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We are pleased to bring you our new web site.
While Vitamin Cottage may be new to you, the people of Colorado have been
visiting our stores since 1955. It was then that our parents, Margaret
and Phillip Isely, borrowed $200 from Margaret’s mother and started the
business. They began by going door-to-door in Golden, Colorado, selling
whole grain bread and lending nutrition education books to the people
they met. The Iselys knew that as people learned about good nutrition,
they would need to order vitamins and bulk foods. They would return a
week later to take orders for vitamins, supplements, and whole foods.
Their door-to-door business was successful enough that they were able
to open their first retail storefront within six months. In 1963, they
purchased a store in Lakewood, Colorado that looked like a country cottage.
At the time, they were primarily selling vitamins and supplements, so
they named the new store "Vitamin Cottage."
In the 1960s, living a healthy lifestyle wasn’t always very fashionable.
Our parents struggled to make a living selling vitamins, natural foods
and related products. During this time, Zephyr joined the business and
began investigating ways of buying products at better prices. He developed
a low-cost buying method, in partnership with our suppliers, which we
still use today. Buying products at better prices has allowed Vitamin
Cottage to always offer every day affordable prices to you. Education
and customer service have always been cornerstones of the Vitamin Cottage
mission. We believe that in order for people to achieve optimal health,
you need to have access to the best health and nutrition information available.
We also believe that you should be able to afford to buy the products
you need in order to take care of your own health. Therefore, selling
quality products at every day affordable prices is extremely important
to Vitamin Cottage. In addition, every product we sell goes through a
strict review process to ensure it meets our quality standards. There
are some products we will not carry because they contain certain ingredients
that we think are of questionable quality or safety (please see "What
Products Vitamin Cottage Does Not Carry"). Margaret passed away in
1997, but the business is still owned and operated by her children and
grandchildren. Over the years, Vitamin Cottage has grown from a “Mom and
Pop" business to a twenty-four store chain with over 500 employees in
Colorado and New Mexico. Every year we add more stores which reflects
our ability to continually meet our customers’ needs. We are excited about
our new web site, and hope to bring high quality products at every day
affordable prices to people all across the country. We invite you to experience
the Vitamin Cottage difference.
Warmest Regards,
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 Careers at VitaminCottage.com You know the old trick... a store or catalog artificially increases
the price on an item and then “lowers” it so they can say it is “On Sale.”
Or they inflate what they use as the "Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail
Price", especially on their "house brand" products, so their prices will
look much lower in comparison. At Vitamin Cottage we don’t believe in
playing those games with our customers. We always offer you “EDAP” pricing---Every
Day Affordable Pricing --- on all of our products, in addition to many
products with even lower special limited-time sale prices. Offering great
prices on national brands is something we pride ourselves on. Throughout
the catalog you will see Retail Price compared to Our Price and the percentage
you will save. When comparing our prices to the Manufacturer’s Suggested
Retail Price, we use the actual price they publish. We invite you to shop
and compare. You can be assured that your savings are very real on national
brands when you buy from Vitamin Cottage.
We at the Vitamin Cottage Natural Grocers take pride in our quality, selection,
and service. Please call us at 800-817-9415 to get answers to any questions
or to place an order. We hope to hear from you!
Vitamin Cottage Natural Grocers
12612 W Alameda Pkwy
Lakewood, CO 80228
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Sponsors A Habitat Home
The Isely Family was honored as the 2006 Entrepreneur of the Year in Retail
and Consumer Services in the Rocky Mountain region by Ernst & Young LLP.
This honor was in recognition for years of dedicated energy and hard work.
Vitamin Cottage was recognized as the 2005 Grocer of the Year by the Colorado
Department of Agriculture.
Packages prepared at our bulk food warehouse in Lakewood are distributed
to stores throughout the state. Packages are tested both at the point
of pack and at Vitamin Cottage retail locations many times, with consistently
high rates of compliance. Vitamin Cottage uses a Julian pack date system,
which designates numbers 0 through 365 to represent the exact day of the
calendar year when products are packaged. This process enables stores
to keep their products in the freshest state while meeting net weight
declarations on packages.
- Karen Falbo, CN of Vitamin Cottage Natural Grocers, presented at
the First Annual Gluten-Free Culinary Summit held from August 26 - 28,
2006 in Copper Mountain, Colorado (full
article)
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