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Want a ‘Kwikie’? New name for lottery ticket sparks concern in Maine
Yahoo! News ^ | 3/18/13 | Dylan Stableford

Posted on 03/19/2013 8:22:50 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows

Convenience-store owners in Maine are concerned that the state lottery wants to rebrand its scratch-off lottery tickets as "Kwikies."

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The newspaper interviewed a cashier who said he tested the new name by asking customers if they would like a Kwikie.

“I tried that on a couple of women," Tom Borden, a cashier at Fox Brook Variety in Dover-Foxcroft, said. "It didn’t go over very well."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: lottery; napl
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To: Slings and Arrows; Liz; AT7Saluki

Is it called a nooner if purchased around lunchtime?


21 posted on 03/19/2013 1:20:37 PM PDT by Libloather (The epitome of civility.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
I don't have a problem with this, as long as they don't sell them in these places:


22 posted on 03/19/2013 1:55:09 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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