WAC 296-17A-6308. Classification 6308

Wholesale or retail store operations: Stores for jewelry, hearing aids, optical products, clocks and watches, and trophies Classification 6308 applies to retail and/or wholesale stores selling precision designed products. These are generally smaller sized items. Sales include: • Clocks (all sizes) and watches; • Eyeglasses and contact lenses; • Hearing aids; • Jewelry; • Trophies, plaques, and awards. Store operations include: • Cashiering; • Engraving; • Inventorying; • Merchandising and stocking of store; • Measuring for size, adjusting, and fitting products to customers; • Receiving and returning merchandise at store's loading ramp; • Sales work inside store; • Servicing, repair, and assembly of goods sold by the store as well as custom design of jewelry; • Store security and surveillance; • Technicians (including opticians) operating equipment to measure customers' vision or hearing accuracy. Classification 6308 excludes: • Clinics employing medical doctors, ophthalmologists, or optometrists for diagnosing and treating of hearing and visual impairments and diseases, which are classified in 6109 ; Note: Medical clinics may provide products and services similar to those in classification 6308 involving the sale of eye glasses and hearing aids. • Firms engaged in the grinding of lenses, which are classified in 6604 ; • Firms engaged in the manufacture of wooden components or cabinets, such as those for grandfather clocks, which are classified in 2905 ; • Firms engaged in the manufacturing of large quantities of products listed in this classification; stores in 6803 are allowed only to individually customize items or make custom products. For administrative purposes, classification 6308 is divided into the following subclassification(s): 6308-00 Jewelry stores 6308-01 Hearing aid stores 6308-02 Optical stores 6308-03 Clock and watch stores 6308-04 Trophy stores Note: This classification includes stores that personalize items such as banners, name badges, certificates, buttons, pins, ribbons, pens, vinyl lettering, advertising or other related items.