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Old 8th Aug 2018, 3:27 pm   #16
barrymagrec
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Default Re: Cheap PP9 Batteries at Screwfix

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In the 1950's my father used to say that you should always buy batteries from Woolworths as they had a high turnover rate. Batteries purchased from a hardware or radio shop on the other hand might have been sitting on the shelf for months.
I was under the impression that in the fifties and later the EverReady battery man came to every shop every couple of weeks, replenishing the stock and replacing any batteries that had been around for too long - of course modern batteries have a much longer shelf life so this isn`t much of an issue now
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