Big wins for businesses that sell lotto tickets
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🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
This weekend’s Powerball jackpot was one of the largest in U.S. history; two lucky players will split the $1.787 billion winnings. But other winners include convenience stores and online lottery retailers, which see a surge in demand around these major jackpots. Also on the show: The U.S. government plans to target more businesses after a raid on a car battery plant construction project in Georgia, and we learn how federal layoffs have affected one family, six months on.
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| 0:00.0 | President works to attract more foreign investment after last week's big immigration raid on a foreign-owned construction project in Georgia. |
| 0:10.5 | I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles. The U.S. government plans to target more businesses for immigration enforcement after a raid on a construction project for a massive car battery plant in Georgia last week |
| 0:22.6 | led to the arrests of hundreds of South Korean workers. The government in Seoul says a deal has now |
| 0:28.3 | been reached to fly detained workers' home. The factory adjacent to a new Hyundai electric car |
| 0:33.5 | factory near Savannah is a joint operation between Hyundai and LG. The BBC's Gene McKenzie reports from |
| 0:39.8 | Seoul. The South Korean government has been working all weekend to get these workers released. |
| 0:45.1 | Last night, it reached a deal with the U.S. to bring them home on a chartered flight. But the exact |
| 0:50.4 | details of how and when the workers will be returned still need to be finalized. |
| 0:55.2 | South Korea's foreign minister is trying to ensure they'll be returned voluntarily rather than deport it. |
| 1:01.5 | The raid at the Hyundai site took place just two weeks after South Korea agreed to invest billions of dollars in the U.S. |
| 1:08.3 | to help it produce the likes of car batteries. |
| 1:12.0 | President Trump last night was working to thread the needle of being tough on immigration |
| 1:16.7 | while at the same time attracting foreign business, posting, quote, your investments are welcome |
| 1:22.4 | and we encourage you to legally bring your very smart people with great technical talent to build |
| 1:27.3 | world-class products, |
| 1:28.4 | and we will make it quickly and legally possible for you to do so. |
| 1:33.1 | Lottery officials say two people will share the $1.787 billion powerball jackpot. |
| 1:39.7 | One bought the ticket in a convenience store in Fredericksburg, Texas, the other somewhere in Missouri is all we know so far. |
| 1:46.2 | For the businesses that sell tickets, there can also be wins. Marketplace's Carla Javier reports. |
| 1:51.9 | When you go into a convenience store to buy a ticket, the business makes about five to six cents per dollar and potentially earns your loyalty. |
| 1:59.3 | Jeff Leonard is with the National Association of Convenience Stores. |
| 2:02.7 | When somebody is a lottery customer, they tend to buy about 50% more than the non-lottery customer. |
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