......................thanks you for your compliments, however they get boring.
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Quig
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Nothing but a bunch of cutting and pasting. Nothing to see here, as usual...
......................thanks you for your compliments, however they get boring. Out of a total of 34 of your posts on optiBoard look and say the same thing.
Thank you Kwill for the first time answering my post with a real opinion,............
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Originally Posted by
Kwill212
To think that all two Million of those people on UHC medicare plan are going to start using WP is ridiculous. As if to say they can not buy glasses where ever they chose. I don't have any concrete evidence for this but I would venture to guess a large number of those people are pseudophakic and their OMD told them "just get some readers from the drug store, you don't need glasses anymore". I also think that another significant portion wear flat-top bifocals, and another significant portion can't log onto their computer without calling their grandchild, let alone want to order glasses online. This leaves a small % of the 2 million who now have acces to a 50% off coupon to WP. Whoopdie-doo.
The older people get, the more they want service from professionals. As people age, their disposable income goes up, they can afford, and they want products that work better, that work right the first time, that last longer, they want expert advice and service for those products, and they are willing to pay for it. This is not new and is not about to change. Obviously there is a large section of society that this doesn't apply to. The ones that shop as Sams or Costco for everything they ever buy. That's fine. But, there will always be plenty enough of the other type of consumers to keep the good professionals and experts employed, no matter what the field. Until Skynet™ takes over, I think those of us providing top quality and service will be just fine.
Thank you Kwill for the first time answering my post with a real opinion, ...................and without any side comments.
1) The generation you describe is listed in every daily newspaper in larger numbers all over the continent as departed forever.
...........and yes many or most of them can not log on to a computer, because they did not believe into the change of technology would make on our lives forever.
However they most probably will be notified, in other ways, by their health insurance on important facts, because large insurances companies have not become rich and successful, because the are stupid and payout more than they make.
The olergeneration is now progressively replaced by the next generation, who has experience buying online, and which is growing year after year.
2) Older people most of the time live from their life savings and or, with a pension from a lifelong job. They are much more careful in spending their money at that stage of their life.
You do not have to worry about the old generations, you have to worry about what if following next, and the most forward planning optical corporation I have learned, is the Essilux that soon will be the biggest influence on the optical world retail market, trying to dominate it.
of course you are right......................................
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Originally Posted by
optical24/7
Chris, I respectfully disagree. I'm not wrong because there is no way on God's green Earth ALL 2 million subscribers are going to buy their glasses at WP! Heck, not even VSP, which arguable has the best vision plan for out of pocket costs to the patient retain ALL of their members. I know this because we don't take VSP yet sell to VSP patients all day, every day.
optical24..............................of course you are right. I posted what they said. That is never the end result, but it could be if all of them would go the recommended way.
We are right now at the start of the biggest change of the commercial world, with the just starting G5 technology were computers will also do their own thinking and acting.
All we have to do is watching out and keep our eyes open and go along with fast coming changes, to adapt in order to stay commercially alive.
It all boils down to get some more inside information ...........................
It all boils down to get some more inside information from a recent former member of the WP organization, that has mushroomed successfully into the optical retail world in North America.
Any such information should, or could help the still independent professional optical retailer to take some counter action, and to slow the flow of patients to such discount retailers.
With the latest news of, and in the general economy that has slowed down progressively, the commercial sales of discounted goods would tend to increase in general.
WP is only the latest success story in the optical retail discount market. The much bigger threat for domination comes from the
biggest world wide monopoly ever, that caters to the retailers and also absorbs them into their system at any time there's a chance to do so.
Compare our industry's reaction to Warby Parker with the 5 Stages of Grief: .........
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Barry Santini
Compare our industry's reaction to Warby Parker with the 5 Stages of Grief:
Denial - "At that price, they can't be any good!"
Anger - "They called us greedy middlemen."
Bargaining - "Oh wait, Mr./Ms. Millennial!" ー as they walk with their Rx and PD ー "We too have some $99 complete packages!" "Now wait a minute, Mr. Eye Care Professional. You actually have a value, complete eyewear package for around $100? Why didn't you offer it to me before? Oh, I see...perhaps you are a greedy middleman after all."
Depression - "With all those Rxs walking out, will I still be able to stay in business servicing only aging baby boomers?"
Acceptance - I'm not sure there is any...yet. But here my suggestions on how to deal:
continue:
http://www.dailyoptician.com/barry-santini/2016/1/19/we-welcome-warby
I would never have imagined that a thread could attract that many views .............
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This thread shows now today .................................................. 61 Replies and 5254 Views, in over a 2 week period since its start two weeks ago.
I would never have imagined that a thread could attract that many views in such a short time.
The WP online optica, which seems to be the most aggressive of all of them, has for sure stirred some special interest among optiBoard members as well as the visitors.
With Essilux getting organized for their next move in the optical world domination, and WP getting into optical Health Insurance supplies, there will be a continuous flow of interesting news in the near future.
But some people just like beating the dead horse..................................
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Kwill212
Yup, that's really about all there is to it. But some people just like beating the dead horse.
The only horse that will be beaten when it is dead, will be retail opticianry, as it thinks and functions today, without accepting
a change in the optical retail profession that is rolling in a non stoppable way, for a total change.
Ok, that was a cheap shot. I apologize. ..................................
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Originally Posted by
Quig
Ok, that was a cheap shot. I apologize.
I know I'm being a bit confrontational and I'd prefer to not have to be that way. But, there's a few of us who are tired of the doomsday scenario and those who are seemingly cheering it on so they can say "I told you so".
Ok, I accept your apology ....................................
The doomsday scenario is a fact, and I have my own personal involvement as of day one, many years ago. So the development of it has always been a top interest to me.
So if you do not like it, simply look the other way and ignore the posts on it.
Chris R.