Retail Roundup | Goodwill store opening next week in Carolina Forest

Goodwill Industries will open its store in Carolina Forest next week.

The roughly 9,000-square-foot store, at 2164 Oakheart Road next to the shopping center that used to house Piggly Wiggly, opens at 10 a.m. Thursday. The store will sell donated goods, including clothing and household items. It has been having donation drives on Saturdays for the past few months gathering items to fill the store for its opening.

The store also will have a Job Link center that will help folks look for work and improve their skills.

Regular hours will be 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 7 p.m. Sunday.

This will be Goodwill's fifth store in the area. It opened a store in North Myrtle Beach at 3336 U.S. 17 S. in the former Bi-Lo in September and also has stores in Little River, Conway and at U.S. 17 Bypass near S.C. 544.

Retro store renovates

A store in Myrtle Beach that celebrates the best of pop culture in the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s has renovated and added new products.

RetroActive, on the 29th Avenue North side of Broadway at the Beach near Ripley’s Aquarium, re-opened a week ago after a month-long renovation of the 1,800-square-foot space. The store, which opened seven years ago, added new displays, signs and lighting and created a stage area by the front window where celebrities can do meet-and-greets with fans.

The store also added a “future retro section” with items that are popular today that potentially will become the classics of the future, including items with “True Blood,” “Eastbound & Down,” “How I Met Your Mother” and the “Big Bang Theory.”

The owners renovated aiming to make the store sleeker and easier to maneuver around the displays, which was difficult on crowded days.

“It was time for a change,” co-owner Amy Harriman said.

A grand opening party, with giveaways, food samples and a live radio remote with WAVE 104.1 FM, is set for Feb. 18. The store will have extended hours that weekend, Feb. 17-19, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Regular hours this time of year are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day.

The store sells T-shirts, records, CDs, movies and other items reminiscent of the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s, a niche that has caught on in recent years.

“It kind of made a resurgence a few years ago,” Harriman said. “It’s kind of exploded.”

Paint store has new owners, brands

A paint center with a store in Myrtle Beach is under new ownership with plans to add more brands to its shelves.

Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Spectrum Paint Co. has bought the assets of C&S Paint Center, which has a store at 1203 Third Avenue South in Myrtle Beach and six others in the coastal Carolinas. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

The store will start selling Benjamin Moore Paints in the Myrtle Beach, Florence and Jacksonville, N.C., locations. The stores will continue to carry Devoe Coatings and Glidden Professional Paints.

Spectrum, which began in 1986, now has 30 stores in five states.