Welcome to Health Stores UK
We provide a collective voice and strength to independent healthstores
Welcome to Health Stores UK
We provide a collective voice and strength to independent healthstores
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Upcoming Webinars –
Webinar Wednesday
September 25th – Planning for the Festive Season
October 30th – Mastermind Forum
November 27th Optimising Your Store for Impulse Buys
December – Christmas party webinar to be confirmed
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Join co-hosts Dave Christie (Take on Goliath) and Ruth Hawthorne (Natural Trade Brokers) for our next Shop Talk webinar – an enlightening session designed specifically to help health food store owners get the most out working with distributors.
Learn how to forge strong partnerships with distributors to enhance your store’s operations, expand your product range, and boost customer satisfaction. This session will provide actionable strategies for working effectively with distributors, ensuring your store thrives in the competitive health food market.
In this webinar, you will learn:
- Streamlining Communication: Tips for maintaining clear and consistent communication with your distributors to avoid misunderstandings and ensure timely deliveries.
- Collaborative Inventory Planning: Strategies for working with distributors to plan inventory effectively, ensuring you always have the right products in stock without over-ordering.
- Quality Assurance Coordination: How to collaborate with distributors to guarantee that you receive the highest quality products that meet your customers’ expectations.
- Leveraging Distributor Expertise: Ways to tap into your distributor’s market knowledge and insights to stay ahead of health trends and introduce new, in-demand products.
- Creating Win-Win Relationships: Building mutually beneficial relationships that encourage distributors to prioritize your store, offering you the best terms and exclusive deals.
Don’t miss this opportunity to discover how to maximize your store’s potential through strategic distributor partnerships. Register now and take the first step towards a more efficient and successful business.
Getting the most from distributors takes place on Zoom at 6pm on Wednesday 28 August.
For as little as £21 per month
Join us today.
Share your passion.
Be part of a unique community of like-minded independent retailers and get targeted business advice and help you won’t find anywhere else. All this and so much more!
Hear why our existing members urge you to join
"I think of the book as a love letter to the valiant army of health food store owners and their staff, and to those who want to join their ranks"
Cheryl Thallon
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Training & Courses
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Events
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Latest News
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‘Retailers and distributors working closer together is win-win for channel’
“When independent health food retailers and distributors work closely together there is a win-win for the whole of our wonderful channel”, said Dave Christie of
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Volunteer ‘human chain’ ensures speedy relocation for Cardiff retailer
A volunteer 70-strong human chain enabled a remarkably quick store relocation for Cardiff-based wholefood retailer and Health Stores UK member Iechyd Da, earlier this month.
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Press play: Watch our webinars at a time that suits you
Did you know that if you are a Health Stores UK member you can watch many of our popular webinar events at a time and
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Don’t pass me by: Encouraging shoppers to stop, look and enter your store
What does your store front say about you and your business? Is it attracting potential new customers, or could it – gasp! – be putting