I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at The Vitamin Shoppe
Interview
First there is a phone interview. They care that you are interested in health and wellness. They will ask you about it and take the time to actually listen to you go in depth. They will also inquire about your retail background.
Then you go in for an in-store interview and they explain some of what happens in store. This is more 2-way. They talk about what the store is like as well as asking about more traditional interview questions. Strengths and weaknesses, areas of interest, goals in career, etc.
It isn't a BS interview where they ask those stupid "think of a time when...." crap. That stuff is such a fad and a huge cop out for lazy management, obviously one or two studies showed moderately probably results with those questions and corporate bandwagoners jumped on. In a couple years, they'll be on to the next fad. They're worse than yo-yo dieters who watch Dr Oz and bounce around every one of his recommendations that each have one study behind them contradicting decades of trial and canon.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at The Vitamin Shoppe (Palmdale, CA) in Apr 2015
Interview
I applied online and about a week or two later I received a call from the district manager. We then set up a face to face interview a that was a week later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe the situation the action and the result of dealing with a difficult customer?
I applied online. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at The Vitamin Shoppe (Medford, OR) in Jun 2012
Interview
It was very informal. No one introduced theirselves to me. I didn't even know I was interviewing with the district manager and my soon to be store manager. The district manager ended up walking out half way through because he kept getting phone calls
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There wasn't any questions, we just talked about life.