Woman, 27, wins Thursday $2 million less than three weeks after same business sold a $1M winning Powerball ticket.
HOLT -- If you play the lottery and seek some good luck, Holt Fine Wine & Spirits appears the place to be.
For the second time in three weeks, the 3½-year-old business at 2012 Aurelius Road has sold a winning ticket to a customer.
The payouts are far from modest.
A 27-year-old woman, who has decided to remain anonymous, won a $2 million prize Thursday, and Lansing resident Brian Tackett won $1 million on Oct. 20.
"I am flabbergasted," Holt Wine and Spirits manager Robyn Shurmantine said Friday morning. "I am amazed."
The woman who won the $2 million prize played the Michigan Lottery's Money Money Money instant win scratch-off game.
Her winning ticket was one of three she purchased from Shurmantine about 7:40 a.m. Thursday.
Shurmantine said the woman is "a regular" who is one of the store's nicest customers.
"I think I squealed like a little girl 'Oh weeee!' when we found out she won," Shurmantine, said.
The woman with the winning scratch-off ticket met with state officials Thursday in downtown Lansing and chose to receive annual payments of about $67,000 over the next 30 years rather than a one-time payment of about $1.3 million, a lottery news release said.
State law allows people who win games limited to Michigan's borders and receive a single payout of over $10,000 to stay anonymous. However, anyone who buys a ticket in a multi-state lottery such as Powerball, Mega Millions or Lucky for Life cannot remain anonymous.
Tackett, the $1 million Powerball winner from Lansing, purchased his winning ticket at the Holt liquor store on Oct. 20 from Sam Singh, one of Shurmantine's co-workers.
The store hasn't noticed an increase in lottery ticket purchases since news of the two winners broke, but that could change quickly, Shurmantine said.
"Let's just put it this way," Shurmantine said of a potential ticket sale rush, "I'm hoping."
The woman who won the $2 million playing the Money Money Money scratch-off game said in a lottery news release she also won $20 from her first ticket purchased at the Holt store and $100 on the second.
"I was so stunned," the woman said.
Shurmantine said she received $40 from the woman Thursday morning after she purchased the three tickets and "two random people" in the store at that time received the rest.