The winner of $600,000 lottery ticket still unknown
By Scott Sexton
Winston-Salem Journal
LEXINGTON - Customers buy all sorts of things when they pull through the Trade Drive-Thru gas station on the south side of town. Sodas, cigarettes, candy bars, all the typical impulse purchases you would expect to be sold at a convenience store.
As luck would have it, the Trade Drive-Thru - formally known as Wilco Hess No. 1805 - also sells tickets for the N.C. Lottery.
That’s not terribly surprising, as more than 5,800 retail outlets in the state do so. Under state law, proprietors get to keep 7 percent of the gross for every ticket they sell, so hustling lottery tickets can add a tidy little sum to the bottom line.
The bottom line, though, is not what set the patrons who zipped through yesterday morning to talking. No, they were more interested in what happened to the yet-to-be-claimed $600,000 winning Powerball ticket for the Feb. 28 drawing that was sold right here at the Trade Drive-Thru.
Somebody forked over $1 for that ticket, then handed over an extra buck for a Powerplay chance that could multiply any potential winnings up to five times. Yet nobody has come forward to claim the prize.
And the clock is ticking. The winner has until 5 p.m. on Aug. 27 to do so.
“It’s not me,” clerk Shanon Saunders said during a short respite from a near-constant line of cars parading past her window. “If it was, I’d have turned it in and be in another country right now.”
Winston-Salem Journal
LEXINGTON - Customers buy all sorts of things when they pull through the Trade Drive-Thru gas station on the south side of town. Sodas, cigarettes, candy bars, all the typical impulse purchases you would expect to be sold at a convenience store.
As luck would have it, the Trade Drive-Thru - formally known as Wilco Hess No. 1805 - also sells tickets for the N.C. Lottery.
That’s not terribly surprising, as more than 5,800 retail outlets in the state do so. Under state law, proprietors get to keep 7 percent of the gross for every ticket they sell, so hustling lottery tickets can add a tidy little sum to the bottom line.
The bottom line, though, is not what set the patrons who zipped through yesterday morning to talking. No, they were more interested in what happened to the yet-to-be-claimed $600,000 winning Powerball ticket for the Feb. 28 drawing that was sold right here at the Trade Drive-Thru.
Somebody forked over $1 for that ticket, then handed over an extra buck for a Powerplay chance that could multiply any potential winnings up to five times. Yet nobody has come forward to claim the prize.
And the clock is ticking. The winner has until 5 p.m. on Aug. 27 to do so.
“It’s not me,” clerk Shanon Saunders said during a short respite from a near-constant line of cars parading past her window. “If it was, I’d have turned it in and be in another country right now.”
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