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Who’s Catching the Holiday Shopping Fever?

Enterra Insights

Lisa Rowan reports, “The National Retail Federation expects holiday retail sales to total between $727.9 ” States with consumers at the other end of the spending scale include: West Virginia ($60); Vermont ($111); Montana ($328); Louisiana ($342); and New Mexico ($373). billion and $730.7 billion this year.

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Marketing and Big Data

Enterra Insights

” Good analytic results begin with good data. The purpose of advertising, of course, is to encourage consumers to purchase goods and/or services. … If a person adds items to the shopping cart on your website but doesn’t complete the purchase, he or she can be targeted with ads encouraging them to make the purchase.”

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This Week in Logistics News (July 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

The two new prototypes are both based on the Hummingbird, which Wing says can carry about 2 pounds and has made hundreds of thousands of deliveries in Dallas suburbs, Virginia, Australia, and Finland. According to The McCown Report, imports to the top 10 US ports rose 5.9 This month looks like it will be the best or second-best July.