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- Hello, I would like to welcome you to
the Laramy-K OpticianWorks Training Center.
Where we teach that Opticianry
is an important part of business.
Part of business is making money
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and one of the best ways that you can put money
either into your pocket or your employers,
which generally makes them pretty happy,
is buy in-office finishing,
and the proper use of Stock Single Vision Uncut lenses.
I genuinely believe that this is
a pretty good way to look at this.
I think it's a really good idea for those
of you that are new to Opticianry.
We can think of there being three types of lenses
and the first one we're gonna think of is
big S and that'll be Stock
as In Stock Single Vision Finished Uncut lenses.
That means that you literally have these lenses
in the store, on the shelf, ready to be pulled,
cut, put into a frame, and sold to your customers.
Stock Single Vision Uncut Lenses.
Right there, you got em.
Nobody can tell you what to stock.
That really depends on your business.
Only you know what you have, your location,
your volume, your customers, their ages.
There's so much there, I can't tell you what to stock.
Stock what sells.
Related to "stock what sells," is inventory
and you have to have a way of making
sure that you have what you need.
Thanks to our friends at the Spectacle Shop
in New Bright, Minnesota, for taking the time
to shoot this for us.
This is what a very typical in-house stock lens
inventory looks like.
You will keep stock by material,
coatings, power, and any add-ons.
Your inventory must be neatly organized
and easily accessible.
Just be careful on inventory.
Make sure you actually do a full inventory of your stock.
I mean, literally going through the trays
probably about every three months because accidents happen
and you know what?
You're probably not the only person that's working there.
Keep an eye on your inventory so you have
what you need to stock what sells.
Have them!
Alright, you've got a customer, okay, Mrs Smith.
Mrs Smith comes in every September with her three kids.
Every September, the three kids get an eye exam,
a new pair of glasses, the one of them gets
Rec Specs 'cause she plays softball.
Every year, you want to have those lenses in stock
so that you can sell them before
they leave after those appointments.
You know what's gonna happen if you don't?
Mrs. Smith's gonna get in the car.
They're gonna be heading home and she's gonna be thinking,
"one's gotta go to softball, one's gotta go to the ballet,
"the other one's gotta go to soccer,
"I've got dinner to prepare, I don't wanna go
"back to that place.
"Why don't I just order them online?
"It'll be so much easier, right?"
You don't want that, you want that sale.
You want that money, you want to keep
those people in your store.
You gotta have 'em.
Have 'em, stock what sells, keep your inventory
up so they're there for you and
things will be pretty good for you.
Next, we have what I'm gonna call small "s" stock.
Single Vision Finished Uncut lenses.
Small s being for stock, but not in stock in your store,
but somewhere else.
These are lenses that you can call up.
Let's say Laramy-K Optical and
get them shipped to you overnight.
Next morning, FedEx or UPS arrives at your store,
you've got the lenses, ready to go,
cut for your customer, and dispense.
You may be very, very surprised
at the number, the Rx range,
the styles, the add-ons,
that are available in Single Vision Finished Uncut lenses.
It is huge.
Each material comes with its own availability chart.
The companies try to pack so much
information onto these charts so they
can be a little bit tricky to read.
What I need you to see here, now,
is how the sphere range runs along the vertical
and the cylinder range along the horizontal.
In this case, that top row, you have a plus six sphere,
and that's available up to a minus two cylinder.
The 60 millimeter would be your blank size.
Don't worry too much, with practice,
you will get the hang of reading these charts.
Just be careful, because some of the charts
will include semi-finished blanks,
which are used by surface labs.
If in doubt, just give us a call.
This one might be a little bit easier for you.
This is kind of a big picture chart
that gives you an excellent idea
on the wide range of available products.
You got a one five oh, you've got one five three,
you've got one six seven, you've got one seven oh.
These are available in tint-able,
hard coated, UV protected, mid-range AR,
all of the various changeable tints, premium AR levels.
You've got a huge power range depending on material.
You've got ones with minus six to plus four up to two cyl,
minus eight to plus six out to two fifty cyl.
Minus ten, minus three, plus three, plus six, with two cyl.
All of these available overnight with no need
for the time and expense of surfacing.
It's really important to note, when you produce
something on a mass scale as opposed to
an individual job by job order,
there's some quality things that you
can implement that actually can end up
producing a better, higher quality product.
So, just because Single Vision Finished Uncut lenses
are so, so much less expensive than surfaced work is,
it does not mean that you are getting any less quality.
In fact, you are either getting equal to,
or superior quality to what a lab may turn out.
There's nothing wrong with
Single Vision Finished Uncut lenses.
Our last, in our choices of which lense we're going
to choose to fill for our customers are Surfaced lenses.
What matters here, is how quickly you can get the lenses.
Here, one minute.
Here, overnight.
Here, it is all going to depend on the lab process time.
And, wow, that really varies from lab to lab.
So, keep an eye on it.
Laramy-K, you're usually talking one or two days.
You know, what must be, must be.
Some things have to be surfaced.
Lined multi-focals, progressives, most polarized.
Gotta be, no choice in the matter.
Yeah, there used to be some silly stuff that
you were supposed to be able to do in house,
but it never really worked.
What must be surfaced must be surfaced.
Look, if you are new to do this,
you don't have your wings quite yet,
somebody says "hey, call this job in,"
(phone rings) you go over the phone,
and you call in, you say "I need a minus five,
"a minus one, and an axis 82, OUPD of 56,"
and you read all the information that frames stuff
to the girl on the other end.
She just started yesterday too.
Uh oh, you know what she's gonna do?
She's gonna run a pair of Surfaced lenses.
You're gonna get a lab bill for a $125 wholesale.
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What would Laramy-K Optical do?
They'd say, "hey, you know what?
"We'll give you some Finished Single Vision Uncuts,
"save you a whole lot of money, make you a whole
"lot more money, and we'll have it to you overnight."
That's what Laramy-K would do.
Why is it that Single Vision lenses end up having to be
surfaced?
Well, 99.9% of the time is because of cut out issues,
the lens has to be de-centered enough that
the lens blank is not large enough to cut out,
so you have to have that particular lens surfaced.
Really high prescriptions obviously also gonna play
into that, but that's the reason most of the time.
If you wanna learn more about that,
look on the other videos or on the website
for stuff about MBS or minimum blank size.
There's a nice little overview talking a little bit
about lens inventory, Single Vision Finished Uncut lenses,
stock, company stocking 'em overnight,
and stuff that has to be surfaced.
Thanks so much for watching, please hit the like button.
Please feel free to leave me a comment.
If you have any questions at all about the proper use
of Stock Single Vision Uncut lenses,
drop me an email or just call the lab.
We will be more than happy to help you out
even if you don't have an account with us.
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