I personally enjoy research and trust my own work over anything I read on reddit, and thought that the person I was responding to might be the type to reject anything anyone else says too based on their combative comments.

But here's the short version: Luxottica is basically a vertically-integrated monopoly. It's not as simple as "Think Sunglass Hut is too expensive? Don't buy it, go to a different store" because Luxottica owns that store too. Okay fine, skip the stores and just get some mall kiosk glasses. Wait no, Luxottica owns that too. Okay well then at least I'll make sure I'm getting high quality expensive glasses direct from the Ray-Ban store. Oops! Luxottica owns them too. Fine, I'll go to Ray-Ban's competition. No, Oakley is owned by them too. Okay well at least I can trust my independent optician to sell quality goods. Oh sorry, no they only sell Luxottica brands and get kickbacks for selling them too. Okay I give up, I'm just going to get glasses at Walmart. Except Luxottica owns that Foster Grant brand too. How about Walmart's competition then? Nope, Luxottica directly own Target Optical.

Beyond that, those seemingly all-encompassing first-party retail brands are only 60% of their business. The other 40% is wholesale glasses and components to other brands, so even your non-Luxottica glasses could be Luxottica.

I don't think a typical person could name a store that doesn't sell Luxottica glasses.

Here's some more info on their business model from an unbiased (or at least biased toward the company) business analysis source: https://fourweekmba.com/vertically-integrated-business-model/

And here's a partial list of Luxottica brands:

• Alain Mikli

• Arnette eyewear

• Costa Del Mar

• Eye Safety Systems (ESS)

• Luxottica

• Native Eyewear

• Oakley

• Oliver Peoples

• Persol

• Ray-Ban

• Sferoflex

• Vogue Eyewear

• Giorgio Armani

• Armani Exchange

• Brooks Brothers

• Bulgari

• Burberry

• Chanel

• Coach

• Dolce & Gabbana

• Emporio Armani

• Michael Kors

• Miu Miu

• Polo Ralph Lauren

• Prada

• Ralph Eyewear

• Ralph Lauren

• Scuderia Ferrari

• Starck Biotech Paris

• Tiffany & Co.

• Tory Burch

• Valentino

• Versace

• Sunglass Hut

• Apex by Sunglass Hut

• Sunglass Outfitters

• Spectacle Hut

• LensCrafters

• Pearle Vision

• Target Optical

• OPSM

• ILORI

• EyeMed Vision Care

• Optical Shop of Aspen

• Laubman & Pank

• GMO

• Oliver Peoples

• Alain Mikli

• Oakley

• David Clulow

• Glasses.com

• Econópticas

• Paris De Gaulle

• John Lewis Opticians

• Salmoiraghi e Viganò

• Óticas Carol

• VistaSì

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica#Monopolistic_pricing_practices

GoLocal got a fucking hard-on for cops.

WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE SUNGLASS HUT?!!!

Who nominated you as the arbiter of truth and justice? Your posts are a a collection of news clippings about local crimes, not much value added there.

Go on…

Tell me you can’t afford the car without telling me you can’t afford the car

NO WIRE HANGERS

EVER!!!

>Keep it classy.

Interesting choice of phrasing

Not to mention, "Of course I use wood hangars, I'm not a savage."

I don't think you quite understand how Luxottica operates

Based on the number of fully tinted windows in vehicles and license plate covers that making reading license plates impossible makes me not surprised they haven't been pulled over yet.

Lol, I see this car every morning.

Nah.

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Honestly if you go to newport and talk to bartenders a lot of them play golf. Some guy set up a bartenders open where most of the bars will make groups of 4 to come in and do a scramble tournament with lots of drinking. You'd have to make friends with them first but it's like 20 bars that are part of this and I'm sure they'd take you out on other days if you befriend them and teach you.

Huh? Justifying theft is what's demeaning to your gender.

With the picture of the suspects so close and clear, CPD won’t need my assistance this time. Plus, I don’t offer my services for free ;)

I don't buy or have expensive sunglasses and you mock my gender?

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Heard Edge in Warwick is really good. Pro Fitness in Warwick is also decent. Edge has a sauna but Pro Fitness doesn’t. Both have clients who are serious about the gym so don’t be surprised if it’s packed at 530 am.

Don't buy expensive sunglasses. Teach sunglass hut a lesson by only stealing from them.

It seems they’ve forgotten that u need a little bit of sand in your pizza strip in order to make it good.

I absolutely love pizza strips best beach / picnic snack ever they remind me very much of my late Meme.

After being here a year or two, not so much. It's what you get with a forum dominated by a bunch of high school kids, who think they are total bad ass...

Mommy pays for that

>It's a store. A corporation. It's victimless. No one was hurt.

Try again. The business was victimized. The customer who they will pass the costs along to was victimized. The taxpayer who now has to pay for the justice system to address this was victimized. I could go on.