WARILLA Grove store Grove Gifts & Cards has kept up its run of of selling winning lottery tickets, with one very lucky customer pocketing a cool $10 million from Oz Lotto last night.
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Grove Gifts & Cards owner John Ledda said the winning customer meant the store had sold a winning ticket for a major lottery prize every year for the past 11 years.
‘‘We’ve had a few other big prizes, two and half years ago we sold a ticket for $16.1 million, not last New Year's but the one before we had for just under a million and we had another for $831,000 as well,’’ he said.
‘‘This one makes us 11 major prizes in a 11 years, to average one a year for that long is pretty unusual, so we might actually be a bit of a lucky spot.’’
Mr Ledda said that the winner of the $10 million was a regular customer.
‘‘I was happy to see that they’d won it, they’re regulars and they were blown away when they came in.
‘‘They were over the moon, they couldn’t believe it...just shaking.’’
Mr Ledda said he wouldn’t be surprised if there was an uptick in business once word spread.
‘‘It gets around and people get a bit superstitious, so I wouldn’t be surprised if we get a few more people coming in over the next little while to buy tickets.’’