Are Specsavers still being ott with covid restrictions?

[Justmuddlingalong]

Has anyone been for an eye test at Specsavers recently? Are the (highly irritating, useless and a general pain in the arse) face masks and putting frames you've tried on in a tray shenanigans still ongoing?
TIA.

All absolutely normal at our local specsavers.

Just asked DP, who had an outpatient appointment at the local hospital last week, what was the mask situation then.
The mask boxes and the hand sanitiser dispensers at the main doors were empty, and neither he, the other patients in the waiting room or the hcps were wearing masks.
So, I wonder why some opticians are still so rigid.

Stopped going there for this very reason!

Everything is back to normal in mine too, was there on Saturday and no trays or face masks.

Everything absolutely back to normal in ours and has been for a very long time. Many months, if not more than a year.

Ridiculous that this idiocy is still going on. It would put me right off.

Went to specsavers probably about 6 months ago, couldn't try glasses on with a mask and the faff of putting frames in a tray, what if I wanted to try them again? So I didn't bother, and I really wanted to change my frames, but the funniest thing was I went straight next door to tkmax where loads of people were trying on sunglasses as they pleased, it made no sense to me at the time.

I have and I’m pleased to say there were absolutely no silly restrictions still in place.

Having seen someone sneeze into their hand and continue on with trying on frames on Friday I’m really glad our optician (not specsavers) are continuing to wipe down frames before putting them back up.

People can be absolutely grim.

you can retry them though, they don’t mind you taking them back off the tray.

I went to vision express about six months ago and I'm just not buying new frames until this bollocks stops. It's ridiculous.

No faceamsk at my local Specsavers, but they still have a reception desk thingy just nisde the door. Plus the tray for frames you've touched. I was trying to choose frames for very young DC who grabbed pretty much every pair in the kids section and quite a few of the adult ones too. That tray got pretty full!

Thank you, yes this is true. People wonder why there are such long waits in the NHS. One of the many reasons is staff sickness. Keeping staff healthy and at work is good for all of us.

Im sorry but… you are famously known for avoiding Specsavers?

I went the other week OP and no masks, no trays but the little screens have been left up. Which wasn’t a terrible ordeal tbf.

Same. Have transferred custom to Boots (as local independent didn't seem to want it). The swanning around in plastic aprons and making you wait outside a locked door while everyone else had abandoned their queuing and restrictions was ridiculous.

My DD had an eye test in Specsavers on Saturday and I tried on some new glasses while we were in there. No restrictions at all, just like the old days.