It's a convenience liquor store with beverages, wine, all kinds of booze and "airplane" bottles. There are some cheap ones too if you're "drinking on the dime." It's as the name says, one stop shop. So they also carry general grocery, frozen foods and ice cream too.
I'd heard through the grapevine that this location sells many winning scratch and win cards. I decided to check them out. What really pushes sales, is a wall of winning "scratchers." Many of which show $500 winners of varying ticket price values. Scratchers from $2 dollar value up to $50 and all of them winners. There's got to be 30 that are posted. It beckons you to try.
In a refuse bin below, a sea of played tickets. Many of which weren't played or fully scratched. When playing an IL scratch and win ticket, you have the option of playing the game or scanning the barcode. I think the bin was half full with tickets never scratched, just merely scanned. Who knows whether there were prizes from all those trashed tickets.. Also.. why tf aren't they recycling?
I ended up with some airplane bottles of tequila. They had a special on flavored soda water, 3 for $.80 cents.. hell yeah. And I bought into the scheme and got $20 worth of scratchers...
Did I win anything? I got some cash, a paltry $10 bucks.. whoop-dee-doo.. read more