Reply #10: The blanks, maybe... [View All]

[jmowreader]

The finished lenses are made at the optician's shop. A $9/hour technician inserts blanks into a grinding machine, feeds in the prescription, and a few minutes later a finished lens pops out. She then sticks the ground lens into another machine, enters the description of the frame, and the lens is shaped to fit in the frame.

There's a reason why you can get glasses in an hour: computerized equipment.