i saw a lot of website selling protein all the protein are cheaper than gnc almost MYR100 i dunnoe i should have to buy at gnc or outside but i scared outside is the fake wan so can u all give me some idea to choose??Thx for helping me
I'm with Troy on this one - GNC is highway robbery. I much prefer Vitamine Shoppe (or online sources for my products - whey protein, creatine monohydrate, JACK3D, blender bottle shakes, etc.)
The first post is *kinda* correct. If you eat like a typical american, you're already over eating and protein shakes will not be much of a benefit - and perhaps a negative. However, if you're on a diet or eating a lot of lean meats veggies and low carbs, protein shakes are worth every penny.
GNC has more costs for a few reasons:
1. They have discount cards (20%) so they jack up their prices accordingly to maintain profit
2. They are often found in malls, which have high lease-price per sq. foot
3. They have a lot of their own-marketed stuff (basically the same as other products with a GNC label)
4. They employe muscle-bound meat-heads that will hit on your GF if you take her into GNC.
best just stick with the named products from another store.
GNC are just crooks that take advantage of novice bodybuilders/athletes. Then when people discover that they are a ripoff they go elsewhere. I've seen tubs of protein powder that sell wholesale $30 that GNC was trying to get $70 for the same thing.
Then, GNC offers the "Gold Card" for $15 a year so you save 20% the first 7 days of every month. Sounds great, right? Until you notice they jack the prices about 15% the first 7 days so you technically only save 5%. It's a shakedown every trip to the counter, the only thing they need to make them complete is to give their employees guns & ski masks.
Seriously, take your business elsewhere. Go to Vitamin Shoppe, Vitamin World, or whatever your local nutrition shop may be called. GNC is highway robbery and their employees are commissioned to push whatever is most expensive at that time. Even more cost efficient is shopping online, I use supplementwarehouse.com. They even have price matching where if you find a product cheaper on another site, you enter that address into their system and they BEAT it by a couple of bucks!
[edit] to Carl- LOL @ #4! You are totally right! And one time I went in there (I go in scouting for clearance items, the ONLY thing worth going in there for) and there was an insanely good looking girl at the counter. Normally employees crawl up your @ss telling you what you should buy, but the meathead spent the ENTIRE time ignoring me and hitting on her. Another time, I chuckled to myself because a beanpole-skinny employee was giving nutritional advice to a guy that looked like Lex Luger!!