I'm saying I worked at GNC at the time he's referring to and the pay structure was an hourly wage plus "promotional money" for selling the house brands which were Challenge and Pro Performance. There was no monetary incentive to sell Cybergenics, the incentive was to switch customers onto GNC's brands which in that case was the Pro Performance bodybuilding kit, a Cybergenics knock off. Not saying he's lying. Possibly mistaken?
Ok, I worked for a privately owned franchise in Ohio when I was a grad student.
After 90 days , I got paid an hourly wage plus the store owner gave me 5% for EVERY thing I sold.
I saw the actual wholesale prices and the GNC brand had much better profit margins.
Corporate owned franchises may have had a slightly different policy?