Retailers may face restrictions on buying lottery tickets

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Ontario lottery retailers may soon be prevented from buying and cashing personal tickets in their own stores.

The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation tried to impose such rule in August, but retailers fought it and the OLG backed off.

Chris Wilcox of the Ontario Convenience Stores Association warns retailers will fight any move to prohibit them from buying or redeeming personal tickets in their stores.


Now why would you care about such a resstriction ? You can just go down the street and buy a ticket from your neibours store ?
I'll tell you why.
Because only in your own store can you take the lottery tickets into the back room and work on them for hours at a time , with no one watching , with any x ray machine or other gizmo your engineer son from university just whipped up.
And that's a very special thing not to be given up on lightly.

CORRUPTION CORRUPTION !

How does it feel , as a customer , to know that the owner of the store you're buying tickets from has already rifled through them with an x-ray machine to give himself first shot at any of those winning scratch and win tickets ?


Proposals for such a rule followed reports that retailers were cashing in winning lottery tickets at a rate far higher than the general public.