How Wild Zora prepared for its massive Walmart deal

LOVELAND — One thousand stores is just a drop in the bucket for an international goliath such as Walmart, but for family-owned Wild Zora Foods LLC, serving product to that number of stores is a 600 percent increase in its production capacity.

But founders Zora and Joshua Tabin didn’t want to wonder if they would regret passing on such a deal — selling their meat and veggie bars in 1,000 WalMart stores — so they spent three months ramping up.