Love Is In the Air & On the Rails For Valentine’s Day

According to the National Retail Federation’s Consumer Spending Survey, consumers will spend a record average of $146.84 on Valentine’s Day gifts this year.

That’s over 36 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolate, 8 billion candy hearts, and a billion Valentine’s cards.

Delivering so many products from manufacturing sites to distribution centers around the country requires retailers, suppliers, and carriers to plan and prepare long before February 14th.

Savvy supply chain managers know to leverage intermodal rail for its sweet cost-savings and access to alternative capacity in order to avoid supply chain heartache.

Click here to connect with an intermodal expert to find out if your supply chain and intermodal rail are a perfect match.

Let’s take a look at how CSXT Intermodal Rail helps supply chains deliver the perfect gift this Valentine’s Day:

Source: This article originally appeared on Intermodal.com. It is been syndicated here with permission by the content creator.

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