Arkansas Lottery partners with grocery chain on vending machines

Comment #5

rdgrnr — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:55:44 GMT

Seems crazy to provide a vending machine and not allow you to to play the multiplier options. Your state must still be in the Proterozoic Age of lottery.

Of course if your state is in the Proterozoic Era of the Precambrian, lotterially speaking, then Tennessee would have to be be in the Archean half, because we don't even have vending machines.

Comment #4

butterflykt — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:13:32 GMT

It's several feet away from the counter where customers also can purchase lottery tickets through a sales clerk.

They don't have that option at any of my stores....machine only. When those machines first came out I hated them....I've gotten use to them, but still don't like that fact that you can only purchase the ticket..... no megaplier or powerplay option. Lots of time I'll just go to a gas station to buy. BTW, our machines are only in grocery stores that I've been aware of.... [ More ]

Comment #3

butterflykt — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:08:50 GMT

I can agree with that....I don't let my son drink red bull...16 is too young to me.

Comment #2

sully16 — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:13:07 GMT

I think minors are more interested in video games and red bull.

Comment #1

rdgrnr — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:32:30 GMT

What's all the furor about the possibility of minors buying tickets from a machine?

Let em buy all they want but don't let em cash em in.

Lottery might make a lot more money that way too.

Arkansas Lottery partners with grocery chain on vending machines

Lottery Post — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:03:43 GMT

An Ohio-based grocery store chain has signed a contract with the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery to sell lottery tickets through vending machines.

Lottery Director Ernie Passailaigue signed the agreement April 11 after the House Rules Committee declined to recommend passage of a Senate-approved bill that would bar the lottery from using the machines.

The Arkansas lottery began selling tickets through the machines on Feb. 3 at a Love's Travel Stop in North Little Rock, and the machines have si... [ More ]