A Kelowna optometry clinic is reeling from a huge theft over the weekend.

“This is a hard hit. This is a big one,” said Dr. Nancy Friessen, the optometrist who owns Visionology Optometry.

It was around 4:30 a.m. Saturday when two suspects broke into Visionology Optometry in the Guisachan Village on Gordan Drive.

Surveillance footage shows the two masked culprits scoping the clinic out for a few minutes before smashing the door with what appears to be a hammer.

Video from inside the clinic then shows the pair quickly getting to work, emptying the shelves and grabbing high-end sunglasses and prescription frames.

“It was unbelievable,” Friessen said. “Just that feeling of like this, this isn’t real, in a sense and just realizing, oh, but it is. It is real.”

Friessen said two thirds of h

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