The Vitamin Shoppe reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(1,958 total reviews)
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Sharon Leite

62% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

The Vitamin Shoppe has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,958 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The The Vitamin Shoppe employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.4 stars).

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2.0
Jun 15, 2009
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Pros

the vitamin shoppe is great if you're interested in supplements and nutrition and have the drive to actually know what you're talking about. you meet some great people and feel like you get to really know your customers! when you create a relationship where your customer trusts your opinions on supplements its a really cool feeling.

Cons

Senior management at the vitamin shoppe is a complete joke, if youre lucky enough to have a manager who is mildly interested in health and fitness it could be an alright place to work, BUT like others have said; they hire young people at minimum wage for a job requiring MASSIVE amounts of knowledge about specific health conditions and supplemental interactions. Management is pretty much told not to trust their employees and hardly ever help maintain the store or listen to ideas from part timers to improve efficiency. Not sympathetic to family/personal issues and time off requests challenged even when made in advance (two weeks prior). this job is often tedious because of expiring products and management does not help with these tasks nor make it easier by throwing away the inventory expiration charts THE EMPLOYEES are making.

1.0
May 28, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

I started this job because, I have a real passion for nutritional supplements. I enjoy helping people and really enjoy that part of this job. I have learned so much from from people who come into the store to shop.

Cons

The Vitamin Shoppe hires young people who they can pay minimum wage. They put them through an on line training coarse, that most of them cheat their way through. Even if they didn't cheat they still wouldn't know anything. Then they give them pins and call them experts. The advice I have heard given in these stores makes me cringe. I can't say that I am proud to work there. The new corporate people are some of the most miserable people I have ever met. They never have anything good to say just always complaining.

1.0
Apr 27, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Product discount. It used to be a great place to work but since Tom Tolworthy was pushed out by the Bear Stearns hirlings, things went downhill and fast.

Cons

Vitamin Shoppe upper management are not from nutrition-based industries. Many come from Barnes and Noble (Bear Stearns had owned both companies). Vitamin/nutritional supplements selling is very different to bookselling. The company went from strength when it was nutritional based to being just another accountant-run, bottom line focused store. The customers suffer as a result.

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