Organica Vitamins & Health Food Store

Terrible customer service. And you cannot return anything. All sales are final — receipt or not. Prices are significantly higher than their competitors. Fruitful Yield is a much better choice!

This business closed in March 2014.
I used to go their occasionally for gluten free food. Other posters were correct that vitamins are cheaper elsewhere. And their cooler lights were often not working.

Went here while doing gluten-​free recon (not for me, for someone close to me). They have lots of vitamins and natural products, but most of the GF stuff they have is all the pre-​made stuff. That’s nice for some people, I know… but not really for us, since I tend to make almost everything and shop more for ingredients than for premade stuff, you know? So there’s a ton of Udi’s Gluten Free stuff, a few GF pastas, and various other items… but not a lot of other stuff. Premade Thai Kitchen and other similar noodles, but no GF soy sauce.
There are some GF flours and GF all-​purpose flour blends, but not a big selection. Your choices are mostly Namaste or Bob’s Red Mill products. Loads of mixes for GF breads/​cookies/​cakes, too.
So, you know, good for some things… but not really for you if you’re more interested in making food than buying premade food (or mixes).

This place is a massive scam. I went in to buy a probiotic that I had originally gotten at Fruitful Yields. I was out, so I decided to try Organica, since it was so close to my house. Organica charged a full $ 20 more than Fruitful Yields for the exact same product… same brand, quantity, etc. I went back about 10 minutes after I purchased it, wanting to return it (all the wrapping was still on, and it was still cold from being in their refrigerator from moments before). The old man behind the counter was extremely unfriendly, and could care less that a competitor was selling the same product for a significantly cheaper price. He would only offer me store credit, as he insisted the policy was no refunds. He wouldn’t even entertain the thought of at least matching the price. Extremely unfriendly staff (that is an understatement), gauging of prices, and the store is a dump. If the people who wrote previous reviews did some research and compared what they paid at Organica, vs. what other store are charging, the reviews would likely not be as great. I didn’t even want to give this place one star, but I had to in order to post this review. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY AT THIS PLACE.
UPDATE: I noticed someone from Organica responded to my review. She claimed they match other business’s prices. I actually specifically asked the extremely rude person behind the counter if they would match the price that Fruitful Yields was quoting me, and he let me know that this business does not do price matching. And anyone who compares Organica’s prices to those online or at other stores will clearly see these prices are MUCH higher. And I refused the store credit because I do not want to ever step foot into a place with such atrocious customer service.

While I wasn’t immediately in love with the store, I would have no problem wasting away an hour or so vitamin and supplement shopping amongst a menagerie of other natural products.
I found what I’d come in for only a few steps in, but ended up putting the items back on the shelf after a quick Amazon search turned up with prices 20% cheaper than listed in store. I felt guilty putting the stuff back, being a small business and all, but I didn’t NEED the items right away and for the significant enough difference, I just couldn’t justify it.
I was interested in many of the items they had in the frozen goods section but their coolers had not lights on, making it extremely difficult to see and I wasn’t about to open every freezer door and stand there doing a mental inventory while all the cold escaped. Their selection of gluten-​free items seemed quite large, and they had an interesting array of vegetarian and vegan items as well.
There was no shortage of peanut butter selection, teas and vitamins. They had vitamins for everything from your basic pre-​natal to children’s vegetarian multi-​vitamins to women’s libido vitamins with a description reading «get ready for a pleasure overdose». Unfortunately, I’d already filled my basket with stuff, but maybe next time. I didn’t get the price on it, but can you really put a price on limitless pleasure? I think not.
I ended up getting a Moroccan clay face mask that for the quantity was a steal — I tried it out tonight and really refreshing. And also four bottles of Mama Chia brand chia drink that were labeled as being on clearance for 99 cents, but rang up as $ 3.79. I had to tell the register girl that they were actually supposed to be a different price and direct her to the sales note, which isn’t a big deal, but still annoying that had I not been paying attention I would have ended up spending nearly 4-​times as much per item… and to top it off, I saw after we’d already left the store that the reason they were on clearance is because the ‘Best by’ date had passed about 3-​weeks ago. Luckily, I’m not one for following those dates too closely so I drank it anyway. Haven’t died yet so it’s probably fine, but still seems like for it being so far beyond the ‘best by’ date, that there’d be some other note mentioning that, and not just a little pink sign saying ‘Sale — 99 cents). I guess I could see if this was just some gas station, but that it’s a health-​conscious specialty store I kind of expected a little bit better quality assurance on the freshness aspect.
I’d go back, but it’s the kind of thing where I’d keep the Amazon app handy for price checking.

Great selection of all natural remedies for everything from pink eye to immunity boosters for kids. I absolutely LOVE this place. Their food selection is not bad either.

Only been here once, but thats because its quite far from my hood. But its close to my parents, and since I was there this weekend, and was running errands, I stopped in when I saw it.
I’m glad I did, because, truthfully, I had $ 25 to burn (AMEX was running a promo today where they would give their cardmembers’ $ 25 if they used AMEX at any small business and as a plug (and I don’t work for AMEX), you should consider it, their customer service has no equal, its actually a pleasure dealing with people who don’t treat like you a child causing trouble).
I couldn’t stay too long, since they were closing within 5 minutes of me getting there (they do need to put hours on the outside). I got some granola, oils, sugar and some ginger beer. All the prices were pretty comparable to Whole Foods (and some were cheaper), but would rather come here (If I lived out here) since its smaller and easy to navigate (plus the people at counter were nice).
I would definitely come back when I’m at my parents. Be aware, this is my personal view, but they definitely need to make the ambiance much more pleasant. Its gives of a feeling of spartan, but none of the apple-​esque simplicity. It has bright white lights, but lower ceilings… and a warmer light would help the place be more inviting to linger and buy more stuff. Honestly, it reminded me of a laudromat, and if it was a restaruant, I would know it down a star or two. But for what this place is, a natural foods provision store, the ambiance really doesn’t matter a whole lot to me shopping (though the owner should care… longer people stay, longer they feel comfortable, the more they will spend and more the place will look busy to get more people in).