Carolina Pottery

Too expensive, cheap items you can find anywhere else for way better prices.
It’s a huge store, but looks empty. It’s a bunch of bland stuff that doesn’t have any sort of unique feel like you’re getting a diamond in the rough.
Stick with old time pottery if you want variety and good deals, come here if you want uniformed boring pieces. Yes it’s clean and neat, easy when you have 500 of the same thing (that doesn’t sell, bc it’s twice the price of your competition)

TBH, I don’t get this place.
It’s not really a department store, as several important departments would be missing. It’s not really a discount store like the Christmas Tree Shop or Olde Time Pottery, given the prices. Garden and yard art, home décor, picture frames, pillows, beach stuff, soup to nuts for making floral arrangements and wreaths, kitchen /​food service stuff, and… wine???
Wine aside, the closest comparison I can come up with is Hobby Lobby, minus all of the craft stuff that isn’t in the floral department and minus the Supreme Court ruling. Yeah. Odd. How are there five of these in SC again? Maybe the little DiY bridal section? I dunno.
Décor, signs, etc., heavily skewed toward beachy themes (at least at this location), understandably. The Christmas décor on my visit was minimal, though present — one big display with a beachy tree. Nothing over the top or too stinky.
Prices on some items were, frankly, stunning. 30 $ for a four inch mass-​produced ceramic plant pot, for example? Really? There were a few items that had great style, but between the mass-​produced in China quality, the discount store feel of the place, and the pricing, I had better things to buy with my vacation budget.
Spent 23 $ on supplies from the floral department that are probably common locally, but that I can’t get in the ‘middles’.
**Though I don’t usually review this sort of spot after one visit, I’m doing so to document the impact of one fairly off-​grid tourist, traveling without family, just to make an HB2 related point**
Big, clean, easy to find your way around, but all in all, I guess I just don’t get why on earth one would want to.

Imagine a store filled with crafts, knick knacks, random furniture and home furnishings. Now imagine half of that store is Christmas themed, complete with the requisite breath taking (literally…I couldn’t breathe) cinnamon and other scents of the season. Imagine that the Dollar Store, Garden Ridge, and Big Lots had a threesome and this was the love child. But instead of following in the moderately trashy footsteps of it’s parents, it want to college and got an associates degree and as a result justified marking the products up, to a sometimes ridiculously inflated price.
Yup…that’s this place. It’s just not my thing, but I’m sure there are plenty of people who absolutely dig this place.

They don’t compare to the pottery places in Virginia (which I was hoping for) but I was able to find a few pieces for my home. I was also surprised by the cost which was a little costly.