Rayovac Batteries - CHEAP!
I stopped in at my local Batteries Plus store yesterday to recycle a laptop battery and buy some alkaline AAA batteries for YAEG (Yet Another Electronic Gadget). I was fully expecting to be unhappy with the price of the batteries, so I was comparing price on the different brands.
The Duracell really seem to last better, but the house brand “Neon” is usually cheaper. I get a reseller discount which helps, and no sales tax if I’m reselling, so many times the Duracell are about the same.
One of the store employees asked if I would consider Rayovac which had a 6 pack on sale for $.99 - which is $3.99 less a $3 in store coupon. Now, when I was a kid - yes, we did have electricity then - Rayovac were considered inferior to Eveready, so the brand suffers a bit with me. I asked if it was a rebate I had to send in and he shook his head “no”. For $.99, why not?
I needed 8 batteries so I bought 2 - 6 packs, expecting to pay about $2.00. I didn’t think my reseller discount would help much, but the clerk told me I owed him 28 cents ($0.28). I told him I don’t ordinarily ask twice when surprised by a low amount, but I do dislike handcuffs.
There was a supervisor watching over this apparent trainee so I looked at him. He explained that my discount knocked the price down to $3.14 each (from $3.99), Rayovac provided a $3.00 coupon, and there was no tax since I was reselling these.
My next question, of course, was “what other batteries are on sale, and for how long?”. He pointed to a rack of different battery sizes and said that all of these multi-packs had the coupon and it was good until then end of July.
“I’ll check my inventory and be back”.
