Cooper's Country Store Inc in Salters, SC Open now

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  February 12, 2020, by Adam Parish
  We drove out of the way to visit Cooper's on the way to Surfside Beach. I marked the location on Google Maps after reading about it in the December/January 2014 issue of Garden & Gun. In my mind this place was going to be a gas station version of Mast General Store or Modica Market. As a result, I had this placed hyped with the family, but was quickly disappointed. We did arrive around 6:15PM on a Saturday and they close at 7PM, so my experience might not be typical. Why was I disappointed? Well it really is just an old gas station. The smoked hams are really interesting, but really a small part of the overall experience. We bought some decent boiled peanuts. Since Cooper's is pretty far from other businesses, I visited the restroom which was outside and what you would expect from just a gas station - dirty. Honestly, I can look over the condition of the restroom and if I'm driving by around lunch time one day in the future (not likely), I would stop for a sandwich. Basically, Cooper's does appear to be a local institution, but for me it could not live up to the Garden & Gun hype and that's probably fine for the owners.