Kirkland Signature Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips are showing up again at some Costco warehouses after disappearing from shelves for about two years. Shoppers have started spotting the bagged chips in a return that feels modest on paper but big in the aisle, where a familiar baking staple had quietly vanished.
A recent Reddit user posted a photo of the Kirkland Signature Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips and said the product had begun appearing again at Costco warehouses. Other shoppers have reported finding item No. 1331846 in Oregon and Connecticut, which suggests the comeback is real but not universal. For anyone who bakes with them, that makes the search immediate: people are checking whether their own warehouse has the item before it disappears again.
The reason the chips went away was not a lack of interest. Costco pulled them because rising cocoa costs made the product harder to produce at a competitive price, and in 2024 cocoa prices reportedly climbed by nearly 200% from the year before. Costco had determined that the chips would have needed to sell for more than Nestlé Toll House Semi-Sweet Morsels to make the numbers work, which is why the product was left off shelves even as shoppers kept asking for it back.
That is what gives the return its edge now. Recent Reddit posts show the availability is uneven from warehouse to warehouse, so the product has not simply rolled back into every Costco location at once. The company’s app can be used to search item No. 1331846 and see whether the chips are appearing at nearby warehouses, but the open question is whether this is a wider relaunch or just a scattered reappearance tied to local stock.
For Costco members who had been waiting, the chips are back in a way that is welcome but unfinished. Some warehouses have them, some do not, and the only practical answer for now is to check locally and hope the next trip finds Kirkland Signature Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips back on the shelf.
