Ontario Lottery may ban retailers from buying tickets from own stores

Comment #4

Guest — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:42:27 GMT

So what keeps the clerk from punching in his/her PIN when the village idiot buys a ticket?He/she will still be able to steal the village idiots money.

The solution isn't assigning a PIN to store clerks.Harsh prison sentences for the thieves might be a better solution.You have to give the store clerk some incentive NOT to steal...a mandatory 10 or 20 year jail sentence might just be that needed incentive.

Comment #3

time*treat — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 04:53:40 GMT

The story is a continuation of articles about fraud committed by the retailers against customers. From

Ontario Lottery to undergo criminal investigation

Gough said the insider jackpot scandal hasn't hurt the lottery corporation's bottom line since it broke last October with the case of Bob Edmonds, a 78-year-old who was cheated out of his winnings by a lottery retailer.

Edmonds, who asked a store clerk to check his tickets, was told he had won a free ticket.

In fact, his ticket had... [ More ]

Comment #2

Guest — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:44:10 GMT

I don't see the point of merchants punching in their PIN before buying personal tickets.They don't make regular customers use PINs,do they?The lottery machines don't have anything to do with picking the numbers so their isn't any way that merchants could have a bearing on the outcome of the drawings.If a merchant wins a lottery,he did it the same way that everyone else does...with a healthy dose of LUCK!

I also don't see the point of buying their tickets from other merchants.What if they live... [ More ]

Comment #1

time*treat — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 02:28:04 GMT

merchants would have to punch in their PIN before buying personal tickets

blah, blah, blah ... then they'll only fraud a little bit?

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion. OLG should use this opportunity to rid itself of those retailers who cannot understand this concept. Then they certainly won't buy or redeem winning tickets at their own stores.

Ontario Lottery may ban retailers from buying tickets from own stores

Lottery Post — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:27:00 GMT

Ontario lottery retailers are railing against a proposal to ban them from buying and cashing in tickets in their own stores, saying it unfairly portrays them as the villains in the province's lottery scandal.

Retailers will be upset that we're the ones being painted as the bad guys in all this, says Chris Wilcox of the Ontario Convenience Stores Association.

The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. tried to impose the rule on retailers in August before backing off in the face of the associat... [ More ]