I posted this 1 day 14 hours ago.
17 hours ago, less than a day after i posted, the AA Laddas went out of stock online but there were 28 packs available at my local store.
Just checked and those packs have goooooone.
Looks like Oz internet was simply reporting from itâs advanced time zone
def_nvar, thanks much for the heads up brother. I had tryed to mailorder some of these about 2 years back and they wanted more $ for shipping than the battery cost so at that time I bought eneloops. I swung by the local Ikea store about 3 weeks back and they were 100 percent out, all they had was the sign, no stock. When I saw your post I tryed again and the shipping was a very respectable and fair $5.95. Glad to have gotten some more.
I have enough MIJ Ladda to meet my needs for the near future (eg 4 years). With this news/rumor I am tempted to buy a few more packs to âput awayâ but it will be a false economy if they degrade tangibly while stored for 4-5 years.
I have some hi-cap AA eneloops from when they first came out (when they were called XX instead of Pros) and they are still working fine. I think people who get short life out of the hi-caps are charging them too fast. I use a Panasonic BQ CC-17 charger (a slow but dependable smart charger) and I have no problem with short life spans with eneloops.
Hmm. Itâs not easy to obtain Ikea batteries in our country since there is no Ikea store in our countryâŚ
Ikea has announced plans last year 2020 to open their very first Ikea store in our country by latter part of this year 2021 (hopefully that pushes through).
I wonder if they will still have stocks of these Ladda batteries when they first open their storeâŚ
For my store in Portland, Or sold out online and in store! Lame part is they donât show sold out though until you go to check out. I will miss these and hope Duracell doesnât stop selling their FDK rewraps! I guess LADDAloops are gone forever :cry:
They will prpbably replace it with something made in China like Amazon and Duracell and Energizer have done. Cheaper to buy for them, but they charge us the same amount. My guess is itâs getting hard to source the Fujitsu ones or theyâre getting too expensive to buy. LSD nimh batteries arenât cheap to make or buy, and because thereâs one factory in Japan that makes them for Panasonic, and for now, Duracell (some of their 2500mah nimh are made by FDK), they have control over vendor and contracts. Thereâs more factories in China making LSD cells which may not be as good, but the average consumer is blissfully unaware.
Just had a talk with an Ikea employee and she told me that the new rechargeables will come in June/July and they will be blue
This is just an unconfirmed information. But I am interested if itâs true. We will see.