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An independent optometry practice on Market Way in Sardis, run by the same husband-and-wife team since 2004.
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Vision West Doctors of Optometry
About Vision West Doctors of Optometry
An optometry clinic on the Luckakuck Way retail strip in Sardis, doing exams, dispensing and contact lens fitting.
Eye tests are one of the few pieces of health care most people arrange for themselves, without a referral and without much urgency, which is why they tend to get put off for years at a time. The prompt is usually something small: a road sign that has gone soft at the edges, a prescription that has stopped doing its job. The practices on this page do the standard range: examinations, dispensing of glasses, contact lens fitting, and in some cases the sort of continuity that comes from seeing the same households across decades. Vision West Doctors of Optometry is listed with exams, dispensing and contact lens work.
Its address, 45779 Luckakuck Way, puts it on the busiest retail corridor in Chilliwack. Luckakuck Way runs between Cottonwood Centre, which carries something over seventy tenancies, and Chilliwack Mall, and the stretch between them is as close as this city comes to a big-box strip. Sardis is where Chilliwack does most of its shopping, and for a neighbourhood only fourth largest by area it carries a wildly disproportionate share of the storefronts. An optometrist here is on the road people are already driving, which matters more for an appointment made once every couple of years than for a weekly one.
The national optical chains have outlets in Cottonwood Centre and at Eagle Landing, and they are excluded from this directory, which removes most of the mall dispensing and leaves the owner-operated practices. What the entry does not carry is a website, so there is nothing to browse before calling: no frames to look at, no online booking, no posted list of what is covered. The phone number above is the whole of it. Worth having ready when you call are your insurance details, whether you need a full examination or only a prescription update, and whether anyone else in the household is due at the same time, since that is usually the difference between one trip and three.
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In the Sardis neighbourhood of Chilliwack.
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