Posted on 01/28/2019 5:46:05 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
ST. PETERSBURG — Tropicana Field will become the first cashless sports venue in North American, the Rays announced Friday.
The Rays said tests with analytics and emerging tech firm E15 showed that switching to cash-free will cut transaction times in half.
Payment forms to be accepted at Tropicana Field this season include major credit cards, Rays gift cards, mobile payments such as Apple Pay and Samsung Pay and season-ticket holder Rays Cards, the team announced in a press release.
Fans without electronic forms of payment can exchange cash at all retail locations and through roaming gift-card vendors in $10 and $20 increments. Parking operations at the Trop were cash-free in 2018 and will continue to be.
(Excerpt) Read more at tampabay.com ...
absolutely
E15 is based in Chicago. Check out the bit about data mining....
You’re not a customer. You’re the product.
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Hope they don’t lose their internet connection.
Like the concept of self checkout... One of the stupidest things I have seen yet is supporting self checkout. While it is currently convenient for the few who only have a couple items and in a hurry, once there is ONLY self checkout available there will be always be an inept family with two carts stuffed full in front of you anyways. It will come full circle and be even worse in the end game.
We really need to look farther down the road with these things.
The other day at the local WalMart, I had 6-7 items and was headed for the self check out. A WalMart employee stopped me and asked if I was ready to check out. i said yes. He had a tablet and a small printer, he scanned the stuff , bagged it, done. I always use the self checkout, vast improvement over the old method. The thing I see more of is people using the pick up service, where you submit an order and they shop for you, that, I would not do.
They weren't playoff caliber last year, but may be this year. I agree about the park. Really a dump.
I don't have a problem with going cashless. I never carry cash. I think one area where it will hurt them is with illegals who get paid in cash and thus pay with cash.
If I’m going to have to do all the work then I have earned fair compensation for my work. If using self checkout gave a 10% discount then maybe. In the mean time the store has fooled you into doing all the work and they profit even more because they didn’t have to pay an employee to do this work. They get to have their cake and eat it too and we fell for the scam.
If we keep supporting this concept of “paying vendors to do all the work for them” we are headed down a bad road and they will just keep taking advantage of it, expand on it even more, and it will soon be the only option available. I am a businessman and the whole concept still insults my intelligence. I’m not going to pay someone to work for them.
What ever happened to this legal tender thingy?
A cashless society allows government to monitor everything you buy and sell. Further, it allows the government to turn off your “money” any time it wants too. Folks can subscribe to a cashless society if they want but don’t force me to join you.
Wait, what? That credit card doesn’t work? Ok, try this one. Oh, sorry. Well, how about this one? No? Then how about I give you a $20 bill? You can’t take cash?
There is no doubt that swiping a card is faster than making change.
However, to go purely cashless? That’s probably more motivated by stupid bean counters thinking we can cut the people handling cash, dipping into the till, and the actual counting, and processing of it.
Could easily have cash and credit lines separately, much like toll roads do with EZ-Pass etc...
This has nothing to do with “fan convenience”, that’s just he spin to sell it.
translation: The public schools just aren’t producing anyone who knows how to make change these days.
Oddly enough, I found this true.
I stopped at McDonald’s one night, kind of late (11 PM or so), to get a double cheeseburger and spicy chicken sandwich. They were $1.00 each, so $2.00 + tax. The teenage girl at the cash register said the cash register was down, and I needed to pay $3.00. I told her no, it’s $2.17, as tax is 8.25%. She asked how I knew it was $2.17, and I said you multiple the total by 1.0825, and that’s how much someone owes.
She had to write it down. And still asked me how I figured that out so quickly without a calculator.
SMH
Yep, but did you round up or round down for that penny? In your favor or the state’s favor? lol
They want to go cashless as a government so they can implement things like negative interest rates and shape your behavior by adjusting prices for things according to your spending analytics.
Not as if anyone goes there, anyway.
I have had incidents at fast food drive-thrus where the cashier was unable to make the correct change, so the adult manager came over and was not able to make the correct change either.
You are correct of course. But the truth of the matter is many people have already gone cashless.
They get paid via direct deposit and buy things using their debit card, Apple Pay, etc. You might find some Millenials who don’t even know what cash looks like.
I don’t even remember the last time I had cash on me.
The best thing about cashless is that the bums never ask you for money anymore.
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