Lottery tickets

percentxxx

I was surprised today , I had won a free entry on my last ticket, at both Morrisons and WH Smith there was a refusal to touch or  even scan while I held the ticket ,
When I questioned the amount of things that are touched all over the store the Morrisons answer was Virus, the crazy thing about this was that I bought another 5 entries for this week with a £20 note and got  £10 note and five one pound coins change , all this cash must have been previously handled by thousands of people .
I pointed this out to the staff who just shrugged  it's what we have been told 

sharpe106

Since when does anything ever make sense.

7Phil

Yeh - it doesn't come under essential activities. I've seen this arbitrarily applied at different businesses. Co-op in my street have emptied their display of scratch cards and aren't selling lottery tickets. Sainsbury's down the road is everything normal.

I don't play the lottery so can't give an in-depth insight but maybe head off to a local corner-store agent that will do it for you? Or just hold on to it until restrictions are lifted.

Neutrinno

I guess it's each shops discretion. It's not about touching the tickets or money, the government has advised against non-essential purchasing, and obviously lotto tickets aren't essential. They can't stop cash transactions as this might be some people's only means to pay for essential shopping.

unholyangel

sharpe106 said:

Since when does anything ever make sense.

For some reason that reminded me of alice in wonderland - with a response in the style of "when it makes the least unsense, of course".