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Re:Amazon and Google are on a collision course by blhack on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @05:35PM (#5677111)
Yes. Lenscrafters etc. have been doing 1 hour glasses since the 1990s.
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Re:Amazon and Google are on a collision course by bgilroy26 on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @05:47PM (#5677173)
With an extensive network of lens millers who are distributed so that each worker has a short list of lenses to grind, which are all destined for local customers.
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Re:Amazon and Google are on a collision course by blhack on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @06:03PM (#5677249)
I'm interested here, maybe I'm wrong.

My impression is that when I buy glasses at lenscrafters, they're grinding lenses there, in house.

Are you saying that they're couriered around my city when I order them or something?

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Re:Amazon and Google are on a collision course by bgilroy26 on Sunday May 12, 2013 @12:11PM (#5694749)
No that's all the distribution I was talking about. It seems like there's a pets.com aspect to the whole situation. Where
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