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How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« on: March 20, 2015, 09:06:41 AM »
Today, I drove by a GNC store. It was a strip mall version. I was trying to think of when I last bought anything at GNC. Those stores used to be busy. But in recent years; they are ghost towns.
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Re: How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2015, 09:11:13 AM »
Completely disintermediated by Amazon and places like DP Nutrition (and Caliber Nutrition). I don't even go in for a laugh anymore, it's depressing that they soaked up tens of thousands of my dollars over the years. They need to stock better muscle mags so I can go fap read in peace rather than Barnes and Noble where they frown on such behavior.
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Re: How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2015, 09:23:06 AM »
Even the ones in the UK are pretty empty now. You occasionally see a group of skinny college boys inside looking at which products will get them "jacked". But more times than not, the shop assistant is just there standing by himself, looking bored at the till.
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Re: How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2015, 09:32:14 AM »
Quote from: Royalty on March 20, 2015, 09:06:41 AM
Today, I drove by a GNC store. It was in a strip mall version. I was trying to think of when I last bought anything at GNC. Those stores used to be busy. But in recent years; they are ghost towns.

I actually worked in a GNC when I was in grad school ( 1994).
I have not shopped at one since I stopped working there.
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Re: How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2015, 09:33:05 AM »
they are no longer needed, simple as that.
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Re: How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2015, 09:33:55 AM »
about 2 years ago, i stopped a one of the GNC knockoff stores to grab a tub of protein.  Normally order online, needed some, was right there.

Dude tries adding on a $50 bottle of specially formulated fat burning acids that target the midsection.   Fish Oil.

I wanted to choke the dude with his own shoelaces while smashing his face with a smartphone displaying Getbig.
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Re: How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2015, 09:36:25 AM »
I'm in one right now.  Oh wait.  Its just an empty room.
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Re: How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2015, 09:39:33 AM »
Quote from: 240 is Back on March 20, 2015, 09:33:55 AM
about 2 years ago, i stopped a one of the GNC knockoff stores to grab a tub of protein.  Normally order online, needed some, was right there.

Dude tries adding on a $50 bottle of specially formulated fat burning acids that target the midsection.   Fish Oil.

I wanted to choke the dude with his own shoelaces while smashing his face with a smartphone displaying Getbig.

I sold a ton of those Cybergenics kits back in the day.
I got sick of selling "gimmick" stuff, so I eventually quit working there.

I got a sales % commission on the stuff I sold.
The GNC brand made me and the store more profit, so they told us to push the house brand whenever we could.
Sounds like the fish oil, fit into that category and things have not changed with the GNC biz model in over 20 yrs.
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Re: How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2015, 09:42:01 AM »
Quote from: 240 is Back on March 20, 2015, 09:33:55 AM
about 2 years ago, i stopped a one of the GNC knockoff stores to grab a tub of protein.  Normally order online, needed some, was right there.

Dude tries adding on a $50 bottle of specially formulated fat burning acids that target the midsection.   Fish Oil.

I wanted to choke the dude with his own shoelaces while smashing his face with a smartphone displaying Getbig.

LOL! surprises we're allowed to wear them on planes now, could chock someone to death!!!
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Re: How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2015, 09:47:38 AM »
14 + years maybe , since they stopped carrying ephedra diet pills
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Re: How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2015, 09:51:54 AM »
Quote from: Nails on March 20, 2015, 09:47:38 AM
14 + years maybe , since they stopped carrying ephedra diet pills

Back in 2001 & 2002 I loved using TwinLab Ripped Fuel
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Re: How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« Reply #11 on: March 20, 2015, 09:54:59 AM »
Can honestly say I've never purchased anything from GNC in my life. Couple of skinny work colleagues who have started going to the gym told me they'd been in there recently buying up "pre-workouts" and "fat-burners"  ::) because of the advice they'd been given by the people working in there so I went in a few weeks back to check the place out.

When I went in there I was the only one that the sales staff didn't approach because I obviously look like I train and knew I wouldn't be stupid enough to buy anything so I just wandered around the place laughing to myself at the prices and then left.

