We're open : New businesses bring life to plaza at Rogers intersection
Dec. 23rd, 2008
By Jeff Mores

Batteries Plus

For anyone who has not heard of Batteries Plus, co-owner Chris Cox believes his newest location will save more than a few people in a pinch.

"The comment we get most is, 'We've been everywhere ..." said Cox, whose family owns two additional Batteries Plus stores in the Tulsa area. "We want to change that. We want Batteries Plus to be the first place you turn when you need a battery - any battery. What's different about our location (in Rogers) is this is the first Batteries Plus in the entire state of Arkansas."

With batteries of all shapes and sizes for power tools, digital cameras, camcorders, cell phones, smart phones and even automobiles and watercraft, Arkansas' first Batteries Plus may very well have that odd battery you just can't seem to find anywhere else. And if they don't, Batteries Plus, in most cases, will offer to actually sit down and make you one.

"We try to have everything you could need in stock, but if for some reason we don't, we have a tech center at the back of the store where we can build your own battery on site," Cox said.

Batteries Plus has been open for one week and has already assembled a new power-drill battery pack, built a battery to fit a Dustbuster and used defective batteries brought in by customers as templates for constructing new ones.

"There are a few cases where we might not be able to work our magic, but normally, as long as we can get into it, we'll do it," Cox said. "At our Tulsa stores, 30 to 40 percent of our business is done at our tech center. I expect that will be the same here in Rogers.

"There are customers that have been coming to us for years that come in and say, 'We finally found something you don't have.' I'm happy to tell them, 'Yes, we do.'"