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 them off?  These were among the questions tackled in the latest in our Mastermind Forum discussions*. Session host Cheryl Thallon (owner of Sheaf Street Health Store) had prepared a punchy […]

‘Let’s put health stores at the heart of the social prescribing conversation’

“I think there’s a fantastic opportunity to put health food stores at the heart of the social prescribing conversation” says the health food retailer and brand-owner Cheryl Thallon.  The founder of Viridian Nutrition, and a long-standing committee member of Health Stores UK, has just returned from the 2024 edition of the International Social Prescribing Conference in London.  Cheryl […]

Tell us why YOU are a passionate member of Health Stores UK

This month we are launching a new series of videos aimed at encouraging more retailers to join Health Stores UK. With more members we can increase our impact in the industry and among policymakers. Additional income means that we can do even more to provide a strong, collective voice for independent natural products retailers. The […]

Health Store Mastermind Forum creates ‘safe space’ for retailers to talk shop 

The first in a new series of Health Store Mastermind Forums took place earlier this month, generating a lively, interactive discussion on a range of topical retailing issues.  Around 30 retailers took part in the first of the informal ‘drop in’ Zoom sessions, co-hosted by Health Stores UK and Cheryl Thallon, owner of Viridian Nutrition […]