Again, you're not in the board meetings to decide how much money you think they would be giving up by de-activating the terminals for that period of time vs when CurrentC comes around. I'm side the CEO's and all their financial advisors around them have shareholders' interests in mind here and decided their method vs yours works out better for them.
Neither are you!!! So what makes what you type more valid than what I type? You are making suppositions and I am stating what is happening on the ground.
1. NFC existed before ApplePay and was being used by these CVS and RiteAid.
2. CurrentC is not active and will not be active anytime soon.
3. ApplePay is safer, and more private than CurrentC.
4. There are one million cc and debit card holders that activated ApplePay.
5. There must have been Android smartphone users using NFC otherwise these companies would not have invested in the tech and kept it active.
6. Allowing consumers to diversify their method of payment will earn the business more revenue especially since ApplePay became active and the purchasing power and loyalty of those who use Apple products.
7. Therefore, logically, shutting off NFC devices will hurt in two ways. First, you will lose the value of the investment you made in these machines. Second, you will lose customers who like NFC Google Wallet, ApplePay and value their privacy.
8. If you are a CEO, you are not maximizing shareholder value. You are costing the shareholders money. You have wasted money on machines that are not going to be used to their full capacity. You could have invested in cheaper machines that did not have the NFC chip. And you are turning away customers by denying them an alternative method of payment. A business wants MORE customers, not less.
None of what I said is based on suppositions like yours. They are logical business decisions based on the available facts.