When I read this story, my first reaction was "Well at least that tells me now that  there really are large winning payoffs in the scratchers.  I was always sceptical of them but now i know- well except for the clerks that keep a running count on the loosers.  But  I'd rather have the clerkskeep a running count than to have someone win from stealing tickets and never get caught.  Good for them, teach them a lesson,  one that they should have know already.

You either know how to count back the change or you don't.

Those that know how doesn't need the machine to tell them what to return..

Those that don't will slow a line down staring as if they were a deer in the road.

Tntea, 

I dont mean to sound like i'm superior either  but you're right.  I go to places and think " how did you get this job?   And don't try to give the clerk $5.01 if the bill is $2.26, they'll be screaming for the manager. Sure there are things I cant do,  but the basics? come on.  But they can count those lottery tickets losers and will definately know when to purchase (or steal) the winners that's for sure.

Jailem!!!!    

Although I worked for a corporation handling millions, when I moved here I got into retail.  So regarding the $5.01, as good as I am in math, I still might use a small calculator.  No matter where I've worked I always had a couple of cheap calculators even if I had to buy one.  Usually it was because I wrote out an invoice with multiple items and had to add tax, but still, it only takes about 10 seconds to enter $5.01 minus $2.26 = $2.75.  When you are working with money all day long and running around a store from room to room, answering phones, placing orders, handling returns, customer complaints, etc., it is more important to be quick & efficient than to worry about looking like a math genius. Maybe you are talking about being in a store where the people are just standing behind a counter chewing gum, but sometimes there's a lot of multi-tasking.  Tntea has more experience in convenience stores, since I rarely dealt with cash, but I try not to judge.  However, more than once when I was setting up a delivery, a client spelled "street" or "lane" for me because I couldn't hear and asked him/her to repeat his address. I'm sure that person went home, got on an internet board and told everyone about a dumb blond at a store who couldn't spell. 

umm i got a question. where does it say in the article how they was finally caught?? i seemed to have missed it. i am not

saying that they are right for stealing the tickets,but the owner has to take some of the blame for allowing this kind

of theft to go on right under his or her nose for 3 years. unless the woman that was stealing was also in charge of the

lottery ticket inventory. i really would like to know more about this story because there just isnt enough information

here.