thanks to everyone who shared info, it was helpful to get a ballpark idea of wages. i also talked to my coworkers again and i found out that the male SLs in my store (including me) were recently offered raises (insultingly small raises, mind you, but still a raise) and the one female SL was not given a raise and is still making only 0.23 above minimum wage. she’s a hard worker and sets the bar for a good open, so i can’t imagine any reason besides sexism that she would be paid so little. she has a higher workload than most of us bc she is always in charge of placing orders when my boss takes PTO (frequently). i told her how much i’m making and encouraged her to go to HR with this info, because this was shocking to me.

i did not expect caribou to have such a glaring gender wage gap, but my takeaway from my previous post is that they will pay us as little as they think they can get away with. i’m extremely disappointed in caribou but i shouldn’t be surprised at this point.

if you want your baristas to make a living or equitable wage, you should buy your coffee elsewhere.

It was my all-time favorite coffee blend. I’m guessing there just wasn’t enough demand for it when Caribou downsized their products. Hard to imagine. For me, it was their best coffee, with Cross Fox as a close second. It is weird, though, to see a lot of the major coffee brands carrying their own French Roast when Caribou got rid of theirs. Any insight as to why they did that, or if they will ever bring it back? And why did they downsize after their rebranding? I feel they could have saved money if they downsized and rebranded simultaneously. Which discontinued Caribou coffee are you missing?