Comments on: August Megaparty #20: Battery Fun!

By: johnny

johnny — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 06:11:31 +0000

I’m with you random bob. Been a long time since i checked in on Rob though.

By: mr.skeleton

mr.skeleton — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:30:40 +0000

Energizer bunny! A robotic pink drumming rabbit in shades and blue sandles. The zenith of battery marketing, you better effing believe it. Or not, whatever, but I have a little bunny figure from the late 80s? early 90s? It lit up when squeezed, but has since been gutted and is now a hollow corpse of a plastic pink rabbit. So there’s that.

By: Invader Norbert

Invader Norbert — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:45:47 +0000

Kaga: as a fellow KB employee, my store’s currently last in its district in battery sales, and the Bunny still proudly sits on top of its battery rack, and people are so fucking stupid that I have to tell them that they’re under the Energizer Bunny. I think we’re last because we no longer carry the incredibly cheap Eveready batteries, which were like $1.50 per 8 pack, and we now just sell the Energizer Gouging Batteries, where a same 8 pack would set you back 6 bucks.

And I agree about the tiny Aslan snowglobe package, that was ugly/unecessary as hell. At least the Cars promotion had the little figures actually be able to do something.

By: Kid Nicky

Kid Nicky — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:22:31 +0000

“One day a DSM visited and told us to get rid of the rack because KB hates anything that might improve sales.”
A truer statement there has never been. I used to work at KB myself.

By: kingklash

kingklash — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:05:35 +0000

H-ha! people do naughty things with batteries!

I haven’t done it with batteries, but I have bought things I wouldn’t have because of what I got with it. Like a box of Total cereal that had a Barney Miller DVD in it. I am addicted to that opening bass line.

bummmm ba-ba-bummm ba-da-dummm ba-da-dumm-ba-da-da-da-dummm…..

By: Kid Nicky

Kid Nicky — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:51:41 +0000

I’ll be damned if I ever buy a book written by Orson Scott Card.

By: Melissa Y

Melissa Y — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:41:14 +0000

Hey, Matt, I too have bought Energizer batteries with free goodies inside the packages: one was a little toy car, and one was a combo, whistle compass that looks like a fat battery. Had some kind of promo tie in with Survivor I think….