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I work for one of the evil empires giant chain who shall remain nameless, today I was trouble shooting thirty year old single vision -1.00-1.25 ish Rx, having head aches and eye pain. Only change in...

Break them into lots of 10 or 15 and sell on ebay, if they are vintage consider selling as such on etsy.
have a buy one get one sale( free pair from old stock display) Do a buy one give one- tis the...

Do you sell your new old stock? Retail or wholesale? I might be interested in buying a few for experiment if you sell them at wholesale prices. PM if you are interested, I would like to ask you some...

There is an article/ad in vision Monday for robertsons royal a/r that is supposed to block HEV if I could figure out how to make a link to it I would. I think it's this months issue.

I had a conversation with a LC district manager recently and she said that lux has a contract to make MK for Marchon.
I think the only reason she said it was because I questioned the list of brands...

Arrogance diminishes wisdom.

I think all politicians who are taking big bucks from big corporations should be forced to purchase a pair of glasses from which ever big box they are taking money. They have a pretty good chance of...

Thanks all for the info and the encouragement - will keep my chin up, keep taking great care of my patients and keep looking for a private practice gig.

You nailed it- I am not the sheep per say just low man on the totem pole- I get the sales they give me, spend most of the day dispensing, when those in charge do hand me a sale it's usually Humana,...

Thats the problem, in private practice for 20+ years 10 of them my own shop- the focus was patient care, patient satisfaction, doing it right Service, quality, knowledge and skill mattered. This is...

Awe you guys aren't helping any. I was hoping to see some numbers that made me feel better not worse.
For October I did 24k (second highest sales)59%ar 40% transitions and 40% multiples- not even...

Yes they track everything - hold you up to some bean counters requirement - multiples, warranties,cleaning kits, "high definition" lenses, Polarized, sales per hour, they even track customer...

I know this is an odd question, but I need some outside perspective. I am trying to figure out reasonable goals for sales.

On average what are your monthly sales per sales person?

% with AR?
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I dumped it 4 years ago, VSP 14 years ago, VCP 10 years ago, and stopped doing post cat glasses when Medicare kept jerking me around with my recredentialing forms(months and months and months) also...

50 years ago there weren't massive corporations with thousands of "associates" pretending to be opticians.
Or selling glasses on line, pretending an optician is unnecessary, real or pretend.

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Formal classroom education should be required. We aren't truly professionals without a degree being required. All states would have to be the same and there couldn't be so many ways around the law-...

I find optiboard to have a lot of useful information, I think a lot of people read only -posting can and does some times open you up to criticism on any board. I stopped coming to optiboard for a...

My insurance is through my husbands union, our plan has been changing every year for the past decade or so. Higher co pays and deductibles. Every time the contract comes up for renewal insurance is...

Only worth what someone is willing to pay, being the custodian is a lot of work daily phone calls, lots of faxing and mailing, I ended up giving mine away just so I could stop dealing with the phone...

What area in Florida?

Visionworks also takes VSP out of network but gives big discount so coverage is almost the same, we look up their plan on line, some plans are "affiliate" what ever that means and the benefits are...

Some one can always do it cheaper- you can't compete on price.
the big question is how to market to and find the consumer who understands the difference and actually wants better quality and service...

I enjoyed it, having been there and done all those things including letting the public clean out the shop- except instead of opening a pizza shop I went to work for the competitor now working for...