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SPECSAVERS Torquay has continued from strength to strength since its move to deepen its roots in Torquay late last year.<\/p>\n

The eyecare specialists opened their seven-day Gilbert Street stores in December after 15 years servicing its Surf Coast customers from Geelong shops at Belmont and Waurn Ponds.<\/p>\n

“We’d been servicing the Surf Coast community for a number of years under the Specsasvers banner,” the local franchise’s retail director Phillip Marshall said.<\/p>\n

“We knew that with such a massive population explosion down in the Surf Coast area, we wanted to bring something more local to the community.<\/p>\n

“Because we have been servicing the community there for such a long time and it was a decent percentage of our customers, we thought it was about time to bring it closer to home.”<\/p>\n

The Torquay store is open from 8.40am-6pm Monday to Friday, Saturday 8.40am-5pm and 10am-5pm Sunday, and provide a full range of Specsavers services that its customers have come to expect.<\/p>\n

“We’re not just here to sell glasses, we’re there to serve the eyecare and health care needs of the community,” Mr Marshall said.<\/p>\n

“If you have a sore eye on the weekend and have to drive into us in a busy area, that’s a bit of an inconvenience, so being available is something that’s important to us.”<\/p>\n

In addition to its range of 1,100 eyewear products and bulk billed eye checkups, Specsavers will include advanced 3D Retinal Scans in its services for a comprehensive picture of your eye health, while it is also investigating adding ear health services to its Torquay store.<\/p>\n

“In the near future, we’ll introduce audiology services. We’re not immediately commencing with that, but that’s the intention.<\/p>\n

“We’ve kitted out one of the rooms and we’ll be able to provide full eye and hearing care services.”<\/p>\n

“Initially it will be full eye services, that includes 3D retinal scans as well. That’s something that Specsavers has implemented as a health service.<\/p>\n

“We can detect avoidable blindness conditions and pick up so much more if we just give this to every person that comes through.”<\/p>\n

Customers can book bulk-billed eye tests with qualified optometrists or other appointments by contacting the store on (03) 4224 9020 or online: www.specsavers.com.au\/stores\/torquay<\/a><\/p>\n

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