How do I know which manufacturer is supplying the battery in question at whatever store I'm looking at, and how do I know which manufacturer I want to aim for?
I can't say with 100% certainty, but I have a year old NAPA Legend in my Accord that looks exactly like that.
According to the guy at NAPA it was a Clarios.
Posting on an old thread for histories sake.. I just replaced 2 Walmart Value batteries. The first was a group 35 that lasted 46 months in my Mazda 3. Had one slow start and was 100% done next crank and had to be jumped off. The second was a Group 65 that made it 7 years in my 88 F-150. This one had been getting progressively weaker and topping it off with a charger didn't make much difference any more. Showed around 400 CCA on my tester. Both were Johnson Control batteries and new ones were physically identical to old ones.