N/S: Arthur Blank does not want your cash! Atlanta Falcons game will go cashless is 2019! (3 Viewers)

[td2w]

Cashless, Trophyless, Fanless, Loudless, Winless - it's just all part of the same trend.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

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

Yes bc no one ever fiddles with cards, and the card readers never futz up

 

[AsaPW]

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

I always thought cash was the faster option, especially now that we have to use the chips on the cards.

 

[XLR8]

The Young &Ringless

 

[saintlad]

I always thought cash was the faster option, especially now that we have to use the chips on the cards.

Always prefer cash. Keeps me honest from over spending. Basically I take what I can afford to spend, instead of being tempted into buying more than I intended too. Also , not really keen on letting my credit card companies know what I buy all the time. Less likely to be tracked. Also it allows for more unscrupulous vendors and occasional patron to scam cards and IDs at big events like a stadium

 

[parlorcitysaint]

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.

In my experience, it's not faster or more efficient. But it is a way to track exactly who's going to games, and it takes the "complicated math" look out of the hands of people who shouldn't be handling money (but still want a $15 minimum wage)

 

[SuperSaint]

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

 

[superchuck500]

In my experience, it's not faster or more efficient. But it is a way to track exactly who's going to games, and it takes the "complicated math" look out of the hands of people who shouldn't be handling money (but still want a $15 minimum wage)

I suspect that when you're talking about a facility that hosts 70,000 people, it is substantially more efficient. How many points of sale are there in that dome? Hundreds? If each has to accommodate cash, that means that each has to: have some allotment of cash to open with, have a place to keep and secure the cash during the event, and have a process to close the point of sale and deliver the cash back to the central accounting operation.

There's no way around doing any of those things if you're going to accept cash. Going cashless eliminates each of those requirements. It's incontrovertibly more efficient.

 

[XLR8]

I suspect that when you're talking about a facility that hosts 70,000 people, it is substantially more efficient. How many points of sale are there in that dome? Hundreds? If each has to accommodate cash, that means that each has to: have some allotment of cash to open with, have a place to keep and secure the cash during the event, and have a process to close the point of sale and deliver the cash back to the central accounting operation.

There's no way around doing any of those things if you're going to accept cash. Going cashless eliminates each of those requirements. It's incontrovertibly more efficient.

And when computers go down? Crash? Electrical issues happen? Internet goes out? Hacking ? Sure it is rare but it is an issue in this day of age.

 

[Cajun Mike]

I always thought cash was the faster option, especially now that we have to use the chips on the cards.

The move to cards is to keep workers honest. NO cash exchanging hands, easier tracking of sold inventory

 

[49erKiller]

The move to cards is to keep workers honest. NO cash exchanging hands, easier tracking of sold inventory

And here we have the actual reason, not the one where they're concerned with customer convenience.

 

[XLR8]

And here we have the actual reason, not the one where they're concerned with customer convenience.

Can’t have those employees stealing from Arthur, and Clown

 

[XLR8]

We can make concessions more convenient but how about making officiating technological better?

Nope can’t do it!

 

[LuvNOLA]

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

???

Well done!

 

[Porkchop]

Gotta track that taxable tip money.