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Stadium Tech Report

February 26th, 2025

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An Ambitious Order: CityPark’s recipe of new technology and all-local food providers is a concessions winner

What's one of the toughest tasks for any soccer stadium? It's trying to figure out how to get food and drink in fans' hands inside the narrow available windows before and during the matches. For any team, it's a hard-to-balance puzzle, trying to match concessions performance with traditional fan behaviors, like tailgating right up until kickoff, as well as the...

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Amazon adds Just Walk Out stores at Truist Park, TQL Stadium

Amazon has added two more Just Walk Out stores in stadiums, one at the Atlanta Braves' Truist Park and another at TQL Stadium, home of the MLA FC Cincinnati. As seems to be typical with Amazon these days, it does not issue a press release but instead lets the team or stadium announce the stores on their own. At Truist...

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Tampa Bay Rays opening Zippin store at Tropicana Field

The Tampa Bay Rays announced the opening of a Zippin-powered checkout-free concession stand at Tropicana Field, another sign that the checkout-free trend seen in stadiums in 2022 is continuing this year. Branded the "Short Stop at the Budweiser Porch," the stand will allow fans to enter the store by scanning a credit card, after which they can select items and...

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Globe Life Field opening two Amazon ‘Just Walk Out’ stores

The trend of stadiums opening checkout-free concession stands seems ready to continue in 2023, starting with the announcement of two new Amazon "Just Walk Out" stores opening at the Texas Rangers' Globe Life Field. According to Amazon, there will also be three new Just Walk Out stores at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, joining the one that opened last year. Branded...

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Editorial

IDmission brings online ID verification to stadium concessions

BOULDER, Colo. -- IDmission is on a mission. A mission to help bring faster and more secure ID and age verification and payments verification to stadium concession operations. To be clear, it's not the company's only mission. In fact, it's currently only a very small part of IDmission's overall business, in which it serves more than 100 large financial institutions...

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Zippin adds low-cost checkout-free design for existing concession stands

Checkout-free store technology provider Zippin announced a new low-cost concept design that adds the company's fast-checkout systems to existing stadium concession stands, eliminating the need for costly renovations. According to Zippin its new "Zippin Walk-Up" design will put a checkout-free front end on existing concessions stands that also allows venues to use "your existing appliances, kitchen, and counter space, reducing...

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