Aves Opticians

A few of my friends and I decided to pop into this store. We had been looking around Specsavers/Boots and thought we might support a local business instead. Upon arrival a nice lady greeted us and asked us what we were there for, a good start. She explained options and prices and was overall very helpful but she then left to serve another customer.

We were left with another less talkative assistant, and it soon became apparent that she was watching our every move out of suspicion of thievery. She even asked my friend to empty her pockets at one point! She left to ask her manager what the price of a certain frame was and he came in to oversee us too.

All three of us are in our 20s and we were in trousers and raincoats. Not exactly intimidating sights.

I am new to living here, so I don't know what the local youth are like. We politely said we would return but we won't. All we left with was a bad taste in our mouth. If you are young, only go here if you want to f