Although I will say the folks who work in the stores go get progressively more presentable as the price of the merchandise goes up....

Yeah, I wish the Target across the street had enough food selection (which they don't), or I would gladly pay the extra 10% or whatever... it is a vastly more tolerable experience than Walmart

Back to the lenses, I still want to know where in WalMart the cheap, stick- on lenses are stocked?

I checked my Walmart the other day for them.  They didn't have them.  They did have the Optix brand glasses, but not the stickons.  Nor did I see a "hole" or empty place for them.

I'm just getting into reading glasses.  I'll do eventually do Lasik, but the new line of PRADA glasses is tempting too

Lasik and such does nothing for near distance- only far.  UNLESS you are one of those "special" people that can tolerate having one eye adjusted for near and one for far.... which to me sounds like a total disaster.  (I do know a few people that did it either with contacts or surgery (same concept) and said they eventually adjusted.  But I KNOW I could never deal with that).  And even if that route, typically near distance starts to fail much faster than far, so after a few years, the near eye would get out of adjustment again and either require surgery again or back to glasses.

Too bad about the lenses but perhaps they are carried in sporting goods or something similar.

As to the WalMart thing- there are several (maybe 5?) within a reasonable distance of where I live. Some are vastly better than others and the one closest to me, in the town I live in in fact, is fine. Some of the other ones.... not so much, and there is one that is notorious and avoided by a lot of people, including me. So I think a lot of it depends on exactly which WalMart we are talking about regarding the shopping experience. Sort of like big cities, mostly there is no such thing as a good or bad city, only the parts within that particular city.

Brian 

Yeah, I wish the Target across the street had enough food selection (which they don't), or I would gladly pay the extra 10% or whatever... it is a vastly more tolerable experience than Walmart

I checked my Walmart the other day for them.  They didn't have them.  They did have the Optix brand glasses, but not the stickons.  Nor did I see a "hole" or empty place for them.

Stay out of Walmart. 

 

Lasik and such does nothing for near distance- only far.  UNLESS you are one of those "special" people that can tolerate having one eye adjusted for near and one for far.... which to me sounds like a total disaster.  (I do know a few people that did it either with contacts or surgery (same concept) and said they eventually adjusted.  But I KNOW I could never deal with that).  And even if that route, typically near distance starts to fail much faster than far, so after a few years, the near eye would get out of adjustment again and either require surgery again or back to glasses.

My wife did the one eye lasik and it's working out great for her. I've been wearing glasses since I was 5 and contacts since I was 17. Eye surgery scares me to death (I've had a phobia since I was a kid) and I would never have my eyes 'done'. Heck, I had to have a chalazion removed from my eye a few years ago and I thought that I was gonna die over it. I know it's irrational but I can't help it.   

I think the eyesight dimishing as we age is so that when we take our glasses off our wives look the same to us as they did when we married them.  Of course and us to them. 

Of course when I take my glasses off I can imagine her as anyone I want because I can't see nothing but general shapes.  LOL!

I hear you Conrad.   
 
You don't have to be old, mature, aged, etc...  to have poor vision.

My wife did the one eye lasik and it's working out great for her. I've been wearing glasses since I was 5 and contacts since I was 17. Eye surgery scares me to death (I've had a phobia since I was a kid) and I would never have my eyes 'done'. Heck, I had to have a chalazion removed from my eye a few years ago and I thought that I was gonna die over it. I know it's irrational but I can't help it.