According to this morning's Press Herald, Westbrook's Hannaford is the fourth-largest lottery sales agent in Maine.
Hannaford sold $776,877 worth of Megabucks, Powerball, and an assortment of scratch-tickets throughout the fiscal year 2007. In return, the State of Maine paid the Westbrook grocery store an 8 percent commission for each scratch-ticket sale and a 5 percent commission for each lottery ticket sold for a total of $53,084 in commissions.
Interestingly, Hannaford has six of the state's top 10 lottery sales agents (Biddeford, #2; Portland, #3; Westbrook, #4; South Portland, #5; Lewiston #7; and Standish, #9), but Shaw's has only one (Portland, #6). Lisbon Street News of Lewiston (#1), J & S Oil of Manchester (#8), and Victor News Co. of Lewiston (#10) round out the remaining top 10.
To read the story in its entirety, click here.
- John C.L. Morgan
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Saturday, February 2, 2008
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Just Do It
Buy and use reusable grocery bags. As we like to say here at the headquarters of the Westbrook Diarist, it's a win-win-win decision (how original, eh?): The bags are good for the environment, because you're wasting fewer plastic (or paper) bags; the grocery stores save money because they don't have to buy as many bags; and you get a heavy-duty, durable bag that makes carrying the groceries easier.
Both Hannaford and Shaw's sell cloth reusable grocery bags. Hannaford sells their cloth bags for $1.50 apiece, but they pay you $.05 for each bag you use. And Shaw's sells them for $1.99 or 10 for $10.00. Shaw's prices may only to apply to holders of their company cards, so don't quote me on that price. Shaw's, according to one of their cashiers, does not reimburse their shoppers for using their cloth bags.
I can't personally vouch for the Shaw's bags, but my wife and I love our Hannaford cloth bags. They are large, durable, and easy to carry. In fact, we often (pleasantly) surprise our baggers when we tell them they can load our bags to the brim, without worrying about the bag's weight. And believe me, those instructions have more to do with the bag's strength than it does my, ahem, muscle mass.
- John C.L. Morgan
P.S. Hannaford, you can send that payment we talked about to P.O. Box 207, Westbrook, Maine. It was nice doing business with you. And remember: I deal only in cash. Less of a paper trail that way.
Both Hannaford and Shaw's sell cloth reusable grocery bags. Hannaford sells their cloth bags for $1.50 apiece, but they pay you $.05 for each bag you use. And Shaw's sells them for $1.99 or 10 for $10.00. Shaw's prices may only to apply to holders of their company cards, so don't quote me on that price. Shaw's, according to one of their cashiers, does not reimburse their shoppers for using their cloth bags.
I can't personally vouch for the Shaw's bags, but my wife and I love our Hannaford cloth bags. They are large, durable, and easy to carry. In fact, we often (pleasantly) surprise our baggers when we tell them they can load our bags to the brim, without worrying about the bag's weight. And believe me, those instructions have more to do with the bag's strength than it does my, ahem, muscle mass.
- John C.L. Morgan
P.S. Hannaford, you can send that payment we talked about to P.O. Box 207, Westbrook, Maine. It was nice doing business with you. And remember: I deal only in cash. Less of a paper trail that way.
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