NEW YORK—The national average for gross revenue at ECP locations increased last week, Dec. 11 –17, when compared with the previous week at a rate of 2 index points. That places gross revenue at a level 7 index points above where it was at this point in time (Week 51) when compared with last year (2022), 11 points above the same period in 2021, 12 points above 2020 and 9 points above 2019., according to Jobson’s most recent Practice Performance Tracker.

All optical sales categories were up last week when compared with the previous week, with gross revenue, exams/refractions, frame units and lens pairs increasing at a rate of 2 index points and contact lenses increasing by 3 index points. When comparing last week’s optical sales with the same period last year, all of the categories were up, ranging from the greatest increase of 7 index points for gross revenue to the lowest increase of 1 index point for contact lenses.

The remaining categories increased by 5 index points for exams/refractions, 2 points for frame units and 2 index points for lens pairs.

With all 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 128 index points for gross revenue to a low of 93 index points for contact lenses. The other three categories reached 109 index points for exams/refractions, 108 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 Analytics, 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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