I once gave this place 5 stars. Not anymore.
I'd been a loyal customer of this location for 20 years having purchased numerous pairs of glasses over that time. It'd always been a positive experience. Not sure what has happened but over the last several years this place has become awful, incompetent and unprofessional.
My first problem happened around 3 years ago. I got 2 pairs of glasses: one for distance and one pair of sunglasses. When I returned a week or so later, they gave me TWO pairs of distance glasses, not making one of them sunglasses. OK, no big deal since this was the first problem I ever had.
It took 2 more weeks before the sunglasses were ready. I picked them up and within a few blocks of driving home, I realized the street signs were blurry so I went back. They advised me that the prescription was filled incorrectly. I had to wait another week and a half. The sunglasses were now fine. Ok, no big deal since this was only the 2nd problem I ever had.
About a year and a half ago, I went for an eye exam and to get new glasses (reading and distance) I returned a week or so later to pick up both pairs. The reading glasses were fine. However, within a few days, it seemed like the prescription for my distance glasses was off yet again.
I returned. They advised me that the eye dr had written down the wrong prescription! (not kidding) I got another exam (at no cost.) The exam was perfect and I picked up the corrected pair a week or so later.
This was my 3rd problem I'd had in recent years and was starting to lose faith.
I recently went again to get a pair of distance glasses. I didn't need another exam because it'd been less than a year. My glasses were ready in a few days. However, yet again, the prescription was wrong! The part my pupil looks through is too small. In other words, if I'm driving and need to read a road sign rather than just glancing at the sign, I have to turn my head completely. Or if I'm watching TV, I have to keep my head perfectly straight. Even if I move my head a millimeter, everything becomes blurry. It's like looking through a tunnel.
I went back to ask them (yet again) to doublecheck the prescription and what I witnessed motivated me to write this review.
It was weekday afternoon. There were 3 employees behind the front counter, one at a table and just one customer in the store looking at frames. Granted, the store was empty (other than 1 other customer) but the employees at the counter were loud, rambunctious, disorderly and VERY unprofessional. I felt like I wandered into a college frat party. I stood at the counter a good couple of minutes and they were too busy acting up to even acknowledge me. So, I walked it.
As you see by other recent reviews, I'm not the only one whose had issues with prescriptions filled incorrectly. Combine that with the unprofessional unruly behivaior of uncontrolled 'children' employed there, there is NO WAY I'll ever go into this location or any other Pearle. I know me not returning wont have any bearing on your business but you've lost a long-time loyal customer.
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