Bankers buy the most Euromillions lottery tickets
CITY workers bought more Euromillions lottery tickets than any other group in the country in the run-up to last night’s £112million jackpot draw.
Sales of the £2.50 tickets soared in the City of London and Canary Wharf as bankers and traders tried to nab the biggest jackpot of the year.
The chance of landing the rollover jackpot is one in 139million.
Sales in the City grew 300 per cent over the past six weeks, compared with 87 per cent growth across the rest of the UK, according to lottery operator Camelot.
“Whenever the jackpot gets above £70-£80million, that’s when we have to think about a range of additional staff [to] cover the store,” Peter Wagg, owner of the News of the Wharf store at Canary Wharf, told the Financial Times.
“In the past, we’ve actually had to have security to organise a queuing system because the lines have gone out of the door.”
Mr Wagg recalled one occasion when a City worker purchased £15,000 worth of “lucky dip” tickets – when a terminal randomly selects lottery numbers – paying in bundles of £50 notes.