As the article clearly says, this title is false. NFC would be simply nice to support; but merchants that do not support smartcards (chip&pin) will be liable for losses due to fraud. And rightly so, this tech is used everywhere for almost 10 years already, USA finally needs to get out from banking stone age.
>These stores also do not have the right equipment to allow the use of smart cards, credit cards embedded with computer chips that are much less susceptible to fraud.
It seems they're referring to 'chip and PIN' cards as well as NFC.