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

They absolutely exist.

Stores like Walgreens or CVS usually carry both “reading glasses”, diopter values from about +1.25 to about +3.5 for farsighted, or if you are nearsighted you can get “driving glasses” that go from about -1.25 to about -3.5 diopter. You can ask if they don’t have them in stock.

If you can’t find them at your corner drugstore, you can get them through Amazon for about $20.

Talk to your eye doctor and understand what strength you actually need. As long as both eyes need roughly the same power they can be far cheaper than prescription lenses.