Heather discusses the importance of using free calendar resources from 8th & Walton, focusing on the Walmart fiscal year calendar. Learn how to download these helpful tools from the website and get tips on comparing weekly metrics year over year. Heather also emphasizes the importance of downloading your vendor scorecard from Scintilla before the data resets at the start of the new fiscal year.
Lainie: Welcome to 3-Minute Insights, where we discuss issues of importance to retail suppliers in about three minutes or less. This week, our guest is 8th & Walton’s Heather Reid, and we are discussing some of the free calendar resources that 8th & Walton provides. Welcome, Heather.
Heather: Thanks for having me. I definitely want to start talking about the calendar, but I also want to emphasize the importance of downloading a Scintilla vendor scorecard.
So, with regard to the actual calendar, this is the first week of February. This is the first week of the Walmart fiscal year, which they call FYE 2027, which can confuse people because that just means the fiscal year ends in January. So February to January is the Walmart fiscal year, and we are currently in 2026, week one of that year.
One of the things that we’re going to want to do is compare weeks this year versus last year. That goes back to the way it normally is—week one to week one, week two to week two—versus last year, when there was a 53-week comparison. We’re happy to be past that and back to the normal structure.
What we want to do right now is take some time to review the calendar and download it from our site.
Lainie: Okay, awesome.
Heather: Absolutely. So, I’m going to share my screen here so we can all see where we can get it from our site. It’s fairly easy—it’s free, which I love. Our website is 8thandWalton.com.
One of the first things you want to do is go over to our Resources tab. When you click on that, you’ll see a bunch of our free resources. This is where you can click on Walmart Calendar.
These are our calendars—they’re free. There’s a U.S. calendar for the current year (February 2026 to January 2027), and the Canadian calendar is there as well. Last year’s versions are also available. Another nice feature is a three-year planning calendar for 2026, 2027, and 2028. And then we have our blogs.
Lainie: Excellent. Well, that’s really handy, and it’s cool for everybody to know that there’s both a Walmart calendar for the U.S. and Canada.
Heather: A hundred percent. So absolutely take some time to do that. I also wanted to share about downloading your vendor scorecard with Scintilla. That is available if you just go to Scintilla and sign in using your Walmart credentials.
It’s very simple to do. For Walmart Scintilla Basics, click Report Builder, then Reports. On the left-hand side is the report builder; on the right-hand side is reports. You can look for Vendor Scorecard and add a filter like your vendor number, item number, or UPC code. Then go ahead and create that report and run it.
You want to run that and download it so that you can refer to it throughout the year. It’s very fundamental for the key metrics that are on there for an entire year.
Next Saturday, two days from now—when we’re recording this on the 5th of February—the scorecard will reset to only week one of the current year, so all of the previous year will be gone. That’s why it’s important to download today and run your scorecard.
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