All Optical Supplies Under One Online Roof

An optician needs to stock a considerable variety of items to meet the assorted needs and demands of different consumers. Someone may come looking for eyeglasses while someone else may be interested in sunglasses. A number of people will require contact lenses and still others may look for other accessories like cases, caddies, chains, cords, wipes, sunclips, contact lens solutions, and more.

Now the opticians often find themselves sourcing the wholesale eyeglasses from one company, contact lenses from another company, and sunglasses from another one. They also have to approach different vendors for their accessories and supplies requirements.

Moreover, customers obviously expect to find a choice of brands in frames, sunglasses, contact lenses, and more. The opticians have no choice but to patronize different distributors to be able to offer a mix of regular and exclusive brand options to their clientele.

And what about the diagnostic, repair, dispensing, and laboratory equipment required by the in-house ophthalmologists in the back-end? Not to mention the merchandising and other office requirements of the optical store.

So, does an optical professional have to resign himself to finding different vendors and ordering diverse kinds of optical items from varied sources?

It takes a lot of time and effort to maintain multiple vendors and interact with them separately for each stock requirement. The prices will vary and the costs may work out higher, especially for smaller orders.

This is exactly why the industry needs vendors that provide a complete range of eyewear and eye-care supplies under one roof itself. For instance, a single vendor should be able to offer wholesale eyeglasses, contact lenses, and sunglasses along with the accompanying fit-overs, chains, cases, lens cleaners, wipes, and more. It will further ease matters if the same vendor can also provide a profuse choice of brands in the above items. At the same time, the vendor should also be able to provide access to diagnostic lenses, eye charts, magnifiers, lens dyes, nose pads, files, tweezers, calipers, burs, brushes, disinfectants, display stands, mirrors, tags, bags, and other such tools and equipment.

This way the opticians will enjoy finding whatever they need in a single location itself. It will be extremely convenient to order the myriad requirements in one go without having to seek the services of assorted distributors. This will also enable them to avail special prices and enjoy bulk discounts on their orders, thus saving a lot of money.

Now all this may sound too good to be true! But there is still hope as some vendors actually offer such an amalgamated service and that too through an online website. This makes things even better as everything can be ordered within a few clicks itself. It saves time, effort, and money that can be better used to serve the customers!

The author is an ophthalmologist by profession. He has decades of experience in the field. In this article, he has highlighted different types of frames for eyewear that are now in demand.