Rayovac Hearing Aid Battery Size 312 12pk - Brown: 1.4V Single-Use Batteries

What am I to do? The child resistant packaging is impossible for me to open, I am 90 years old, have arthritis in my hands. Do you have an easy to open package? Where can I get it? Why don't you make an easy open package for the people who use the most batteries?

Why would anyone want to ruin a good pair of scissors 'not to mention arthritic thumbs and fingers' just to access your products?

Seniors can open in 60 seconds? Let’s see, I should carry a pair of scissors along every place I go. Get with the real world you knuckleheads.

I bought these and I wont buy them again. After having to get my best pair of scissors to cut thru the package to get two out I continued to get them all out of the package. Now I have 4 loose batteries on my dresser. Guess who grabbed them off of my dresser. Yes my grand child. So instead of be child resistant they are more available to the children. I will not buy your product until you go back to the old package.

i must replace 312 Batteries for my 92 year husband who is deaf without hearing aids. The new packaging i have to deal with is not at all easy. Do you expect one to carry scissors with them, since batteries go out at any time or place? Child proof is not the big problem, poor new packaging is the problem.

I've used only your brand of batteries since I began wearing a hearing aid about five years ago. The batteries are consistently working well. However, it's your recent change in packaging that is driving me away...to a different brand. The rigid plastic packaging is impossible to cut through with a scissors. If one's hands are strong enough to use the scissors on that plastic, it's almost impossible to separate the two pieces. The plastic is sharp (especially once cut with the scissors) and slices into a user's skin and can cause bleeding, which can be dangerous to an elderly person on blood thinners. Is there any chance that you will change this dangerous packaging to a type that is user-friendly? I would prefer to return to your battery vs. using a competitor's.

The new childproof and allegedly "senior " considerate battery packaging is a joke. They are almost impossible to cut with scissors. I'm 85 with good hand strength and dexterity. It takes several minutes to cut and extract a single battery. This is unacceptable! If I'm away from home without scissors, then I can't replace the battery even if I have a package with me! The plastic itself is very difficult to cut with ordinary scissors. It takes heavy duty scissors or a special "package cutting" device to cut them as suggested. Then the battery flips out of the packaging when you do get it opened, usually on the floor. Surely you can design something better and more convenient!

The recently changed packaging makes the 312 batteries almost impossible to open. Scissors have to be used to open and no good or clear instructions. The plastic packaging is tough and very difficult and dangerous to cut/open. Extremely difficult to open packaging. A person should not have to go find a pair of scissors just to perform what used to be a simple process to change batteries. The person who came up with this new packaging should be fired.

Rayovac batteries are great , but the new packaging is terrible, being blind in one eye and joint problems having to get scissors to open them creates a real problem getting the batteries out to use. With no kids around making them child proof was a stupid idea, a high shelf works better and the older packaging was much easier on seniors. So now to taking a backup batteries with me I either have to take scissors with me or cut them out and put in a plastic bag to carry with me.

I've used 312's for several years. I've felt like Ray o vac is a quality product at a good price with super convenient, easy to use packaging. Yesterday I bought my first 312's in the new packaging. Rayo vac, you've made a big marketing mistake! From easy to child (&adult) proof. I just spent 10 minutes opening the package and cutting out the hearing aids. What a pain. You really need to rethink the packaging. Such a big backward step compared to your original packaging. Please try again! I would only recommend the batteries not the packaging.

In your zeal to make Child Resistant packages, you have also made Senior Citizen resistant packages. They are pretty much impossible for me to get in to with my arthritic hands. Don't know why the VA is providing Child Resistant packages to senior citizens. Looks like I will have to buy a different brand of non child resistant packages.

It is nearly impossible to get the batteries out of this packaging with cutting your fingers, breaking your scissors, and teaching your spouse a whole host of new curse words. I will never (purposely) buy these batteries again.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Up until recently I have been using Power One batteries, which last about 56-57 hours continuously. Then I purchased Rayovac batteries, that consistently gave me 72 hours. I am very impressed.

I’m sure there is some data that suggested the need for this sadistic packaging. It’s not worth a crap for a senior veteran with arthritis. Spend a great deal of time trying to cut through the thick plastic in silence as my battery has died.

As a senior with four years experience with hearing aids using 312 batteries, I found the "old" packaging convenient. Now the requirement to use scissors is a non-starter for many venues where battery replacement might occur. Symphony, theater, airplane in flight (TSA will not allow scissors) are impossible to now deal with with the current packaging. We are not stupid however, and will remove the batteries from the new packaging and recycle the old packaging to enable us to continue our lives unencumbered by progress while we endanger the kids in our lives! The packaging engineers can do a much better job than the current edition of 312 batteries.

The new child resistant packaging is terrible , absolutely terrible for elderly people. And I am guessing that it is elderly folks who use your 312 hearing air batteries the most!! Please, please return to old 312 battery packaging..

The Rayovac size 312 hearing aids batteries, 6 per card, are a packaging nightmare! I agree with all of the other negative comments concerning packaging and will not repeat them here but consider them included here. I have tried all kinds of scissors with minimal success. Can you recommend a specific brand/style of scissors that will work? Are you planning to do anything to replace this packaging with one that is kinder and more user friendly? Like perhaps the previous PACKAGING?

The latest packaging makes removing batteries to use next to impossible. You absolutely need very sharp tools, household scissors will NOT work.

If you're old with arthritic hands like me, the new child resistant packaging flat out sucks.

I've purchased this battery a long time. battery is good new child-proof package is very poor. Hard to open especially away from home with no scissors. Go back to the drawing board!