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Description Buying Lottery Tickets Just Got More Convenient A clerk sells a Powerball lottery ticket at a convenience store in Dallas. Since early November, Texans have been able to purchase lottery tickets in the checkout lanes of the more than 1,500 Dollar General stores in the state.Get more news about 彩票包网,you can vist loto98.com LM Otero/The Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Charlie Thomas, a home health care provider who also scrubs floors in the evening, says he buys lottery tickets “every time I get a paycheck.” Thomas, 55, has been playing the Texas Lottery for two decades. His “fortune hunting” takes a $30 bite out of his weekly pay, but he’s won about $1,000 over the years. His most recent good fortune was a $100 win on a bingo lottery ticket. He was less lucky one day last month: The $2 scratch-off he bought at an East Austin convenience store came up empty. But he wasn’t discouraged. “I don’t want to be rich,” Thomas said. “I’d be satisfied with $40,000 — just enough to buy a double-wide, an acre of land, an old truck and pay my bills.” Thomas and other lottery enthusiasts in the Lone Star State are about to have more opportunities to play, thanks to an innovation that is sure to pump up lottery revenue — and rankle critics who say state-sanctioned gambling disproportionately harms low-income communities. Since early November, Texans have been able to buy lottery tickets in the checkout lanes of the state’s more than 1,500 Dollar General stores. Shoppers at the discount giant can now grab Powerball and Mega Millions tickets while in line to pay for their other purchases. Clusters of $4 and $10 game tickets reminiscent of gift cards hang from a colorful jackpot display by the register, virtually impossible to overlook. Other larger retailers in Texas also sell lottery tickets, but customers must buy them at the stores' service centers or through cash-only vending machines. The Texas Lottery plans to expand its practices with Dollar General, the nation’s first “in-lane” offering of lottery tickets, to other big-box retailers, beginning later this year. Several other states also are moving toward the practice, long a lottery industry priority. The move comes as state lotteries are facing increasing competition from new casinos, legalized sports betting and commercialized fantasy sports games. Meanwhile, seven states (Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Pennsylvania) now allow people to buy lottery tickets online.I can tell you that there’s more and more competition now in the marketplace than there was before,” said David Gale, executive director of the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries. In the past, he said, “you had to get on a plane and go to either New Jersey or Las Vegas” for a casino game. “Now, everybody is within a three-hour car ride to some sort of casino.” Texas Lottery officials say in-lane sales could dramatically boost revenue. Dollar General does not release sales projections, but spokeswoman Crystal Ghassemi said the new lottery option has been “well-received” by the chain’s customers. Texas Lottery retailers earned $335.9 million in commissions and incentives in fiscal 2019, from nearly $6.3 billion in sales, both all-time highs. Since it started in 1992, the Texas Lottery’s sales of scratch tickets and draw games have generated more than $30 billion in state revenue for education, veterans and other programs. All but five states now have lotteries. Mississippi in November became the latest state to add a lottery, which sold $8.9 million in its first six days. Lottery opponents, however, have long argued that the games lure needy and low-income participants who can least afford to pay. “They’re exploiting folks in our communities that we should be helping,” said Rob Kohler, a consultant for the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission who has testified against the lottery in the state legislature. Les Bernal, national director of Stop Predatory Gambling, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that opposes government-sanctioned gambling, called in-lane sales “an example of the predatory practices” lotteries use to encourage impulse buys in low-income communities.
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