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New glasses? The unsightly world of optometry retailing - Michael West (michaelwest.com.au)
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Have you ever walked into an outlet like OPSM, Specsavers, Bailey Nelson, or Laubman & Pank for an eye test and left feeling like you’d been gently pressured into spending $500 on a pair of glasses?

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[B]osses impose onto optometrists a variety of targets – whether its “converting” eye tests into sales or increasing rates of certain types of tests.

This type of pressure is reportedly causing many optometrists “significant moral distress” and some are starting to fight back.

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[-] quoll@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 months ago

bit of a tangent... but if you are travelling japan, it's a great place to get glasses. super cheap, great customer service, free eye test, wide range.

in the past ive got my basic glasses in a couple hours at jins for well under $100.

on last trip i got multi-focals (love them) for ~$170 at megane ichiba, took about a week, but was over the nye break.

[-] quokka1@mastodon.au 1 points 3 months ago

@quoll reminds me I've got an eye test soon. Pretty sure I'm more blind than last year. So that's another $500-odd I'll have to find

[-] quoll@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago

wait for a jetstar sale, fly to japan, save some coin :D

... legit flying to bali or thailand could probs make the $$$ add up.

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