{"id":3870,"date":"2019-01-27T11:49:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T16:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/?p=3870"},"modified":"2019-01-27T11:49:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T16:49:37","slug":"tropicana-field-going-cashless-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/tropicana-field-going-cashless-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropicana Field going cashless in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"672\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Cashfree-society-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Tropicana Field going cashless in 2019\" class=\"wp-image-3871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Cashfree-society-cover.jpg 672w, https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Cashfree-society-cover-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Cashfree-society-cover-435x194.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><figcaption>Make sure to bring your credit and \/ or debit cards to Tropicana Field, Image courtesy of pixabay.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Make\nsure to bring your credit and \/ or debit cards to Tropicana Field with you this\nyear. On Friday, the Tampa Bay Rays\nannounced that the home of the Rays will become the first cash-free sports\nvenue in North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tropicana\nField’s concessions, team stores, box office, and all other points-of-sale will\noperate cash-free in 2019. The move follows extensive pilot testing engineered\nand led by E15 at Tropicana Field and venues nationwide to measure the effects\nof cash-free transactions. These tests found that transitioning to cashfree\nenvironments results in an average transaction time of up to half that of\ntraditional environments that accept cash, resulting in faster moving lines and\nincreased fan satisfaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forms\nof payment accepted at concession stands and retail stores inside the ballpark\nwill include major credit cards, Rays gift cards, NFC mobile payments such as\nApple Pay and Samsung Pay, and Season Ticket Holder Rays Cards. For fans\nwithout electronic forms of payment, cash can be exchanged for gift cards in\nany amount at all retail locations and in $10 or $20 increments through roaming\ngift card vendors. Tropicana Field’s parking operations will also be cash-free,\nas they were for the 2018 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>“We have made significant investments each year to improve the ballpark experience for fans, including an overhaul of our approach to food and beverage since the beginning of our partnership with Levy,” said Rays Vice President of Strategy & Development William Walsh. “This change will increase speed of service and reduce lines throughout the ballpark.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>“Throughout our testing last season at Tropicana Field, we saw that fans quickly adapted to cash-free environments and loved the resulting benefits to the game-day experience,” said Jaime Faulkner, CEO of E15. “By offering fans a variety of forms of electronic payment, coupled with the ability to exchange cash for gift cards, we can ensure that fans are having frictionless experiences and getting back to enjoy the<br> game.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/rays\/fans\/fan-fest\" target=\"_blank\">Fan Fest<\/a> on February 9 will be the first cash-free event at Tropicana Field in 2019. A free event, fans are invited to shop at the Rays Baseball Foundation’s Yard Sale, as well as the Rays Republic Team Store and auxiliary shops during Fan Fest. Several concession stands will also be open and will accept digital payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Also see:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/tampa-bay-rays-announce-changes-coming-to-tropicana-field\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tampa Bay Rays announce changes coming to Tropicana Field<\/strong><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/mlb-marlins-and-rays-suspend-all-ties-with-papa-johns-following-schnatters-use-of-n-word\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MLB: Marlins and Rays suspend all ties with Papa John\u2019s following Schnatter\u2019s use of N-word<\/strong><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>(Source:\nMLB)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tropicana Field to be first cash-free venue in North America\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QppUzs7deMM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>~ Written by: Richard Webster, Ace News Today \/ <\/em> Connect with Richard on <em><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/richard.webster.31\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rdwebster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a> <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropicana Field’s concessions, team stores, box office, and all other points-of-sale will operate cash-free in 2019, making the Trop the first cash-free sports venue in North America. Make sure to bring your credit and \/ or debit cards to the ball park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,547,1328,17,11],"tags":[2307,2305,1381,2306,2091],"class_list":["post-3870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-events","category-recalls-and-alerts","category-sports","category-top-news","tag-cashfree-society","tag-finance","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampa-bay-rays-fan-fest-2019","tag-tropicana-field","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3872,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions\/3872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}