It’s being proven to be much harder than anticipated to source rechargeable AA or AAA batteries here; those disposable ones exist everywhere but I’m not a fan of the environmental impact of disposable batteries.
Any idea where I can get them? Perhaps near the Ximen area?
Any place like PX Mart, Carrefour, Tsankuen, etc should have them
Guanghua underground plaza has them too.
I bought mine from RT mart I think. They are everywhere though, I don’t know why you would have a hard time finding them.
A few years ago I stocked up on plenty of eneloop rechargeable batteries (AA and AAA), available at the time in both Carrefour and Costco. I no longer see that brand at Carrefour, which is mildly annoying since I’d like a few more AA, but not enough to justify the big Costco purchase.
But there are also plenty of other rechargeables still at Carrefour - a Panasonic brand, I think? (And I keep meaning to figure out if I can just use other rechargeable batteries with eneloop chargers.)
FWIW batteries are one of those products that can be split up in different places in the store, so if you’re not seeing the ones you want in an aisle, they may be in the next aisle over.
Where is the Guangha Underground Plaza, please? Underneath the Guanghua Digital Plaza?
They sell the eneloops at Syang Chang.
Guanghua Electronics Plaza, or as I call it, Underground Guanghua.
Thanks everyone! I’m definitely not looking in the right places and expecting to see them at convenience or grocery stores, but will take all your helpful suggestions!
Let’s say you can buy them at the Guanghua Digital plaza too.
I don’t see any at Carrefour in Ximen. Would prefer advice from places where you are sure they are available, not just think they should be.
They have a load of types of batteries in any of the RT-Marts I’ve been to. I’d be surprised if they really don’t have them in the Carrefour at Ximen (IIRC, they’re over toward the back left end of the floor you enter on, near the toys and stuff…or maybe the electronics area as you enter, but I do remember that store not having a couple of things that other stores do so I might be wrong).
Nope – just shelves of disposable batteries by the stationary area; and a box of disposable batteries by the electronics.
Thanks for trying though. I’ll try hunting around Guanghua tomorrow 
Fair enough. I think Guanghua is probably a solid option. They have quite a few shops mostly selling batteries, IIRC (I’m talking about the main building with 4-5 floors of computer stuff).
The yellow 3C stores have them too.
By the way, apart from the well known eneloop etc. there are also rechargable Lithium batteries down to AAA size. Don’t work with every device, but have the advantage of keeping the same voltage until they are empty. That’s great for motor driven devices like, say… Vibrators 
That’s interesting. Why is that? Do they have some voltage-regulating circuitry or something? I’m assuming it’s not a specific feature of lithium-ion batteries (lithium-based 18650 batteries, for example, drop from ca. 4.2 V to 2.8 V or something during discharge AFAIK).
The Yellow 3C stores were mentioned above as “Tsankuen”
Exactly. It’s basically a tiny pack made from a battery, a 1.5V (or something like that) switching voltage regulator (VR), and a charging/safety circuit.
Problem with some devices can be: if the current drawn
by the device is too high then the VR immediately switches off - instead of simply the voltage dropping as with normal batteries.
You can search for充電電池 (Rechargeable Batteries)
Also keep in mind that the battery sizes have a different name , for example a battery AAA is No. 4 in Taiwan (In China is No. 7)
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