Posts under ‘Opticians~Optometrists’

How To Get Glasses You’ve Alway Wanted…
“I always wanted a pair of glasses as worne by Michael Kane in the ipcress file. I live in Victoria Australia in Melbourne and would welcome advice how to go about this”.  So wrote David from Melbourne, Australia.
The ones worn in the Ipcress File are like those in the [...]

Famous Four Eyes: Famous Front
I’m not sure exactly what’s the news but I think that it’s that Kelly Brook is to front the next Spectacles Wearer Of The Year. Do you think they call it swoty - surely that’s just the image they’re trying to lose as in swotty! Not that Kelly looks swotty…  But it does [...]

UK Market Leader Spectacles “Even Better Value” in 2010
For most of this year the UK’s Specsavers have had better prices than last year.  I was waiting for a big splash in the media to mention it but it never seemed to happen.  The prices right across the range were prudently pruned but no media splash.  Some designer [...]

Specsavers PR Machine in Overdrive
Hey listen, I don’t mind… it gives us more copy but I thought it worth noting how good the PR machine is! One line is the driving & accidents - reported in the Mirror on-line amongst others and just about every local or regional paper where accidents were either the best [...]

Spectacles Blog on Mail On Line Minus Rated!
Isn’t life (and commerce) a curious thing - particularly today in the world of spectacles!
I get a daily news alert for “spectacles” and today it highlighted that Asda are supposedly hotting up a spectacles price war - by selling complete specs for £50.  First impression is “big deal” [...]

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Not Spectacles or Prescritions But Offers Which Give Rise To Complaints!
Spectacles Blog News: According to the Optician on Line, “Complaints to the Optical Consumer Complaints Service (OCCS) rose by 35 per cent to 2,479 in the year April 2008 to March 2009 when compared to 2007 figures, the optical watchdog’s annual report has revealed”. However [...]

Specsavers, the UK’s No.1 spectacles retailer has launched a new website, (including it’s try-on-line service*) but despite the technology leap, you always get the safeguard of in-store fitting.   This new website “aims to make the purchasing of eyecare quicker and more straightforward than ever for HR managers”, says Specsavers.
Cleverly, the new site (really a new part of the main [...]

Whether they are Opticains, Optometrists, Optical Retailers, Eyewear Dispensers… and so on
Often I write about the selling of spectacles, glasses and sunglasses as part of the broad interest of Spectacles Blog.  It’s not glasses as such but it’s the industry or at least where the buying public sees the industry.
So we have a new category [...]

Hearts & Minds Spectacles & Basketball Sunglasses
More French imagery & imagination that you dont tend to see in the spectacles & sunglasses retailer in the UK!  Two pairs in one opticians that I thought worth capturing… One pair just fun (big round plastic sunglasses with diamonte and hearts - all in one pair of inexpensive sunglasses) [...]

… Or just More French. Spectacles Blog Asks The Question…
Every time I go to France, the optician store jump out at me - mainly because of their signage.  I noticed this in February - see giant optician’s  brass spectacles post - and I noticed them again last week.  They all have an interesting sign outside and this makes you [...]