Re: Lottery courts Wal-Mart

dahedgehog — Sat, 24 May 2008 00:25:21 -0400

GTECH is shady: http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070130/NEWS05/701300341/1021

Re: Lottery courts Wal-Mart

slfore — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:40:32 -0400

We lived in Florida many years. Lottery tickets were sold almost everywhere. When the lottery started here, I was shocked at the dearth of places where tickets could be purchased. If the NC lottery wants to increase sales, they would do well to vastly increase the places where tickets can be purchased.

Lottery courts Wal-Mart

bniolet — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:36:28 -0400

The lottery sure would like to have its tickets available at Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Costco, Rite Aid and other large retailers.

And the retailers have told the lottery that they would like the extra money that tickets would bring. But the retailers are not crazy about having employees sell or keep an eye on tickets, lottery director Tom Shaheen told the Lottery Commission Thursday.

"Our corporate account staff has been pounding their heads into the ground for the past two years trying to get these accounts," Shaheen said.

The commission gave the sales reps a tool Wednesday that might help seal the deal. The commissioners approved spending up to $2.4 million on "lottery to go" machines, vending machines that can sell scratch-off as well as Powerball, Pick 3 and Cash 5 tickets.

The machines are built and sold by GTECH Holdings of Rhode Island, which has a contract to run the state's lottery games.

Shaheen said the lottery wouldn't buy or lease the machines unless a major retailer says they want them. But having the commission's approval to get the machines might help sales reps close the deal, he said.

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