Select Florida Wal-Mart Stores To Sell Lottery Tickets
TALLAHASSEE (CBS4) -The world's largest retailer will add a new product to the inventory in many of it's Florida stores: lottery tickets.
Wal-mart has reached an agreement with the State of Florida to begin selling tickets at it's 27 neighborhood markets.
These stores, which primarily sell groceries, are located in central, southwest and South Florida.
Florida Lottery officials said Tuesday that the Wal-mart stores will sell tickets for games such as Powerball and Mega Money as well as scratch-off tickets through instant ticket vending machines.
Lottery ticket sales hit their peak in 2008 but then dropped during the recession and are just now slowly starting to recover.
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