Three quarters of independent practitioners are positive about the coming financial year, according to a latest survey.
The survey conducted by Sight Care and Johnson & Johnson Vision Care found 74 per cent of respondents said they believed their business would grow year on year in the coming period.
More than half did not see larger multiples as a threat, while 40 per cent believed the chains made their job easy to differentiate.
Sight Care reported 60 per cent of those surveyed believed the market would eventually polarise between dispensing and more clinical services.
Nonetheless, two thirds of the survey respondents agreed the independent sector was in decline overall. Three quarters of respondents said contact lenses currently represented a fifth or less of their turnover.
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