For those that wear glasses...
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I tried to check Asda out, but unfortunately they don't have any optician locations within a 20+ mile radius.
Tesco optician is now vision express.
My biggest thing is why they no longer do the 1 hour service. It seems like regression. It's like 1 company started doing it and everyone else just followed.
I'm not sure what I would have done had I not been able to perform a temporary repair.
I have a friend who had 2 pairs of glasses broken by his daughter both in the middle where sit in the nose, within less than a week of each other (accidents toddler). He was down to his last pair that he hadn't worn for a number of years and was bricking it for 2 weeks till his new glasses arrived.
I went to the opticians recently. Two pairs of prescription reading glasses. Weren't expensive at all.
I've not thought about purchasing glasses online,
I've just had a look and it's surprisingly easy providing you have a recent prescription, the prices depending where you go aren't a great deal different from the high street.
I've just had a look and it's surprisingly easy providing you have a recent prescription, the prices depending where you go aren't a great deal different from the high street.
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Guess who I bumped into when I was in Specsavers last week?
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Literally done the same thing. No Boots appointments until October, but got in at Vision Express. Was going to have standard lens again, plus cheap reading glasses, but after talking to wife and mum, decided to go with varifocals - and now about £370 poorer. Glasses not ready yet.
I had convinced myself that reading glasses were a good idea, then my wife reminded me that I am forever looking at my phone - and I can't read labels in shops (B&Q is the worst!).
I had convinced myself that reading glasses were a good idea, then my wife reminded me that I am forever looking at my phone - and I can't read labels in shops (B&Q is the worst!).
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I went there once. Never again.
Took them 3 months to get my glasses to me.
About 2 month wait. Then they didn't make them right - they didn't thin them or put on the UV coating.
Then when they did them again the frame was looser, and they cut the arms, and cut them too short, so they needed to replace them.
Bloody useless. Might have saved a tenner though ...
Not all Specsavers branches are the same, the service that you receive depends on who is running the branch, I think that they are all franchises. There are 4 branches within reasonable travelling distance of my home but there is only one branch that I will use.
My mate has bought some online. I think he bought two pairs of no-frills prescription glasses for £19!
Online purchase is a good value option for basic prescription glasses.
Where do you get them fitted? Glasses normally need adjusting to fit.
I generally wear two pairs, one for general work/TV/PC/studging about, then a prescription pair for driving which I don't essentially need, they just help with reading the satnav. I also have a prescription pair for very fine reading. My general purpose pair are the same dioptre, since I first needed glasses decades ago and I just buy cheap pound shop ones for those. but I seek out those which are sprung arms.
They are obliged to hand it over, the NHS will be paying for that in many cases.
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