Walmart grocery run for wife nets NC veteran a lottery jackpot. “Could not believe it’
A man surprised his wife with a lottery ticket on a stop for vegetables at his local Walmart, and she stunned him back by scratching off a jackpot when he returned home, N.C. lottery officials said Wednesday.
“She said, ‘You need to come in here,’” Robert Moore of Dallas said when he claimed the $2 million prize at lottery headquarters in Raleigh on Monday, according to a lottery news release. “I could not believe it.”
Moore, a retired veteran, bought the $20 Win Big ticket at the Walmart on Dallas Cherryville Road in Dallas. His wife had asked him to pick up the groceries, he said.
He beat odds of 1 in 3.56 million, according to the Win Big game page on the lottery website.
Moore could have taken the prize as a $100,000 annuity over 20 years or a $1.2 million lump sum. Choosing the lump sum, he took home $858,006 after taxes, officials said.
Moore will use some of the windfall to pay off a new pickup truck he bought a week ago.
Win Big launched in October with three $2 million top prizes and six $100,000 prizes. Two $2 million jackpots and five $100,000 prizes remain, according to the lottery.