NEW YORK—The national average for gross revenue at ECP locations decreased last week, June 17–23, when compared with the previous week, at a rate of -1 index point. That places gross revenue at a level 11 index points above where it was at this point in time (Week 25) when compared with last year (2023), 18 points above the same period in 2022, 22 points above 2021, 21 points above 2020 and 28 points above 2019, according to Jobson’s most recent Practice Performance Tracker.

All optical sales categories, except one, decreased by -1 index point last week when compared with the previous week. Lens pairs increased by 1 index point, while those that decreased by -1 index point were gross revenue, exams/refractions, frame units and contact lenses. When comparing last week’s optical sales with the same period last year, the categories were mixed, ranging from the largest decrease of -4 index points for exams/refractions, to the greatest increase of 11 index points for gross revenue.

The other categories changed by -1 index point for frame units, -2 index points for lens pairs and 5 index points for contact lenses.

With most optical sales categories decreasing last week, one 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 127 index points for gross revenue to a low of 95 index points for exams/refractions. One category, contact lenses, matched the index baseline at 100 index points. The other categories reached 97 index points for frame units and 96 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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