasma cut parts or to prep metal weldments for painting. We’d have the same failure every time: something would go haywire in the electronics which would make the sander spin much too fast. This happened to simple corded RO models *without* variable speed, DWE6421. Dewalt would service them under warranty but it was a recurring problem. I currently have a DCW200 1/4-sheet cordless sander and even though I haven’t used it very much it is starting to have a similar problem. I usually use it on a low speed setting around 1-3 on the dial but it likes to take off pedal-to-the-metal without warning. Turning it off and on again tends to help.
In my opinion you aren’t missing much by avoiding Dewalt RO or 1/4 sheet models.
Patrick Johnson
The Home Depot is too deeply in bed with TTI to allow the consumer to get the best deals, which means Stanley Black and Decker will continue to play second fiddle.
Stuart
These new Dewalt displays completely replaced all of the Milwaukee main aisle promos – there was not a single Milwaukee display in sight, and if I recall correctly they replaced all of the Ryobi deals too.
Home Depot is the customer. Lowe’s and Amazon are among their top competitors. “Home Depot is deep in bed with TTI” is irrelevant to that.
That there are better deals at Lowe’s and Amazon, including on some of the same exact model numbers, is important to note. Whatever you want to argue about TTI, Home Depot having uncompetitive or uncompelling Dewalt deals in the main aisle does Home Depot a disservice and doesn’t help Milwaukee or TTI brands in the least bit.
I don’t see anyone benefiting from this, especially not shoppers.
Will
Saw these displays yesterday. Strange seeing the corded tools, like a flashback from the 90s. The”deals”sure don’t look like deals to me.
Robert
I just asked a HD employee about the tools being corded, that that was strange to showcase. He said employees asked the same thing and got only vague answers.
Jared
Tariff-related maybe? I think some of those corded tools are MiUSA “with global materials”. I’m not saying that’s the case, just speculating.
Michael
Some corded tools were made in Greenfield, Indiana, starting in 2015, but by the end of 2019/ beginning of 2020 Stanley Black and Decker stopped making the corded tools there.
You can find a video about the factory on DeWalt’s youtube page and info on the downsizing at the Greenfield Reporter.
Stuart
But then why do Lowe’s stores and Amazon have some of the same Dewalt tools at lower prices?
If any of these Dewalt tools were made here, that would be advertised on the display cards or on the boxes.
moe
ok ok conspiracy time now:
HD threatened SBD that if they don’t agree to provide them with better terms they are going to give them a bad image hence them putting all the corded tools out with bad pricing giving everyone the impression that DeWalt tools are a high priced inferior product
Stuart
I think it’s more likely that Dewalt halted too many orders due to tariffs uncertainty, and these are the only deals they could come up with to fill the pre-negotiated promo placements.
Keep in mind that Home Depot has around 2,000 stores. Brands need to ship a lot of tools to fill all of these spots.
But none of that explains a lot of the entry-priced tools that Home Depot has thus far not featured at their typical seasonal prices.
Home Depot is letting Lowe’s offer better Dewalt tool deals, and that makes no sense to me.
moe
you don’t think some sort of scuffle is going on based on the weird HD-SBD going on?
Mark S
I have noticed on some of the newish endcap and promo aisle dump bins that promo dates at Depot start in August. (The 8th i think I saw). Wondering if these Dewalt displays are just the MET teams working to kill time. One of my local HDs had several workers killing off the Ryobi and Milwaukee displays from Fathers Day and July 4th. Wondering if pricing will come down a bit.
But the corded tool thing struck me as awfully strange. I looked super quick the other day and just saw the corded jig saw. Didn’t realize that sign is for many corded tools. Weird.
DIY-dude
Stanley Black & Decker recently announced that they will be increasing prices again in Q4 (“a more modest increase than the one that was issued in April”).
[FYI, Makita is reportedly raising prices August 18 and Festool coming in with price increase August 1.]
