http://suxottica.com Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:27:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Luxottica is one of sixty-two (62!) advertisers that has pulled their ads from Fox News over Glenn Beck's comments on Presidential racism. Lots of money is being taken off the table. Read more here: http://reclaimthemedia.org/media_literacy/bias/ad_boycott_costs_glenn_beck_ov1438 http://suxottica.com/index.php/glenn-beck-is-an-ignorant-jackas-finally-something-decent-from-luxottica/138/ ...but I have an issue with this being a "felony" crime. The felony is in the pricing of these frames. Here's a link to the story from the Northwest Herald of McHenry County, Illinois. And here are some of the pertinent details to this sting operation: A 34 year-old Crystal Lake, IL man ... http://suxottica.com/index.php/no-one-likes-a-thief/135/ Funny. I'd have thought this was a pretty good deal a few years ago. Now I find it interesting that they allowed AAA to lump all of their stores together in a press-release (http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/aaa-helps-parents-prepare-students-for-the-school-year,931270.shtml). Luxottica, smartly, doesn't go out of their way to say "all your optical stores are belong ... http://suxottica.com/index.php/aaa-lenscrafters-pearle-sears-optical-target-optical-discounts/133/ In what feels like an episode of "Bizarro-Mad Men" a male Saginaw, Michigan LensCrafters employee was "repeatedly subjected to unwelcome sexual advances, comments, and touching," by a female co-worker. He complained, but was ignored by LensCrafters management. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a lawsuit in his behalf today. Next time ... http://suxottica.com/index.php/lenscrafters-ignores-sexual-harassment-pleas-sued-by-eeoc/130/ From CourthouseNews.com: "The 9th Circuit reinstated California laws barring eyewear companies from advertising and selling prescription glasses in the same place that customers get their eyes examined." I had no idea that this had ever stopped being the case in California, but good on the 9th Circuit Court for fixing the problem. "LensCrafters ... http://suxottica.com/index.php/yea-california/128/ Luxottica just bought a big chunk of Multiopticas, a Spanish-owned South American chain of eyeglasses stores for 40M Euros. They have an option to buy the rest in a few years. One more reason to get the Spanish and Portuguese versions of the GlassyEyes site going. And the beat goes on. http://suxottica.com/index.php/eyeglasses-forecast-for-south-america-falling-options-and-rising-prices/125/ The folks over at Luxottica have decided that we need to look like assholes again. In a huge, overblown launch party aboard a huge, overblown ferris wheel in Singapore, these brain-wizards released "Ray-Ban Colors". If you haven't seen them yet, "Ray-Ban Colors" are essentially knock-offs of the 1980's gas station Ray-Ban knock-offs. You ... http://suxottica.com/index.php/ray-ban-colors-here-come-the-eighties-again-or-so-they-hope/111/ I mentioned this post over at EyeOverheard, well yesterday, and what makes it so interesting apart from the tone of the post, is the volume of comments. LensCrafters is a mess, and the byzantine methods they're using to dig themselves out make their frame and lens pricing strategies seem downright forthright ... http://suxottica.com/index.php/lenscrafters-cost-cutting-involves-completely-reloading-stores/108/ Luxottica surprises analysts with an amazing quarter in which it's profits dropped only 22.5% compared to the 41% that was predicted. Cost cutting (read about the salary cuts over at our friends at EyeOverheard) was said to be an important factor in these fantastic quarterly results. €80 Million in revenue for the ... http://suxottica.com/index.php/luxottica-q1-drops-only-22-percent/103/ Not surprisingly, I get asked this every now and then. The short answer is, I don't. What I don't like is the way they do business. I'm all for efficiency -- and sometimes consolidation of businesses can lead to that. Efficiencies, and the associated cost savings, at this level can ... http://suxottica.com/index.php/why-do-you-hate-luxottica/94/