GNC reviews

3.3

46% would recommend to a friend

(4,955 total reviews)

Michael Costello

51% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

GNC has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 4,955 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The GNC employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Mar 1, 2013

Just Lie to Meet Sales Goals

Recommend
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Pros

Employee discounts on products, but still more expensive than online.

Cons

Lots of Cons: Sales ratio encourage lying and selling worse (GNC) brand products. Here's how it works. You have to maintain a ratio of 50% to 75% premium products.. those premium products happen to be GNC brand (they are by no means premium). So for every third party brand item you sell you must sell one GNC brand item. This means you have to discourage people from buying something like optimum nutrition whey protein if your numbers are too low for the day. Why not sell them amplified Wheybolic extreme 60 (GNC's flagship product), anything GNC to meet numbers. Lie all you can to sell GNC brand over everything else. Tell them you take this product, its gonna make you slim or muscular. Discounts are silly and manipulative. They rotate between proteins and fitness supplements and the vitamins section but never actually give you a discount. Either they mark down the product and say X% off!! We are told to say today you can get this X% off. Or there is a buy one get one half off!! Except when that deal is running, GNC marks up all the products so that the price of the 2 products /2 to equal the price of the single product is no more than a $1 or $2 from the original 'discounted X% off deal'. Either way you are paying a steep mark up from online prices under the belief you are getting some sort of time dependent deal. Ratios are all they look at

1.0
Mar 1, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

You got a job and you get 30% off. If your located in a good store you can make money but you must learn not to tell people the full truth even if you know your stuff because you won`t make as much money.

Cons

They make millions, if not billions and there only going to pay you minimum wage. They`ll quickly fire anyone especially those who have been with them for years. They`ll transfer your as$ to another store when ever they see fit.

1.0
Nov 25, 2012

Store Manager

Recommend
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Pros

Nothing. They sucked they say to only work when punched in but yet want stuff done that is unable to complete in 40 hours....place is a joke.

Cons

Everything, I got two weeks of training. Basically what they train their sales associates. I didn't understand anything!

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