Allright, some good points raised.
I'll stand corrected on most; but I do appreciate the distinction between types and appropriate applications.

I clarify and maintain that the useless non-standardised descriptions, tainted by marketing pressures to make the naff seem attractive, make it a minor challenge to actually tell if you're buying over-hyped ZC or modest-packaged alkaline.

You see, to my mind, "Heavy Duty" implies better than the other options; when it actually tends to counter-intuitively grace the shite-est ones possible. Call ZC batteries "Light-Duty", because that's really what they're good for; and I'll be a happier bunny.
(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 23:46, 1 reply)

One way in which they're still crap
The bosses at the video store where I work are tighter than a nun's cunt and refuse to spend a penny more than they have to. A while ago I mentioned that it'd be a good idea to buy rechargable battery packs for the Xbox 360 we hire out, in order to prevent angry customers with unplayable controllers. They instead opted to buy heaps and heaps of cheapo batteries. Guess what we're going through at a rate of 4 every two weeks?
(ElGranto, Tue 4 Oct 2011, 2:27, closed)