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Robert Arey, who owns 15 Charlotte-area convenience stores, isn't selling lottery tickets.
Why not?
He's against the lottery, he tells News 14 Carolina.
And, he found from his experience in South Carolina, people buying other items don't like waiting in line at the counter behind lottery players.
For convenience stores, he says, the lottery is an inconvenience.
Is he right?
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Good for him! I think it's great that he's able to recognize the lottery for what it is. It's only icing on the cake that he doesn't think it hurts the profit side of his business.
Posted on April 4, 2006 9:44 AM
We have two places in our area, that say the same thing.Money wise I think they make more with the @###$$@@@ lottery tickets.
Posted on April 4, 2006 10:22 AM
Doug, I have a friend who owns a Convenience Store in another lottery state and you are right: they do make more money on the lottery ticket sales depending on their location. Our friends are close to the border of a non-lottery state and they make a killing so just keep the 'convenience store' as a front. I hate the way NC is exploiting this whole thing by billing the lottery as The Education Lottery also. The money will go to education, but only to REPLACE the money the state would have normally put in and certainly not as extra. Again, just like other states who touted their lotteries to the public as being for education.
Posted on April 4, 2006 1:53 PM
Bee,
When I was in college more years ago than most peoples age. I had a project to study the lottery. I have a tape somewhere that did all the work for me. Schools where wrecked by just what you said. Virginia, is now a good example of this.I was in a store in Va, yesterday, when a man with two small boys came in, the boys asked for some ice cream, the man told them that they had no money for junk. He then purchased $20, in tickets.I get slammed all the time, about gaming, I have no problem with gambling for amusement. If you are doing it to get rich,you are up the creek. The people with the least will suffer the most.
Posted on April 4, 2006 9:05 PM