Plus with Walgreens, if you have a Balance card (or whatever it's called- I don't have it in front of me)- that's when you can buy one get one free. 99% of the time I go I'm able to do that so the 18.00 for a 24 pack is fine by me if I get the second one free .
That was my point earlier! And it being a local source where you don't have to worry about mishandling during shipment.
Not sure if it was intended to go that way (and it was not batteries) but a recently had the USPS send a package from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Dallas, Texas then to Hazelwood, Missouri (just outside St. Louis) before arriving at my place in Southern Illinois. It would have seemed normal to go directly to Hazelwood and then to me as all of our stuff gets sorted in Hazelwood anymore. At least it did not get sent back where it came from but just took what seemed to me to be an extra day.