GNC Employer Reviews

College job. Great pay for a part time gig. Used the money to pay way through school with minimal student loans.

Basic retail job. I am a people person so I loved working with customers

Worked with Staff and Customers and provided excellent customer service beyond customers expectations. Retail SalesPosition. Product knowledge a must and you work with customers and build repor

GNC is a great place to work. Meeting new people every day. Really had a great time working here!

A day in GNC would be learning about new products. Providing excellent customer service to customers that come in. Maintain the store maintaince.

Accurately trained and oriented new employees to our product line and monitored store productivity. Daily accounting procedures, deposit preparation, customer service. Merchandising including inventory, pricing, display, and store maintenance.

busy from beginning to end of shift, many details to be taken care of as a manager, payrolls, inventory control, deposits, solving any issues with POS registers or clients, managing special orders.

As a college student hoping to work in Sports Medicine, a job at GNC allows you time to be a college student while gaining knowledge of products that athletes use.

There is not much to do, but be on top of your sales goal. There are days where you can relax do homework/study or browse the internet without a worry. Customer flow is sporadic so you never know when you will be on your toes. There are times where store resets, shipments, or monthly product/price changes will break your back with work, but overall – more... it is peaceful work environment (except for when you encounter the crazy customers). You do need to study and research these products or atleast have a nutrition background if you want to succeed in this job. – less

A typical day at work would be stocking items and sometimes renovating the store up so it looks new

I learned a bunch on products that were sold and how to price items

Management was well put together..

I don't know about my co-workers because the whole time your alone on your shift

The hardest part of the job was learning every single item in the – more... store

The most enjoyable part of the job was learning every item and meeting new people.. – less

I learned alot about there supplies. My coworkers there were very nice to me, and some of us clicked really good.

Was in charge of a health store. learned alot about being a true leader

I learned plenty about vitamins and health while working in this company. I was taught how to convince customers to improve their health and lifestyle. I quickly learned how to do everything needed to become a manager.

Not a good place to work. Do not treat employees well and they have very poor benefits.

Typical Day Involves:

Product Rotation
Inventory Management
Relationship Selling
Completing Transactions

Learned:

Sales Strategies
Health/Lifestyle Maintenance

I helped customers find nutritional products to suoports there individual needs. I learned all about different vitamins, herbs, and nutritional supplements.

Has it's moments when business is slow, but there is always something to do. Management is very patient and supportive to those who work hard. Nice benefits available. Can be challenging at times, but overall an awesome and fun work environment.

I was a store manager for GNC, and they would always run a skeleton crew, so I had to work seven days a week for months without anytime off. They would make us fudge the records so that we wouldn't go over our 40-hours a week, which is highly illegal, and now there is a lawsuit against the company for those practices. Sometimes, they would give us what – more... was called "Chinese pay," which is not time-and-a-half but half-time pay. If you had to go over your 40 hours, they would pay you half of what you would normally get for an hourly wage. Managers get paid basically 9+ dollars an hour, but if you work more than 40 hours, then you would $4.50 an hour for Chinese pay, which again, is illegal. Welcome to the free market.

I was thrown into the store with one weeks of training and was expected to make a huge profit. Our store was so slow, getting about 20 customers a day would be a rush. We weren't allowed to do marketing or do any promotions ourselves, so we just had to sit back and wait for people to come into the store and then try to hit the poor suckers up with the KPI's. It was all about high-pressure sales techniques and getting the person to walk out the door with at lest a vitapak, a sports supplement and wellness supplement, even if the customer didn't have the need for it, it was still our job to make him/her believe that they couldn't live without it. Our SSM up the road was so good at selling people thing that they didn't want that they would return it at my store because they were afraid to go back to his store because he would make them feel guilty for returning them. We lost so much money on his returns, which of course came out of our store budget. He would get the credit, but we would get it taken out of our budget and our KPIs, which always reflected negatively on myself and my employees, when I did have one or two. – less

Bad company to work for. Overtime is necessary but they won't cover it, so you end up having to do it and not getting paid for it. Your job is constantly being criticized even when you're doing all you can. They threaten you with your job constantly. It's hard to get anyone to want to come in to work. Horrible compensation.

I particularly did not like there managerial style, as it was almost totally driven out of cupidity. I understand completely that corporations are in business to make money, but when it is greed driven, instead of need given, you put the underlings in a awkward position. For example, when you can purchase the same product all day long at one of the – more... larger franchise chains for a cheaper price, yet you want your employees to try to sell the same item for twenty to thirty dollars over that price, then it puts an undue strain on an employee to knowingly, sell that item. On the positive side, the very nature of the business fostered a sense of wellness. A typical day would include, assisting the public with health issues utilizing any of various organic compounds that are needed in small amounts for normal growth and activity of the body. I enjoyed engaging people, and learning how the use of vitamins and herbs can help you sustain a healthy life. – less