For VM's 2026 Top 50 U.S. Optical Retailers, Year Closes With Positive Gains in Sales, Store Counts Across the U.S.

NEWARK, N.J.—Vision Monday's signature annual report on the Top 50 U.S. Optical Retailers is being published today for the first time as a digital only publication on VisionMonday.com. The 2026 report, which examines companies' sales and location counts for the country's leading retailers, including mass merchants and warehouse clubs, is based on calendar year 2025 information and VM estimates. The collective sales of VM’s Top 50 U.S. Retailers rose 6.4 percent in 2025 compared with 2024, to reach an estimated $22,314.3 million across 16,777 locations, the report shows. The Top 10 retailers represented 83.8 percent of the total sales for the Top 50.