Players can now purchase lottery tickets through
credit and debit cards in the Harrisburg area to examine the viability of
payment option.
Pennsylvania Lottery is
testing out the flexibility of payment options.
The test has been carried out as Pennsylvanians don’t carry enough cash;
hence face an obstacle to play the lottery.
"We've been
hearing from Lottery players for years asking for an electronic payment
option," said PA Lottery spokesman Gary Miller. "Consumers, increasingly, are using
electronic payment for all types of retail purchases."
A survey was taken,
Miller said, it revealed 60 percent of people carried not more than $20 in cash
and 18 percent of people didn’t carry cash at all.
He said- “That leaves
very few consumers walking around with cash to play the Lottery" Lottery vendors have
always accepted cash for ticket payments.
Miller said now it is up to retailers in what forms of payment will they
accept in Pennsylvania. Quite a few number
of stores have already started accepting cards as a payment option.
Miller said- there is
no specific time validity for the test.
At one point lottery officials would analyze result of the test carried
out and determine the future of card payments in PA Lottery.
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