Best place to buy supplements?

RandJ6280

I'm looing at getting some supplements, but wondering where the best place to buy them would be. Where do you buy yours?
GNC (with their new Rewards program)
Vitamin Shoppe
Bodybuilding.com

Let me know, and thank-you in advance

carsonelder_1

I think that depends on where you are - but in my experience, I always shop local. We have a small chain of local stores here in Columbus called Supzilla. Their bulk protein comes in around $12/lb and they've never tried to sell me some product unrelated to my inquiries/shopping trip. I'd search Google for local Supp. shops.

cgvet37

I buy my protein from Sam's Club. Creatine is cheap, so wherever. I buy my Amino's from Amazon, as it's the cheapest with free two day shipping.

ccruz985

Andrew Lessman's vitamins and supplements are great, procapslabs.com

Leadfoot_Lewis

I get most of mine from Bodybuilding.com. If they have good sales I'll go to the Vitamin Shoppe. GNC is overpriced and pretty much sucks.

sardelsa

I get mine at the grocery store/Walmart.. hehe.. but it's just whey, some protein bars, and vitamins

lorrpb

Best in what way?

VegasFit

Walmart and Nutrishop for creatine and glutamine and bars. Other than that Vitacost Vegas Discount Nutrition, and obviously based on my profile pic, Max Muscle but I like their protein and I have a hook up. I never go to GNC even with their new reward structure. I recently found myself at Vitamin World because I had an offer from an expo. In turn they got my email but they send out some decent coupons. If I just want Amino Energy for example their $10 off coupons makes it about $10.

rollerjog

you can get really good deals on ebay no sales tax and free shipping

Strawblackcat

Work, because I get them 30% off there.

RandJ6280

lorrpb wrote: »

Best in what way?

Looking at price, value and quality of the product and company

RandJ6280

Strawblackcat wrote: »

Work, because I get them 30% off there.

lol, and where do you work?

Broomie4

Another vote for Andrew Lessmans Procap Labs. You can get them on sale on HSN quite often. VERY high quality!

H_Ock12

Vitamin Shoppe and Amazon.

UK92

Myprotein because of their frequent discounts.

stanmann571

MotherOfSharpei wrote: »

Vitamin Shoppe and Amazon.

Plus 1. best prices, and brand selection/variety

hesn92

Amazon

Strawblackcat

RandJ6280 wrote: »

Strawblackcat wrote: »

Work, because I get them 30% off there.

lol, and where do you work?

I work at a locally-owned health-food-type store. One of the major perks is getting discounts on everything and being showered with generous gifts from adoring supplement sales reps.

bweath2

Allstarhealth.com
Usually the Bodystrong brand. Pretty inexpensive.

DancingMoosie

I usually order from Vitacost online. They have good prices on PEScience and some of their own brand of supplements/vitamins go on sale for BOGO 50% quite often. They also sell Quest, but it is still expensive.

RandJ6280

DancingMoosie wrote: »

I usually order from Vitacost online. They have good prices on PEScience and some of their own brand of supplements/vitamins go on sale for BOGO 50% quite often. They also sell Quest, but it is still expensive.

thanks for the advice.

JeromeBarry1

I get MRM vegan protein from amazon. It's no big deal to me but they do all kinds of virtue signalling on their website, so if that's your thing you can play along.

CSARdiver

I don't see much of a verifiable difference in product quality - these are supplements after all and by strict regulatory definition are not required to show effectiveness.

I do a lot of price comparison and get the cheapest usually, but I also subscribe to the FDA alert registry and keep an eye out for firms that end up with compliance issues.

Lv2deadlift

Just my opinion and take it for what it's worth but supplements are a waste of money and a billion dollar industry that has brain washed our society into thinking you need all of that stuff. There is no magic pill or powder but you have to find out for yourself.

RandJ6280

What a wide array of responses... thank-you all.

Chieflrg

RandJ6280 wrote: »

lorrpb wrote: »

Best in what way?

Looking at price, value and quality of the product and company

Don't, it literally throwing away your money. Other than mono creatine, there is no reason to buy into the marketing of emptiness.

Lean59man

I don't use supplements other than a generic multi-vitamin.

You don't need them either.

Bigtime waste of money.

Need protein? Eat meat, peanut butter, eggs, rice and beans, nuts.

Don't believe all the hype and marketing designed to lighten your wallet.

xvolution

I usually get mine at the local grocery store since they often have some sort of sale on them (usually buy one get one but that usually means half price). I would avoid buying supplements at a pharmacy unless it's a hard to find supplement. They typically overinflate the prices.

sgt1372

If you need to buy them at all, buy them where you can get them cheapest.

riffraff2112

cosco, walmart are the cheapest. I generally only purchase protein powder, or bars so price is my only concern

Sp1tfire

GNC. Their natural protein powders are 20$ a tub where I am and I can't find a better price on powder with no artificial sweeteners.