All Retail articles – Page 33
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Mister Spex, Germany's biggest online eyewear retailer, has expanded into...
Mister Spex, Germany's biggest online eyewear retailer, has expanded into Sweden. The e-commerce retailer from Berlin launched its first Swedish online shop for contact lenses, frames, corrective lenses and sunglasses on April 17. As Sweden has the biggest population of all Scandinavian countries, Mister Spex chose it for entering the ...
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The Sun on Sunday, a new U.K. tabloid, recently ran...
The Sun on Sunday, a new U.K. tabloid, recently ran a consumer finance article that predicted that glasses and contact lenses would be the center of the next big supermarket price war. The article found that prices could be four times cheaper in supermarkets than in standalone opticians' practices. It ...
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Groupe All, the French buying group that services opticians affiliated...
Groupe All, the French buying group that services opticians affiliated with Alliance Optique and Rev, has signed an exclusive distribution agreement for Seiko's Pentax lenses
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A British appellate court has affirmed a ruling in favor...
A British appellate court has affirmed a ruling in favor of Specsavers, saying that the claim of “spec savings at Asda” by that supermarket infringed on Specsavers' trademark. Specsavers says it will pursue a claim for damages.
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Occhibelli Group, the buying group in Northern Italy, met its...
Occhibelli Group, the buying group in Northern Italy, met its goal last year of adding 100 members to its total, now more than 350, making it the most important purchasing group in the northern part of the country. It says that it has avoided losing members by offering high-added-value services ...
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Coastal Contacts of Vancouver says it has set a new...
Coastal Contacts of Vancouver says it has set a new service record by shipping prescription eyeglasses to customers within one day – 0.7 days, to be exact – of the order being placed. It can do this thanks to its own in-house manufacturing facility, which is open 24 hours a ...
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Italia Independent has inaugurated its second Italian concept store in...
Italia Independent has inaugurated its second Italian concept store in Alessandria, in the Piedmont region, in partnership with a retailer called Gruppo Ottica Ottobelli. The first store was opened in nearby Liguria, in the holiday resort of Alassio. The store offers the group's complete product range, from eyewear to clothing, ...
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Luxottica's latest idea for a pop-up store holds water …...
Luxottica's latest idea for a pop-up store holds water … or rather, water holds it. The company recently set a Sunglass Hut concept store afloat in Sydney Harbor in Australia. In late November, the company located the floating store in three different locations in the harbor, and donated 10 percent ...
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Matthias Thoma, a Swiss optician, has decided to sell only...
Matthias Thoma, a Swiss optician, has decided to sell only Tom Davies products in his new store in Thun. The new Optik Thoma will offer TD Tom Davies custom-made products as well as the British company's Couture and Natural Horn collections. The store features a fully branded design and portfolio ...
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The seventh Ottico E.Leclerc-Conad store has opened in the futuristic...
The seventh Ottico E.Leclerc-Conad store has opened in the futuristic A12 shopping center near Turin. As it is located next to the new Juventus football stadium, it features a special selection of sports eyewear, including special styles by Smith Optics, among some 1,200 different models of prescription frames and sunglasses. ...
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Acuitis, the new Swiss-based chain of optical retail stores founded...
Acuitis, the new Swiss-based chain of optical retail stores founded by Daniel Abittan and Marcel Cézar, has received an award as the Golden Banner for 2011
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Optiswiss has launched Webtracer software for its business-to-business online shop,...
Optiswiss has launched Webtracer software for its business-to-business online shop, Osschop. On the website, opticians can order lenses directly from Optiswiss. With the software, opticians can order lenses that already fit the frame they are intended for. Usually, opticians had to grind the lenses themselves to make them fit the ...
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The new Kirk Originals store on Conduit Street in London...
The new Kirk Originals store on Conduit Street in London was listed among the “11 insanely cool flagship stores” in Business Insider, along with the Apple store in New York City, a Nike store in Japan and others. In the same week, the designers of the Kirk store, Campaign Design, ...
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The German online retailer Mister Spex recently started a partnership...
The German online retailer Mister Spex recently started a partnership program with 23 German opticians, including a total of 30 stores that are situated in Berlin, Hamburg, Köln and Munich and the region around Stuttgart and Frankfurt. In addition to payment for performed services, the participating opticians receive a share ...
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Mister Spex has launched an interactive shopping helpdesk on its...
Mister Spex has launched an interactive shopping helpdesk on its website. Moderated videos guide the visitors of Mister Spex' online store through the company's product portfolio and the order processes. The moderator, Ralph Gassmann, who is well-known on German television, informs the consumer about product characteristics, explains optical technical terms ...
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Smarteyes, the Swedish retail chain for ophthalmic optics, opened a...
Smarteyes, the Swedish retail chain for ophthalmic optics, opened a new 200-square-meter corporate store in Essen, Germany, at the beginning of this month. The first 500 customers received a sales discount voucher entitling them to buy glasses at a reduced price. The Swedish retail chain was founded 2007 in Gothenburg ...
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Marchon3D has launched its first vending machines selling its EX3D...
Marchon3D has launched its first vending machines selling its EX3D glasses for 3D movies at theaters in San Diego and Huntington Beach, California. Moviegoers can select from a range of styles of the curved, Real D glasses, make their selection and pay by credit card. The glasses retail for $22 ...
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Optician has reported that several chain optical stores suffered damages...
Optician has reported that several chain optical stores suffered damages in the recent unrest in London. Branches of Specsavers and Vision Express in Wood Green, Enfield and Brixton were all forced to close, and many others were on high alert at the advice of the police. Optician noted that independent ...
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Hoya and Nidek are joining together to offer their diagnostic...
Hoya and Nidek are joining together to offer their diagnostic and lens technologies to independent British practices. Hoya will make the capital payment for Nidek technology for a given period of time; at the end of the agreement, if the practice has sold a designated level of Hoya lenses, it ...
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1-800 Contacts, the U.S. company that pioneered sales of contact...
1-800 Contacts, the U.S. company that pioneered sales of contact lenses over the telephone, and then over the internet, has launched a new website to sell prescription eyeglasses. It started up last June 20 under the name of glasses.com, which had been registered 12 years ago by the founder and ...
