Walmart is one of the leading American multinational retail businesses owned by a family. Have you wondered, ‘Does Walmart Sell Lottery Tickets?’ read further to get the answer!
Thousands of people buy lottery tickets from Walmart stores as such stores are easily accessible by most the American population in majority of the states. Walmart sells lottery tickets along with other variety of consumer products. Cash payment is the only method of buying lottery tickets at walmart stores as it does not accept payment by any other method like debit or credit cards.
Types of lottery tickets:
Walmart mainly sells two types lottery tickets that is powerball and mega millions lottery tickets across different US states. Powerball and mega millions lottery are the most rated lottery tickets among American people. The minimum price of a lottery ticket is $2 for the participation of at least one draw. As the prices of lottery tickets increases, so does the number of draws.
Availability of lottery tickets sell by Walmart in different US states
Walmart hypermarkets and grocery and discount stores are located almost in total 50 states of America and consumers can easily access these market places to buy lottery tickets along with other range of daily use products like electronics, cosmetics, food and other daily home used items. But there are few American states where Walmart stores do not sell lottery tickets and those states are Hawai, Nevada, Alaska, Utah and Alabama respectively. The reason why Walmart stores do not sell lottery tickets in such states is because these states do not participate in annual lotteries of powerball and mega millions tickets.
Essentials of buying a lottery ticket at any Walmart Store
For any American citizen or immigrant to buy a lottery ticket from Walmart stores in any states of American, one has to have a valid Identity Card issued by the relevant government authority of the United States of America and this Identity Card must hold the photo of the original card holder. Otherwise, one is not allowed to buy a lottery ticket despite of having cash in hand.
The second requirement for buying a lottery ticket for any American resident is his/her age eligibility. The buyer of the lottery ticket at walmart store(s) has to be minimum 18 years of age and above. The payment for buying either powerball or mega millions lottery ticket at any walmart store has to be made in cash and there is no other method of payment for such transactions.
Buying a Powerball or mega millions lottery ticket at Walmart store
Once you have valid identity card with photo issued by government, enough amount of cash in hand and qualify for age eligibility of 18 years and above, you can visit any Walmart store nearby your residence to buy a lottery ticket. As you enter the Walmart store, move towards customer service desk which is setup along cash counters. Upon asking the customer service representative for buying lottery ticket you will be given two options to choose from that is manual method of choosing different numbers and computer generated numbers.
These are following;
Option A
Players of the lottery tickets can choose from different 5 numbers between 1 to 69 that is and 1 number between 1 to 26. The first 5 numbers are the white balls and the other 1 number is mega gold ball.
Option B
Other than the manual method of choosing different numbers for lottery ticket, the player of the lottery has option of computer based method of choosing ticket number. In this case, the computer itself randomly chooses the ticket number for its player.
Once you are done with the process of selecting lottery ticket numbers either through manual method or computer generated method, the next step is you have to decide how many number of times you want your ticket to be valid for draw. The more number of times you want your ticket to be valid for draw, they more number of times you have to pay for it. For example, for one time of draw you have to pay $2 and so on.
Besides, availability of lottery tickets at walmart stores in United States of America, lottery tickets are available at walmart stores of Canada as well but the nature of lottery ticket depends on the nature of national lotteries of the respective countries.
FAQs
- Are powerball and mega millions lottery tickets available at all walmart stores across the world?
Powerball and mega millions lottery tickets are only available at walmart stores in US states.
- Can US residents buy lottery tickets from online walmart stores?
Lottery tickets from any Walmart store in USA can only be bought in cash by visiting the store.
- Which method of lottery ticket selection is better at walmart stores?
Both manual selection of lottery ticket numbers and computer generated numbers have same probability of winning and losing.