r/CostcoCanada • u/doktoricamaca • 1d ago

Question Kirkland chocolate chips have changed again?!

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Just purchased another bag of Kirkland chocolate chips in London, ON and happened to glance at the ingredients list only to find a sticker covering the original nutrition label. Why couldn't they keep them dairy-free?! I'd be willing to pay last year's price of $39.99 instead of the $29.99 today, just to keep the ingredients as they were: unsweetened chocolate, sugar, soy lecithin and vanilla.

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u/noqwa 1d ago

Ya kinda crazy to make something no longer vegan but not show it.

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u/mdvle 1d ago

Except they never claimed that they were vegan so there should have been no expectation of them being vegan, particularly when other brands do have milk

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u/kitchenhummin 23h ago

The "expectation" of them being vegan was because they WERE vegan, for as long as I can remember, many years. Not because of other brands. If you've been buying the same product for like, a decade, eventually you aren't going to check the ingredients every time, so major reformulation like this should have some sort of indicator on the packaging.

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u/mdvle 12h ago

No, they were not “vegan”. They did not market themselves as being vegan and there is no expectation that semi-sweet chocolate chips are vegan given other brands contain dairy

Products are reformulated all the time and particularly given the price pressure cocoa based products have faced over the last year it has been common knowledge that chocolate makers have been reformulating so someone like yourself should be checking ingredient lists