I am with Art and Doug about how good products disappear on you.

I was not quite clear enough about my problems with bulk battery purchases.
Some people around me have a saver mentality.
They can't throw anything out.

When I buy bricks of batteries they tend to put a new battery into whatever device they are using and after using it a bit put the partly used, or even dead, battery back into the box with the new ones.
I then end up with a box half full of half dead batteries and half full of fresh batteries. Often the dead ones corrode.

It is one of the reasons I have gone mostly to rechargeable batteries. Rechargeables are usually stored dead.