Where to Buy Kirkland Chocolate Chips: Back at Costco 2026
Update log (1)
- — Prices and availability here are one reading of Costco's Same-Day catalogue on 12 August 2026, taken without a delivery address set. Costco stock is warehouse-specific and this product has been returning to stores unevenly, so your own store is the thing to check.
- They exist again. Kirkland Signature Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips, 4.5 lbs, item number 1331846, are listed and orderable on Costco’s own Same-Day site as of 12 August 2026. They were pulled from shelves in August 2024 when cocoa costs spiked, and Nestlé Toll House took the slot.
- The $13.61 you see online is not the warehouse price. Costco states plainly that Same-Day item prices ‘are marked up higher than your local warehouse’ to pay for Instacart’s delivery. Its own Executive Reward is calculated on the warehouse price ‘before the markup is added’, which is Costco confirming the two numbers are different.
- Even marked up, it undercuts the brand that replaced it. On the same page, the same 4.5 lbs in Nestlé Toll House morsels is $18.15 — $4.54 more for the identical weight, which is 33% more per ounce.
- This is a warehouse-by-warehouse product, not a nationwide relaunch. Sightings have been scattered, so the only reliable check is item 1331846 in the Costco app against your own store. Same-Day delivery is members-only; non-members can order through Instacart.com but Costco says they pay more.
Kirkland Signature Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips are listed again on Costco’s own Same-Day site — item 1331846, 4.5 lbs, $13.61 as of 12 August 2026. They had been off shelves since August 2024.
Two things to know before you go looking. That $13.61 is a delivery price, not the warehouse price. And this is coming back store by store rather than everywhere at once, so the item number matters more than the price does.
Are Kirkland chocolate chips discontinued?
Not any more. They were pulled in August 2024, and they are back in Costco’s catalogue now — but the return has been gradual rather than announced.
The original removal covered two products: the red-bag Kirkland Signature Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips and a blue-bag 51% cacao version, both 4.5 lbs. Reporting at the time put the cause at cocoa, which had risen roughly 200% and made it hard for Costco to hold the standard its own brand is built on — equal or better quality than the national brand, for less. Nestlé Toll House took the space on the shelf.
What is verifiable today is narrower and more useful: the red-bag product has a live listing on Costco’s Same-Day site, with an item number that matches the one shoppers have been passing around.
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Product | Kirkland Semi-Sweet Chips |
| Item | 1331846 |
| Size | 4.5 lbs (72 oz) |
| Same-Day price | $13.61 |
| Flags | Gluten-free, Kosher |
The listing also carries “Made with Sustainable Cocoa” — which, given that cocoa is the reason it vanished, is the detail worth noticing.
Where can you buy Kirkland chocolate chips?
Only from Costco. Kirkland Signature is Costco’s own brand, so there is no supermarket, no Target, no independent grocer that stocks it. That leaves three routes, and they are not equivalent.
| Route | Who | Price basis |
|---|---|---|
| Warehouse | Members | Shelf price |
| Same-Day | Members | Marked up |
| Instacart.com | Non-members | Higher still |
In the warehouse is the cheapest way and the one this article cannot price for you — Costco does not publish shelf prices online, and its site is not reachable from here at all.
Costco Same-Day is the site quoted throughout this article. It is members-only, has a $35 minimum order, and its prices carry a markup.
Instacart.com is the non-member route. Costco’s own FAQ puts it bluntly: if you are not a member “you can shop directly from Instacart.com, but you’ll pay a higher price than members shopping on Costco Same-Day Delivery.”
Because supply is running store by store, the practical move is not to pick a route first. It is to check item 1331846 in the Costco app against your own warehouse, then decide.
How much do Kirkland chocolate chips cost?
$13.61 for the 4.5 lb bag on Costco Same-Day, which is more than it costs in the warehouse. Costco says so itself, in its Same-Day FAQ: “Item prices are marked up higher than your local warehouse. Instacart uses this markup to pay for their delivery service.”
That is not a rumour or a price-watching inference — it is the retailer describing its own pricing. Two other things on Costco’s pages confirm the same split. Executive members earn their 2% Reward on Same-Day orders calculated on “the original warehouse sell price, before the markup is added”. And one location, Fairbanks bulk pickup, is singled out as charging “the same as in-store prices” — a line that only needs writing because it is the exception.
What Costco does not publish is the size of the markup, so no percentage appears here and neither does a guessed shelf price.
What replaced Kirkland chocolate chips?
Nestlé Toll House Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels, in a 72 oz bag at $18.15 — and 72 oz is 4.5 lbs, so it is the same amount of chocolate.
| Bag | Weight | Price | Per oz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kirkland | 72 oz | $13.61 | $0.189 |
| Nestlé | 72 oz | $18.15 | $0.252 |
That is $4.54 more for the identical weight — 33% more per ounce, or put the other way, Kirkland is 25% cheaper. Both prices are from the same catalogue on the same day and both carry the same delivery markup, so while neither is a shelf price, the gap between them is a fair comparison.
It also explains why the return got attention. The Kirkland bag was not just a different label — it was the cheaper one, and for two years the only option in that slot was the more expensive one.
Do you need a Costco membership?
