U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 4 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 [_] Check box if no longer subject of Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b). ________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* Murray Stephen P. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Last) (First) (Middle) c/o J.P. Morgan Partners, LLC 1221 Avenue of the Americas-40th Floor -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Street) New York New York 10020 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (City) (State) (Zip) ________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol Vitamin Shoppe.com ("VSHP") ________________________________________________________________________________ 3. IRS Identification Number of Reporting Person, if an Entity (Voluntary) ________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Statement for Month/Year January 2001 ________________________________________________________________________________ 5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Year) ================================================================================ 6. Relationship of Reporting Person to Issuer (Check all applicable) [X] Director [_] 10% Owner [_] Officer (give title below) [_] Other (specify below) ________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check applicable line) [X] Form filed by one Reporting Person [_ Form filed by more than one Reporting Person ________________________________________________________________________________ ================================================================================ Table I -- Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned ================================================================================

~~FORM~~6. 4. ~~OMB~~5. ~~APPROVAL~~ Owner-~~-------------------~~ Securities Acquired (A) or Amount of ship 3. Disposed of (D) Securities Form: 7. Transaction (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) Beneficially Direct Nature of 2. Code ------------------------------- [Owned ]at ~~Check~~End ~~this~~(D) ~~box~~or ifIndirect ~~no longer subject to Section OMB Number: 3235-0287 16~~1. ~~Form~~Transaction ~~4 or Form 5 obligations may Expires: December 31, 2001 continue~~(Instr. ~~See~~8) ~~Instruction 1~~(bA). ~~Estimated~~of ~~average~~Month ~~burden~~Indirect ~~hours~~Beneficial ~~per~~Title ~~response~~of ~~0.5~~Security ~~UNITED~~Date ~~STATES~~------------ ~~SECURITIES~~Amount ~~AND~~or ~~EXCHANGE~~Price ~~COMMISSION Washington, D~~(Instr.C. ~~20549~~3 ~~STATEMENT~~(I) OFOwnership ~~CHANGES~~(Instr. IN3) ~~BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16~~(amm/dd/yy) ofCode ~~the~~V ~~Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17~~(aD) ofand ~~the~~4) ~~Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30~~(fInstr.4) of(Instr. ~~the~~4) ~~Investment Company Act of 1940~~ ----------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------- 1.By ~~Name~~Vitamin ~~and~~Shoppe ~~Address~~Class ofA ~~Reporting~~Investors, ~~Person* 2~~Inc. ~~Issuer~~Common ~~Name~~Stock ~~and~~N/A ~~Ticker~~N/A orN/A ~~Trading~~N/A ~~Symbol 6. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) S.~~N/A~~.C.~~ ~~Capital Management~~12, ~~LLC VitaminShoppe.com~~507,751 ~~Inc.~~I (~~VSHP~~FN 1) ----------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~~(Last)~~Class ~~(First)~~A ~~(Middle)~~Common 3.Stock ~~IRS~~N/A orN/A ~~Social~~N/A 4.N/A ~~Statement~~N/A ~~for~~573,749 [I ]By ~~Director~~FdG ~~[X]~~Capital ~~10%~~Partners, ~~Owner~~LLC ~~Security~~and ~~Number~~FdG-Chase ~~Month/Year~~Capital [Partners, ]LLC ~~Officer~~ (~~give~~FN ~~[ ] Other (specify of Reporting title below~~2) ~~below) Person July 2000 777 Long Ridge Road (Voluntary)~~ ----------------------------------------- ------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------ ~~(Street)~~Class 5.A IfCommon ~~Amendment,~~Stock ~~Date~~N/A ofN/A 7.N/A ~~Individual or Joint~~N/~~Group~~A ~~Filing Original (Month~~N/~~Year)~~A ~~(Check~~651,606 ~~Applicable~~I ~~Line)~~By [J.P. ]Morgan ~~Form~~Partners ~~filed~~(23A bySBIC), ~~One~~LLC ~~Reporting~~(FN ~~Person~~3) ~~[X]~~------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ~~Form~~------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ~~filed~~------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ by------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ~~More~~------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ~~than One Reporting Stamford CT 06902 Person~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ~~(City) (State) (Zip)~~====================================================================================================================================

