
A 20th anniversary for a business in a market as competitive and complex as optics is always worth celebrating. All the more so for Asda Opticians, which conducts optometry in a non-traditional supermarket setting and has achieved impressive growth over its first two decades.
The inaugural Asda Opticians was opened on May 5, 2000 at the super-market’s Minworth store in the Midlands. Six weeks later this was joined by a practice at Bristol Patchway and by the end of the year a total of six practices were in operation. The chain expanded rapidly to 71 practices by the end of 2004, after which only a practice or two was added annually for several years. Steeper growth returned in 2013 with 65 new practices created in a three year stretch, putting the chain within sight of its current total of 156.
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