For the warehouse and for Same-Day, yes. Costco’s Same-Day delivery “is only offered to members”, in its own words. Membership runs $65 a year for Gold Star and $130 for Executive, which is the $65 base plus a $65 upgrade and adds the 2% annual reward.
| Membership | Annual fee |
|---|---|
| Gold Star | $65 |
| Executive | $130 |
Non-members are not locked out entirely — Instacart.com carries Costco items without a membership — but Costco states you will pay more that way than members do on Same-Day. For a single $13.61 bag of chocolate chips, no version of a $65 membership pays for itself; this is worth knowing only if you were already close to joining.
How do you check if your store has them?
Search item 1331846 in the Costco app. Warehouse inventory is store-specific, and this product has been reappearing unevenly — sightings have been scattered across the country rather than arriving everywhere at once.
That makes the item number the single most useful thing on this page. A product name gets you near-matches; Kirkland’s own catalogue has mini chocolate chip cookies, chocolate chunk cookies and chocolate-covered almonds that all surface on the same search. The number gets you the bag.
If your warehouse does not have it, the Same-Day listing is the fallback, at the marked-up price and a $35 order minimum. Our guide to tracking down Toblerone Biscoff in the UK covers the same failure mode from the other direction: buying the near-match by accident.
Bottom line
They are back, they are item 1331846, and at $13.61 for 4.5 lbs on Same-Day they are $4.54 cheaper than the Nestlé bag that replaced them.
Check the app before you drive. The listing being live in Costco’s delivery catalogue does not mean the bag is in your warehouse today, and that gap — between what the catalogue shows and what your store holds — is the whole reason this product has been so hard to find for two years.
Sources
Read on 12 August 2026.
| Source | What it supports here |
|---|---|
| Costco Same-Day: Kirkland Signature Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips, 4.5 lbs | Item number 1331846, the $13.61 price, the 4.5 lbs size, and the Gluten-free, Kosher and Sustainable Cocoa flags |
| Costco Same-Day: search results for Kirkland chocolate chips | The Nestlé Toll House 72 oz listing at $18.15 alongside the Kirkland bag, on the same page on the same day |
| Costco customer service: Same-Day Delivery FAQs | The markup wording, the $35 order minimum, Executive Rewards being calculated before the markup, and the members-only and Instacart.com statements |
| Costco customer service: membership types | Gold Star at $65 a year and Executive at $130, and how the Executive fee is composed |
| Costco Same-Day help centre | The Fairbanks bulk pickup exception charging in-store prices, which is what makes the general markup explicit |
How we verified this
The product listing was read on Costco’s own site, and the item number matches what shoppers had been circulating. Secondary coverage of the comeback pointed people at item 1331846. Costco’s Same-Day product page for Kirkland Signature Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips, 4.5 lbs, shows exactly that number, with a current price of $13.61, and flags it Gluten-free, Kosher and “Made with Sustainable Cocoa”. A tip from secondary reporting confirmed against the retailer’s own catalogue is the strongest form this kind of claim gets.
costco.com itself is unreachable from this connection, and that limits what can be said. Every interior costco.com URL tried — the catalogue search, the grocery category, a product path — returned HTTP 403, and a browser gets an Akamai “Access Denied” page rather than a login wall. So there is no in-warehouse price in this article: not an estimate, not a conversion, nothing.
The two Costco sites that do respond answer differently to a script than to a browser, and one of them cannot be checked by script at all. sameday.costco.com returns the same 124,086-byte application shell for a real product URL and for a deliberately invalid one — identical to the byte — so a command-line request cannot tell a live listing from a fake path there. Every product figure in this article was therefore read in a browser, as a guest, off the rendered page. customerservice.costco.com behaves better: the quoted lines about the markup, the $35 minimum and the $65/$130 membership fees were all matched in its raw HTML, though its error page returns 200 rather than 404, so the content match rather than the status code is what confirms those two pages.
The markup is Costco’s own wording, not an inference from price-watching. Its Same-Day FAQ states: “Item prices are marked up higher than your local warehouse. Instacart uses this markup to pay for their delivery service.” The same page says Executive Rewards accrue “on the original warehouse sell price, before the markup is added”, and a separate help page notes that one location — Fairbanks bulk pickup — charges “the same as in-store prices”, which only needs saying because everywhere else does not. No percentage is quoted here, because Costco does not publish one.
The Kirkland and Nestlé comparison is like-for-like on weight, and both figures come from the same page on the same day. 72 oz is 4.5 lbs, so the two bags are the same size; $18.15 against $13.61 is a $4.54 difference. Per ounce that is $0.252 against $0.189. Both are Same-Day prices carrying the same markup, so the gap between them is a fair comparison even though neither is a shelf price.
We did not set a delivery address, so treat the price as a catalogue reading rather than your price. Same-Day browses as a guest without a ZIP code, and Costco’s assortment and pricing vary by warehouse. Nothing on the page indicated which region it was quoting.
The 2024 discontinuation and the 2026 return are secondary reporting, and are labelled as such. Multiple outlets reported the August 2024 removal, the roughly 200% rise in cocoa costs behind it, and the Nestlé replacement; the return has been reported as scattered sightings rather than an announcement. Costco has not published a statement on either that we could reach. What is first-party here is narrow and checkable: the listing exists today, at that item number, at that price.
The blue-bag 51% cacao version is not covered. It was one of two Kirkland chocolate chip products discontinued in 2024, and it did not appear in the Same-Day results. Absent from one catalogue reading is not the same as discontinued, so this article says nothing about it either way.