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?

In: Other

Answer 1

Before I got lasik surgery, I bought swim goggles from Speedo called “Vanquishers” that were super close to my strong prescription. This was back in 2015 and the specific ones I got are now discontinued, but it looks like the current ones are still effective, based on reviews. I don’t remember what my exact prescription was anymore, but the -8.0 diopter was pretty damn close. So if someone doesn’t mind looking like a bit of a dork, there are always swim goggles.