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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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There are two family-run convenience stores right by my house. Twice a week, I go into one of them to buy one $1 quick pick for the Mega Millions. That's all I really want from them, but each time I go in I always end up buying a bottle of soda and candy as well, not because I want it, but because I feel like a dick buying just a lottery ticket. They don't make any money off lottery tickets and those stores are their livelihoods, so I feel compelled to buy something else as well.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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I buy all the things I need from my local convenience store. It' a good thing because they know and trust me and even let me take shit when I'm broke cause I always pay them back. I do feel like a dick when they call me to the front and make everyone else wait though. I feel way better about supporting a locally owned business who charges a little more than shopping at the faceless heartless mega chains that surround their tiny store. 
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anorexorcist
Title: Polar Bear
Joined: May 21 2008
Location: The Cock and Plucket
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Wow it doesn't take much for you to feel guilty. You wouldn't be doing anything wrong and you feel guilty? Shit, I only feel guilty after I deliberatly too something cruel or mean.
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
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...They make a lot of money of lottery tickets. They get a share of every ticket, a share of the profits, and a lot of overhead is covered by the state. There's a reason the lottery tickets are one of the most prominent things in the store.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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I know they get a share of winning tickets they sell, didn't think they got a share of sales.
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JRA
Joined: Sep 17 2007
Location: The Opium Trail
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Exactly how is this "Catholic guilt?"
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M3GA MAN
Title: The Big A
Joined: Jun 19 2008
Location: Nowhere.
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The 2 families are catholic and he feels guilty about just buying lottery tickets.
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DarkMaze
Joined: Feb 24 2006
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That'll be five Hail Marys and three Hello Dollys.
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
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He feels guilty about buying something so insignificant. I think.
Myself, I do this when I'm only buying like a dollar's worth of stuff, but don't have any cash. I'll buy some stuff I don't really need so it's not costing the store more than their profits to use the debit card machine.
Chain stores, like Honey Farms and stuff, I'll do this though. In fact, I'll tell the clerk to do debit and not credit because it costs them more. They usually laugh at that.
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
Location: Metro area, Georgia
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At my store, I believe we get 5% of the sales from lottery tickets.
I don't mind people who just come in, get a ticket, and head off. Heck I prefer it that way.
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Greg the White
Joined: Apr 09 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
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I prefer local businesses. I either have a choice to go to a Sheetz or a local coffee shop run by this awesome married couple for my coffee. While the Sheetz coffee sells for like a dollar a gallon, the stuff at the shop tastes great but costs a little more. I eventually went there so often and brought new customers that I got to be pretty good friends with their family, and they give me free coffee or food whenever I'm in there. It's nice to know that instead of horking down coffee that's going towards a Fortune 500, I opted instead to help out a nice group of people trying to do something they enjoy.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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| UsaSatsui wrote: |
| He feels guilty about buying something so insignificant. I think. |
Yes, and because it's a small business.
If it was White Hen, 7-11, or Cumberland Farms, I wouldn't give a shit.
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Dr. Jeebus
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Title: SLF Harbinger of Death
Joined: Sep 03 2005
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| UsaSatsui wrote: |
| ...They make a lot of money of lottery tickets. They get a share of every ticket, a share of the profits, and a lot of overhead is covered by the state. There's a reason the lottery tickets are one of the most prominent things in the store. |
Actually, lottery tickets really don't make much. You make virtually no money unless people win. My boss had looked into doing it, but it's a gamble for store owners.
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King
Title: CTE
Joined: Apr 27 2008
Location: Harrisburg, PA
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In pa I know that Convience stores make money off of the Tickets, a good bit too. That is for the PA lottery tickets though, not sure if they make much off of powerball. That is why here you can get them at convience stores, grocery stores, beer distributors, tobacco shops, some greeting card shops I have seen have them, newstands, there are even a few family restaurants, or diner like places that sell them. Also, they have automated machines for the scratch offs and a few others in some larger stores, or in the slot casino's at the horsetracks. At any rate, I get the guilt, but what you have to take into consideration is your finances as well. If you can afford it, cool, go for it, if it is digging into you, then, well it's your call. It is commendable though that you care.
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zelda_god
Joined: Aug 20 2008
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if there was only a way to cheat on lottery tickets
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TheRoboSleuth
Title: Sleuth Mark IV
Joined: Aug 08 2006
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| zelda_god wrote: |
| if there was only a way to cheat on lottery tickets |
Lottery tickets only win because so many people lose. How do you think your megamillion ticket gets to 200 mil? Its cause the last few games the entire country spent a small fortune trying to win and failed. If you cheat, the system is undermined and the lottery ceases to be a way to win money.
Also, I hate you.
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