The Associated Press had a story over the weekend reporting that as part of their restructuring efforts, Giant Food grocery stores are discontinuing many products that don’t sell as well to make room for larger quantities of fewer products.

Those of us who regularly shop at Giant aren’t quite sure how to feel about this. The AP quotes a couple of customers complaining that having an even worse selection of items is exactly the opposite of what Giant should be doing, and it’s hard to disagree with that, but every Giant seems to be different: I live two blocks away from the O Street Giant, and yet once a month or so, I get a Zipcar and drive up to the Columbia Heights store, because it has a much wider and more reliable selection of many items. I can mostly find what I need at the closer store, but there are more than a handful of items I want to buy that just aren’t available to me unless I go to the other one. The reality that all Giants will pare down the number of different goods they carry could well send me elsewhere for that trip, like the new Harris Teeter.

What’s your Giant experience? We know they have a relatively negative reputation, but the company is at least now trying to fix up their stores and make improvements. Have you noticed items disappearing from the shelves already? Are you more interested in making sure their prices stay low rather than having a lot of specialty food items available?