Yesterday I went with friends to buy glasses at Luohu Commercial City. They don’t check for glaucoma, but the shops have machines that measure your prescription automatically (hum in hum out hum in again). The lenses are printed in half an hour (if they have supplies onsite), it takes 1.5 hours if they have to bring the lenses in from a nearby warehouse (or borrow from a neighbor). We were told that most of the eyeglass bosses are from Zhejiang, where most glasses are made. (Shenzhen is actually one of China’s 7 major eyewear manufacturing regions, so maybe our salesperson was boasting about her hometown?) She also told us that its possible to purchase AI glasses. (Next time, yes!) The glasses collections were fun and relatively inexpensive. As are clothes and everyday items, including a curated selection of electronics that appeal to people buying electronics for everyday use and not because of a shanzhai wow factor.