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It's first in the state to sell all ticket types
By Jim Carney
Beacon Journal staff writer
Published on Saturday, May 03, 2008
CUYAHOGA FALLS: Bob Teodosio says the machine is so new, people who see it in the corner of his Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles outlet on State Road don't recognize it.
''No one knows what it is,'' said Teodosio, the deputy registrar and owner of the privately held BMV location at 2915 State Road.
What he was talking about is the first fully automated Ohio lottery machine at any retail location in the state.
The machine, which sells every type of lottery ticket, was installed last month in the Cuyahoga Falls location, said Marie Kilbane, an Ohio Lottery Commission spokeswoman.
On Friday afternoon, Douglas Augsburger, 56, of Akron, a retired Summit
County environmental services worker, walked into the store to get his license plate sticker and noticed the machine in the corner.
After purchasing his license sticker, he pumped $5 into the machine for a bingo ticket.
He spent nearly 15 minutes scratching all the boxes off his ticket, revealing he wasn't a winner.
Augsburger said it was ''almost worth five bucks because it is so much fun to do.''
Teodosio said that when he took over the location in 2004, lottery tickets were sold by clerks. He ended the practice to speed up service for license plates and tags.
''My philosophy is to get people in and out,'' he said.
When the Lottery Commission approached him to place the machine in his location, he agreed.
''If it works, it will spread across the state,'' he said.
Teodosio said the new lottery device is ''a cool machine.''
''I think it's a benefit. People standing in line can pick up some tickets,'' he said.
Jodell Guljas, of Green, a clerk at the State Road location, said many customers had stopped and looked at the machine.
Guljas did more than just look. On Friday, she said, she won $2 more than she had put into the machine.
The Lottery Commission's Kilbane said the state will study how well the machine at the State Road location is received to determine whether others will be installed at more retail locations.
''This is more of a nontraditional location,'' she said.
Jim Carney can be reached at 330-996-3576 or jcarney@thebeaconjournal.com.
CUYAHOGA FALLS: Bob Teodosio says the machine is so new, people who see it in the corner of his Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles outlet on State Road don't recognize it.
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