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Although the shopping on St. Croix isn't as varied or extensive as that on St. Thomas, the island does have several small stores with unusual merchandise. St. Croix shop hours are usually Monday through Saturday 9 to 5, but there are some shops in Christiansted open in the evening. Stores are often closed on Sunday.
If you've rented a condominium or a villa, you'll appreciate St. Croix's excellent stateside-style supermarkets (albeit with prices that are at least 30% higher than on the U.S. mainland). Fresh vegetables, fruits, and meats arrive from the mainland frequently and are always available. Try the open-air stands strung out along Route 70 for island produce.
St. Croix native Brian Bishop's trademark piece is the Turk's Head ring (a knot of interwoven gold strands). The family tradition continues with his kids, Nathan and Therese, creating contemporary sterling and gold pendants, rings, and earrings, necklaces, and pendants. Stop by to meet the Bishops, browse the jewelry, and "Feel the Love."
As the name implies, this small store sells hats, yes, but they're often perched on top of cotton shifts, comfortable shirts, and trendy tropical wear from designers like Sigrid Olsen, Cenia, THML, and Anne Cole Resort. If you forgot your bathing suit, Hotheads has a good selection.
This small shop showcases the handcrafted jewelry of local craftsman and "Island Boy" Whealan Massicott, including his signature, "infinity" style Crucian hook bracelet. Whether in silver or gold, the designs are simply elegant.
The walk-in humidor here has a good selection of Arturo Fuente, Partagas, Padron, and Macanudo cigars. Baci also carries high-end liquor; sleek watches from Tissot, Frederick Constance, Alpina, Mido, Luminox, Citizen, and Bering; Steiner binoculars from Germany; and fine jewelry.
This store sells the most stylish men's and women's clothes on St. Croix, including a selection of fair trade and organic clothing, smart handbags, hats, swimwear, CBD products, and star-shaped paper lanterns. Bright, island-friendly colors rule the racks here.
This shop sells pottery in bright colors, paintings of St. Croix and the Caribbean, prints, and maps. They are all made by local artists, and they all make for perfect take-home gifts.
The owners ship all over the world.
This glass gallery offers an interesting amalgam of carefully crafted glass plates, suncatchers, and more. The pieces, all made on-site by St. Croix glassmaker Jan Mitchell Larsen, are often whimsically adorned with tropical fish, flora, and fauna. Photography from Steffen Larsen also is on display and for sale.
Chaney is jewelry made from shards of the antique Danish pottery that's found all over St. Croix; local residents find it in the ocean or buried in the ground and sell it to the owners of this Christiansted jewelry shop, who clean it, polish it, wrap it in silver wire, and sell it as earrings, necklaces, and bracelets. Seaglass jewelry is also sold here; like chaney, it's made in St. Croix.
This full-service supermarket stocks both locally grown and imported produce as well as deli items, specialty foods, duty-free liquor, and pharmacy needs. Perky's Pizza is located here, too.
Although it's on the small side, this market has good-quality deli items, local produce, West Indian prepared foods, a florist, a bakery, and a pastry shop.
This boutique was founded by Crucian designer Sonya Hough, who invented the popular hook bracelet (wear the hook facing out if you're "available," inward if you're attached). Bracelets are priced from about $65 and up, depending on size and materials. In addition to the original silver and gold hooks in a variety of diameters, the shop sells variations that incorporate hurricane symbols, dolphins, hibiscus flowers, and infinity symbols. If you're going to splurge on one nice souvenir in St. Croix, make it a hook bracelet and you'll be recognized as an honorary Crucian whenever you wear it.
This supermarket has a good selection of Middle Eastern foods and island-sourced products, in addition to the usual grocery-store items.
Designer Rob Low and the jewelers at Under the Sun VI can create one-of-a-kind pieces to your design. The shop specializes in gold jewelry but also carries diamonds, emeralds, rubies, and sapphires, and jewelry made from Crucian chaney and Dominican larimar.
This well-stocked independent bookseller sells Caribbean-themed books as well as the latest good reads. Saturday morning (11:30 am) story hour is a good rainy-day activity for kids, and frequent book-signing events feature local authors, many of whom also participate in the annual St. Croix Literary Festival, which takes place in April. The store is in the Gallows Bay shopping area.
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