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Stadium Tech Report

February 25th, 2025

Editorial

AiFi CEO Steve Carlin sees more success ahead for checkout-free stores in stadiums

As the 2024 sports seasons get fully underway, the revolution of the checkout-free stadium concession stand is continuing to add to its earlier momentum. Joining us on the Stadium Tech Report podcast is Steve Carlin, CEO of checkout-free technology provider AiFi, a company he said is looking at what should be a very successful year. To Carlin, the success of...

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Checkout-free stores are doing well — in stadiums, anyway

Contrary to what you might have read elsewhere on the internet this week, checkout-free shopping technology is alive and well and growing -- at least in the stadium concession-stand segment of the marketplace. Since we did our big checkout-free market count back in October, the number of stadium-specific stores has grown from 141 stores to 180 stores, a net gain...

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Listen in as NASCAR talks about its extensive speedway Wi-Fi deployments

How did NASCAR, Verizon and Extreme Networks team up to bring full fan-facing Wi-Fi 6 networks to numerous NASCAR speedways? Listen in to a recording of our recent webinar to hear the full story and get some insight on what it takes to bring high-definition wireless to some of the largest public venues out there. You can find the recording...

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Here’s why Stadium Tech Report is adding sponsor posts to our news feed

Stadium Tech Report's main "news feed" -- our chronological list of published posts -- will now include submissions from our sponsor partners, starting today. There are several reasons behind this innovation, but believe me when I say it's all being done mainly for the benefit of our readers. Yes, it's also a business decision. But I would like to take...

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Breaking down the 2023 Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey results with Verizon’s Kevan Akers

While I always enjoy telling specific stories about a successful venue technology deployment, one of the more interesting things we do here every year at Stadium Tech Report is our annual Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey -- where we ask our community of stadium technology professionals to tell us what's going on at their venues, what their objectives and concerns are,...

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