* If the Form is filed by more than one Reporting Person, see Instruction 4(b)(v). Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly. (Print or Type Responses) (Over) (Form 4-07/99) FORM 4 (continued) Table II -- Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities) ================================================================================

10. 9. Owner- Number ship of Form 2. Deriv- of Conver- 5. 7. ative Deriv- 11. sion Number of Title and Amount Secur- ative Nature or Derivative 6. of Underlying 8. ities Secur- of Exer- 4. Securities Date Securities Price Bene- ity: In- cise 3. Trans- Acquired (A) Exercisable and (Instr. 3 and 4) of ficially Direct direct Price Trans- action or Disposed Expiration Date ---------------- Deriv- Owned (D) or Bene- 1. of action Code of(D) (Month/Day/Year) Amount ative at End In- ficial Title of Deriv- Date (Instr. (Instr. 3, ---------------- or Secur- of direct Owner- Derivative ative (Month/ 8) 4 and 5) Date Expira- Number ity Month (I) ship Security Secur- Day/ ------ ------------ Exer- tion of (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. 3) ity Year) Code V (A) (D) cisable Date Title Shares 5) 4) 4) 4) -------------------------------------------------------------- ~~Table I~~ - ~~Non~~-~~Derivative~~-------------------------------------------------------------------- ~~Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ~~1. Title of Security (Instr. 3) 2. Trans~~- ~~3. Trans~~- ~~4. Securities Acquired (A) 5. Amount of 6. Owner~~- ~~7. Nature action action or Disposed of (D) Securities ship of In~~- ~~Date Code (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) Beneficially Form: direct (Instr. 8) Owned at Direct Bene~~- ~~(Month/ End of (D) or ficial Day/ Month Indirect Owner~~- ~~Year) (Instr. 3 (I) ship and 4) (Instr. 4) (Instr. 4)~~ ------------ --------------------------- ~~Code V Amount (A) or (D) Price~~ --------------------------------- ------------- ------ --- ------ ---------- ---------------- ----------------- ------------ ------------ ~~Class A Common Stock, par value 9/8/00 P 5,000 A $1.31 928,375 I See attached $0.01 per share page 3~~ --------------------------------- ------------- ------ --- ------ ---------- -------------------- ----------------- ------------ ------------ --------------------------------- ------------- ------ --- ------ ---------- -------------------- ----------------- ------------ ------------ --------------------------------- ------------- ------ --- ------ ---------- -------------------- ----------------- ------------ ------------ --------------------------------- ------------- ------ --- ------ ---------- -------------------- ----------------- ------------ ------------ --------------------------------- ------------- ------ --- ------ ---------- -------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ~~Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly. (Over) SEC 1474 (3~~-~~99)~~----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see Instruction 4(b)(v).====================================================================================================================================

