Shopping for Vitamins

If you are not familiar with The Vitamin Shoppe, a leading national retailer of vitamins and health supplements with more than 400 stores across the United States, this might be a good week to get acquainted. 

That's because the company has a special offer on e-mail orders this week that cuts down on shipping to 99 cents per purchase. The coupon is good until Saturday, May 14.

 If you order by mail, you are probably familiar with the fact that shipping can balloon the cost of an order considerably with some companies even tacking on an additional fee on orders headed to Puerto Rico, an unfair imposition on buyers living on the island. The flat rate on Vitamin Shoppe orders runs around $5 but if you are in no rush you can also choose a slower track for $2.99. Orders in excess of $99 worth of products pay no shipping charges.

Paying 99 cents per purchase, an occasional promotion, is the next best thing.

Vitamin Shoppe retails its own very reliable and affordable brand of vitamins and supplements while also carrying as many as 400 other national brands. On its website, you can shop either by brand or by health concern. The ample product line includes vitamins and supplements, herbs and homeopathics, foods and energy drinks, products for kids and pets. There is also a section on eco-products and one devoted to natural bath and beauty products. 

The site is easy to navigate although, admittedly, there are occasional glitches using a promotional code. In that case, all you need to do is call the toll-free company line and assistance is quick and forthcoming.

http://www.vitaminshoppe.com

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Just consider. The U.S. alone, each year, produces in excess of 800,000 tons of plastic bottle pollution. So what are you doing about it?

Here's one solution. Just ditch the water bottle in favor of a stainless steel bottle, which you can refill as needed and carry around with the same ease and convenience as a water bottle but with the knowledge you are contributing to improve the environment. Arguably the "eco status symbol" of the moment, stainless steel bottles are available even at your local Walgreens. 

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