North Coast Co-op

Love the Co-op. I moved back to the SF Bay, and I'm STILL a member. I only visit every other month or so, but I love this place. It's way better than the Arcata one -- it's bigger so there is a better selection, the staff is always polite and nice, no attitude from college age judgmental hipsters, and it's conveniently next to downtown.

10:30 am this Tuesday morning the store was busy but not at all crowded. No line to get in, but a monitor at the door for limits if needed. Marjoram is back in stock in bulk herbs.

My complaint is specific to Randy the Senior Clerk at the Eureka branch. My mask was on, albeit not tightly, as to allow myself some space between the mask and my face so that I could breath. Randy went above and beyond his health-enforcement duties, and during checkout, He aggressively walked over and rudely told me to raise my mask. I did not say a word, and I pulled the mask tightly against my face, just as he ordered me to do. My wife then asked him why he had to be rude and authoritative when he ordered me to adjust my mask. This is the point when he abused his authority as senior clerk by ordering the cashier to stop checking us out, and ordered my family to leave the store. He had no right to throw us out and force us to leave, but he did so just because his pride was wounded, and he wanted to flex his power as senior clerk by ordering us out of the store. As a co-op member and frequent shopper, I am appalled at this behavior by a low-level management employee, and strongly urge upper management to seek a different type of person to operate managerial duties of their stores.

An assortment of excellent produce. Very good coffee and a deli section. Beautiful postcards made by local artists. Variety of nutritional supplements. Attractive small gift selection.

Good deli. Good selection of food. Good local, and organic selection. Pricey, but keep an eye out for co-op specials tags which manage to be affordable and good.

If you are passing through on 101 this is a good pit stop for lunch and what not.

Employees are always helpful and sweet. Great produce, great gran and go food. A fantastic selection of chocolate and cold beverages.

They have a security guard when you get into the shop who ask you to leave your bags on a table between the entrance of the shop and the outside, which is understandable.
Only problem there are no lock for your bags, so is basically unattended...

terrible deli.. they have gotten my sandwiches wrong so many times i wont ever order one again. the eureka store is very vegan unfriendly.. no tofu selections. they use hoisen sauce with artificial colors in some of their dishes. their produce usually looks terrible. even the farmers (i worked for one) complain about how they let their stuff sit in back too long before it ever gets put out.. terrible job at managing their produce. i do almost all my shopping at eureka natural foods now since their prices are lower and their produce is much fresher and better. sad because ive shopped at these stores since 1999, used to love the co-op esp the arcata one which is still much better than the eureka store. but ever since they expanded, trying to be a 'whole foods' and focusing on profit and on paying out dividends to their shareholders, they have steadily degraded.. worse products at higher prices. i think they will continue to spiral downwards, losing customers as they go.

Love this place. Best meat and produce on the North Coast! Mostly local if possible. The employees are always sweet and friendly!

Probably has the most variety in selection of all natural food spots in Humboldt.