Ok, so after watching this video:
featuring ABC news demonstrating apple pay at Whole Foods, I noticed that the Whole Foods in question has the same terminal we switched to, but the thing about it is the terminal shown lacks the bulky NFC addon most stores have gotten for NFC payments for their terminals. SO, curious ole me did a little quick google research and found verifone's website where they list hardware specs and what not. I present to you two versions of the terminal in question:
http://www.verifone.com/products/hardware/multimedia/mx-915/
Uno, which is NFC enabled already.
http://www.verifone.com/products/hardware/multimedia/mx-925/
And dos, which requires the extra bulk. My question is can anyone/does anyone know what model spot installed. If we can find out then spot might have something up their sleeves in the near future, it's interesting that they're hesitant on enabling Apple Pay or NFC all together if they do have the mx915, then again if they are heading the CurrentC route apparently it's cult that doesn't allow other mobile payment options lol.