31.   Sorry, she was told, the store does not accept the card.

32.   Stores that had agreed to accept the card did not fare much better.

33.   That might leave a consumer who agreed to accept such cards with a wallet full of beeping, flashing plastic.

34.   The associations handle advertising, process transactions and manage relations with merchants who accept cards.

35.   The cards also are accepted at the Cross Bay and Marine Parkway bridges in Queens.

36.   The group plans to use collective strength to persuade merchants and others to accept the cards.

37.   The IRS cannot accept those cards directly, however.

38.   The national shopkeepers federation, Fedecameras, acknowledged that it had issued a communique urging its members not to accept debit cards.

39.   This time, Golub commissioned McKinsey to determine what Amex is worth to merchants in terms of how much sales go up by accepting the card.

40.   Welfare recipients would be able to use these cards to buy everything from shoes to toilet paper at stores that accepted the cards.