California Lottery Begins Offering Tickets At Gas Pumps

[Newsjock]

Source: CBS San Francisco

Play at the Pump, the California Lottery’s latest attempt to expand the lotto market, is both convenient and controversial.

Convenient because it allows credit card users to both fill up and buy up to $20 worth of Quick Picks without ever having to go inside.

At the same time, it’s controversial because the offerings are a sharp change from the lottery’s long standing cash-only rules aimed at cutting down on overspending by poor people and chronic gamblers.

... At the pump, drivers insert their credit card and then their license to prove they are of legal gambling age. After making their picks and filling up, the lottery numbers show up on the receipt.

Read more: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/08/03/play-at-the-pump-california-lottery-tickets-quick-picks-gas-pumps/

[onehandle]

1. Poor tax at the pump. nt

[TeamPooka]

2. I've had this offered to me a few times at several stations where I fill up

I thought it very odd the first time I saw it offered to me as I was paying at the pump.
Just wrong in so many ways.

[Snobblevitch]

3. While I am opposed to selling lottery tickets in this manner,

Minnesota has been doing it for several years.

It is my understanding that 'pay-at-the-pump' has cut into lottery sales in a big way.