Fall Sale – Extended!

Enjoy Fantastic Fall Savings Between October 21 – November 9! Newly Extended! We’re stocked for fall with some fabulous frames and are throwing a sale to celebrate! Come in starting October 21 and enjoy: 😍Save up to $120 on a complete pair of Essilor lenses 🎁The chance to WIN YOUR PURCHASE** 👓 Save $50 on...

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Did you forget this Back to School necessity?

Has your child had an eye exam in the last year? Learning is 80% visual and one in every four children have vision-related learning difficulties. Kids should have an eye exam from 6 months of age and repeated every year. MSP covers the cost of yearly eye exams until youths are 19 years old.

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Customer Appreciation Day Royal Oak Optometry

June 8, 2019 Client Appreciation Day

You’re invited to our Client Appreciation Day on June 8, 2019! Join us from 9:30am – 3pm for refreshments, door prizes, and other giveaways – like the chance to WIN YOUR FRAME purchased that day! We’ll be giving away a $100 gift certificate to Royal Oak Optometry! Subscribe to our newsletter for your chance to win. We’ve...

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Staff Training and Meeting Closures (UPDATED)

We believe learning is a lifelong endeavour, which is why we occasionally take the afternoon off for staff training! Our next training closure will be on the afternoon of Tuesday, February 26, starting at 12:30pm. Update: Our staff training has been rescheduled, so we’re open as usual on February 26! Our monthly staff meeting takes place...

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Overcoming Light Sensitivity for Contact Lens Wearers

From computer screens, to fluorescent lights (and as we recently learned, gleaming white snow) many of us spend our days surrounded by bright light. Prolonged exposure means hours of squinting, eye strain and headaches. Did you know a whopping 64% of contact lens wearers are bothered by bright light on a daily basis? If you...

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Welcome Baby Maverick!

We’re excited to announce a brand new member into the Royal Oak Optometry family! On  January 2, optician Crystal welcomed her son Maverick into the world. What a cutie, congratulations! 😍

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Holiday Hours and Monthly Meeting Closure

Holiday season is upon us, and with it, come a couple schedule changes. Take note of some early closures, and holiday hours too. December 15 closing at 3:00 p.m. for our Christmas party 🎉 December 19 closed between 12:00 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. for our monthly staff meeting. December 24 early closure at 1:00 p.m. December 25 and...

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Halloween Eye Safety

Are you ready for Halloween? If you’re thinking of spicing up your look with decorative contact lenses, keep in mind that they must be worn with a prescription, fitted by an eye care professional. Off-the-shelf decorative lenses can lead to a host of scary outcomes, including: 💀 Scratches or sores on the surface of the eye 🧟 Infection...

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Schoolgirl in Vietnam benefits from Optometry Giving Sight and gets a free eye exam and a pair of glasses.

Are you ready to change a life?

Today is World Sight Day! Coordinated by Optometry Giving Sight, this fundraising initiative unites the global optometric community and helps end avoidable blindness and vision impairment. Together we can make a bigger impact.   We’ll be collecting donations in-store on behalf of Optometry Giving Sight throughout the month of October. Your gift will have an...

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Optometry Giving Sight

Did you know that blindness and impaired vision due to uncorrected refractive error can be diagnosed and treated as quickly and easily by performing an eye exam and prescribing corrective lenses? Optometry Giving Sight is proactive – it’s the only global charity that is actively preventing vision loss by providing access to eye care everywhere....

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