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Local Governments Move In On Retail Vacancies

PYMNTS

It was supposed to be a thriving retail center in Milwaukee when it was built seven years ago. In fact, last week, it was announced that the building would be the new home of the Milwaukee School of Engineering’s K-12 STEM program. But it never happened. No one ever leased from the development called Viets Field.

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Why Grocers Are Providing Fresh Options For Digital Omnicommerce Shopping

PYMNTS

Find out how grocers are tackling omnichannel options in the digital age with the following roundup: Ninety percent of customers shop and purchase groceries in a physical store: Online sales may be skyrocketing, but eCommerce is still just scratching the surface when it comes to groceries. purchased groceries online at least once a month.

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Stepping Into 21st Century Hospitality With Apartments And Technology

PYMNTS

As a result, the company can architect all the elements of its operation from technology to process and its people from the ground up with insight from the current day. It has units in cities such as Charlotte, Tampa, Milwaukee and Columbus. The Business. It seeks to help them increase their occupancy and fill their vacant units.

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Retail Chains Find New Ways To Fight

PYMNTS

percent, online and mail-order retail sales increased 0.8 trillion in market cap by 2024, fueled by the increasing importance of advertising revenue for the eCommerce operator, along with the continued role of Amazon Web Services. Also in July, auto sales increased 0.2 percent, while sales at clothing stores rebounded 1.3 New Concepts.

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Ripple Effects: Mobile Payments Are Just The Beginning

PYMNTS

Frank Bruni, vice president of supply chain operations at Kroger, for example, said: “Every project we look at, we look at automation as a potential part of it.”. consumers preferred shopping for groceries online and having them delivered to their homes. In 2016, 5 percent of U.S. But who can afford to train and staff such a team? …

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Community Bank CEO Outlook 2022: Your priorities for the new year

Independent Banker

To counter such competition, the $186 million-asset community bank plans to hire another lender to seek deals across the state, sticking to smaller towns and avoiding the saturated Milwaukee and Madison, Wis., Badger Bank is having trouble finding staff “across the board,” from operations to tellers and trust officers. “We

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Bright Paths Students Demonstrate New Skills with Incredible Variety of Apps

Perficient

In her first semester at Southwest Minnesota State University, she majored in Computer Science and learned quite a lot about terminals, using Jedit, and also learned about gates and machine languages operating off binary numbers. Emily Merline, originally from Milwaukee, WI, attended Arizona State University on a National Merit Scholarship.

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