Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage

Organic and, nice people are happy to help. Thats why i go. Quality food at a reasonable cost. I feel better and eat less with their foods. Also they are savy concerning nutrition, and represent a wave of the future in goo. 33 443 344
getting healthy… Pete Dee
P.S most of Sprouts is NOT ORGANIC !
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OK store. Bulk items available, but all pre-​bagged as far as I saw.
Loved that they carry Olathe eggs — nice to have free range eggs from a nearby location.
Seems to have a large selection. Store seems a little dark. But employees were helpful and I certainly saw a lot of people getting what they wanted.
I will continue to monitor the store as I settle in to Grand Junction and see what I need vs what they stock.

Largest Natural Grocers I’ve seen so far also employees have a relax attitude which i enjoyed … this is a good place to buy food and vitamins without having to go to any other store :)
I’m giving 5 stars just because its the largest one i’ve seen so far :)

I live in Moab so this store seems amazing and huge each time I go to Grand Junction. I stock up on a lot of items since they are cheaper here. I also love the prepackaged lunch foods– a tad spendy but well worth it for a quick, healthy meal. Staff is always friendly and helpful. Love this place!

For some reason, when I lived in Denver, I never shopped at this place. Now, I cannot imagine why. Natural Grocers is hands-​down my favorite grocery spot in Grand Junction. Small, easy to navigate, and packed with healthy and affordable (usually) choices for meals. While the produce section is admittedly more comprehensive in Sprouts or City Market, the meat selection here is great, and cheap, and there are a lot of alternatives to meat, dairy, and gluten foods to be found. I’m a fan of the bulk section of seasonings, nuts, oats, etc. There’s also an extensive homeopathic and natural home/​beauty products here.
Remember to bring your own bags as boxes are your only alternative if you forget them. The check out is usually staffed with just a few people, but typically goes quickly and is far better than certain other larger-​name grocery stores I can think of.

I love this store. The aisles are a bit wide, which makes for great traffic. Their selection is terrific. I find their employees helpful and knowledgeable. Their customer base is sane… which is rare as any shopper of alterna-​stores knows. I don’t know what they do to screen out the crazies, but if you don’t like it here… well…yeah, I’m saying that.
I love the boxes instead of bags. I love the prices.
I have always had an easy time going through the checkouts… maybe I shop at off hours?

All I can say is that this store is better than nothing, but not much! I was so happy when Vitamin Cottage first opened in Grand Junction, but now I hate going there. It’s not a fun shopping experience. They are usually out of whatever I need and their prices have gotten way too expensive. For instance, I can buy ground buffalo at City Market for $ 6.99/lb while Vitamin Cottage’s prices if $ 10.+/lb. Their chicken prices are ridiculously high. Since I wrote this original review, their prices have gone way up on most of the items I buy. I can truly say that they should be called Whole Paycheck cause on most things I buy, Whole Foods is less expensive.
They do not support local organic growers and almost all of their produce is from Mexico. They kept telling me they would carry more of the things I asked for when they enlarged the store, things that they «never had room» to carry before, but they have not done this. I would rather go over to Whole Foods in Denver and stock up as most of Whole Foods prices on things that I buy cost less than Vitamin Cottage and they carry a much wider range of food choices.
I stopped buying vitamins at this store because I can get them much cheaper and with no shipping charges online. I try to support local businesses, but with all of the stores they are opening in various states, I don’t consider Vitamin Cottage a local business.
The layout of the newer, bigger store is horrible. When one walks in, the first things seen are cash registers and vitamins unlike most healthy stores where the first things seen are gorgeous fresh produce. I talked to Joe, the manager, and he said that vitamins are their biggest money makers and that’s why they do it this way. So lame!

Vitamin Cottage is a great grocery store. Yes, they sell many health products, but their grocery selections are tremendous. You can’t find many of their grocery items in big name stores. StaFf is very helpful. Price comparable to grocery store.

A great place to purchase organic foods and supplements. They recently added on to the place. It’s bigger and better! Lot’s of room to shop and they always have the things I need.

Vitamin Cottage is perhaps the only natural food-​store in Grand Junction. They have a wide variety of organic foods and supplements. However, they are woefully mismanaged.
The checkout is always extremely painful because there is often only one or two open checkout lanes. They are routinely backed up with some person returning something. Or something not marked and needing a price check. Or the checker having a gut-​churning dialectic with some emaciated man in yoga pants about which method of colon cleansing is the most thorough, while ten people with carts full of groceries wait.
Please streamline the checkout experience! Put efficient and fast employees on the register and direct questions about products or returns to customer service! Please!
Almost every aisle is impassable because they are too narrow and usually blocked by mountains of overstock. Seriously: why do you insist on putting away your order in the middle of peak business hours? Why can’t you wait until after business hours to do this? How do you expect people in wheelchairs to shop in your store when you can barely walk in it?
Vitamin cottage — bar none — is the WORST SHOPPING EXPERIENCE IN GRAND JUNCTION. The dreaded WalMart is preferable to having to stop in at Vitamin Cottage to get something. I have been to the Vitamin Cottage in Lakewood and none of these problems are present. I have been to co-​ops and natural food stores all over the US. This is not normal. What is the problem?