Money comes first, employees come last. - Sales Associate GNC Employee Review

1.0
Mar 11, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Work is physically easy. Store manager was incredibly understanding of my personal issues and easy to talk to.I'm sure he is the only manager like this in this company.

Cons

Seeing as GNC is only about making a profit and nothing else. They tend to hire the most minimal amount of employees they can for each store and only have one employee work at a time. Since, every employee has a life and responsibilities outside of the store be granted time off or being able to get another employee to cover for you in case an emergency is pretty hard to do if at all. Plus, pay is good seeing as how you comfortable putting your job up for risk because the biggest part of your job is selling certain GNC products but you don't get commission on them instead you paid more to sell third party products that count against your sells and make your numbers low. Not to mention the constant threats of being written up or losing your job that come whether or not your doing well at your job, how very motivational. Not to mention the fact that they establish how good you are at sells by the percentage of number of customer to the number of specific products being sold.. Which, means that if you have people coming in to get and energy drink and there's nothing you can do convince to buy something you have got to sell because you can't change anybody's caffeine addiction. Well...your screwed.

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5.0
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Pros

super free not much sales pressure

Cons

Super slow at times Not much customers

4.0
Jul 18, 2026
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Pros

The job provides excellent exposure to a structured sales plan for someone new to sales. The store gets plenty of foot traffic to create opportunities for customer engagement. The varriety of products to sell on is great as well. Pro Access is a great value for customers building a pre and post work out regiment or building a supplement routine.

Cons

You run the show. While there you are responsable for running the store.

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