Best place to buy supplements?

RandJ6280
RandJ6280 Posts: 1,161 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
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
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  • carsonelder_1
    carsonelder_1 Posts: 2 Member
    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
    cgvet37 Posts: 1,189 Member
    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
    ccruz985 Posts: 646 Member
    Andrew Lessman's vitamins and supplements are great, procapslabs.com
  • Leadfoot_Lewis
    Leadfoot_Lewis Posts: 1,623 Member
    edited September 2017
    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
    sardelsa Posts: 9,812 Member
    I get mine at the grocery store/Walmart.. hehe.. but it's just whey, some protein bars, and vitamins
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    Best in what way?
  • VegasFit
    VegasFit Posts: 1,232 Member
    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
    rollerjog Posts: 154 Member
    you can get really good deals on ebay no sales tax and free shipping
  • Strawblackcat
    Strawblackcat Posts: 944 Member
    Work, because I get them 30% off there. :)
  • RandJ6280
    RandJ6280 Posts: 1,161 Member
    lorrpb wrote: »
    Best in what way?

    Looking at price, value and quality of the product and company
  • RandJ6280
    RandJ6280 Posts: 1,161 Member
    Strawblackcat wrote: »
    Work, because I get them 30% off there. :)

    lol, and where do you work?
  • Broomie4
    Broomie4 Posts: 2 Member
    Another vote for Andrew Lessmans Procap Labs. You can get them on sale on HSN quite often. VERY high quality!
  • H_Ock12
    H_Ock12 Posts: 1,152 Member
    Vitamin Shoppe and Amazon.
  • UK92
    UK92 Posts: 53 Member
    Myprotein because of their frequent discounts.
  • stanmann571
    stanmann571 Posts: 5,727 Member
    MotherOfSharpei wrote: »
    Vitamin Shoppe and Amazon.

    Plus 1. best prices, and brand selection/variety
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    Amazon
  • Strawblackcat
    Strawblackcat Posts: 944 Member

    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
    bweath2 Posts: 147 Member
    Allstarhealth.com
    Usually the Bodystrong brand. Pretty inexpensive.
  • DancingMoosie
    DancingMoosie Posts: 8,619 Member
    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
    RandJ6280 Posts: 1,161 Member
    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
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    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
    CSARdiver Posts: 6,252 Member
    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.
  • RandJ6280
    RandJ6280 Posts: 1,161 Member
    What a wide array of responses... thank-you all.
  • Chieflrg
    Chieflrg Posts: 9,097 Member
    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
    Lean59man Posts: 714 Member
    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
    xvolution Posts: 721 Member
    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
    sgt1372 Posts: 3,997 Member
    If you need to buy them at all, buy them where you can get them cheapest.
  • riffraff2112
    riffraff2112 Posts: 1,756 Member
    cosco, walmart are the cheapest. I generally only purchase protein powder, or bars so price is my only concern
  • Sp1tfire
    Sp1tfire Posts: 1,120 Member
    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.

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