If you buy more alkaline batteries than you can possibly use before they leak, you just might be a flashaholic!
"But Honey, I got a really good price for them, they were on sale, I saved TONS of money!"
Thats not a joke but a serious concern for me.
I'm really concerned that the batteries have the right origins. I say this because Chinese CR123s are known to be unsafe and the USA ones are literally the good ones. But then there is the fact that no one shares any cost savings with you by buying the cheap Asian ones they just pocket profits that would have paid for western labourers to build the batteries.
With that in mind if I see Japanese, European, American, or Israeli batteries I buy all I can get. Sometimes the same brands switch where they are made for years at a time. So you really need to stock up.
Recently I bought some D Panasonics that are made in Belgium and they were leaking in the package. I bought like 22 two packs of them. Not only were they cheap but made in EU. Now I check them in storage every month.
Lithium and rechargables don't have this issue but I'm starting to have enough Fujitsu and Eneloops that I have to rotate them into use so they don't just sit around.
I wonderif I'll ever really be away from alkalines but it seems that way.