Batteries: Pays to shop around

 I don't use a lot of alkaline batteries
but today I need one 9 volt and three AA
batteries for stuff at home

I don't want a years worth of batteries
and local Walmart seems to only sell
mega packs of them anymore. However they
did have a single 9 volt for $3.50 and
pack of four AA's for another $3.50

Being the tightwad I am I decided to
check Big Lots.  Sure enough.... one 9
volt for $1.50 and three AA pack for
$1.70

WTF!? That much mark up on batteries?
Sheesh!!

  me@privacy.net wrote:

Still sounds high.  I can get 9V alkaline in 4-packs at Aldi's for
$3.99 (and one of the stores remaindered some of the packs for $2.99,
so I stocked up.. don't know if that was a misprice or they just
really wanted to get rid of them).

Alkaline AA and AAA I figure 4/$1 is an acceptable price.  MicroCenter
has them on sale for that occasionally.  Menard's (a regional
building-supply chain) sometimes has them for less, maybe 5-6/$1, if
you're willing to buy in 24-packs.  I've seen similar deals as
advertised specials at one of the auto-supply chains (Checker, I
think).  Fortunately, alkalines have good shelf life, new ones should
be dated for use maybe 4 years into the future and seem to have some
decent life left in them even years beyond that.  So stock up.  I'm
still using some Fuji C-cells that I (over)stocked from a liquidator
who was going out of business, and I think they're at least 5 years
beyond their shelf date now.  That's pushing it a bit, I overestimated
how many I'd use.

Dave

 

Wow Aldis's... I never thought abt checking them for
batteries!

Thanks will go check

 wrote:


Just checked my local Aldis and all they
had wass AA and AAA....... their brand
name

is that what yours has? Their brand
name?

 me@privacy.net wrote:


Yeah.  "Phaser" or something like that.  Maybe they're discontinued,
and that's why the price was good.

9V are definitely the hardest ones to find good prices on.

Dave