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Starbucks signature hot chocolates, we miss ya already.
With heavy heart, I share some cataclysmic news. On Monday, it was delivered to me by my Starbucks barista — a person who usually shines goodness into my morning. Before I could give her my standing order — a no-whip grande Signature Hot Chocolate — she blurted: “Did you hear the bad news?” It seems Starbucks is discontinuing their high-end cocoa (they’ll still serve their middling hot chocolate, but whatever), and not bringing it back until fall.
So my beloved Signature Hot Chocolate will go the way of the Pumpkin Spice Latte.
My barista said that when she heard the news, she told her district manager: “I’m going to lose so many customers!” The DM’s response? “Tell them to order something else.” Ex-squeeze me? Not when you hate coffee, and you’ve become so addicted to the dark chocolate bliss that you would drink it twice a day, 365 days a year, if you could afford it. So, no. Starbucks, you’ve lost a customer in me. Unless you change your mind.
So please, fellow SHC lovers, if you’ll miss the bliss, join with me in protest. Write them. Every day. Rattle their Seattle-based, socially-responsible cages. Set the Signature Hot Chocolate free from its seasonal shackles. The closest thing I can come to a complaint box is through this link on their web site. Go there and make your voice heard. And drink up while you still can.
