• All new members please introduce your self here and welcome to the board:
    http://www.professionalmuscle.com/forums/showthread.php?t=259
Buy Needles And Syringes With No Prescription
M4B Store Banner
intex
Riptropin Store banner
Generation X Bodybuilding Forum
Buy Needles And Syringes With No Prescription
Buy Needles And Syringes With No Prescription
Mysupps Store Banner
IP Gear Store Banner
PM-Ace-Labs
Ganabol Store Banner
Spend $100 and get bonus needles free at sterile syringes
Professional Muscle Store open now
sunrise2
PHARMAHGH1
kinglab
ganabol2
Professional Muscle Store open now
over 5000 supplements on sale at professional muscle store
azteca
granabolic1
napsgear-210x65
advertise1
over 5000 supplements on sale at professional muscle store
over 5000 supplements on sale at professional muscle store
ashp210
UGFREAK-banner-PM
esquel
YMSGIF210x65-Banner
over 5000 supplements on sale at professional muscle store
over 5000 supplements on sale at professional muscle store
over 5000 supplements on sale at professional muscle store
over 5000 supplements on sale at professional muscle store
over 5000 supplements on sale at professional muscle store
over 5000 supplements on sale at professional muscle store
over 5000 supplements on sale at professional muscle store

GNC going bankrupt, closing 1200 stores

It's impressive GNC hung on as long as they did - they've been slaughtered by online competition for a decade.

In 2012 I worked for Dymatize corporate. My VP told me about a meeting with GNC executives - the GNC guys sat down, opened a laptop, went to Bodybuilding.com, and told my VP that whatever Dymatize sold the most of there is what GNC wanted in its stores.

They've been complacent for way too long and this was the natural conclusion. I go in a GNC once or twice a year and it's only to get an Isopure RTD after a workout.
 
Supplements is an online game now more than anything else i can think of, it’s not surprising at all. They have to way overpriced their stuff to make up for the extra overhead, that business model doesn’t work anymore. This isn’t related to covid or the gym closures and even those were coming anyway.
 
Poor kids, where are they going to waste their cash at now?
 
Walks into GNC: Alarm goes off "Have you checked your weight today?" *associate scrambles and proceeds to hound you into buying product*
 
In 05’ on like week 2 of my first cycle I came here and posted “I’m never setting foot inside a GNC again in my life!” Lol
 
I worked at a franchise gnc when I was 20. Owner sold all kinds of illegal products and gear out the back. Most of the people who came in were young kids thinking creatine was like steroids and the others were always looking for ways to pass drug test. I was told to push certain products for commission. Only good thing was I got all kinds of free protein powder, bars, shakes and vitamins.
 
Not surprised in the least. They charged prices that could be considered theft. Amazon, bodybuilding.com, and local supplement shops are way cheaper.
 
I can't even wrap my head around how that place has made a profit in the last.... 25 years? I remember going in like, the mid 90's, and even then it was pretty dead. Usually some old dude looking at Saw Palmetto, some giant dude in a neon stringer buying a bucket of weight gainer, myself, and one cashier.
 
I think TRYING to compete was their downfall. All over the place, you saw discounts at GNC, I guess trying to be competitive with online stores. But with the rent having to pay for that many store fronts, it was just a matter of time lol

I remember the days when I'd venture in, though. Prohormones just on the shelf, albeit behind a little plastic case thingy, and who knows what the fuck else sitting right there, actual oral steroids lol

Thank fuck for bodybuilding.com (I can't believe I am saying that), the entire teen forum was filled with posts like "I took so and so and now my dick don't work", which was enough for me to stay away from them.

Sorry for the monolog, this Strawberry OG is awesome.
 
Overpriced for decades.. I cant believe they hung around for this long..
 
vitamin shoppe next??

Likely...

Half of it is just wasted labor. I've seen like three staff members in a store when they probably didn't get as many customers all day. Lol fuck are they getting paid to do?
 
I worked a summer at GNC once. I remember smoking pot in the back and also taking vicodin while working once or twice while I was the only one working the store. Things I would never do now. The one thing they had that was good was "blue ox" which was a Red Bull knock off that was 10x better than Red Bull. But yes GNC had their time under the sun and has now past.

One brick and mortar place I hope never folds is strip clubs. For god sakes spend your money locally.
 
Vitamin Shoppe is better anyway. More of a selection.
 

Staff online

  • pesty4077
    Moderator/ Featured Member / Kilo Klub

Forum statistics

Total page views
558,058,924
Threads
135,758
Messages
2,768,694
Members
160,343
Latest member
12cc
NapsGear
HGH Power Store email banner
your-raws
Prowrist straps store banner
infinity
FLASHING-BOTTOM-BANNER-210x131
raws
Savage Labs Store email
Syntherol Site Enhancing Oil Synthol
aqpharma
yourmuscleshop210x131
hulabs
ezgif-com-resize-2-1
MA Research Chem store banner
MA Supps Store Banner
volartek
Keytech banner
musclechem
Godbullraw-bottom-banner
Injection Instructions for beginners
Knight Labs store email banner
3
ashp131
YMS-210x131-V02
Back
Top