If I recall correctly, the duraloops pictured with a black ring on the wrapper are 2.4Ah, made in Japan cells; they do not have a white ring on top like standard eneloops. I suspect they’re eneloop XX cells based on their capacity and load characteristics. I’ve been running a couple in my EDC for about a year now, and they’ve performed very well. Thanks for sharing the link!
—Edit— Fixed typos. I shouldn’t be allowed near a keyboard when I’m tired :weary:
The white top “Duraloops”, made in Japan. 2000 mAh, LSD
The black top Duracells, made in China. 2000 mAh, LSD
The black top ion core, made in Japan. 2400 mAh, LSD
I did a very small amount of testing. It was enough to determine to my satisfaction that this are in fact Eneloop XX. Here is the thread: tested a single Duraloop-XX @ 5A
I’m using all of mine (got 32 of them), I just finally got a few set of of real eneloops recently.
wish there was free shipping on this….or I could get to $49 of AAs (for free shipping)
The point and end result of my too long post above is that you probably can get this deal in the store. In fact I now remember actually seeing the 40% off on the second pack on the display in the store.
These cells really do test out to 2400mAh. I will post my comparison later.
right, but if there was a store anywhere near me…I would have just ordered ship to store 
oh well, looks like deal is dead anyway
No Toys-R-Us?!?
I joined to say thanks for posting this. Long time lurker here on BLF but never had much to say (I have so much to learn).
Got myself a few packs and a couple more for Christmas gifts.
Welcome to the Forum! 
Missed it and I’m starting to see the need for more AAAs and AAs (I lost a 4 pack of the blue/light blue costco eneloops this month and I am constantly losing AAAs it seems.)
~50 miles away…
Sam's Club has these too, but not as good a deal. The packages said made in Japan. The had a charger, 8AA, 4AAA for around $29. They also had these:
Duracell LSD China vs “Duraloop” LSD Japan and Duracell Ion Core Japan
All cells were were charged at 1000mA and discharged at 700mA
The 2 cells on the left are the Made in China Duracell and the 2 on the right are made in Japan
Now the 4 Ion Core Duracells in this thread
Help! Where are you seeing the 40% discount on the second pack?
My cart will only show the $8.99 price X 2. Thanks in advance.
40% off second pack was last week, unfortunately.
2 years in a row I've missed this one ..
Looking forward to missing it next year too.
* Maybe i'll go stare at them like I did last year and have a clueless salesperson shrug at me again .
I think I’ll join you in that heartbreak… I went to the redwood city location last night. Nothing on the shelves. Customer service steadfastly and resolutely refused to check inventory to see if there was anything hiding somewhere. (Because, of course, they’d have to actually do some work if they found something!) A vague wave in the general direction of the batteries was all they could manage. On the plus side, they’d been too lazy to pull down the 40% off tags (expired on the 22nd, I think), so if I’d found anything, I would’ve agitated for a bigger discount.
Two part micro update…
- the TRU website still shows these at $8.99. When I bought (different location than the RWC that I moaned about above, btw), they scanned at the store price, but I showed the guy the TRU website on my phone and with no arguing, he marked them down. (Parenthetically, it makes me wonder if a “crafty” individual could cache a webpage with a price of one’s own choosing…)
- the duraleXXs seem to have a fractionally shorter button top (+) than regular eneloops, so they didn’t work in my (frikkin) bosch laser until I dremeled away a tiny bit of plastic.
I should have 2 unopened packs of these things, plus 2 or 3 more unused cells and the cell I did the testing on. I wish I could find them. I’ve got a project I can use them on ATM. Frustrating.