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posted by martyb on Monday August 10 2020, @04:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-if-it-were-in-the-Eastern-part-of-the-state dept.

Man wins $7 million in lottery after buying every single ticket:

Kevin Clark, from Candler in North Carolina, had a hunch that the top $US5 million ($A7 million) prize in the Mega Cash scratch-off game would be won in the western part of the state.

So he came up with an unusual strategy to ensure he got his hands on the lucky ticket – by travelling from store to store and buying every ticket he could find.

Mr Clark spent four hours on his quest to purchase every $20 Mega Cash scratchie ticket he came across in around 40 different stores.

And while it is not known how much he spent in total, it’s safe to say he came out on top after a ticket he bought from a Stop N Go outlet in Swannanoa, North Carolina ended up being the winner.

[...] In the end he decided to pocket a $US3 million ($A4.2 million) lump sum instead of taking the $US5 million as an annuity of $US250,000 ($A350,267) per year for two decades.

After taxes, he was left with a total cash prize of around $US2.1 million ($A2.94 million).

“I had a real good feeling it was going to be in the western part of the state,” Mr Clark said, according to the NC Education Lottery.

However, he said he was still stunned when his tactic paid off.


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  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Monday August 10 2020, @08:14PM (2 children)

    by looorg (578) on Monday August 10 2020, @08:14PM (#1034493)

    They do something similar here in that they have recently (last half-decade or so) started to change the weight/volume of items (usually foodstuffs). They used to be fairly standardized as in 1kg, 500g, 250g etc but now they can more or less have them at any weight they want it seems and then they sell them per item instead of the previous weight/volume and once you have a little think about it and note the price per 1kg it usually turns out it wasn't/isn't a very great deal. So shelf-tags here have to say the price for the item (inc any taxes) and the price per unit (1kg/liter).

    So one of the things that blow my mind here is how people keep buying pre-cut sallads for about $1.5-2 per 100g. Thinking they are getting some kind of deal. They could walk into a restaurant and eat cheaper or if they just cut their own it would be enormous amounts for the same price.

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday August 10 2020, @09:05PM (1 child)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday August 10 2020, @09:05PM (#1034528)

    The orange juice here finally set me off, we no longer shop at the big chain that used to sell fresh juice at $2.99 per 64oz, then they started running "sales" so that only one (rotating different every week) brand was $2.99 per 64 while "regular" price went up to $3.69 per 64. Then the 64oz containers shrunk to 58oz, but the prices remained the same. Then a year later the 58oz containers shrunk to 52oz but the prices remained the same - and I had enough. We shop at a smaller store now that still sold 64oz OJ for $2.99, later inflated to 64oz for $3.29 - which is fine, prices increase, I get that, but don't play me like I'm an idiot.

    The big chain also about 5 years ago started "BOGO" where you have to buy two of an item to get the "good sale" price, but... little surprise here... the BOGO price is actually the normal price, and the other 19 weeks out of 20 when the item isn't on "super special BOGO price" it's just twice as expensive as it was 6 months before it went into their BOGO pool. They can literally get stuffed, I don't need them and really have enjoyed getting away from the heavy mind-games marketing which was operating on so many levels beyond the ones mentioned here.

    I grocery shop to buy food, not to play pricing games.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @04:44PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @04:44PM (#1035001)

      You can't really stop them doing what they want, if they hired a new whizz kid marketing guy to do exactly that. You vote with your wallet.

      When on the receiving end (i.e. at work), I pace myself to give about what they paid for. If the guys making 2x my salary aren't doing 2x as good a job or (more usually) dumping work on juniors, then I need to slow it down again.