GNC

I went to the store to check if they carried a product in store that was on the website (activated charcoal or charcoal tablets). I was responded to with hysterical laughter and a comment of how I was making up a product. My money gladly went to amazon and will continue to go to other competitors with that service alone.

Short and sweet. I believe it was an indian lady who helped me.
She had great Service, very attentive and did her best to explain many different products that could help me with my particular diet.
Will definitely return.

GNC as an organization is pretty great. For years I’ve been a «Gold Card Member» (can I sound any lamer?) lol.
Their website always has tons of specials and NORMALLY their staff is decently knowledgable… but sometimes (okay, most of the time) I can’t shrug off the feeling that when they don’t know something about a particular pill, they’ll make stuff up so it sounds good.
I don’t like a heavy sales approach, I worked for years in both competitive retail and B2B sales, I can see through a lackluster sales pitch the same way someone can see a fluffy kitten isn’t a lion.
Knowledge is power, kids — and this location is one out of 2 really not so great GNC locations I’ve ever been to… first thing they wanted to know was what part of Queens I lived in and if I was a Gold Card Member, this is despite me coming in with a product off their GNC website already open on my phone and asking them where it would be… surprise they didn’t have it and their price for a 90 tablet bottle was considerably more than it was online for a 120 tablet bottle. Screw that.
If you’re looking for over-​the-​counter meds and/​or vitamins head over to the Vitamin Shoppe across the street and a little down the block — you won’t regret it.

Sure, GNC has great deals, but it would really be fantastic if they actual had anything in stock.
The employees are less than enthusiastic and even worse weren’t very knowledgeable.
One employee told me to try the GNC down the street and I would have but I’m worried it would be even worse.

I like to charge in here wearing track pants, 200 $ neon sneakers and a tank top that shows off my sick bis and tris. I usually sprint full speed down a couple of the aisles to warm up a little, then I lift an entire shelf over my head and smash it into a million pieces to reach the protein powder on the other side. If they don’t have piña colada flavor (dee-​licious), I usually go into a roid rage and try to fight the creatine display. I swear to God I’ll kill that f*cking creatine if it looks at my girl again.
I’m a Gold Card member, so I get a sick deal on my Cellucor Super HD and Ripped Fuel even if I do bump the sales guy with my shoulder «accidentally» and then stare him down while screaming «come at me bro!» at the top of my lungs. I don’t give a f*ck.
This place is dope as sh*t. What are you looking at?! I’ll fight you right now bro!
Anyone else’s balls hurt?

They use a manipulative sales tactic to lure their clients in and then they blame the customer for not understanding their sales pitch. They are horrible sales people who don’t use the product and clearly don’t value their customer. Avoid Talida especially. I went to the Vitamin Shoppe down the street and got much better, HONEST service. It is sad when a company loses their integrity and just wants to abuse people who are looking for advice on how to be healthy. GNC should be ashamed.
The End.

Great service, I had been all over looking for some pills that I had seen on Dr. Oz and I can here in a last ditch effort to find these pills and low and behold they had them.

I love this particular GNC because there only seems to be one person who works there. And once you go in there one time, he remembers what you get and whether or not you’re a gold card member (in case you’re wondering, I am). If you’re not taking advantage of a deal they have going on, he makes it his business to tell you about them… come to think of it, maybe that store IS his business!
He makes a chain feel like a neighborhood store — and who doesn’t love a neighborhood store where everybody knows your… choice of protein powder.