I don’t understand it either. We’ve used the same Oxo can opener for about ten years, but we need a new one - probably two, on the prepper premise that ‘one is none, two is one’.
We looked at the grocery store the other day, and the manual ones were about 8.99 to 14.99; but they didn’t have an Oxo, so we’re waiting, because the Oxo has just been so reliable.
Wouldn’t hurt to have one of these in storage as an ‘extra’ either - my Grandmother actually used one until she was very, very old; she never really adapted to either the modern manual ones or the electrics, despite the arthritis in her old hands ;-)
-JT
The shipping to here would be about $5.00 for that item.
Probably the next time I go to Hong Kong or the UK I should get a manual opener just because of the risk here of typhoon related power outages. Two years ago Saipan had no electricity for 5 months due to a typhoon. Guam hasn’t been hit by a super typhoon in 15 years and we are normally hit by one every 10 years (Which explains why there is so little agriculture on the island)
I have one and I know how to use it. That was the only can opener my grandmother had. Ever! My grandfather bought her an electric one but it went to storage in the basement still in the box.