NEW YORK—The national average for gross revenue at ECP locations remained flat last week, November 4–10, when compared with the previous week. That places gross revenue at a level 17 index points above where it was at this point in time (Week 45) when compared with last year (2023), 18 points above the same period in 2022, 28 points above 2021, 21 points above 2020 and 28 points above 2019, according to Jobson’s most recent Practice Performance Tracker.

Most optical sales categories increased last week when compared with the previous week, at rates of 0 index points for gross revenue, 2 index points for exams/refractions, 2 index points for frame units, 2 index points for lens pairs and 1 index point for contact lenses. When comparing last week’s optical sales with the same period last year, all the categories were up, ranging from the largest increase of 17 index points for gross revenue, to the smallest increase of 5 index points for contact lenses. The other categories increased by 11 index points for exams/refractions, 8 index points for frame units and 11 index points for lens pairs.

With most optical sales categories increasing last week, four of the categories reached a level above an average week in 2019—the index baseline assigned a value of 100 for this Optical Business Tracker. These ranged from a high of 132 index points for gross revenue to a low of 91 index points for contact lenses. The other categories reached 110 index points for exams/refractions, 104 index points for frame units and 107 index points for lens pairs.

Jobson Optical Research selected 1,500 optical locations that have been operating and reporting their sales to its partners, GPN and ABB Analyze, since 2019. The index has been rebased to an average week in 2019. Going forward, this new index base will be used as an arbitrary benchmark and assigned a value of 100.

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