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Dear David, thank you for acknowledging the soon-to-be Wellness Warehouse. You are absolutely right; shoppers are going to be delighted with our innovative concept. For those of us who care about the environment, care about people (and ourselves for that matter) we now have the choice to shop consciously without being inconvenienced. Choice is the key word with our comprehensive wellness offering. With most items purchased, we offer an eco-friendly and health conscious alternative – a real one stop shop for a wellness lifestyle. Convenience comes through having familiar products available as well as healthy alternatives. Our merchandising team is working around the clock to bring an entertaining shopping experience with an opportunity to learn and discover. After all, wellness is about looking after yourself, others and the environment. We have decided not to have any toxic household cleaners and have found options that really work. Even bleach has an oxygenated alternative to do the job. We also believe in information exchange and have wonderful signage and in-store prompts to point out better alternatives. Shoppers will find a good complement of organic products and well, everything really – from saunas, cotton bed linen, Chinese medicine to a juice smoothie. What’s more, our whole store experience is going to be inspirational with expert help and empathic assistance. Besides that, you can have an Indian head massage, hot stone therapy treatment or any one of our signature spa treatments at the same time. We believe in balance, health and taking time out for your spiritual and mental health by relaxation, meditation and pampering. As soon as we open I would like to invite you to have an organic, fair trade coffee experience with an organic sugar-free rolled oat and fig omega muffin with me so I can show you around. As we lean towards whole food and not holy food, we believe that a little of something bad is better than too much of something good – your choice. Not to boast or anything but we know people are going to be proud to show others they shop at Wellness Warehouse. Yours in Wellness.
The Wellness Warehouse Team.

I believe the Wellness Warehouse would do well to read this review:
http://kloofstreet.blogspot.com/2007/09/one-about-really-bad-service.html

i visited your store in Claremont yesterday, my first time in a Wellness Warehouse, and was horrified to see, at the entrance, an enormous display of Pampers disposable nappies on special offer. How can a store that professes to uphold environmental protection – as loudly proclaimed by your instore billboards – be so hypocritical as to sell a product that is one of the major causes of environmental destruction…..never was a product so inappropriately named!! You can’t flush or compost them, they fill up landfills – where they remain for up to 500 years. It’s a frightening fact that every “disposable” nappy that has ever been made is still sitting, intact, in a landfill somewhere. Is this the legacy that we want to pass on to our children?
Britain alone throws away 8 million nappies A DAY! That is 3 billion a year! They make up 4% of all the UK’s household rubbish – and 50% of all the rubbish in a one-baby family. Not only that, 5 million trees are felled every year just to keep UK babies in disposable nappies. So please tell me how you can justify stocking – and selling as a loss leader – such a disgracefully harmful product.

for your information disposable nappies use:

3.5 times more energy than cloth nappies
8 times more non-renewable resources
90 Times more renewable resources
60 times more solid waste than washable nappies
On top of that the raw sewage that leaks from the disposable nappies in landfill sites can contain potentially harmful viruses and may result in the contamination of groundwater and soil..

I intend to recommend to all my women friends who (regrettably) use disposable nappies that they deposit the used items in your in store recycling bins, so that you can dispose of them in an environmentally acceptable manner.