Explanation of Responses: (1) The reporting person, a director of Vitamin Shoppe Industries, Inc. ("VSI"), may be deemed to share voting power with respect to the securities owned by VSI. (2) The owners of record of these securities and VS Investors, LLC, the majority shareholder of VSI, are under common control and accordingly, may also be deemed to share voting power with respect to shares owned by VSI. The reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership of these shares to the extent they exceed his pecuniary interest in FdG-Chase Capital Partners, LLC and FdG Capital Partners LLC. (3) The amounts shown represent the beneficial ownership of the Issuer's equity securities by J.P. Morgan Partners (23A SBIC), LLC ("JPM 23A SBIC"), formerly known as CB Capital Investors, LLC. As a result of internal reorganizations and name changes effective during the first week of January 2001, the reporting person became a managing director of JPM 23A SBIC and a limited partner of JPMP Master Fund Manager, L.P., formerly Chase Capital Partners ("MF Manager"), the sole non-managing member of JPM 23A SBIC. The internal reorganizations and name changes did not alter the proportionate interests of the limited partners of such partnership or of the ultimate security holders of the renamed entities. The actual pro rata portion of such beneficial ownership that may be deemed attributable to the reporting person is not readily determinable because it is subject to several variables, including the internal rate of return and vesting of interests within MF Manager and JPM 23A SBIC. The reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership of these shares to the extent it exceeds his pecuniary interest therein. /s/ Stephen P. Murray 2/08/01 --------------------------------------------- ----------------------- Stephen P. Murray Date ** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a). Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. If space provided is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure.

FORM 4 (continued) Table II -- Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Title of 2. Conver- 3.Trans- 4. Transac- 5. Number of 6. Date Exer- 7. Title and Amount of Derivative sion or action tion Code Derivative cisable and Underlying Securities Security Exercise Date (Instr. 8) Securities Expiration (Instr. 3 and 4) (Instr. 3) Price of (Month/ Acquired (A) Date (Month/ Derivative Day/ or Disposed Day/Year) Security Year) of (D) (Instr.3, 4, and 5) Code V (A) (D) Date Expira- Amount or Exer- tion Title Number of cisable Date Shares --------------------- -------------- ---------- ------ ------ ------ --------- -------- --------- ----------- ------------- --------------------- -------------- ---------- ------ ------ ------ --------- -------- --------- ----------- ------------- --------------------- -------------- ---------- ------ ------ ------ --------- -------- --------- ----------- ------------- --------------------- -------------- ---------- ------ ------ ------ --------- -------- --------- ----------- ------------- --------------------- -------------- ---------- ------ ------ ------ --------- -------- --------- ----------- ------------- --------------------- -------------- ---------- ------ ------ ------ --------- -------- --------- ----------- ------------- --------------------- -------------- ---------- ------ ------ ------ --------- -------- --------- ----------- ------------- --------------------- -------------- ---------- ------ ------ ------ --------- -------- --------- ----------- ------------- --------------------- -------------- ---------- ------ ------ ------ --------- -------- --------- ----------- ------------- --------------------- -------------- ---------- ------ ------ ------ --------- -------- --------- ----------- ------------- --------------------- -------------- ---------- ------ ------ ------ --------- -------- --------- ----------- ------------- --------------------- -------------- ---------- ------ ------ ------ --------- -------- --------- ----------- ------------- --------------------- -------------- ---------- ------ ------ ------ --------- -------- --------- ----------- -------------

[CONTINUATION OF THE ABOVE CHART] -------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. Title of 9. Number 10. Owner- 11. Nature Derivative of Deriv- ship of In- Security ative Form direct (Instr. 3) Secur- of De- Bene- ities rivative ficial Bene- Secu- Owner- ficially rity: ship Owned Direct (Instr. 4) at (D) or End Indi- of rect (I) Month (Instr. 4) (Instr. 4) --------------- --------------- ---------------- ------------------- --------------- --------------- ---------------- ------------------- --------------- --------------- ---------------- ------------------- --------------- --------------- ---------------- ------------------- --------------- --------------- ---------------- ------------------- --------------- --------------- ---------------- ------------------- --------------- --------------- ---------------- ------------------- --------------- --------------- ---------------- ------------------- --------------- --------------- ---------------- ------------------- --------------- --------------- ---------------- ------------------- --------------- --------------- ---------------- ------------------- --------------- --------------- ---------------- ------------------- --------------- --------------- ---------------- ------------------- Explanation of Responses: ** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a). Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. Page 2 If space is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure. SEC 1474 (3-99) Potential persons who are to respond to the collection of information contained in this form are not required to respond unless the form displays a currently valid OMB number.

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