Vitamin Cottage
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- Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
8 Reviews for Vitamin Cottage
From the day my husband and I began shopping at Vitamin Cottage (at the suggestion of my nutritionist), we've never really enjoyed going to any other markets. Yes, it is very tiny, but that only allows for LOW prices & constant levels of freshness in the food. In fact, their prices are so low that I don't think there are really any other health food stores that can compete! They don't carry as much as other grocery stores (as far as produce), but all of their produce is always extremely fresh, ALL organic (no other stores can say this, as far as I know), and as local as possible. They have awesome sales on goods and food as well, and carry lots of bulk items (you have to buy it in the sizes they have in bags, but it's always at a good price). I can't say anything bad about this store! I will always shop there! I only hope we can find a store like this if we end up elsewhere in the future.
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Vitamin Cottage is a really awesome organic grocery store with a really awful name. The prices are a lot less than Whole Paycheck (Foods) next door.
The parking lot was designed by the same idiot who designed the Whole Foods parking lot, so park a little away from the store unless you want dings. The store attracts an odd mix of people, but heck that's the charm of Boulder.
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This Vitamin Cottage has been a welcome addition to the Boulder Natural Foods shopping choices. Of course, it's been here for many years now. And I shop here several times a month. It is a small VC with a limited produce section, but the produce that they have available is quite good always. I sometimes like to go to the larger VCs such as the one in Lafayette, but this one is so much more convenient for me. Because of the limited space one feels sometimes a little too intimate with the other customers. If I weren't the standoffish and perhaps a bit shy person that I am, this wouldn't really be so bothersome. I must make a note for New Year's Resolutions to try to LIKE the rest of humanity just a little bit more....or even a lot more!
Because this Vitamin Cottage is a really crowded store almost all the time.
They have great food and non food, very low prices on most items, they often offer the lowest price in the area on a large variety of items. I guess you would just have to shop most of the stores like I do to notice the differences in pricing.
Since Whole Foods now owns Wild Oats and most all of the Wild Oats that are not named Wild Oats but were nonetheless owned by Wild Oats, Vitamin Cottage becomes even a more important player in this whole scenario.
I like VC because it is not run in a corporate way at all. It is a relatively small group of interconnected stores that started in Colorado...somewhere in the greater Denver area...years ago.
Well, I'm probably boring you by now. The parking lot is as crowded as the store because apparently this entire shopping center, which btw includes Whole Foods too, was built without adequate parking that is adjacent to the stores. I suppose there's nothing much the business can do about it. The city of Boulder so encourages utilizing means of transportation other than fossil fuel burning ones, maybe we all should get a clue and walk, bicycle, bus, etc. whenever we can in order to help save the planet!!!!
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For all of you who wish we had TRADER JOE'S, this is the closest, best substitute for at least 500 miles in any direction. It is a full grocery store, not just a vitamin place.
I don't know how they do it, but Vitamin Cottage offers a good selection of organic, vegetarian, non-vegetarian, medicinal, and local food for really good prices.
It is great to shop somewhere that has a conscience without getting totally ripped off.
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I miss Vitamin Cottage. I used to shop there just about every week when I lived in Boulder. It has a great selection for such a relatively small grocery space. I mean Russian coffee. Where the hell can you find Russian coffee in Boulder other than at Vitamin Cottage? Don't you want some KG Blend tomorrow with your breakfast?
The prices are great too. In some cases the prices of items here are half of what they are in Berkeley. That says a lot. The staff are very helpful too and will direct you to an item and give you info on it to boot.
So next time you think about going down the way to the WholeFPaycheck place, check out Vitamin Cottage. I think you might just convert.
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Vitamin Cottage is where I do the majority of my food shopping. For the most part their prices are lower than Whole Foods, unless you are buying 365, WF's store brand.
However, their produce leaves something to be desired so I tend to shop for that elsewhere.
Despite the unappealing name and annoying commercials, the VC is actually a nice place to shop. They have "reasonable" prices on organic foods, and a really awesome collection of vitamins, supplements and homeopathic remedies. The folks that work there really know their stuff and can fix you up in no time.
This shop is tiny, so are the carts and the aisles. This isn't likely to be your one stop shop but if you need a handful of the basics to last you the rest of the week, this is it.
This is an excellent place to come when you just can't stomach going into Whole Food's next door with the crowds, the prices and their dumb-ass parking lot.
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VC is the real deal. There's a hint of old boulder here. Women who were here in the eighties shop here. Some of the employees actually study health. Whole Foods is just the BMW of grocery stores. Vc also has better prices on organic produce.
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