A few years ago, one of the TV news programs (60 Minutes or 20/20, I forget which) had some members of their staff who wore glasses take an eye exam from an ophthalmologist and then take their presciptions to several different quicky places that advertise a lot, including Lenscrfters. About 50% of the glasses they got had the wrong presciptions or were generally off in some way. What was really telling was that the same person would come back with several pairs of glasses ground to different presciptions, all wrong.

I don't have any experience with Lenscrafters, but whenever my ophthalmologist gives me a new prescription (not often, happily), he invariably gives me the cards of a couple places and says, "Don't get this filled at Lenscrafters or any of those other cut-rate places in the malls."

Don Firth