Routes to a Healthy Way
Health Stores Ireland launch new store finder and tour map and guide. Ireland has over 200 independent health foods stores that operate in almost every town centre and shopping mall in the country. Health Stores Ireland represents stores across the length and breadth of the country, from large national chains in big city locations to owner run stores in small towns and villages. They have decided to acknowledge their interconnectivity by producing a traditional touring map to highlight their network. Each store owner has made a recommendation of something alternative to see and do within...
Read MorePat Curran Award 🏆🏆
Joint Winners: Jill Bell, Well & Good in Midleton and Hannah Dare, Organico in Bantry. In Summer 2021, Eskimo-3 in collaboration with Rude Health Magazine, the official magazine of the Irish association of Health Stores, launched the annual “Pat Curran Award for Excellence in Customer Service.” We asked customers and readers to nominate an exceptional person working in an Independent Irish Health Store. The award is decided by national poll, voted by the readers of Rude Health Magazine, and this year there was a tie for first place. Rather than share the prize, we decided to double...
Read MoreHere we are still, all in this together! ❤️
All hoping to stay well like never before. As we head into winter we are all looking to keep healthy in a broader sense than most of us have ever considered before. We do know how important it is to be physically healthy, with a well functioning immune system. But also now, more than ever, we are aware of how we need to care for our mental and emotional health as we face into more months of living with Covid19. Within each of our member stores, found in almost every town across the country, there is a friendly face ready to give the best advice on how to stay well in the months. Our Health...
Read MoreOffering essential services in a time of crisis 😷
Health food stores carry essential food items like rice, pasta, cereals, milk, eggs, bread, vegetables, hygiene and cleaning products. Importantly, they are a source for special dietary products for allergy sufferers and people on restricted diets for long term illness reasons. Health Stores Ireland member stores are making important and sometimes difficult changes to their working practices to protect customers, staff, owners and the wider community. Depending on the size and nature of their stores, businesses are offering call & collect options, limiting access numbers to their shops...
Read MoreCustomer care during virus 💁♀️
Message to members health stores during virus: “Health Stores Ireland is now calling on all member stores to take action to ensure that 2m person to person advisory can be practised. This may involve closing your shop door and limiting the number of customers in your shop at any one time, putting up signage and placing guidance floor tape near checkouts and offering phone-in and click & collect services. Consider providing free delivery of goods to customer’s cars and homes. Many stores have already started taking these types of actions. It is vital that we, as a sector,...
Read MoreTaxing Food Supplements is Immoral
Health Stores Ireland, the organisation for which represents over 200 Irish Health Stores, has welcomed the timely interjection on the issue of VAT on food supplements by Professor John Nolan on Newstalks’ Pat Kenny Radio Show, which is aired today. Discussing the Minister for Finance’s intention to introduce 13.5% VAT on all Food Supplements, Professor Nolan explained the vital importance of the use of some Food Supplements in the reduction of sight loss for those suffering with Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) an eye condition which causes the gradual deterioration of vision...
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