Eye glasses wearers in the US, where do you buy your glasses from these days? - eviltoast

I’ve been going to VisionWorks but I want to shop around this time. I don’t want to go to any Luxottica store.

I’ve never bought online. Is that a good option now? How do you know how the glasses are going to look on you?

Thanks for any ideas.

ETA: Thanks everyone. Great tips and info!

  • Alien Surfer@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    How do they deal with progressive lenses, like top top is for long distance gradually further down is for closeup like reading?

    I think that is what had prevented me from trying the online stores. Has that been addressed?

      • Alien Surfer@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        I mean, they need to measure where your eyeball lands on the glass when looking straight ahead. This isn’t part of the prescription, from what I understand. Usually, a salesperson will do the measuring. In light of this, do you have any further information as to how your father obtained that information and how he provided it to the online store?

        • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          3·
          1 year ago

          Do you mean pupillary distance? It isn’t part of the written prescription when I get my exam, but if you ask they usually don’t have a problem giving it to you. When you’re ordering Zenni just has a field where you enter the number they give you for PD. They also have instructions for DIY PD measuring, but that seemed too error-prone to me.