Because credit card companies have always charged a swipe fee, one that was paid by retailers per transaction to cover the cost of equipment and processing.
The money from the investment was to install new equipment and improve technology at the facility, which is the largest pig processing plant on the island of Ireland.
During the mid 1990s, farmers and food processing firms invested heavily in new equipment to comply with EU standards ahead of membership and so have early access to the western European market.
The Treasury blamed this delay on an unprecedented volume of participation by small investors, on failure of Congress to act in a timely fashion on the debt ceiling legislation in April, and on an unanticipated failure of word processingequipment used to prepare check schedules.
On-line data centers are increasing their capacity to deal with this increased demand for processing power, communication speeds and digital storage capacity but despite the increases in efficiency of enterprise equipment and software there is a price to pay for universal connectivity and general on-line resources.