Safilo may miss deadline

Reuters brings us this update on our friends at Safilo. Italy eyewear company Safilo, talks with private equity funds on taking a stake in the company could slip beyond the end-June target for completion, a source close to the talks said on Friday.

New and Old Optical Illusions

 

Who doesn’t like a classic optical illusion.  We have also included a few new ones.

Luxottica goes south of the border-”adoramos dinero”

Hola damas y caballeros. Hemos venido aquí a Iberoamérica para ganar más dinero. Compre por favor nuestros marcos de las cadenas que compramos y permitimos que todo ser amigos.

Mobile clinic gives infants sight

A great service for a great cause. Please take a look. There is a link at the bottom for more information.

A mobile clinic will be at the Martinsburg Mall on Saturday to offer free eye exams to infants as part of the InfantSEE public health program.

A big loss for everyone. Mike DiSanto passes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This sad story comes to us from VM. It is with a heavy heart that we say farewell to a great speaker, and a friend. We will miss you Mike!

Eyefinity what the heck?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Look at this job posting we found for a zombie for Eyefinity. This is as we found it on the internet at http://managementconcepts.quebecblogue.com it is a bit strange.

Market Survey Shows Widening Price Differential Between Online And Retail Eyglasses Sales

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                 More proof of what we already know, and it’s not good news. Look at there tag line at the bottom of the article. Yikes!!!

Prada glasses have doltish names!

What’s in a name? Well if you look to the Prada eyewear line, you will see not much!  Now we at EOH like Prada as a brand. I even own a pair of their shoes, but

VSP Wants you to believe retail is the devil, not them

Do you ever wonder how stupid VSP thinks we must be? First they unveil their newest way to screw you over. Then they try to convince us that retail hurts us more than they do. IF VSP went away tomorrow, and retail stayed. We would ALL make more money.

Just what everyone wants- Text messages from Transitions

Do you ever read a press release and think…why.  This was sent to us from one of our regular readers to the north of us. We agree with her, this is just stupid. “Hey look Sally I just got a text.” “Who is it from Lens Chic” ” Lets see..o, it’s Transitions texting me.” “They want me to know this important information.” “Wow that’s great Lens Chic, what’s the info they want you to know?” ” UGH it seems now that Transitions is available on the AtLast product.” This is lame!  How do I unsubscribe.  See the press release below.