Shopping in Bluffton

The Flower Shop Bluffton enlivens living spaces with skillfully designed floral arrangements that evoke emotion and seasonal warmth. Having served as the floral-design team on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, the dedicated staff members infuse customers' ideas with their own know-how to create original floral sprays such as the Bowl of Plenty ($36.96+), which holds more orange blossoms than the bridal party at an oompa loompa wedding. Flower fiends can accentuate rooms with subtle fall blends or dazzle dinner guests with a cornucopia centerpiece brimming with sunflowers, fiery roses, and decorative gourds ($45+). The Pumpkin Delight arrangement showcases a spray of autumnal-hued daylilies and carnations in a sugar pumpkin pot ($43.95+), and the Fall Fun arrangement brightens breakfast tables with gerbera daisies and lures feral bakers with decorative grains ($45.98).

Mattress Firm has a large selection of beds from such brand names as Sealy, Simmons Beauty Rest, and Stearns & Foster. Sleep options range from the soft, cushy Hampton and Rhodes Perthshire pillow-top mattress set ($448+) to the firm and supportive Hampton and Rhodes Stirling firm mattress set ($198+). Browse the full selection on Mattress Firm's website using an Internet connection and Internet-ready navigation device.

Specializing in bedding, the experts at Sit & Sleep quickly deduce the ideal match for each customer's slumbering back. High-quality mattresses from brands including Spring Air and Simmons Beautyrest dominate the store's scenery, with ceiling-high stacks sitting atop stable pea foundations. A spread of accessories augments 900 pieces of sleep furniture in the business's warehouse, with traditional bedding joined by a range of items for Sit & Sleep's futons. Same-day delivery can rush mattresses to customers six days a week, helping shoppers avoid a listless night on a makeshift bed of seagull feathers.

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Sports Addiction's athletically minded staff helps keep activity enthusiasts equipped for their favorite forms of recreation and also maintains bikes for cyclists. During the ultimate tune-up, mechanics perform a comprehensive de-squeaking, which includes frame and chain cleaning, brake adjustment, and a liberal lubrication of all pivots, cables, and armor joints. Techs torque bolts to manufacturer specifications and adjust crank and steering bearings for a silkier ride. They then spruce up wheels during a rim cleaning, adjustment and greasing of hub bearings, and truing done under intense polygraph testing. For time-crunched patrons, Sports Addiction can arrange local pickup and delivery of bikes for an additional $10.

Palmetto Running Company's sure-footed staff members treat fellow trotters to comprehensive shoe fittings before shielding them in high-performing gear. Fittings include careful measurements, a static foot scan, and two brief jogging evaluations to help knowledgeable team members recommend shoes suited to each athlete's gait and striking pattern. Toes grip, arch, and jam to live karaoke inside the roomy toe box of Saucony's Hattori kicks ($80), and a pair of Brooks' Adrenaline sneakers ($100) supports the heel with its award-winning design and signature DNA technology. Before jetting off in a pair of the Asics Gel-Kayano ($140), drain 50 ounces of pure water or grape-flavored antelope sweat from the BPA-free reservoir in a CamelBak Fairfax backpack ($49). Wicking moisture from panting skin, Zensah compression sleeves ($39.99) flood stifled muscles with oxygenated blood during long runs and postworkout recovery sessions, and the colorful boutique soothes hard-working pavement pounders with blister balms from Body Glide or complimentary footbaths filled with chicken-noodle soup.

Featuring dishes created by Claude, a Normandy-born, European-trained chef, Claude & Uli's Bistro merges Lowcountry fare with French-inspired plates to create an eclectic array of dinnertime options. The menu intrigues tongue buds with soupy starters, such as onion soup with swiss cheese ($5.50) and Lowcountry she-crab soup ($5.50), and the main courses overload taste receptors with choices of French steak and frites ($19.95) or the Austrian-style veal schnitzel ($19.95), featuring crispy, breaded veal in ravishing cutlet form. Seafood supporters can select the red snapper with a hint of parmesan cheese ($23.50) or the cognac-infused lobster and seafood pot pie ($24.95), in which puff pastry swaddles shellfish like newborn chicks in an incubator.