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Payless Optical

Payless Optical

Health Care in San Francisco

4.9 37 Google reviews

+1 415 285 14 443169 21st St, San Francisco, California 94110 · Mission District

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3169 21st St, San Francisco, California 94110

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About

We are a retail optical shop established in 1986, specializing in quality new and vintage discount eyeglasses, sunglasses, hard, soft and color contact lenses. We also do repairs on broken frames whenever possible and can use patient's own frames to replace the lenses. We can also put patient's old lenses in new frames. Our prices start at $150.00 complete for a pair of single vision glasses including frame and clear plastic lenses, $250.00 complete including a frame of your choice for regular flat top bifocals and $300.00 complete including a frame of your choice for progressive bifocals. Lots of different color tints are available, A/R coating as well as glass, photogrey, transitions, polarized, polycarbonate and other popular materials.

Amenities

Accessibility

  • Wheelchair accessible entrance
  • Wheelchair accessible seating
  • Assistive hearing loop
  • Wheelchair accessible restroom

Hours

Monday
10 AM to 5:30 PM
Tuesday
10 AM to 5:30 PM
Wednesday
10 AM to 5:30 PM
Thursday
10 AM to 5:30 PM
Friday
10 AM to 5:30 PM
Saturday
10 AM to 3:30 PM
Sunday
Closed

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