When you're Walmart, you've pretty much done it all. Or so it seems.
The Bentonville, Arkansas-based retail giant had never tackled building and operating a food processing plant, but officials can now check that off their bucket list.
On Wednesday, under cloudy skies, Walmart officially opened a milk processing plant near Fort Wayne International Airport. The $165 million investment is creating more than 300 new jobs and additional demand for area dairy farms.
Construction began in 2016 on the 250,000-square-foot facility that will supply Great Value brand milk to about 500 Walmart stores in five states, including all of Indiana, Ohio and Michigan.
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