NATIONAL OPTICAL WAREHOUSE

It’s closed
No forwarding address on the dpor

I stopped in to see if they could do a minor eye glass repair (my lens had popped out of the frame). The woman at the counter replaced a stripped screw and fixed my eye glasses in a jiffy, delivering them to me in an eye glass cloth bag (the kind you can use to clean your glasses). She didn’t charge me anything for the repair. Based on this excellent customer service experience and seeing a pretty good selection of glasses and prescription sunglasses, I will definitely check this place out when I need new glasses.

I have bought many pairs of glasses for myself and for my son here over the years. The cost for a no-​frills pair of glasses — including both lenses and frames — is 39.95 plus no tax.
They have a good enough collection of frames that if you look long enough you are bound to find something you like, no matter how picky you are.
The downside is that you have to WAIT up to two weeks to get your glasses. Plus, the optometrist lobby in Texas managed to get a new law passed around ten years ago that makes it so that you cannot get new glasses anymore without a prescription less than one year old. This bothers me big-​time because I have had a change in my prescription only one time in 40 years — and that law would make me have to pay $ 50-​$ 100 a year just to have an optometrist give me the same prescription. But this is not the fault of NOW — which is what their sign out front says is NOW, for National Optical Warehouse.
Therefore, I recommend that if you have eyes like mine that you pretty much know you are not going to need a new prescription anytime real soon, go ahead and order at least two pair of regular glasses plus a pair of sunglasses with your one prescription — or more. Shoot, at this price it’s like getting 3 (or 5) for the price of one pair! I still have 3 or 4 pair that I bought there over 10 years ago, Guess I’ll have to break down soon and get another prescription. Or not. Haha.