Holland & Barrett is coming to Lordship Lane

[gebbjane]

Yes the organic grocers by Chener books has some no packaging stuff.

 

The shop mentioned above that opened pre-covid was  As Nature Intended, they had  a fairly large selection of no packaging stuff.

They were acquired  by Planet Organic  who obviously decided the store wasn’t performing well enough so chose to close.

[nivag]

23 hours ago, ab29 said:

Disappointing to see H&B coming to LL. Would be great to have 'no packaging' shop instead

There's Beetroot and Beans in Forest Hill

https://www.instagram.com/beetrootbeans

[just_browsing]

And BYO in Nunhead, and JARR Market in Herne Hill. 

[teddyboy23]

Nothing like a bit of healthy competition😉

Edited February 20 by teddyboy23

[Callie]

Anyone know when H&B is opening?

[Sue]

If anyone is interested,  there are a number of 2 for 1 and other H&B offers online at the moment (including for nuts, not 2 for 1 for nuts though) plus an additional 22% off if you use the H&B  app and spend over £40.

Some of the offers are available without the app.

You can pick up in Lordship Lane which is easier than waiting in for a delivery. 

No idea if the offers are also available in store, but you wouldn't get the extra 22% discount then.

Only on till midnight tonight, sorry, I have only just seen the offer,  because I was looking for nuts.

Oh,  and I did buy some things from Health Matters earlier today!

Edited Thursday at 19:08 by Sue

[Nigello]

I went to get psyllium husk (which I pronounced very clearly and even pointed to my stomach, reflexively) but was taken by the assistant - whose face showed puzzlement for a few seconds - to the selenium section..! When I said it was not what I was looking for I had to explain what it’s used for and was then pointed to their product which was in tablet form - not what I was after. I’m much keener on places that know what’s what but at least I gave it a go…

Edited Friday at 11:53 by Nigello

[Jenijenjen]

Contrasts with my experience at Health Matters last week  who took me straight to it with 3 different versions 

Edited Friday at 12:02 by Jenijenjen

[Sue]

What I couldn't understand was on the day H&B  opened (or at least the Saturday after it) they had two people standing outside with trays of something round their necks, as if they were selling ice cream at the interval in a 1950s cinema.

These things appeared to be free samples of something (can't remember what. Magnesium tablets? From the labels on the little jars?) 

There was nothing to say they were free, nothing to say what they might be useful for, and no apparent attempt to engage passers by, or even to hand them out to passers by. 

What was the point?! It had the opposite effect on me, as they looked so bored and fed up 

We did have a wander round the shop, but the only thing they had which I might have bought ( a particular kind of milled seed which Health Matters don't stock)   I can get cheaper in Waitrose !!!

ETA: I only buy their nuts when they are on offer (and freeze them) 🤣

Edited Friday at 12:29 by Sue

[granadaland]

What used to be on the H&B plot?

my minds gone blank.

[Jenijenjen]

I think it was an estate agent, can't remember which, in my mind they all merge into each other

[claresy]

Those samples on trays weren't free.  I assumed they were and asked!

[EDlives]

The Health Matters staff are anti vax and once told someone in the shop to take some supplements instead of vaccinating their child!! I will be shopping in h&b. 

[Sue]

4 hours ago, claresy said:

Those samples on trays weren't free.  I assumed they were and asked!

Really?!

No wonder they still had so many left when we passed!

What were they? How much did they want for them?!

That seems an extremely strange way of enticing people into a new shop! 

[claresy]

I can't remember how much or what they were  - some sort of supplement or vitamin. They were a special offer but definitely not free.