With THD previously focusing more on TTI products, and now making an effort to increase inventory of DEWALT, it is quite possible that they have received their new inventory at the new tariff-priced levels and they are expecting Lowe’s and Amazon to follow suit soon, with price increases, as lower priced inventory is sold.
THD category managers are certainly aware of Lowe’s and Amazon pricing – they follow it constantly. Whatever their reason for choosing this pricing, it is planned (possibly not the best plan, but we shall see). They certainly aren’t going to make DEWALT “look bad”, because customers will simply choose to purchase elsewhere, as opposed to paying the higher prices.
Oarman
I can’t believe you described deals on corded tools as “with a catch” when you could have said the deals “have strings attached”
Stuart
I didn’t think of that!
KC
I can’t remember the last time I saw DeWalt corded tools on a promo at HD. I do remember several years ago when they would put a corded 3/8” drill on sale at Christmas. I don’t even remember seeing that in a long time. Maybe I missed it? Just remember seeing the cheaper $99 drills with a small battery and charger. A quick google search for the DW356 3-speed oscillating tool yielded pricing starting at $99 for the small kit you mentioned that is on sale now, $180 for the bare tool at HD, $199 for the bare tool at Lowe’s, $249 at HD with a small battery, charger and a few accessories and the highest at $358 for the same tool with a couple of larger batteries & charger, but no accessories. It’s insane to think that same tool has such a price variation with all the different options. Really got to study it these days before you buy!
Al
very strange. I didnt know corded models had much of a market still considering how pricing and power are generally the same without a cord. Lately ive found HD changed dramatically. Used to be those guys who did “hacks” and found glitches. Items would go on clearance for ridiculously low prices etc. Even promos with free batteries would be with tools that recently came out and had a nice assortment. This past year, all these deal grabbers are getting banned, HD is cancelling glitch orders and giving more people a hard time with “hacks” and other attempts to score a deal. Even if those people dont suit your ethical track, at least make the deals more tempting with a better variety of free tool promos. Even the deal of the day is constantly repetitive with nothing that screams a great deal. It could be tariffs i guess, but as its been pointed out, everyone has the tariff issue. I think theres a new HD direction and it isnt consumer friendly. Im a sucker for a good deal and i havent seen anything incredible for a long time. It worked out for me because i saved my tool allowance for bigger tools i could never afford (like a table saw thats coming my way next week), but its sad to see such a terrible move be made
Bob
I had no problems with HD returning BOGO batteries. This Spring, I purchased two 60v Outdoor tools (DCST972 & DCBL772) when they were both doing BOGO with the Flexvolt 9ah. I returned both extra 9ah batteries at the prorated pricing without issue or comment. Did not make sense for me to have 4 x 9ah batteries since I still will rely on my Stihl backpack to move the huge leaf piles. When the Stihl dies I may need to pick up more batteries for the leaf blower, but 2 x 9ah is fine for my needs.
That one transaction’s been my only return of prorated BOGOs at HD.
Steven Phillips
I’m not a big fan of Home Depot and I don’t shop there very often anymore. They always have been expensive but lately they are trying to be more expensive than Lowes even. They’re trying to boost margins for some reason.
Stuart
It’s not Home Depot; every retailer has increased prices due to tariffs.
Katie
Corded Dewalt drill for pocketholes. Much better than any cordless drill for that task. I also drilled mortises with the Jessem mortise jig. Again, works better than a cordless. If I didn’t have one, I’d get it.
Bob
Do you think the DCD801QQ2 or DCD801B is at its best price with the proposed increase in the fall? I was hoping to score a black friday deal or get the DCD800B or DCD800D2 at a great close out price. Not really a need more like a want. Happy with my DCD793, probably FOMO on a metal chuck…
Stuart
There’s no way to predict that.
Also, just because SBD told investors they’re raising prices, that doesn’t clue us in as to what they’ll be raising prices on, or how much.
Steven Phillips
Agreed, but it seems like HD was out of the gate fastest and highest.
Matt
Corded power tools in 2025? In sure they have a place, but for the main aisle display, that’s goofy. Pass. I’m a Milwaukee guy already, and this is certainly not helping.