Good point ............................
So we can now watch what is happening to a profession I was born into, have learned it and been living, working in it all my life, from retail to lab and to manufacturing.
The most visible result of those giant mergers are the oil companies that have converted all their gas stations from the small car repair garages to full fledged self service gas stations, with an added convenience store.
The Essilux merger is
the perfect combination to speed up the takeover and domination of the optical retail market.They are now merging with an emporium of optical retail stores.
"Luxottica's international expansion has developed its geographic footprint worldwide. The Group’s global wholesale distribution network covers more than 150 countries and is complemented by an extensive retail network of approximately 8,000 stores, with LensCrafters and Pearle Vision in North America, OPSM and LensCrafters in Asia-Pacific, GMO in Latin America, Salmoiraghi & Viganò in Italy and Sunglass Hut worldwide."
(source: http://www.luxottica.com/en/about-us/company-profile )
8,000 stores at your fingertips is not nothing, but a powerful instrument to play the music you want to be played.
One of the two main objectives of the newly merged corporation is to further develop on line eyeglass sales.
Pure logic would point towards those 8,000 corporation retail stores, to also become service centers for on line sold eyeglasses by the corporation.
As far as I understand regular existing optical retail stores have in general refused to give any service on any online purchase eyeglasses, as we can see from many posts right here on OptiBoard.
Just an idea for any possible future that could make sense.
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