Tag Archive for 'Glasses'

What Makes My Day

Published on March 15, 2009 in Life. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

On Monday 9th March 2009, Tom Reynolds of Random Reality wrote:

Monday’s question – In your own work, or day to day life, what events give you joy? [...] I’d think that even if I worked in an office there would still be something that would make my day, so, what is yours?

And by way of a reply…

One of the things I will probably miss most about working at Specsavers when I start my new job next month is also the thing which makes me smile.

The place I normally stand at work is quite central to the store. I am close to 3 or 4 dispensing desks where patients are measured up for their glasses or fitted when collecting.

When you see a young child, especially with a really high prescription, putting on their sponge bob square pants glasses for the first time – their face is an absolute picture. They just kind of stare, dumb-struck and blinking at everything… Usually whomever is fitting their glasses being the first thing they look at. It’s hard to imagine but from having been unable to see much at all and not knowing any better; they’ve suddenly and unexpectedly been given the gift of crystal clear sight… So Tom, that is what makes my day.

Specsavers Website Innovation

Published on August 18, 2008 in Internet and Life. 8 Comments Tags: , , , .

I was told, in my weekly meeting with my line manager, about a new feature on the Specsavers website. Thought I’d share…

It allows you to try on frames virtually, from the comfort of your own home which is a great idea. A customer at work today even said, that it being her first pair of glasses, she felt embarrassed trying on frames in the store with other people around so she’d try them online and come back in.

You can actually order and pay for the glasses on the website too, then you come into the store to complete the order and arrange for collection. So this is Specsavers taking on the online-only retailers of glasses.

First: upload a photo of yourself (or use the stock images). Here’s a really bad one of me I just took on my phone. Still in my uniform look…

Second: select the centres of your pupils in the photo.

Finally: try frames on by clicking the “Try” button. You can adjust where the frame is on the picture till it looks right. You can also add the frames to a list to compare them.

Here’s one of me wearing the £125 Osiris 605 frame. You can switch between different colours, but this frame only comes in black. My actual frames are way cooler than these, but they’re not on the website and we don’t have any in stock at the moment either, so there…

And you even get a copy to print out with all the frame details on it to bring into store so we can make them up for you. Shove that D&A! ;)

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