Lollapalooza Goes Cashless With Digital Wristbands

Pushes millennials to tap and pay

Lollapalooza is rolling out a new initiative this week called Lolla Cashless that claims to be the first effort from a major U.S. music festival to use radio frequency identification (or RFID)-enabled wristbands for payments. The Chicago music festival will begin sending concertgoers bracelets leading up to the August event that can be linked to credit card information for buying food and drinks.

Here’s how it works: A small technology chip is embedded into the wristbands that concertgoers have to wear to enter Lollapalooza.

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