I’ve been amused by the GNC (America) practice of having supplements appealing to different markets in separate alcoves—there were (at least) body builder, new age, bargain, science (sciency?),.… I didn’t check to see how many of their supplements were the same things in different packages in various alcoves.
They had one additional clever bit—the supplements had a life-sized silhouette of the capsule printed on the package so you could see whether they were a size you wanted to swallow.
I just stopped by a GNC, and it’s changed quite a bit. I remember GNC (some 15 or 20 years ago) as having a roughly equal balance of sections. Now it’s predominantly for athletes and body builders. There’s an herb section, and that’s the last faint echo of New Age.
I’ve been amused by the GNC (America) practice of having supplements appealing to different markets in separate alcoves—there were (at least) body builder, new age, bargain, science (sciency?),.… I didn’t check to see how many of their supplements were the same things in different packages in various alcoves.
They had one additional clever bit—the supplements had a life-sized silhouette of the capsule printed on the package so you could see whether they were a size you wanted to swallow.
I just stopped by a GNC, and it’s changed quite a bit. I remember GNC (some 15 or 20 years ago) as having a roughly equal balance of sections. Now it’s predominantly for athletes and body builders. There’s an herb section, and that’s the last faint echo of New Age.