eye glass lenses

My wife and I, both seniors, recently had our eye glass prescriptions up-dated. We each wanted prescription eye glasses for day-to-day wear as well as prescription sunglasses for a total of four pairs of glasses. I checked at four different retailers and prices varied between $1600 and $2400, quite a difference for frames and lenses. It is very hard to compare what you are getting for the lenses, let alone the frames. Has anyone ever come up with a checklist of all the lense features that are available so that my optometrist could check off the features they recommend for our prescriptions and we could take this checklist to another retailer, if we chose to do so, and get a comparisom price on the exact same features? This would be very helpful as it is so confusing when different retailers start talking about what they would sell us.

I don't know if you are wearing single vision, bi-focal or progressives but having done a great deal of research and many price comparisons, I can tell you that Sears quite often has unbeatable sales and will use some of the top brand lenses such as ESSILOR.

Thank you for the information re Sears. I will follow up on this.

I looked on line for prescription glasses . I had my new prescription and ordered a pair of reading glasses which were about $25 and sun glasses which were around $55. I got them at different places. You need to know the distance between your pupils. I asked the place where I had my eye exam for this info. I love my sun glasses. Lost the $400 ones. The readers are ok. Its hard since you cant see the frames and try them on.. They have some really cheap ones, like $10. I did it as an experiment since I wasnt investing tons of $.