$1M instant lottery ticket sold at Harrison supermarket

A regular customer of Community Supermarket in Harrison won $1 million on a $20 scratch-off lottery ticket.

“I was thinking, ‘Please don’t cry because I’m going to cry with you,’ ” said office clerk Niki Dickey, who talked with the woman when she brought her winning ticket back to the store last week.

The Pennsylvania Lottery on Wednesday confirmed the sale of the winning “Mega Millionaire” ticket. The game has five top prizes of $1 million.

Jodie Noel, an office manager at the Heights Plaza grocery store, said the woman, who comes to the store every day, bought the ticket from a machine inside the store Thursday morning and came back with it later that day.

“I wish it was mine,” she said. “It’s awesome, though. I don’t know if we’ve ever had that big of a winner in my 35 years here.”

Noel said she remembers the store having a $600,000 Cash 5 winner, a couple of $100,000 scratch-off winners and a $50,000 Powerball win.

The name of the woman who bought the winning Mega Millionaire ticket is not known. Noel said they helped her fill out the paperwork to claim the prize.

“She said, ‘I don’t know what to do,’ ” Dickey said. “I said, ‘I don’t know what to do, either.’ ”

Dickey said the woman’s husband had told her she read the ticket wrong.

“She said, ‘I think this one’s big,’ ” Dickey said. “She didn’t cry. Her face was red. She may have cried at home. She was very emotional, and she was in shock.”

Dickey said it was nice that the woman won. “You could tell she can really use it,” she said.

Community Supermarket gets a $5,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket, according to the Pennsylvania Lottery.