$8m win for the luckiest Lotto shop

Saturday night's $8 million-winning Powerball Lotto ticket was sold by the nation's luckiest outlet.

Saturday night's $8 million-winning Powerball Lotto ticket was sold by the nation's luckiest outlet - a Hastings pharmacy which has dispensed around $47 million of prize money.

Staff at Unichem Stortford Lodge were yesterday wondering who it might have been and waiting for them to appear with the ticket.

"Nobody's been in yet though," pharmacy business manager Carol Ormerod said yesterday, speculating that to ensure anonymity the winner may go to Lotto head office.

"With the ticket strapped to their body," she said.

A decade ago, when it was known as Radius Peter Dunkerley Pharmacy, it was named the country's luckiest Lotto outlet - at that stage having dispensed about $23 million in prizemoney.

Ten years down the track and with Saturday's Powerball added to the tally, it has sold tickets which have resulted in $47 million being paid out, putting it a long way in front as the luckiest in the land.

The latest big win is made up of $8 million for the Powerball and $166,667 from the first division pool, which was split six ways.

It was the ninth Powerball of the year to be claimed and continues the Hawkes Bay's solid run.

In June last year, a Hastings supermarket sold a $13 million Powerball ticket - it picked up half the $26 million which was going.

And in June 2012, a Napier man walked away with more than $10.3 million with a ticket bought at a Napier supermarket.

The second most successful outlet in the bay, Andrew Spence Pharmacy, has sold about $32 million of major prize-winning tickets. NZME