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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those not buying lenses from your eye doctor, do your children have simple prescriptions?  My child's lenses have a near-sighted prescription with bifocal and prisms, so I don't trust just anyone to get it right.  His frames are from LensCrafters (eye doctor didn't have any options that fit him/he liked).  [/quote]
Lenscrafter is owned by Luxottica. From Wikipedia "As a vertically integrated company, Luxottica designs, manufactures, distributes and retails its eyewear brands, including LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Apex by Sunglass Hut, Pearle Vision, Sears Optical, Target Optical, Eyemed vision care plan, and Glasses.com. Its best known brands are Ray-Ban, Persol, and Oakley."

Glasses are going to get even more expensive if luxottica and essilor merge. 
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/business/dealbook/luxottica-essilor-merger.html?_r=0

My kid is farsided (hyperopia) and has astigamatism. Zenni Optical (an online store) had no problem filling the prescription. Lenses are all made the same way. They start with "blanks"  or lenses that are close to the prescription and they input the prescription into the optical machine which then makes the lenses to the correct prescription.

I keep posting about Zenni just because I am so mad that I have been paying hundreds and hundreds of dollars in glasses. The markup is ridiculous. Zenni owns a 248,000 square-foot manufacturing facility that houses state-of-the-art Rx and Edging Labs. Zenni’s Prescription Labs are equipped with the most advanced machinery supplied by the world’s leading optical machine manufacturers, including Schneider and Satisloh.
http://www.zennioptical.com/zenni-optical-eyeglass-production-story

http://www.zennioptical.com/zenni-optical-eyeglass-production-story[/quote]

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