Re:Dollar General Hits a Gold Mine in Rural America
by shostack on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @06:34PM
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Where is a good place to buy batteries online these days? I feel like Amazon is a crap shoot with all the expired product or knock-offs they have.
Re:Dollar General Hits a Gold Mine in Rural America
by rainbowmverse on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @08:00PM
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I bought some AmazonBasics AAs for my old camera (Canon PowerShot SX100 IS). They last hundreds of shots on a charge.
Re:Dollar General Hits a Gold Mine in Rural America
by mschuster91 on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @07:08PM
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Hmm. In Germany, I shop batteries at conrad.de - an electronic retailer chain. They're expensive, yes, but the stock is quality, you can get weird stuff like coin cells with solderable pads on them (which gets handy when you're repairing old stuff with soldered batteries!) and you can have them ship to the nearest store for pickup.
Re:Dollar General Hits a Gold Mine in Rural America
by alexasmyths on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @07:27PM
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I think with batteries you get what you pay for.
It's a tragedy that there is no objective measure for gosh sakes - some last hours some last days. Can't tell from the label.
The name-brand batteries I get tend to vastly outlast the off-brand ones - Im amazed they can't put some kind of 'kWh' on their labels.
Re:Dollar General Hits a Gold Mine in Rural America
by xinyhn on Thursday October 19, 2017 @02:05AM
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Definitely possible the various brands of batteries have changed since this testing I have referenced this in the past. http://www.batteryshowdown.com/results-hi.html
Most other things though - you realize how badly we are getting ripped off everywhere else.
Chocolate, canned things, paper.
I loathe going to the 'Dollar Store' because it's so tacky, but then, I feel like a fool for buying the more expensive 'same thing' elsewhere.
Here is a business plan: the 'Target' version of the 'Dollar Store'.
Someone needs to make 'the cheap store' that is hip - a little focus on colour, layout. Just some thoughtfulness in terms of merchandising would go a long way.