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Selling Eye Glasses at Cost While Giving a Pair to the Needy With Every Sale

Selling Eye Glasses at Cost While Giving a Pair to the Needy With Every Sale
Warby Parker is a new web-based company with a mission that goes far beyond profit. They want to help people find affordable glasses by cutting out the middleman. They also want to make a difference, by donating one pair of glasses to a person in need for every pair sold. So far, in one year, the startup has sold 60,000 glasses.

Warby Parker is a new web-based company with a mission that goes far beyond profit.

They want to help people find affordable eyeglasses by cutting out the middleman that normally marks up prices ten to 20 times the manufacturing cost.

They also want to make a difference, by donating one pair of glasses to a person in need for every pair sold.

So far, in one year, the startup has sold 60,000 glasses with prescription lenses.

(WATCH or READ the story from CBS News "Sunday Morning")

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