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Luxottica can be fought with ZenniOptical and friends. Besides my very first pair of glasses, I've never in my optical-aid-lifetime given money to Luxottica for
by smush 7y ago
Luxottica can be fought with ZenniOptical and friends. Besides my very first pair of glasses, I've never in my optical-aid-lifetime given money to Luxottica for glasses/frames/contacts. That is not to toot my own horn, but demonstrate that an informed consumer can sidestep their monopoly without adverse impacts.
Comcast & AT&T are terrible actors, and they need more regulation, not less, to counter their natural monopoly + rent-seeking behaviors, but there is at least some regulation going on that could be iterated on. Google is, relatively speaking, running amok through the streets.
- tzs 7y agoIt had never occurred to me to try to avoid Luxottica, because until about three years ago I had never even heard of them. Yet I seem to have avoided them by accident. My current frames are Zyloware frames from Walmart. Before that, my frames were made by Safilo. I had those for something like a decade. The frames before that say "Frame Japan". I can't find anything useful about "Frame Japan" on Google, so don't know if those are made by Luxottica or not.
- flokie 7y agoThey also own all of the equipment everyone else uses to make your glasses.
- alanbernstein 7y agoOwn? Or produce? You're not saying lens grinding equipment is always leased from some Luxottica subsidiary, are you?