Vitamin World reviews

3.0

44% would recommend to a friend

(352 total reviews)

Frank Conley

32% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Vitamin World has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 352 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Vitamin World 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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352 reviews
2.0
Mar 31, 2014

The Pros and Mostly Cons of Corporate

Anonymous employee
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Pros

You end up learning quite a bit about nutritional supplements and wellness. However, most of the learning is self-directed.

Cons

Upper management could really care less about you and you are not rewarded for good ideas. Bonuses are tricky to get because if the store doesn't make plan for the month, you don't get paid your bonus. (Even if you, personally, have stellar numbers.) There is no incentive in a poorly performing store. There is high pressure to be an aggressive salesperson and you have to speak from a script. Pay is dismal. People get fired at the drop of a hat. If someone at the company wants you gone, they'll find any little thing to make sure you go.

3.0
Feb 10, 2014

District Manager

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great medical,Healthy company.Good training programs.Don't overwork associates.Customer focused company.

Cons

Don't pay very hard to keep top talent.High turnover with staff.To much discounting hurts associates pay.No sence of urgency for cuastomers to buy today.Store is always on sale.

1.0
Jan 14, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Employees, and coworkers are all on the same team against the stuipidity of upper management. Steep discount Some customers you can build friendships with. As a manager you set your own schedule. As an employee you can get a very flexible schedule, depending on your manager.

Cons

Nights and weekends are the majority of your shifts. Upper management has impossibly high standards, they dart around for the best possible sale to make them money, going so far as canceling a sale after 1 day because they were losing money on it. All they care about is getting the customer to spend 300 dollars. Any values they say they have is a lie driven by money. It's an atmosphere of "you're a constant failure and you have to keep getting better even though you'll still be a failure when you get better." Manager's get incredibly poor pay even though they drive 80% of the business and keep up with 100% of the work. After reaching Store Manager title there is essentially 0 opportunity for going anywhere else. Dead end job. The only reason cultures and values isn't a 1 star is because the team working with customers in the store genuinely care about helping the customers and generally(I only worked in 3 stores, I don't know everyone's motives) will not mislead you or misguide you in making a decision. All in all, this place will suck you dry of any ambitions and motivations and leave you hating going to work and hating dealing with customers and upper management.

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