(6 Jun 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
North Bergen, New Jersey – 28 May 2025
1. Walmart cake decorator Melissa Fernandez making a graduation cake
2. Tight on red filling
3. Time lapse of cake decorator making Cupcake Bouquet
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Melissa Fernandez, Walmart Cake Decorator:
“The Cupcake Bouquet is our number one right now. It’s our biggest seller…so it’s twelve cupcakes set up to look like a flower bouquet.”
5. Fernandez putting on hair net
6. Cupcake bouquet
7. Fernandez entering cake decorating area
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Melissa Fernandez, Walmart Cake Decorator:
“Well TikTok helps me to stay up to date. A lot of trends that I see on there, within that week or within that month, customers will come asking about it.”
9. Time lapse of Fernandez making graduation cake
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Melissa Fernandez, Walmart Cake Decorator:
“I make twenty-four dollars and forty-something cents.”
11. Drone video of the exterior of Walmart store
12. Time lapse of walking shot starting outside and moving to interior of Walmart store
13. Cake display case
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael DeMarco, Walmart Coach:
“That’s one of the most important things and that’s price point. And Walmart has the best price point out of everybody else in the business.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Port Washington, New York – 2 June 2025
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15. SOUNDBITE (English) Marshal Cohen, Circana Chief Retail Advisor:
“What we are seeing is the consumer entering into an era of ‘dups’ – duplications – less expensive versions of the original. Walmart offering up decorated cakes that would normally cost hundreds of dollars, offering them up for a fraction of the price. And in many cases they may be almost as good, or in the consumer’s mind, just as good as the original upper end product.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
North Bergen, New Jersey – 28 May 2025
16. Fernandez writing on cake
17. Fernandez handing cake to customer Greg Arango
18. SOUNDBITE (English) George Arango, Customer:
“Oh the price is fantastic. I’m walking in and out with two cakes for forty dollars”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Port Washington, New York – 2 June 2025
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19. SOUNDBITE (English) Marshal Cohen, Circana Chief Retail Advisor:
“The question always comes up when a large retailer starts to enter into…are they knocking out the local merchant? And what we’ve learned over time is no, the local merchant has the ability to be able to service the customer in a different way. But what we are seeing is this is creating almost like a new found opportunity for those that have a skill set.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
North Bergen, New Jersey – 28 May 2025
20. Various of cake making and customer
21. Fernandez making cake
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Inside this bakery at a New Jersey Walmart, Melissa Fernandez assembles and decorates cakes.
SOUNDBITE (English) Melissa Fernandez, Walmart Cake Decorator
“The Cupcake Bouquet is number one biggest seller right now….so it’s twelve cupcakes set up to look like a flower bouquet.”
Across the country, cake decorators at the nation’s largest retailer will collectively decorate more than a million cakes during this May and June graduation season.
Fernandez promotes her skills on social media. A TikTok of her making the cupcake bouquet has almost half a million views.
SOUNDBITE (English) Melissa Fernandez, Walmart Cake Decorator
The 6,200 Walmart cake decorators in the U.S are the highest paid non-managerial hourly workers in a typical Walmart store.
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