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about 87% of business in the US accept credit cards. Most of the 13% that do not are business to business companies that deal in large orders from merchants which are usually paid in the form of a wire transfer.

According to Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Square, there are 8 million US merchants who accept credit cards

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