[David G4EBT]

Screwfix are de-stocking - these are a clearance line for them.

Don't go to your local store expecting to get any batteries over the counter or you'll be on a fool's errand. I've just checked the stock at the six stores within a 30 mile radius of my location and only two stores have one battery each in stock - at the other stores they're a 'collect next day' item. You can order as many as you want online and pay for them for next day collection while stocks last. (They accept paypal by the way).

Screwfix and B&Q are both owned by Kingfisher, (just as Toolstation and Wickes are owned by Travis & Perkins). B&Q may still have sufficient demand for PP9s to justify continuing to stock them, but it seems that Screwfix don't. I'd have thought that overall, the demand for PP9s is on an inexorable downward trend towards extinction, as happened with the PP7 some years ago.