Frame Sales Up 3%, Sunglasses 7%

Vision Monday reports that "U.S. eyeglass frame sales rose over three percent from 2011 for the year ending June, to $8.5 billion. Sunglass retail sales performed even better, the report said, growing nearly seven percent, to $3.5 billion. Sales of higher end sunglasses, costing more than $50, accounted for most of that growth with unit sales up 7 percent and the total dollar volume growing by almost 9 percent to $2.3 billion." The post is based on the Vision Council's Consumer Barometer. Read more. The question is: How well are unit sales doing?