SC lottery winner listens to the advice of a Publix clerk – and it pays off big time
A South Carolina woman is celebrating a $250,000 lottery win, thanks to a supermarket clerk’s advice.
Denise Henderson decided to try her luck when she stopped at a Publix grocery store in Goose Creek, the S.C. Education Lottery said Monday in a news release.
That’s when a worker recommended Henderson play the $10 Bonus Bonanza game, according to the release.
She paid for four tickets, and one of them kept her awake for hours, the lottery says.
That’s because the scratch-off revealed she was a $250,000 prize winner, according to the S.C. Education Lottery.
“I showed it to my daughter, but she didn’t believe me and went back to bed,” Henderson said in the lottery’s news release.
It was 1 a.m., after all.
Still restless, Henderson waited until 6 a.m. to go back to Publix and confirm she had won, according to the lottery.
Then, “she drove to the Lottery’s Claim Center first thing in the morning to claim her prize,” officials said in a Facebook post.
Henderson, who lives in Goose Creek, beat odds of one in 675,000 to win the prize, according to the lottery.
“I’m still in shock,” Henderson said in the lottery’s news release. “It won’t be real till I get the check.”
It wasn’t the first time a clerk played a role in a customer’s lucky moment.
In North Carolina, a gas station cashier accidentally gave a man the wrong lottery tickets, The Charlotte Observer reported last week. One of the scratch-offs was worth $100,000.
Goose Creek is roughly 18 miles northwest of Charleston.
This story was originally published December 17, 2019 at 12:48 PM with the headline "SC lottery winner listens to the advice of a Publix clerk – and it pays off big time."
