Trip to a south Charlotte Harris Teeter landed shopper $5 million lottery prize

A woman dished out $30 for a scratch-off lottery ticket at the Harris Teeter on Charlotte’s South Boulevard. She won big.

True to its name, the $5,000,000 Ultimate game won Faith Granwehr $5 million, according to a Monday NC Education Lottery news release.

Now, four prizes of the same amount remain, and 11 $100,000 prizes have yet to be claimed.

Granwehr’s scratch-off had a 1 in 3.3 million odds of winning the game’s biggest prize, according to the lottery’s website. Remaining tickets have 1 in 1.1 million odds of scoring $100,000.

Granwehr’s chose to take home a lump sum of $3 million rather than annual payments of $250,000 over 20 years, the lottery said in its release. After required state and federal tax withholdings, she took home $2.1 million.

This story was originally published June 5, 2023 at 3:09 PM.

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Julia Coin covers courts, legal issues, police and public safety around Charlotte and is part of the Pulitzer-finalist team that covered Tropical Storm Helene in North Carolina. As the Observer’s breaking news reporter, she unveiled how fentanyl infiltrated local schools. Michigan-born and Florida-raised, she studied journalism at the University of Florida, where she covered statewide legislation, sexual assault on campus and Hurricane Ian in her hometown of Sanibel Island. Support my work with a digital subscription