[Magdalen] Dumb question about eyeglasses

[ME Michaud]

Took my prescription to Costco once and they said they couldn't fill it.
It was current, prepared by an ophthalmologist.
I canceled my membership.

Took the same scrip to Pearle up the street and they did a fabulous job.
-M

>> What I'd like to do is get an exam at a place that has the most
> up-to-date
> >> technology, and take the resulting prescription to shop around for an
> >> affordable deal (quite possibly online) on the glasses.
> >>
> >> What I fear is that I'll go to a place like LensCrafters, get the exam,
> >> and
> >> have to fight off a hard sell on looking at their glasses. I won't,
> >> because I cannot afford to come out of there with $800 glasses.
> >>
> >> But has anyone done this successfully? Got a very good exam and then
> >> shopped around?
> >>
> >> Last time I got glasses I like, but it took two tries to get a
> >> prescription
> >> that worked. I went to an independent optician who was phenomenally
> highly
> >> regarded, many decades of experience, but I didn't think he had the best
> >> equipment and didn't get the first exam right. So I spent two weeks in a
> >> fog before making him redo my exam.
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