GNC

zero stars!!! you assholes fired my friend Maria and are now denying her unemployment because you saw her texting on her phone. ever wonder what she was texting about? ok i’ll tell you. no, she was not texting about going to get her nails done. no, she was not texting about going out with the girls to a club. she was texting her ex husband to see if he got the money so he could give their daughters school a money order for her senior trip. yes exactly… maria was on the phone checking to see if her daughters senior trip was paid for. just like gnc honchos they also have kids who have been through this about getting a prom ready, a senior trip etc. but GNC HAS NO HEART AND ARE A BUNCH OF SELFISH GREEDY BASTARDS WHO STILL FIGHT MY FRIEND FOR UNEMPLOYMENT. GNC YOU OUTTA BE ASHAMED OF YOUR SELF. I’m not longer buying any of your products. middle finger for you!!!

Waste of my time and patience.
I usually go in here and have fairly satisfying experiences.
But today I went in to get more probiotic on my way to an appointment, and the girl working there comes up to me and asks me what it is I need — only problem is, I was clearly eating a snack bar and could not answer her because I was very obviously chewing. But she just stands there and stares at me putting pressure on me to answer her right away. I finally have to cover my mouth and mumble uncomfortably that I’m there to get probiotics. She couldn’t wait one minute for me to enter the store and just ease into her trying to sell me stuff?
And then she has the nerve to on top of this say: «Excuse me, What was that? I didn’t hear you.» Well maybe if you hadn’t hounded me while I was chewing, I’d have been able to answer you clearly, you idiot.
SO I have to repeat myself as I quickly and awkwardly swallow my food in order to tell her what I’m looking for. I show her the probiotic and she says that the probiotic I’m interested in is part of a special today: Buy two and get the third one free. She asks me if I’d like to take advantage of this offer. I’m still swallowing my food and trying to clear my throat to talk to her, and I had to say: «I’m still chewing, can you give me a minute?»
It’s amazing that she didn’t pick up on all the signs at how uncomfortable her hounding was making me, and how rude it is to expect someone to talk to you while they have food in their mouth.
When I can finally speak, I ask her how much it would cost if I were to buy two with my gnc card and get the third free. She goes to the counter and after rummaging through the computer, papers, and finally, asking the guy working at the computer next to her, if the probiotic is actually on sale or not…(this takes a total of about 7 minutes of my time and I am running late for something), she finally tells me that she doesn’t know if that probiotic is part of the offer. I keep seeing her swiping the box and as she does so, the price of the product total keeps going up till it is finally over $ 117. Really? For one damn $ 35 probiotic box?! She’s asking the guy next to her for advice on how to clear the system, cause she’s clearly messing things up, and here I am having to endure her unbelievable level of incompetence as my time goes slipping away.
Wow, thanks for wasting seven minutes of my life!
Now keep in mind, I was running late somewhere, and was thoroughly annoyed at this point by her obnoxious behavior and incompetence, but I just needed to get this product and leave the store, so I decide to stick it out and get what I came for and leave.
I walk over to where the probiotics are and I see that it says «buy one get the second half off.»
I decide to do this and bring a second box over. I tell her I want to get the second half off and if she’s absolutely sure the third isn’t free, since I am after all, buying two now.
She says that the third is definitely not free. OK. (Totally opposite of what she told me when she started pitching to me at first, but ok).
I give her my gnc card. I get a dollar off.
I swipe my atm card to pay. She puts the probiotics in the bag and hands them to me. After another 3 or 4 minutes in which I am patiently waiting and wondering what the delay is, she says: «Oh, the card didn’t go through. There’s something wrong with our system. Can you pay cash?»
Who carries $ 60 of cash with them?
No, I tell her. I can’t pay cash.
Because I can see she’s incompetent and doesn’t know what the hell is going on at her job, I ask her if there’s a record of the transaction when I swiped my credit card (because now, as you can well imagine, I thoroughly do not trust her).
Both her and the guy at the computer next to her raise their voices at me and say:
«NO!!! IT DIDN’T GO THROUGH!»
I leave the bag of probiotics on the counter and leave.
This is the last time I’ll be shopping at this GNC.
Do yourself a favor and do not go here. The staff is incompetent, rude, and lack basic social etiquette. These people should be fired.

Every time I go into this store, the Indian manager tries to up sell me something. Its so annoying. Between pushing the GNC gold card and the up sell on products, don’t ever want to step foot in this place again.

This is my favorite GNC in all of Manhattan! I asked an employee named Ben for recommendations on a few different supplements. Not only was Ben helpful, but he gave me a link to his YouTube channel, where he offers plenty of advice on working out and eating clean. I really like it when I meet employees with an entrepreneurial spirit! If you’re looking for a great place to get advice and get bulked up (in a good way), I would suggest visiting this GNC during weekday afternoons when Ben is available.

I really wish it were possible to get actual answers about the product rather then just trying to get me to buy stuff or simply upsale. Its really obvious that pay is heavily based on commission. No cocern about the customer just sales.

Won’t let you exchange without a receipt. Every store nowadays let’s you do this, but not this store which is stuck in the old days.

On 9÷29÷2014, my son and I stopped at the 6^th Avenue GNC Chelsea store,
across from 6^th Avenue Trader Joe’s.
My son went in to buy the powdered
Muscle Milk that was advertised in GNC store window.
The store clerk, went and changed the price in the store window and replaced
it with a higher price, right in front of us.
He said that was the wrong price.
That is against the law in NYC to do that.
Commercial business, like GNC cannot have one price in their store window
and then change it, when the customer goes in to buy at the advertised price.
GNC did that.

Everyone’s very helpful and I always find what I need. Some products are overpriced but I always find coupons online on the gnc site and take them to the store.

GNC has the worst customer delivery in existence on the Internet. 10 days to ship a small box of vitamins to NYC? Really? Stupid, behind the times and overpriced.
Go to Vitamin World.

i would like to tell you a tale of the GNC smoothie bar … so there i was, hanging on the beach in miami with friends, when the temperature kept climbing … and climbing … trust me, it was hot. so what’s a girl to do? i know, get a smoothie — and not a little hotel one either, but a big, refreshing, comes-​in-​a-​huge-​styrofoam-​cup smoothie. i thought this would be an easy task, seeing as how we were in a city that is consistently hot and has people in need of refreshment. not so. my friend and i wandered for an hour, searching in vain for a smoothie shop. i was getting very grumpy and had ceased being able to communicate in full sentences — things looked grim. until out of the blue, my friend spotted a little sign that said GNC smoothie bar, and lamented that it was a shame that it wasn’t a ‘real’ smoothie shop. until we stopped, and looked at each other, and went in. i don’t need to describe what went on inside other than to say that i came out with 32 ounces of liquid heaven. i’m fairly certain the GNC smoothie bar saved my life that day, and in all probability my friendship as well.