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> LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Apex by Sunglass Hut, Pearle Vision, Target Optical, Eyemed vision care plan, and Glasses.com. Its best known brands are Costa, Ray-Ban, Persol, Oliver Peoples and Oakley.

Intense...




Luxottica basically arm wrestles firms into being bought or else... else normally being they stop distributing them in the chains they control, which gives them a hard discount in company takeovers.

Today some Chinese brands match Luxottica in quality, and if you do some homework you'll find almost every independent brand is much cheaper and high quality (Bollé is my go to for safety/sports glasses, for example).




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