COLUMBIA — Whenever the South Carolina lottery director shops in the Food Lion grocery store in Five Points, which sits in the backyard of the University of South Carolina, she notices that the line for self-service checkout stretches down the aisle.
“And where there are live clerks, they’re empty, because the younger generation doesn’t talk to people,” Dolly Garfield told House budget writers in January. “That’s a sad reality, but it’s the truth.”
As the Lottery Commission seeks to attract the next generation of players gambling on the chance to win the jackpot, the agency wants permission to sell tickets via vending machines placed in gas stations, grocery stores and other licensed retail locations across the state…