How the place stays in business I'll never know what with all the stuff you can find out online. Well, I kind of do know - they feed on the ignorance of the masses who haven't quite transcended to that level of common-sense thinking.
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Re: How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« Reply #12 on: March 20, 2015, 09:56:11 AM »
Quote from: Nails on March 20, 2015, 09:47:38 AM
14 + years maybe , since they stopped carrying ephedra diet pills
The original caffeine /ephedrine stack in the old TwinLab Ripped Fuel was awesome.
I sold a bunch of THAT and was always pleased to advise a customer to buy it.

Then some fat baseball pitcher wearing 11 sweat suits, passed out and died during spring training in Az.
The autopsy showed he had aprox 20  tabs of Ripped Fuel in his system when he died.

Did  MLB outlaw rapid wt loss via multi layer sweat/ rubber suits ? No.
Did the media caution everyone to be responsible and not use 10x the recommended  serving size? No

The congress ignored who was really at fault and banned ephedrine instead.

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Re: How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« Reply #13 on: March 20, 2015, 10:04:20 AM »
Quote from: Royalty on March 20, 2015, 09:51:54 AM
Back in 2001 & 2002 I loved using TwinLab Ripped Fuel


i used to grab the xenadrine


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Re: How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« Reply #14 on: March 20, 2015, 10:08:06 AM »
they still have that bullshit where you pay like $60 a year for a "Members Benefit Club" and you get their 2.5lb tub of generic GNC half off the $120 price  ???
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Re: How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« Reply #15 on: March 20, 2015, 10:12:19 AM »
Quote from: Royalty on March 20, 2015, 09:51:54 AM
Back in 2001 & 2002 I loved using TwinLab Ripped Fuel

i miss those, they where great.
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Re: How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« Reply #16 on: March 20, 2015, 10:14:02 AM »
it's been a long time.
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Re: How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« Reply #17 on: March 20, 2015, 10:25:07 AM »
The Army is using GNC products to keep its soldiers fit and trim.

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Re: How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« Reply #18 on: March 20, 2015, 10:34:22 AM »
Quote from: Andy Griffin on March 20, 2015, 10:25:07 AM
The Army is using GNC products to keep its soldiers fit and trim.



Thank God that isn't a US military pattern.
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Re: How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« Reply #19 on: March 20, 2015, 10:34:51 AM »
About 4 years ago, and that was to check out a clearance sale. As mentioned, Amazon, etc.... have cut into them badly, even Walmart, CVS,  Rite Aid, etc.... have become strong competition to them. Everyday is Gold Card day now.
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Re: How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« Reply #20 on: March 20, 2015, 11:08:28 AM »
Quote from: Royalty on March 20, 2015, 09:51:54 AM
Back in 2001 & 2002 I loved using TwinLab Ripped Fuel


Not 100% of the exact spelling of every compound*

THAT vintage formula with Mua Juang ( herbal ephedrine) and green tea ( herbal caffeine) with chromium piccolinate  was the shit!

Of course ,back then,  an NPC or IFBB  bodybuilding contest was mostly...BODYBUILDERS.
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Re: How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« Reply #21 on: March 20, 2015, 11:14:26 AM »
I order from DPS nutrition and the shits
at my door the next day...sometimes
Nutra Planet...GNC is regulated by the
FDA so none of the shit works.
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Re: How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« Reply #22 on: March 20, 2015, 11:16:37 AM »
Year and years...
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Re: How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« Reply #23 on: March 20, 2015, 11:20:14 AM »
Late 90s. Was considering buying some of Muscletech's new supps but decided against spending all my money. I have only ever in my life bought a bottle of Glutamine from GNC. The rest of my supps I always bought online. Not bought anything since they early 2000s though.
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Re: How long has it been since you last set foot inside a GNC store?
« Reply #24 on: March 20, 2015, 11:29:26 AM »
I went to be the other day in the mall. Had one of those "bros" following me around trying to help me. Everything I looked at I loudly said in front of everyone "what a ripoff!" "Jug of protein for 60 bucks!"
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