Mary D. Lee’s sweet potato pie-making skills are about to go national.
Walmart offered the Henrico County woman a deal on the spot for her sweet potato pie during a national open-call pitch event Wednesday at the global retailer’s headquarters in Arkansas. Hundreds of entrepreneurs and business owners from across the country attended the event looking for their big break.
The event is part of a Walmart initiative to purchase more products made or grown in the U.S. to sell online and at its approximately 4,700 brick-and-mortar stores in the U.S.
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