NEW YORK—A new report reveals 99% of credit card-accepting merchants in the U.S. can now accept American Express.
Data from The Nilson Report points to a significant change from just five years ago: Amex has increased merchant acceptance from 3.7 million in 2014 to 10.6 million U.S. merchant locations at the end of 2019, which is the same as Discover.
“In comparison, Visa and Mastercard were accepted at 10.7 million U.S. locations in 2019. Last year, almost a million new U.S. locations began accepting Amex,” CNBC said.