Costco Optical Department

Nov 2020

After having an excellent eye exam, Manuel in the optical department helped me to find a nice frame and 4 days later fitted them perfectly! Love my new prescription sun glasses! Will go back for another pair...

Nov 2018

The doctorhere is pretty good, dirndl and thorough. Office and exam room was a little cramped buy had enough room for equipment and exam. No complaints. Price reasonable and he accepts my insurance

Nov 2017

We all know Costco as the store where you can buy a bag of spaghetti that will last you the rest of your life. But they also sell discounted airline tickets, a hearing center and vision center. Costco is big enough that they can select only the best vendors-also tested by the millions of Costco shoppers daily (and if a product doesn't sell, they get cut!) We have been to the Costco Vision Center in Hawthorne, CA. and had good experience (though the glasses make my eye muscle pull and cause eye strain but no one could tell why) so decided to go again in El Centro, CA. They don't have an optometrist yet but gave us a card for one that works out of the Costco optometry office on Saturday and Sunday. I did a separate review for Guru Sharma, Optometrist since he is only 'associated' with Costco. You see the huge wall of frames and sunglasses on the wall of the Vision Center when you first walk up. They have a large selection in a wide range of prices, from economical to designer brands. I actually picked a designer brand last time because they looked so nice and am just going to replace the sunglass lenses. They are really tough because I am rough of glasses-I hang them on a glass lanyard so I don't lose them and they get caught on counters, get food dropped on them and bump them when I carry groceries. So Costco choices of glasses pass their test for quality. I have worked with 3 different employees that work at the vision counter. All of them must have been trained really well because they could answer all my glasses which were very complicated. Every single employee seemed to know their job well-including helping to figure out what went wrong with my last glasses. They order the lenses from an offsite lab but only take 5-7 days to get. I would definitely recommend Costco Optometry. They do a great job with great prices.