

But this Mega Millions has turned everything else around," said Pete Sullivan, Jackpocket CEO. We have seen new players playing a little less. The speakers are not the original they are yamaha speakers now. The fabric is starting to peel off because my child pulled on it. "The lottery is consistently a recession-proof kind of industry. I am selling my record player because I am moving to a smaller place and cant take it with me. The Jackpocket app that lets players buy tickets digitally says sales are climbing along with inflation. Last night, $8.5 million in Mega Millions tickets," he said. "We typically sell $300,000 worth of Mega Millions tickets when the pots are low. However, he says Texas' new $100-a-ticket 20 Million Supreme scratch-off game, and the one billion dollar Mega Millions jackpot have overcome those odds. "They needed to put a little bit bigger percentage of that into their gas tank, because of high prices, and put a little less into other things they might buy at the store, including our product, lottery tickets," said Grief. Grief says scratch-off ticket sales declined in Texas as gas prices started to climb this year. We’ve been talking about "shrinkflation" for months, getting less for the same price or more because of inflation and businesses in Houston are struggling with it as well. How Houston businesses are dealing with ‘shrinkflation’
