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06-11-2014, 11:35 PM
5 Generations in, Moscot Keeps Business in the Family
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As family-owned optics shops have learned — often painfully — in recent years, the eyewear industry is becoming an increasingly unfriendly place for mom-and-pop shops.
Customers are moving online, hungry (http://mashable.com/2013/06/17/cynthia-rowley-eyewear/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) upstarts are disrupting the industry (http://mashable.com/2013/09/06/warby-parker-startups/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) by eschewing storefronts and middlemen and major brands (http://mashable.com/2014/03/24/google-glass-ray-ban-oakley/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) are combining forces to stop the young lions in their tracks
See also: 16 New Rules of Business (http://mashable.com/2014/06/09/rewriting-business-rules/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
With all this upheaval, how is a family-owned optics shop with nearly a century of history supposed to keep up?
By embracing its niche position in the market and keeping all of its operations in-house, Dr. Harvey Moscot (https://www.moscot.com/eyecare/our-doctors.html), the fourth-generation owner and president of Moscot Eyewear (http://www.moscot.com/) says Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/11/moscot-family-business/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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As family-owned optics shops have learned — often painfully — in recent years, the eyewear industry is becoming an increasingly unfriendly place for mom-and-pop shops.
Customers are moving online, hungry (http://mashable.com/2013/06/17/cynthia-rowley-eyewear/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) upstarts are disrupting the industry (http://mashable.com/2013/09/06/warby-parker-startups/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) by eschewing storefronts and middlemen and major brands (http://mashable.com/2014/03/24/google-glass-ray-ban-oakley/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) are combining forces to stop the young lions in their tracks
See also: 16 New Rules of Business (http://mashable.com/2014/06/09/rewriting-business-rules/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
With all this upheaval, how is a family-owned optics shop with nearly a century of history supposed to keep up?
By embracing its niche position in the market and keeping all of its operations in-house, Dr. Harvey Moscot (https://www.moscot.com/eyecare/our-doctors.html), the fourth-generation owner and president of Moscot Eyewear (http://www.moscot.com/) says Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/11/moscot-family-business/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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