I believe the reason is because all those paypoints have to be upgraded to handle Chiped cards by the beginning of next year. Why lose 3 month's profit when in

I believe the reason is because all those paypoints have to be upgraded to handle Chiped cards by the beginning of next year. Why lose 3 month's profit when in 6 month's time, the same result will happen. At least, I don't think there are many modern paypoints that don't allow for NFC payment. edit: http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2014/02/06/october-2015-the-end-of-the-swipe-and-sign-credit-card/ http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2014/02/06/octob... Of course this article is old and I don't know if there'll be some sort of, "Wait, wait no!", moment or something.