REI Co-op Jacksonville

REI Co-op Jacksonville is the member-owned outdoor retailer at 4862 Big Island Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32246, in the Markets at St. Johns Town Center. Google Places lists the phone as (904) 996-1613. This Stay Safe Jax page is the same physical store as the REI Jacksonville listing. Residents should treat those two slugs as one shop. It is not a second warehouse, not a Southside strip-center sporting-goods store, and not Black Creek Outfitters on Skinner Lake Drive. REI is a consumer co-op. Shoppers can buy without a membership; members receive the co-op’s advertised member benefits. The Florida Times-Union’s February 28, 2013 opening story said the 23,400-square-foot Jacksonville store was the first REI in Florida and that manager Kara Montgomery expected a smaller member share than in North Carolina because the brand was new to the state. That is the public origin of this Town Center co-op, not a second grand opening and not a later relocation. The Jacksonville Daily Record’s February 4, 2022 story on Black Creek Outfitters closing after the Butler family sold 10051 Skinner Lake Drive noted that sporting-goods stores had opened in the Town Center development, including REI in The Markets at Town Center. The Times-Union’s January 31, 2022 closing story placed Black Creek next to the retail hub that grew after St. Johns Town Center opened in 2005. Those pieces keep this listing on Big Island Drive and stop anyone from treating a closed neighbor as this co-op. Public ratings on this page are stored snapshots, not live scores. Google Places currently lists REI at 4.5 from 494 reviews for 4862 Big Island Drive, the same place ID used on the REI Jacksonville page. Stay Safe Jax has no stored Yelp rating, so the headline is 4.5 from 494 reviews. Those numbers do not refresh when someone opens the page. A 4.5 file on a national outdoor co-op is a strong, ordinary retail score. Stay Safe Jax does not invent a lawsuit or a product-safety case to balance it. Google currently lists Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., and Sunday 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Google Places lists wheelchair-accessible parking and entrance. It does not list a wheelchair restroom. Stay Safe Jax did not independently inspect the sales floor. Stay Safe Jax leaves warning flags at 0. There is no current sourced warning in the facts used here. Residents who landed on this Co-op slug should treat it as the Town Center REI, not a different club store. Check Google the day you shop, because holiday hours change. A co-op slug and a store slug in the same catalog can look like two warehouses. They are not. 4862 Big Island Drive is the only public REI Places card Stay Safe Jax attached. Membership questions belong at the counter, not in invented dues on this page. The 2013 Times-Union story remains the opening record. Use the REI Jacksonville page if you want the longer first-in-Florida writeup; use this page if you searched Co-op. Hours and the 4.5 snapshot are the same.