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Episode: Walmart cake decorators see top hourly pay as business thrives during graduation season
Description: Inside a bakery at a New Jersey Walmart, Melissa Fernandez assembles and decorates cakes. “The Cupcake Bouquets are number one right now. It’s the biggest seller,” said Fernandez. “So it’s twelve cupcakes set up to look like a flower bouquet.”
Across the country, cake decorators at the nation's largest retailer collectively decorated more than a million cakes during the 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. Fernandez said, “Well, TikTok helps me to stay up to date. A lot of trends that...