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Posted: May 23, 2008

Lotto might sell tickets in big-box stores

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N.C. Education Lottery

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Raleigh, N.C. — Lottery officials say they might be placing new vending machines in big-box stores such as Target and Wal-Mart.

The new budget for the North Carolina Education Lottery includes more than $2 million to buy ticket vending machines.

Officials said they would like to place many of those machines in large retail stores, which they described as an untapped market.

Large retailers have backed away from the lottery in the past, because they do not want their employees to get tied up selling lottery tickets.

Lottery officials, though, said vending machines should take care of that  concern.

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This "agency" is like a cancer.
davidgnews
May 23, 2008 8:18 p.m.
how about putting them in every state building? Why not have them in the DMV? It's all for education - and an indoor pool to a certain lottery executive
foetine
May 23, 2008 7:06 p.m.
anywhere they can make a buck off someone. Next they will be trying to put them in churches and daycares.
denverbob234
May 23, 2008 6:14 p.m.
Who is going to assist when the machine doesn't work and give you your ticket... could have been the winning number. This is not a good idea. It will create more problems than it would be accounted for.
Click to view my profile shine
May 23, 2008 6:06 p.m.
Only will work in the less-affluent areas of towns. Not going to see them in places such as Wellspring, Fresh Market, and Neiman-Marcus. They know the lottery is a tax on the poor and the stupid.
Click to view my profile colliedave
May 23, 2008 5:05 p.m.
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