Frank Dresser wrote:

"GO BEARCATS" wrote in message
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What's the groups take on this particular brand? I've never purchased them
myself. I bought a pack of sixteen of them for $3.87 (including tax.)

Ray-O-Vacs used to be my favorite brand. I could get a large pack at the
home improvement store for a good price. They seemed to last about as long
as Duracells. And they were made in Wisconsin. And they had a excellent
guarantee. Now, I think they're making them in Asia. That's a
disappointment. I still have some of my old Ray-O-Vac D cells. I don't
know how good the newer ones are.


Consumer's Union tests alkaline batteries ever few years, and their
most recent tests say "buy by price" - they found no meaningful
differences in length of life from Duracell/Eveready all the way down
through "Rite-Aid" brand and the like. They seem to have become a
homogenized technology, like color TV - one is generally as good as
another (it was NOT that way 15 years ago with batteries, though). I
started taking a chance on "generics" again about 2 years ago, and have
been pleased with the length of life vis-a-vis Duracell or Eveready.
But the generics are probably made by one or the other of the "big
boys", anyway.

Tony