82%	of American Express card members and 79% of Visa & MasterCard card holders agree that regardless of the nature of the business, merchants should offer customers as wide an array of payment vehicles as possible.
$2.406 Trillion Dollars
	in purchases were made with Credit Cards in the United States for 2006*
33.97 Billion Transactions
	were processed using Visa & MasterCard in the United States
90%	of all Internet Sales are made on credit cards.
878.8 Million
	Visa and MasterCard Credit Cards are in circulation*

* Statistics from The Nilson Report, issue 886