Five of the top ten retailers for sales of Iowa Lottery products in the last fiscal year were in the eastern Iowa city of Cedar Rapids. Iowa Lottery C-E-O, Terry Rich, says many of the top retailers have something in common.

Seven of the top ten retailers, including the top two, are Hy-Vee stores. A convenience store in Fort Dodge was the number three seller, while two other convenience stores in Cedar Rapids were ninth and tenth in sales.
Rich says each store promotes lottery sales in its own way.

Grocery stores in Waterloo, Council Bluffs and Mason City joined the convenience store in Fort Dodge as the other non-Cedar Rapids outlets to make the top ten. The top retailer — that Cedar Rapids store in Linn County — sold more than 921-thousand dollars’ worth of lottery products. Ringold County in southern Iowa had the lowest number of sales by county at 81-thousand-479 dollars. Ringgold County also did not have any winners of prizes that were one thousand dollars or more.