Battery party time! If you are a fan of doing the Duracell batteries 1-Cent Rewards offers at Office Depot and Max stores, rejoice! The promotion is coming back October 2-8 in 2016 at their brick and mortar stores according to the Weekly Ad for that particular week shown on their website.

The offer has the usual terms, limit two for this week, you can get a 16-pack of single use Duracell AA or AAA batteries. You can do any combination to get to the limit of two (one of each, or two of AA or two of AAA). Remember, DO NOT Pay for these with Rewards – you will not receive any rewards for amounts paid with rewards. The old days of the rolling Office Max rewards are over. Office Depot (ODP) never had rolling rewards and the new reward program is mostly the ODP one.

To be 100% safe, check the printed Weekly Ad, and make sure it says that these Rewards will be sent to you separately from the regular monthly rewards. These has two benefits:

• you will receive the full $13.98 amount if they are sent separately
• they arrive faster than the regular rewards these days

What I mean by the full amount is this: with the new Office Depot-Max rewards, you only get monthly rewards in multiples of $10. Everything else rolls over on a quarterly basis and then you lose it. So unless you are an over-the-top OCD planner, you can never get your full rewards. I’m surprised none of the State Attorney Generals launched an investigation in this very sneaky practice. On the other hand, rewards that arrive separately get you the full amount.