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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9486064" data-attributes="member: 6801845">Yep.&nbsp; The &quot;If you can't compete, buy them out and shut them down.&quot; Happened to my favorite fast food Mexican restaurant years ago when they were bought out by Taco Bell. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad&nbsp; &nbsp; :mad:"&nbsp; data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> [rant]Pretty much every chain of eyeglass manufacturer (and sunglasses like Ray Ban) is now run by Luxottica which is why it costs so much to get prescription glasses for most people.&nbsp;&nbsp; On the other hand the glasses I'm wearing right now cost less than $100 from a competitor, Warby Parker.&nbsp; Of course I'm wearing the simplest prescription possible, but they would have cost hundreds if I had gone to one of the big chains.[/rant]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 9486064, member: 6801845"] Yep. The "If you can't compete, buy them out and shut them down." Happened to my favorite fast food Mexican restaurant years ago when they were bought out by Taco Bell. :mad: [rant] Pretty much every chain of eyeglass manufacturer (and sunglasses like Ray Ban) is now run by Luxottica which is why it costs so much to get prescription glasses for most people. On the other hand the glasses I'm wearing right now cost less than $100 from a competitor, Warby Parker. Of course I'm wearing the simplest prescription possible, but they would have cost hundreds if I had gone to one of the big chains. [/rant] [/QUOTE]

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