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8th & Walton’s President and CEO enjoys leading the company’s mission of helping suppliers become better partners with Walmart through education and best-in-class support. Jeff’s retail career began in magazines as the Newsstand Sales Director for Pack-O-Fun, Inc. It published six consumer crafting periodicals that were distributed through hundreds of retail chains, large and small. During that time, Jeff called on key national retail accounts, including Walmart. He later led the $11MM business as its publisher and independently brokered its sale to Amos Press, Inc. in 2006. In 2007, Jeff launched an online golf video game, which he sold to World Golf Tour in 2010. He purchased 8th & Walton in 2014.

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Christi Martin has 20 years of expertise in various accounting roles across several industries. Her leadership and guidance provide 8th & Walton clients with unique perspectives into Walmart’s Accounting/Deduction Management and Recovery and Invoice Accuracy processes, as well as other supplier accounting areas. Christi’s team is credited with many successes in Supplier Accounting and Monetary Recovery, recovering hundreds of thousands of dollars. Accounting and the Dispute Portal are areas of the Walmart business in which many suppliers have a large knowledge gap, but these are critical to their overall business success. Christi’s team is key to returning the ultimate accounting ROI for clients.

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Steven has spent the last 19 years developing solutions to help brands grow with the world’s largest retailers. He has worked on businesses featuring premium brands, private labels, value brands, consumable products, seasonal programs, domestic delivery, and direct import buys and has acted as category adviser to buying teams. Steven has partnered with Walmart in Impulse/Front End, Office, Back to School, Fabrics & Crafts, Sporting Goods, Hardware, Automotive, Garden, Umbrellas, Paint, Household Cleaning, Sunglasses/Jewelry, Electronics, Emergency Operations Center, and Store Use Supplies. The constant through these experiences has been Steven’s fact-based, strategic approach that helps the product manufacturer gain the trust and credibility of the merchant and retailer. His process of evaluating all aspects of the category, business, and process helps feed his plan of getting past potential customer hurdles prior to the presentation. Once there is a plan for all obstacles in the way of success, the brand can deliver on the goal of providing a solution to the retailer that is easy for them to execute.

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Mark Stallcup is an accomplished and dedicated supply chain development leader with 37 years of experience in merchandising replenishment, supply chain process, and technology development & integration at Walmart Stores Inc. Mark led teams to develop perpetual inventory and replenishment functionality enabling category growth, inventory flow, and retail shelf availability. Mark recently served as a Senior Project Manager on the Global Replenishment Solution rollout at Walmart. He helps suppliers optimize their forecasting and deployment to Walmart networks and can help evaluate solutions for distinct supply chain needs.

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Terry Clear was at Walmart for nearly 10 years, five of which were on the GRS project, starting with pre go live foundational work, later working with the database to migrate external data into the Walmart data warehouse. While on the GRS project, Terry earned a supply chain patent for a process improvement for perishable product in the Walmart Express stores. Later, Terry moved to the Walmart Transportation/Logistics Division as a Senior Manager of Merchandise Logistics for Consumables, Health and Wellness. As Merchandising Logistics Manager, Terry was responsible for solving supply chain challenges including ship point alignments, prepaid or collect analyses, new supplier transportation onboarding, pack analyses, and optimization of the supply chain for multi supplier private label products. He has been providing guidance to Walmart suppliers at 8th & Walton for 7 years.

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Joel Graham is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) with 40 years of retail experience, 28 of them with Walmart and Sam’s Club. He led the Sam’s Club UPC/Item File Team for 10 years and worked in the buying, replenishment, and operations areas as well as in its frozen, candy, HBA, OTC, pets, and dry grocery categories. An expert facilitator and advisor with over 20 years of presentation experience, Joel’s specialties include item file creation and management; packaging; accounting; compliance, including WERCS and factory disclosure; GS1,GTIN/Data matrix/QR codes/RFID; and all aspects of Retail Link®, Reporting, supply chain, and e-commerce

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Scott Benedict is an accomplished retail merchant, educator, consultant, author, advisory board member, keynote speaker, and digital retailing executive with more than 35 years of diverse experience spanning traditional brick-and-mortar retailing, eCommerce, omnichannel, and international retail merchandising and operations.

