N/S: Arthur Blank does not want your cash! Atlanta Falcons game will go cashless is 2019! (1 Viewer)

[XLR8]

I’m assuming this could be a trend?

Atlanta Falcons stadium first in U.S. to go cash-free

Credit cards or mobile payments only will be accepted

www.nola.com

ATLANTA — Mercedes-Benz Stadium is moving away from cash transactions for all events, including Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United games.
The move to full cashless purchases begins with the MLS Atlanta United game against Cincinnati on Friday.
All ticket purchases, concessions and merchandise must be purchased with credit cards or mobile payment. As an option, fans can use cash to purchase debit cards at new ATM machines and use the debit cards for purchases.

 

[J.T.]

I just think it is priceless that the first team to go "cashless" is also "trophyless".....that's just poetic justice. Everything should be $2.83 per item during the playoffs for every home game....that way it won't cost Blank any money on "lost" sales because they won't have any home playoff games.

 

[49erKiller]

NFL: "The only cash transactions allowed in the stadium involve NFL officials."

 

[GrandAdmiral]

I wonder if Chick-Fil-A will have to abide by this considering, well, you know...

 

[XLR8]

I wonder if Chick-Fil-A will have to abide by this considering, well, you know...

Ha!

 

[whoah whoah]

How will they handle vendors that walk up and down the aisle?

 

[superchuck500]

How will they handle vendors that walk up and down the aisle?

Hand-held devices

 

[Saint Jack]

How will they handle vendors that walk up and down the aisle?

They have portable devices that’ll read cards now.

 

[Quiet Storm]

I rarely have cash. Been that way for awhile. Only time I try to get cash is when I have food with friends.

 

[Taker597]

Faster experience. The better. Waiting in line is the worst when you got someone fiddling for change. Swipe and go. Please.

 

[Saint_Ward]

It's an interesting move.

I mean, sure, it's more efficient, but it is also a way to make people spend more. Much easier to budget with cash. When you run out, you're done. With a card, it's harder to track.

that being said, Atlanta has really cheap concessions.

 

[XLR8]

Hand-held devices

Assuming like they do at the Pelicans games with the Waiters/Waitresses?

 

[GeauxSaintz86]

It's always been the plan to be a cashless society. That way the money doesn't really have to be there. Money becomes data. Cash becomes cards. Everything becomes digital. This is actually a bad thing but y'know...convience always wins

 

[Icon]

Some are gonna be all "LOL FALCONS" about it.........but it's really no more inconvenient than the Superdome suddenly deciding in 2018 that you can't print out a secondary-market paper ticket from the Internet anymore, and that you have to allow them to scan that ticket from your phone.

Not sure about some of you........but I still know plenty of people (some pretty well off, financially) who still choose to use their older-but-still-very-much-functional cell phones which don't have those capabilities.

 

[Icon]

I rarely have cash. Been that way for awhile. Only time I try to get cash is when I have food with friends.

Same........and it's not always a good thing. Somehow it's just so much easier to swipe a debit card for that $38 purchase than it is to hand over those two 20 dollar bills.....which can cause gradual over-spending as time goes by.