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Archive | October, 2009

Optometry is working

One of the things that has always struck me about optics is the security of employment. Graduates have never faced such a tough time when leaving university as they do at the moment but  this doesn’t look like something that will affect optometry graduates. The Optician jobs site currently carries over 1,200 jobs, nearly 1,000 of [...]

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Are the nights drawing in on Ortho K

As the clocks go back and the sporting season draws to a close my thoughts always turn to the prospects of stopping orthoK. After finishing with the No7 system I assumed I wouldn’t return but then the people from iGo asked if I would like to trial their system which I did at the beginning [...]

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Price war

The combative nature of supermarkets seldom makes it into the rarefied world of optometry but it looks like all of that is about to change with the latest moves from ASDA. It’s a well-trodden path to publicity to knock the market leader and the bigger specsavers gets the more obvious a target it becomes. The latest to [...]

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