Scott’s retail merchandising career included more than 25 years in the Consumer Electronics and General Merchandise categories before his more senior merchandising roles expanded his reach into Grocery, Pets, and CPG businesses and across specialty, wholesale club, mass, and catalog retail. Scott was a member of the founding team for Walmart Online, the predecessor to Walmart.com, and spent more than 18 years in various roles within Walmart and Sam’s Club.

Scott is the author of an upcoming book on digital merchandising and is a frequent guest speaker and writer on retail webinars, podcasts, as well as print and broadcast media interviews on the state of modern retailing in the omnichannel age.

Scott was named a Top Retail Expert by RETHINK Retail in 2023 and 2024 and is a member of the RetailWire BrainTrust.

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Heather Reid worked for Walmart Canada for 22 years prior to joining Canada’s 8th & Walton in 2016. While at Walmart, she organized and facilitated its Retail Link® and various system-training programs for both internal and external Walmart customers. She also facilitated a four-day supplier training session on a bi-weekly basis, teaching over 2,000 Walmart suppliers. She has a vast knowledge of Replenishment (GRS) and is an expert in Retail Link® and in Accounting for both Walmart US and Walmart Canada. In addition to her deep knowledge of retail systems, Heather is an extraordinary teacher. She holds a diploma in Human Resources, Marketing, and Accounting and has held the Canadian Human Resource Leader (CHRL) designation.

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During Pam’s 12 years in Walmart’s Information Systems Division (ISD), she developed software for Walmart’s Retail Link and Decision Support System (DSS) systems. She worked with item file, merchandising, replenishment, and logistics to design and develop reports and scorecards. Pam is a Baylor University graduate with a degree in Information Systems and Quantitative Business Analysis.

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Lori Carter has a remarkable breadth of experience in her 26 year retail career. It began at Walmart and Sam’s Club where she was a Retail Link® analyst and replenishment specialist. As a supplier and working on behalf of suppliers, Lori has managed e-commerce accounts, analyzed data, improved OTIF scores, and resolved transportation issues. Lori also serves as an administrator of the Walmart Supplier Support Group on FaceBook. Here she answers suppliers’ questions, an experience that has given her a deep understanding of the current needs of the Walmart supplier.

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Marie Clapper was an English teacher who left teaching to become a magazine staff writer. In 1992, she became CEO and president of the publishing company which produced a dozen craft titles as well as a PBS televison show. During that time, she worked closely with Walmart to develop special fall promotions for her magazines. Marie was listed in Who’s Who for over twenty years. She joined 8th & Walton in 2013 and is its Director of Education.

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Adela Rojas has over 20 years of experience in operations, administration, bookkeeping, sales, and customer service. Originally from Peru, Adela worked for one of the largest banks of her home country, where she learned many of her customer service, negotiation, and communication skills.

Always ready to assist all clients via email, chat, or phone, Adela is also ready to help her teammates by solving problems with creative ideas.She manages our classes, student schedules, advisor schedules, websites, and CRM. She is proficient in Retail Link® and Walmart accounting.

Adela is bilingual, so if you speak Spanish, come say Hola to her!

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Annie Nelson brings keenly developed organizational skills and a tireless reach for excellence to 8th & Walton. Her can-do attitude was honed while successfully running her cottage bakery in Northwest Arkansas (The Family Crumb), a passion she continues to enjoy. A graduate of Columbia College and a certified yoga instructor, Annie has an effervescence and sunny disposition both clients and team mates appreciate.

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Lainie has written 8th & Walton’s newsletters for over a decade. She has written for various publications and worked at a subsidiary of the Washington Post for five years. Lainie earned a Bachelor of Science degree in philosophy (Illinois State University), both a Master of Theological Studies and a Master of Divinity (Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary), and a Master of Library and Information Science (Dominican University). She is a wine aficionado and the host of the podcast Chicago Wine Report.