Hits keep coming, but pandemic-hardened businesses adapting

PBN Staff

02/18/2022

IN THE FIGHT: Paul Amaral, owner of East Providence-based Amaral Custom Fabrications Inc., is struggling to fill open positions but still has high hopes for his business this year. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELY — IN THE FIGHT: Paul Amaral, owner of East Providence-based Amaral Custom Fabrications Inc., is struggling to fill open positions but still has high hopes for his business this year. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Inflation is at a 40-year high and qualified, committed workers seem scarcer than ever. Yet profits are up strongly for many local businesses from a year ago and a majority of owners still expect things to improve for their businesses in the coming year. Such is today’s pandemic-hardened, survival-of-the-fittest economy, where all manner of fiscal,

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