Chris Bennett: Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

Halloween is still more than a week away but there are some sinister scare stories doing the rounds about the predatory nature of big businesses operating in the optical arena (click here to read our story). Just how seriously should these tales be taken and is there anybody out there who will save the sector?

Independent practices are tiptoeing, Little Red Riding Hood-like, through the dark forest of retail optics we are told. Lurking in the undergrowth is the Big Bad Wolf waiting to pounce, plus ça change. The difference between this and previous bogeyman threats, says Axiom Advance, is that it’s an inside job.