GNC reviews

3.3

46% would recommend to a friend

(4,942 total reviews)

Michael Costello

53% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

GNC has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 4,942 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 and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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5K reviews
1.0
Jan 11, 2019

Commissions at the cost of health

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Pros

Interesting in learning the concepts and growth of the supplement industry. And the commission did help on top of the base pay.

Cons

Where to start.... Many employees are far uneducated and sometimes are individuals who shouldn't be giving health advice in the first place. The constant micromanagement of the up line is absolutely insane and would get in constant trouble for not promoting "GNC" brand and multi vitamin packs (which have far weaker ingredient list compared to other vitamin packs) and the fact that the commissions aren't on all supplements makes it unprompted to actually help with people's genuine health where salesman will focus on commission and not the genuine health of the customers. The commission's have also been slowly dropping over the years. And my last gear grinder is that they treat staff as a number. They are completely unwilling to look out for their employees in the slightest and expect us to promote GNC products without ever allowing us to sample and expect us to promote a mediocre product with no way to taste test their products or anything to reference off of unless we wasted our own money.

2.0
Feb 9, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

You enjoy working in a healthy living retail store. Sales associates can move up into manager positions and managers can move into regional. So it is a good starter job. The pay is not bad and you can earn extra money by selling Gold Cards and certain products. The discount is ok but not great. It is a good job for a sale associate. that does not mind mindless work. You can learn a lot if you read books at work and talking to people. If you can sell lot of product you can make ok money. Great job for someone young.

Cons

Employees are treated like they don't matter. Hours for store managers suck and managers always get stuck working hours that they are not paid for. They will pay you but you get in trouble when if you had no choice but to work. I think a lot depends on the regional managers. The main ideas is to push products and gold cards onto people. I hate how people that I worked with that had no idea what they were selling would push products on people just to meet sales goals and earn money. Employees dress professional and so people think they have training but they don't. ......but I don't think the pay is worth the job. If you are looking for experience in supplement business or retail management is a good place to begin. Most people don't stay very long. It is very boring most days and most people I know spent most of thier time hanging on the counters and talking on the phone.

3.0
Jan 3, 2020

Store Manager

Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits Good commission bonuses Good vacation hours

Cons

Promotions change too frequently Huge range of products Can spend long hours alone

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