You can review the many headlines among VMAIL throughout the past several years and see the cumulative impact of practice acquisitions and the formations of new financial backed retail groups and companies in the U.S. optical market. You can also review those in the context of the many headlines in the general business media during that same period, about the current transformation of the general, traditional retail business. As VM put together its ranking of the Top 50 largest optical retail players in the U.S., we certainly saw the reshaping of the business. And while this also reshapes the competitive climate, it occurs to this observer that the story of the “competitive climate,” while major in its implications, is far from the whole story. Read More.