Is it just me, or....

Now, to explain here, I note that more and more merchants are taking credit card as valid means of transactions, and with that comes ATM.

So why, why, WHY do people insist that they take ATM if they only take the ones with credit card logos? Why not just say you take credit and be done with it? To me, that's much less confusing! Last time I fucked around with that, I was told that they took ATM at a pharmacy, and then got there - and found that no, they did not take it!