Customer Reviews for Rayovac - Zinc Air 312 1.45 V Hearing Aid Battery 6 pk
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Impossible packaging!!
on March 9, 2025
Posted by: Libby
from Seattle,WA
Gender:Female
"easy for seniors to open"??? Is this some kind of joke.? I used to open your "old school" batteries with no problem. Now its such a challenge I'll try another brand
I’m a 75 year old navy veteran and have been using your hearing aid 312 batteries for 15 years. Your new child proof packaging is extremely difficult to open and I’ve found two dead batteries in each of my last two packages. What’s wrong with RayOVac? Please fix this problem!
Your copy claims these packages are easy for seniors to use. Not for people with ordinary scissors and arthritis. Plus, batteries sometimes go dead when you are away from home. I carry batteries with me for that eventuality, but don’t carry a pair of garden shears or hedgeclippers to open this terrible package. I am so sorry that I bought a multiple-card package. I won’t make the mistake of buying Rayovac again,and certainly will warn my friends on social media.
I hate the new packaging. I am 70 yrs old and hate haviing to cut the packaging when I need a battery especially when traveling. The previous packaging with circular rotating dispenser was so much more convenient PLUS it provided a means to put the used batteries in the pack for recycling. Poor design. Now I have to carry scissors ? As usual, he users are not consulted when changing a design.
These ‘childproof packaging’ are almost impossible to open. I keep extra batteries with me, when in public. At a dinner meeting, one of my hearing aid batteries died. No one at the table, could open it. I had to go to the kitchen and ask for a scissors. The man there, could hardly cut it open. Now I’m “trying” to cut them open, with my extra sharp kitchen scissors, so that I can put them in small container to keep in my purse. They are advertised as 100% child proof and seniors 1st try takes one minute to open and 30 seconds for 2nd try. No one I know carries heavy duty scissors with them in public and I doubt that they would be allowed on an airplane. These need to be redesigned!
It may be "childproof " but additionally it is senior citizen proof or anyone with arthritis in their hands. What were your packaging engineers thinking? Also, your original packaging had 8 batteries, your new packaging has only 6 with no seemingly reduction in pricing.