How come you can buy reading glasses for a few bucks at pharmacies or Wal-Mart, but they don’t make them for being able to see farther away?

Question

Is the lens grinding process more complicated or is there just too much variation in eyesight to make them feasible on a mass scale?

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Answer 1

We have long distance glasses in regular stores in Europe.

Nowhere near as many choices in terms of styles and strengths as reading glasses. And not every store with a glasses selection stocks them. So I think it is just a supply and demand thing. No technical reason.

They cost about $5.