Costco customers devastated as popular item discontinued due to \u201crising costs\u201d Unsplash: omar abascalCostco regulars are expressing their disappointment after discovering fan-favorite cookies have been changed, with the story going viral on social media. On July 31, a Reddit user revealed Kirkland Signature chocolate chips had been replaced after they visited their local store. In an accompanying photograph, they revealed what\u2019s taken their place \u2013 Nestl\u00e9 Toll House Semi-Sweet Morsels. \u201cThey completely replaced the chocolate chips with Nestle,\u201d the caption states. The post quickly gained attention on the Costco subreddit, as others were devastated by the news. It even led to some investigations by customers, with one emailing Costco directly to get answers regarding the switch. Fortunately, they emailed back, but it wasn\u2019t good news. \u201cWe are unfortunately moving forward with discontinuing the KS Chocolate Chips,\u201d Costco revealed, explaining that the decision was \u201cdue to the rising costs of cocoa.\u201d \u201cThis was a decision we put an extreme amount of consideration into, but the reality is, the cost our suppliers were presenting us, would no longer make our Kirkland Signature Chocolate Chips a value against national brands like Nestle Toll House,\u201d they continued. There was some hope, however, as they disclosed \u201cIt\u2019s likely we will stay out of KS for at least 12 months, but our long-term plan is to offer the item again in the future.\u201d Customers were heartbroken, to say the least. \u201cIt\u2019s my only go-to! Nothing else compares and I tried to find something as good when they discontinued them a few years back,\u201d one commented. \u201cWell I for one would cheerfully rather pay an extra buck fifty to buy Kirkland instead of Nestle, but I guess they\u2019ve made their point,\u201d another stated. \u201cIt\u2019s a major disappointment to be sure. It\u2019s not gone forever but they are superior to Nestle in every way,\u201d one proclaimed. Another said Kirkland were \u201cseriously the best chocolate chips ever.\u201d This isn\u2019t the first time a discontinued fan-favorite has caused viral outrage. Back in January, McDonald\u2019s brought back one of their most popular items that they had discontinued after petitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Costco customers devastated as popular item discontinued due to \u201crising costs\u201d Unsplash: omar abascalCostco regulars are expressing their disappointment after discovering fan-favorite cookies have been changed, with the story going viral on social media. On July 31, a Reddit user revealed Kirkland Signature chocolate chips had been replaced after they visited their local store. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}