On Monday, January 28, 2019 at 10:48:28 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2019-01-28 7:45 a.m., Cheri wrote:
>
> > I got glasses from them a few years ago, very good, nice price. I did do
> > the exam elsewhere, but took the prescription there.
>
> I got my last pair of reading glasses at Walmart. They were a fraction
> of what I would have paid at the optometrist. I remember seeing the
> promotional sign about lenses being $40. I picked out a cheap pair of
> frames and since they were just readers I didn't need any of the extras.
> I had expected the price to be per lens, and I was delightfully
> surprised to see that it was $40 for both lenses. The last time I got
> readers at the optometrist was about 15 years ago and they were $230,
> and my Walmart readers were about $120.

I don't use readers. I've been wearing glasses for more than 50
years, for myopia and astigmatism. Now that I'm into presbyopia
as well, I probably should get multifocal lenses, but so far I'm
happy just riding them down on my nose for close work.

Cindy Hamilton