Co-op is not only higher quality but they actually have what you're looking for. If I go shopping I'm usually picking up specific ingredients for 2-3 meals I want to cook, plus an assortment of other stuff. If I go to Safeway, without fail, I can be sure they will simply not have at least a couple of the things I want. However, they'll stock five different varieties of something else that's of no use to me.
For example, I was making chicken tagine last week. It requires pitted green olives. Not too tall an order, right? Well, Safeway in Kensington had 3 different types of green olives with pits in and five varieties of green olives stuffed with garlic or pimentos. None without. I ended up just buying the ones with pimentos and taking out the pimentos, which is annoying.
This happens all the time. They'll have 8 different types of flour but no corn meal, or three varieties of unsweetened baking chocolate but no semi-sweet, or 15 different types of mixed greens but no arugula, or a shelf full of curly parsley but no flat leaf. Just an exercise in frustration shopping there.
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