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Walmart Building $350M Valdosta Dairy Processing Plant
Walmart plans to own and operate a milk processing facility in Valdosta, Georgia. The new facility will cost $350 million to build. The company will break ground later this year and create nearly 400 Walmart jobs in the Valdosta community. The plant will produce dairy products that will be distributed to 750 Walmart and Sam’s Clubs stores in the region. The ingredients will be sourced from local farmers.
It’s the second milk processing plant Walmart has built, after one that opened in 2018 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, helping it control production of one of the most price-sensitive grocery commodities. The company previously bought all its milk from other dairy companies.
The retail giant is following the lead of other large grocers such as Kroger, which has long run its own dairies.
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