Originally Posted by
Judy Canty
When US Shoe owned LensCrafters, there was no EyeMed. There was LensCrafters Vision Care Management Systems. Because LensCrafters decided to enter the managed care arena pretty late in the game, it was very diffficult to play. Their purchase by Luxottica provided the perfect way to become a player, by increasing the number of providers from roughly the 1,000 LC locations to include independents who chose to participate. By absorbing the locations from Cole National et.al. EyeMed can begin to compete in the same arena as VSP, which was their goal from the begining.
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