Pearle Vision's must now use their labs just like VSP

[regional_manager]

I know that some locations have been doing this for a while......are you making any money?????

[LENNY]

I know that some locations have been doing this for a while......are you making any money?????

You mean Essilux labs? or on site?

[scriptfiller]

Without going into too much detail, Pearle has established a mandatory supply chain (frames/lenses/CL's) to used by all new licensed operators and renewals.

[Tallboy]

So kind of like other franchises like Subway and 7-11?

[Browman]

There's one down the street from me that I occasionally hop into just to see what they've got going. I started noticing more of their frameboard getting taken over by Randy Jackson, Ernest Hemingway, Converse, and Penguin. Not bad stuff but definitely middle-of-the-road. The thing that stands out to me is they've now taken prices off of all their frames. From a customer standpoint, if I'm going into a store, I want to know what I'm going to be paying when I'm looking at a product-- and not having to worry that the person making the sale is just tacking on or taking off extra dollars from person-to-person.

ETA: The last time I was in, I overheard an optician quoting a frame price to a patient... Either this location is staffed by some unscrupulous people or PV is really desperate. The price for a Hemingway that you'd normally pay for an Oakley/RB at a LensCrafters... seriously?

[scriptfiller]

Tallboy,
Yes they are presenting a turn-key solution so LO's can focus on patient care and less on the nuts and bolts of the business.

Browman,
Do you know if this was a corporate or a franchise PV?

[Browman]

Gonna guess franchise. The interior decoration looked like it hadn't been updated since 1986, low lighting, no ambient music, smoked-glass front windows. Seems other PVs I've been in almost seemed to pride themselves on being TOO bright.