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Our retail optical departments are full-service retail vision care stores that offer a wide selection of designer brands and private label prescription eyewear, contact lenses, sunglasses, ready-made readers and accessories. Also, an on-premises, independent We operate a single, modern optical laboratory, distribution and lens grinding facility at which we fill customer orders for prescription eyewear and maintain a central inventory of frames. Customer orders are placed at the retail stores and are transmitted into the central optical laboratory daily, where the lenses are ground, cut, finished and custom fitted to optical frames in the size and style selected by the customer. The finished eyewear is then shipped to the retail store for delivery to the customer within a few working days and can be completed overnight if requested by the customer. Since 1991, we have been a national provider of managed vision care benefits. US Vision is proud to be a member provider of the Eye Med Vision Care Network, which offers comprehensive eyewear benefits to plan participants. In fiscal 2005, approximately 30% of our revenues were attributable to purchases by participants in managed vision care programs. |