Optical Goods Retailers

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) retailing and fitting prescription eyeglasses and contact lenses; (2) retailing prescription eyeglasses in combination with the grinding of lenses to order on the premises; and (3) retailing nonprescription eyeglasses.

Grinding ophthalmic lenses without retailing lenses--are classified in U.S. Industry 339115, Ophthalmic Goods Manufacturing; and The independent private or group practice of optometry or ophthalmology, with or without the sale of glasses and contact lenses--are classified in Subsector 621, Ambulatory Health Care Services.