[Magdalen] Lottery tickets

[ME Michaud]

Yup.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/lotteries-americas-70-billion-shame/392870/

On Saturday, February 13, 2016, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> This morning I stopped at our local Sheetz for some coffee and noticed a
> new sign at the register. It was headed "Lottery Packs" and listed prices
> for packs of 100 tickets-- $1 tickets for $100, $2 tickets for $200...up to
> $5 tickets. I asked the young clerk if people actually buy them, and she
> said they'd just gotten them in, and she hadn't sold any yet, but that
> people have been asking for them. Absolutely blows my mind! Sheetz
> customers, by and large, are not particularly affluent. (But then, I don't
> know how folks can afford $50+ cartons of cigarettes, either...)