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.
$3.663 Trillion Dollars
	in purchases were made in 2009 using Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express cards at US merchant locations. *
248,241,966
	number of internet users in North America.
Over 875,000,000
	consumers have shopped online.
90%	of all Internet Sales are made with credit cards.
	Retail e-commerce spending totaled $129.8 Billion in 2009 **
1,700,000
	American Express cards are in circulation.
1,013,000,000
	credit, debit and prepaid cards are in circulation. *

* Statistics from The Nilson Report
** LA Times 2/11/10