The Powerball lottery jackpot has hit $1B, which means The Lotto Store at Primm is printing tickets. Straddling California-Nevada state line, the store sells more lottery tickets than any other store in the world. How? Because Nevada doesn’t allow lotto ticket sales (Primm is a small community on the California side of the line). The state’s casinos — primarily in Las Vegas — argue that a lottery would take revenue that is used to employ thousands of people and pay taxes. Some of the Las Vegas casinos have mulled putting together a limited lottery but there are no concrete plans. There are only 4 other states that don’t have state lotteries: ▫️Utah and Alabama: Religious groups in the states lobbied against them. ▫️Hawaii and Alaska: No neighbouring states, so government chose to block and residents don’t have near places to go. When things like the current $1B Powerball draw take place (next draw us tonight), Nevada residents flock to The Lotto Store at Primm (conveniently located ~50 feet from the border). It’s estimated to sell 67x more tickets than the average California lotto vendor. Primm has 9 self-serve machines and there’s always viral footage of customers lines snaked around the store…like this one. Wild. *** A regional TV news story from yesterday: An older article on Primm outselling other California lotto stores: