The Costco pick a hearing aid process

User990 - At a certain age, some people no longer have sufficient dexterity and/or muscle strength to deal with today’s plastic packaging (I’m not just talking about batteries), whether using scissors, razor blades, or brute strength. Clearly you’re fortunate enough not to be one of those people.

I have to question the ability to install a new hearing aid battery if one’s dexterity is that bad. Frankly they should be using a rechargeable hearing aid.

From my point of view, I see a bunch of whiners.

Wasn’t that response a little whiny?

Yeah well no reason to get nasty and insulting. I can use a pair of scissors quite easily, thank you; and still very much prefer rechargeable aids. And yes I used replaceable battery aids for nearly twenty years, so I’ve done both. It’s just so much easier for me to simply recharge my batteries at night while I sleep and not have to worry about finding my battery pack and stopping whatever it is I might be doing to replace the damn things. Although all of that is trivial in the grand scheme of things.

Hey you may like replaceable battery aids! fine! I’m not going to insult you because of your arthritic judgement. (oops). I play classical guitar. My hand dexterity is probably better than yours. Please stop accusing me and millions of others of being incapacitated because we prefer rechargeable batteries.

The world moves on and even if arthritis or other considerations make one lean towards rechargeable batteries, so what? It’s a big ol’ world and everyone doesn’t have to suffer insults for making a reasonable choice. We don’t have to divide up into tribes: Rechargeables versus Replaceables at endless war with each other. come on..