Discount Eye Care is a garishly decorated shop quite near the entrance of the Royal Arcade when approached from St Mary Street. It's difficult to miss the sunshine yellow paint job that coats the woodwork. Thankfully, there's large plate glass windows, rather than the more traditional casement windows that you often find in mews of this ilk, so at least there's less of it than if any other style of window had been used. Thank heavens for small mercies!
I'm not entirely sure, but I think that this shop has had a few name changes over the years. I seem to recall it being called First Class Eyewear & Eyecare, but I rarely go to the opticians, (even though the need is greater than my level of compliance), and so I could be easily mistaken on this point.
For a place that trades on price, rather than the level of service or quality of stock, they seem to do alright. There's actually quite a god number of designer frames on offer, as well as the more generic lower-cost options. I can't vouch for the quality of the eye test, or the accuracy of their prescriptions, as I have always opted to go elsewhere for these. read more