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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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Coinbase Lays Off 30, Shutters Chicago Office

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Digital currency exchange Coinbase has shuttered its Chicago office and laid off 30 engineers, according to a report in Fortune. We have made the difficult decision to consolidate the matching engine efforts and thus wind down the matching engine team in Chicago. “We which is a Visa debit card that lets customers in the U.K.

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Half Of Chicagoans To Shop Online This Holiday

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More than 50 percent of Chicagoans will do the majority of their holiday shopping online this year, according to a survey from Accenture. Holiday purchases are no longer restricted to the weekend after Thanksgiving, reported The Chicago Tribune. Year-round online deals mean that Black Friday is becoming less significant to consumers.

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ALDI Expands Online Grocery Delivery To All US Stores

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ALDI has announced that it is expanding its online grocery delivery service to all of its stores in the United States. ALDI partnered with Instacart in March, first launching the service in greater Chicago, in areas as far as Rockford, Illinois, after testing it out in three markets – Atlanta, Dallas and Los Angeles — in August.

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Target Opening Additional Small Stores In NYC And Chicago

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Target has announced it is opening additional small-scale stores in New York City (NYC) and Chicago. In 2016, the company announced it had opened 23 “flex-format” stores — smaller stores less than 50,000 square feet designed for urban shoppers — in metro areas like Chicago, Philadelphia and Berkeley, California.

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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. Experience An Award-Winning Employee Experience. READ MORE: See All of Perficient’s Awards .

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Amazon One Lets Consumers Pay With Their Hand

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But there are plans to expand it across Seattle, New York, Chicago and San Francisco, the company said. Instead, he said, the palm images are encrypted and stored online. If it’s a hit with users, Amazon plans to bring it to other retailers as well as performance venues and the nation’s offices.