Robert A. Farris Jr.
Commission Chairman
Alice Garland
Acting Executive Director
DATE: AUG. 24, 2010
CONTACT: VAN DENTON
PHONE: (919) 301-3308
Harris Teeter to begin selling lottery tickets in N.C. stores
- Sales start this week in first five locations RALEIGH – Lottery players in North Carolina will soon be able to buy their tickets at their favorite Harris Teeter
store. Tickets go on sale at five Harris Teeter stores this week and plans are to roll out ticket sales at all 126 Harris
Teeter stores across the state after successful implementations at the first locations.
Customers will buy their lottery tickets at lottery vending machines known as Lottery To Go, or LTG machines,
located in the Harris Teeter stores. Tickets for all games offered by the Education Lottery will be available through
the self-service machines, including instant scratch-off games, Powerball, Mega Millions, Carolina Cash 5, Carolina
Pick 4 and Carolina Pick 3, and the Cash Splash Raffle. The machines do not accept money or dispense tickets until
the buyers scan their driver’s license to verify that they are 18-years-old or older. A bar code scanner on the
machines scans drivers’ licenses and tickets.
“We’re glad to add Harris Teeter stores to our base of retailers across the state,” said Alice Garland, acting
executive director of the N.C. Education Lottery. “Having LTG machines in Harris Teeter stores will provide
convenient ways for customers to buy lottery tickets and should boost our return for education in North Carolina.”
Harris Teeter stores in Virginia and Maryland already sell lottery tickets. The dates and locations when the sale of
lottery tickets will begin at the first Harris Teeter stores in North Carolina are:
Today, Aug. 24: 1 p.m., Harris Teeter, 401 Pisgah Church Rd., Greensboro, and 5 p.m., Harris Teeter,
820 S. College Rd., Wilmington
Wednesday, Aug. 25: 1 p.m., Harris Teeter, 2110 S. Estes Dr., Chapel Hill
Thursday, Aug. 26: 1 p.m., Harris Teeter, 1955 N. Peacehaven Rd., Winston-Salem, and 1 p.m., Harris
Teeter, 500 Oberlin Rd., Raleigh
Lottery players can use the LTG machines to buy “Quick Pick” tickets for Powerball, Mega Millions and Carolina
Cash 5. They must use play slips to play their own numbers on Powerball, Mega Millions or Cash 5, or to purchase a
Pick 4 or Pick 3 ticket. The machines do not sell fifty cent tickets for Pick 4 or Pick 3 games.
As at other lottery retail locations, players can claim prizes of up to $599 at the stores. Players can return to the
store to use the bar code scanner to determine if they won prizes with their Powerball, Mega Millions, Carolina Cash
5, Carolina Pick 4, or Carolina Pick 3 tickets, but they must validate their winning tickets at a lottery terminal located
at the customer service desk, one of the lottery’s retail claim centers, or at NCEL headquarters in Raleigh.
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100% of the North Carolina Education Lottery net proceeds are used for pre-kindergarten programs for at-risk
Phone: 919.301.3300 • Fax: 919.715.8833
2100 Yonkers Road • Raleigh, North Carolina 27604
www.nc-educationlottery.org
four-year-olds, reduction of class size in early grades, school construction and need-based college scholarships
For prizes of $5,000 and greater, 25% federal tax and 7% state tax are automatically withheld.
Phone: 919.301.3300 • Fax: 919.715.8833
2100 Yonkers Road • Raleigh, North Carolina 27604
www.nc-educationlottery.org