{"id":11632,"date":"2014-10-28T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11632"},"modified":"2014-10-28T07:50:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T11:50:42","slug":"the-death-of-the-single-use-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/the-death-of-the-single-use-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death Of The Single Use Battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/102814_1147_TheDeathOfT1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Procter &amp; Gamble is going to sell off its venerable Duracell brand. Max Nisen argued that this showed that the days of batteries are numbered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sales of Duracell have been declining for a while and last year they shrunk 4.6%.<\/li>\n<li>People used to use batteries for their flashlights, music players, and gaming devices. The smartphone with its rechargeable battery has replaced all of them.<\/li>\n<li>TV remote controls also suck up a lot of batteries. But with systems like the Xbox and SmartGlass people are increasingly using other means to control their televisions.<\/li>\n<li>All of this is probably good for the environment. Batteries are usually thrown away and contain various chemicals that end up in landfills.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about Procter &amp; Gamble&#8217;s logic, and how second placed competitor Energizer is responding to the same market conditions over <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/286620\/procter-gamble-is-acknowledging-the-death-of-single-use-batteries\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/286620\/procter-gamble-is-acknowledging-the-death-of-single-use-batteries\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Procter &amp; Gamble is going to sell off its venerable Duracell brand. Max Nisen argued that this showed that the days of batteries are numbered: Sales of Duracell have been declining for a while and last year they shrunk 4.6%. People used to use batteries for their flashlights, music players, and gaming devices. The smartphone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/102814_1147_TheDeathOfT1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11632"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11635,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11632\/revisions\/11635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}