Walmart glasses
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Topic: Walmart glasses
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Subject: Walmart glasses
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2020 at 10:17pm
Got my 97 year old mom some, picked them up today. She hasn't been able to read anything with her old glasses for months. As we were traveling down the highway she was reading street signs, semis, political signs. She was well pleased, and the gal fitting them on her was kinda cute too. 
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2020 at 12:00am
| i've bought all my latest cheaters at wally world |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2020 at 9:33am
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That's great. Us old folks are easily amused. I always feel that way when I get new glasses. Especially the road signs, since I'm the one driving. I'll have to see if our Walmart has glasses the next time I go. Will they give you the PD so you can order more online? Nice of you to take care of Mom! ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2020 at 9:37am
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Last 2 pairs were from there... GREAT..... my eyes didn't have to adjust to them, unlike EVERY pair (15-20 ??) from an 'eye doctor'.... Just wish i could STOP scratching the plastic lenses.... Jay ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2020 at 11:13am
Don't they have a special coating for that at extra charge, or is that a bull money maker?
I'll be needed some soon also.------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: JW in MO
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2020 at 8:06pm
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Our local Walmart has had the same eye dr for over 25 years, excellent guy. He fitted me with gas permeable contacts that also corrected my astigmatism. Only eye doc that did that for me and worked well for years until the day he found my cataract and sent me to a surgeon, haven't needed glasses since. Wife was having problems with vision and her eye doc was being a pain, sent her to my Walmart guy, got her fixed up, said her glasses were too strong. Good to find somebody you can trust when you have to rely on their work. ------------- Maximum use of available resources! |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2020 at 2:14am
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the eye doctors are independent of Walmart in most places but the frames and such are where walmart makes the % back Here the Sams club eye doctor is where i had last glasses I bought and her husband is the eye doctor across the street at walmart . When I needed to get glasses fast to pass my CDL eye test , she said she was not sure if she could get them quick enough for me but I could pass with a set or reading glasses of about 1 power - said to go over to dollar store and pick up a pair for $1 and would work fine - the glasses she ordered did come in in time , bifocals so can read up close if i wear them but got readers all over the house I use most of the time , or use the braille method most of the time - it's just up close or real distance that are hard to adjust to them road signs way out are hard to read sometimes ------------- Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel. |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2020 at 9:55am
yes they do, and it works, but, even that can fail eventually, but I can scratch glass lenses, too!. the other thing I always get is UV protection. Of course, both run the final price up ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
chaskaduo wrote:Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2020 at 3:33pm
Thanks for the info Lou.  I heard some complain it don't work but maybe they didn't really get it applied, or maybe  rough on their glasses.------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: mhankins
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2020 at 8:06am
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They told me that it made them scratch "resistant" but would not guarantee that they would replace them if they got scratched. So i'm going with the money making up-sell theory.:) |