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A Perficient Team?s DIY Approach to the PPE Shortage

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Our Chicago team members fit right into this category when they dedicated a night to making masks for themselves and their friends and families. Chicago’s PPE Shortage. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Chicago and its surrounding areas have been a hotspot for the coronavirus. BYOMM (Bring Your Own Mask Materials).

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7 ways community banks can boost profitability

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Here’s what community bankers need to know when planning their budgets for the next year. These days, there’s a lot to contend with as a community bank, from changing consumer behaviors due to the pandemic to uncertainty surrounding the economy and inflation. By Cheryl Winokur Munk. Quick stat. Source: 2021 Provident Bank survey.

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Salesforce Launches NFT Cloud

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The first version of NFT Cloud was released in a limited pilot in mid-June at the Salesforce Connections conference in Chicago. In May, news reports circulated online that scammers had been impersonating reporters on Twitter. Salesforce has launched a cloud-based service for the sale and creation of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

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PayPal Provides $5M In Grants To Support Minority Businesses

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The grants are part of the San Jose, California-based worldwide online payments system’s $530 million pledge made earlier this year to strengthen minority communities and fight for economic equality and racial justice. “To PayPal Holdings Inc. provided $5 million in grants to support Black-owned businesses in the U.S.

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Amazon Plans To Expand Grocery Stores Across The US

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billion for Whole Foods , the online retail giant is planning to open its second automated-checkout grocery store in Seattle’s Eastside neighborhood and is hiring managers for a third store in the city’s Capitol Hill district, The Seattle Times reported. Amazon must like the supermarket business. Three years after it paid $13.4

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St. Louis Colleagues Rank Perficient a Top Workplace in 2020

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While touring the local recycling facility won’t happen in 2020, colleagues didn’t miss the opportunity to share their quarantine sustainability best practices tips and participate in an online plastic-free challenge. See open jobs or join our community for career tips, job openings, company updates, and more!

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Are Online Merchants The Mall’s Unlikely Salvation?

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One might imagine that mall operators nationwide take a rather jaundiced view of the internet, since online shopping has more or less killed the mall. But perhaps that is the old conventional wisdom — the emerging idea is that online retailers are giving back some of what they’ve taken away these days. “We

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