Dispensing with Dispensers

Land-based eyewear stores are telling customers not to go look online for glasses because they will not get the same fit that they will when being helped by a trained professional, yet at the same time, many optical shops with physical locations are trying to get into the online sales market. The real truth is that with a little explanation from the website, you can measure the size you need your glasses to be just as well as any "trained professional" and if you have a pair of well fitted glasses all you need to do is measure the distance from one arm to the other and that will tell you the width you are looking for.

Now, the last time I went to get eyeglasses, all the professionals did for me was bend the arms slightly to get a good feel after I picked out my frames and they made the lenses. They did nothing for me that they could not do for someone who walked into their store with a pair of glasses purchased online for a small $5 fee. There is also a growing trend for land-based department stores to be partnering up with the bigger online stores which will allow you to buy your prescription glasses at discount prices over the internet but to have any repairs or adjustments done in the department store nearest to you to offer you even more convenience.

The offline glasses stores tell these lies to help protect their business just like any business owner or employee would do and you can tell it is not true because you can see the trend for land-based stores to open their own websites offering their products online. The problem is that they do not want to compete with themselves and offer their glasses online at the same price they would in their store, and they will only offer you the products they offer in their store which in most cases is not as wide a selection as what is offered by most online eyeglasses websites.

These sites are really more to show what they have in the store in an attempt to bring customers in to their stores and rather than to offer you anything unique over the internet and many of them will not sell you prescription glasses without you visiting the store. They want to discredit online prescription glasses dispensaries because of their ability to bring top quality name brand glasses to the public at a fraction of the price of the land- based dispensaries. They make the claim that you will not get a good fitting pair of glasses.

The only thing the land-based stores have over the online stores is that when you walk into the shop you have someone there who, depending on how many years you have been a customer at this particular shop, may know who you are and give you a nice friendly greeting that you cannot get when shopping for glasses online, but is this friendliness really worth the extra money?

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