williamsburgpottery.com
The perfect shopping experience for the fictional ...
The perfect shopping experience for the fictional consumer..
Awful. Very little pottery, what they do have is urban Garden Nursery prices at least. A mix of Chinese crap and boutique wrapped " why do I want this" $$$ junk. The food section? Really? Potatoes chips? Looks like it has been sitting there for sometime, my advise any food item, check the expiration dates.
Some kind of over price peace frog shirts, kitchen ware like pie pans, oven pans, but only one item on a barren sparsely shelf, if you are lucky 2 items, that is all priced higher then most anywhere else. The Big Lots kitchenware area is better stock, same items, much lower prices. This is what I mainly remember, the rest isn't worth the effort to even to recall. At about 10 minutes I started looking at my watch, by 25 minutes, we were heading out.
Offering a XX percent off one item coupon aka Michael or having to price match every item you look at tells you what this place is all about, not worth going to, let alone going out of you way to get here. Real bargain outlets don't price match, their prices are low to being with, Ollie's Bargain Outlet comes to mind.
Food? Chips, wine? MEH, I would check the expiration date on a perishable item. This stuff isn't flying off the shelves from what I observed, World Mart has the range in wine, better prices, or try the CW Cheese Shop.
Claim to fame, Pottery, salt pottery, wine, silk flowers, award winning framing, French restaurant?
Ah, looked like a lot of silk flowers, have zero interest in that stuff, eats up plenty of room.
Award winning framing? When? How often do they award that? Who awards that? Picture framing isn't rocket science and frankly Michael's, especially is a better deal. The wood frame is pretty much standard stuff, cutting a mat isn't rocket science and cutting square, tight fitting corners is easy, fast with the proper equipment. Most consumers pick the style, color of their frames and mat color to match. I can't image a tourist come here, dropping a print off, then another trip to pick it up. But as slow as things are maybe they can do this in less then an hour? Who knows? The salted pottery supplied to CW was token at best and frankly from remembering about the same CW price. What is up with that? Isn't there a middleman cut missing here?
As for Bon Au Pain, the restaurant, cough, well if you like $6-$7 cold meat wraps, the Bologna wrapped sandwich of the yuppie generation, knock yourself out, Bon Au Pain is nothing more then a mall food court franchise, they have one over at MacAuthur Mall. These minimum wage workers act like that want to be somewhere else at this one. They have an odd attitude, like, some inside joke going on.
Go to the Cheese Shop in CW.
It all shows you the lack of understanding of what the old Pottery's appeal was to the millions. This whole strip now looks like every other urban eyesore, the prime example, over on Route 199 bypassing Williamsburg. After a while you just become numb to it all.
This is right up there with people building Mac Mansions, guess you would label this new Pottery "Mac Mansion Retailing", sigh.
Too pretentious, no bargains, lack of inventory, lack of diversity,full of junk, lack of true Outlet prices, no I don't believe Prime Outlet stores are true outlets, nor bargains, they aremore of company stores under an Outlet Banner, try Ollie's Bargain Outlets to see the difference.
We will not be back to the Pottery, not back to Williamsburg. This is not the place for the savvy, price sensitive shopper.
The old Malone Pottery was the draw to us to visit, to go to CW, the old Pottery went to the grave with the self made man who created it, may he and his creation RIP. A sad end.
Totally amazing a few people could destroy a man's life time work.
