Western shops ban lottery ticket sellers: Should we do so?

Some restaurants and cafes have banned lottery ticket vendors from entering their stores due to their annoying behavior. Some people agree, but others think that we should sympathize with lottery ticket vendors.

Many people think that we should sympathize with lottery ticket vendors - Photo: LE DAN

Although they know that soliciting and begging to buy lottery tickets causes trouble and even frustration for others, lottery ticket vendors in the West still have to do it for a living.

Why do lottery ticket vendors in the West have to cling to and beg customers? - Video: THANH HUYEN - KHAC TAM - LE DAN

Many people do not want to buy lottery tickets, but are forced to buy them in exchange for privacy and quiet.

Ban or sympathize with lottery ticket vendors?

Reader vant****@gmail.com expressed: "It's very annoying when you're sitting drinking coffee with friends and they keep asking you to buy lottery tickets like it's mandatory, even leaving a stack of lottery tickets on the table."

Meanwhile, reader thie****@gmail.com reflected: "My family runs a clothing business. Whenever a customer comes in, a lottery ticket vendor follows them in and entices them to buy lottery tickets.

Forced to install tempered glass doors, lock the doors when there are no customers. Because lottery ticket sellers passing by, even children arbitrarily push the glass doors to beg.

“Whenever there is a party at home, it’s terrible. One lottery ticket seller after another, until the party is over. Very annoying” - a reader shared.

TVT account asked: "I wonder if companies and agents find it annoying for customers and the suffering of street lottery ticket sellers?

Now I don't dare to go for a walk in the markets in the West, because I'm afraid of being asked to buy lottery tickets, and I can't even go to a coffee shop in peace.

"Everyone must strongly boycott street lottery tickets to reduce this evil of solicitation. I feel annoyed when I see sellers persistently and resolutely refuse to buy" - reader truo****@gmail.com spoke up.

However, according to reader Le: "I see many restaurants and cafes banning people from selling lottery tickets. Is it appropriate to do so?"

Reader Tung expressed: "People don't want to ban it, but inviting people to buy lottery tickets affects their customers."

According to reader Nguyen Van Huong: "Shop owners should put up a sign saying they are not allowed to solicit customers to buy lottery tickets, but should not put up a sign prohibiting the sale of lottery tickets, which would offend customers."

Sharing the same opinion, reader Sang commented: "Shops should put up signs prohibiting the sale of lottery tickets, for the peace of customers, so they won't be disturbed. But honestly, I don't have any sympathy for shops like that."

Why?

Many readers sympathize with lottery ticket vendors because they are under pressure to have their tickets "cut" if they have to return unsold tickets.

Reader An said that "there are many lottery ticket sellers, lottery agents are increasing, and profits are increasing sharply. If everyone had a job and good support, no one would sell lottery tickets on the street. When selling, there is pressure from having their meals cut off, and even having to keep the tickets when they can't sell them all."

Reader Hung shared: "Lottery ticket sellers also suffer a lot, they can't return the unsold tickets to the agents so gradually they start soliciting." Reader Truong said: "It's all about making a living, please be a little sympathetic everyone!"

“If you don’t buy lottery tickets, then don’t be mean to them. Everyone is trying to make a living,” reader Dung commented.

Feeling sorry for the lottery ticket vendors, reader Truong Loan confided: "Most of the lottery ticket vendors are elderly and disabled people, struggling to make a living every day. When I shook my head and refused them, I felt sorry, but there were too many vendors, I couldn't buy enough.

Most of them were polite, when they saw me shaking my head they invited me to buy more, if I didn't buy they were still happy to invite someone else.

"Although I feel sorry for the seller, I am angry with the lottery company. Selling cannot be done by just soliciting, begging, and selling anywhere.

Lottery industry leaders have quite high incomes, agents also have very high incomes. Meanwhile, lottery ticket sellers do not have labor contracts, do not have any insurance, and are not trained" - AT account commented.

According to reader Dovantha: "It's hard to find jobs locally, so people focus on selling lottery tickets, driving motorbike taxis, and traveling to other places to find work to make a living. We should sympathize, but lottery ticket vendors should not solicit too much."

Meanwhile, reader Ly Nguyen Khanh thinks that the fault lies mostly with the agents. It is because the agents often cut tickets that street vendors have to suffer like this. Even though they know it is annoying, they have to try to attract customers in all ways just to make a living.

"I asked 10 people and all 10 said they were not allowed to return unsold tickets, so why not beg the buyers? I suggest that there be a hotline to the authorities to report which agents or lottery companies do not allow to return unsold tickets for handling.

Only then will the lottery ticket vendors stop begging and running around trying to sell all their tickets" - reader Huynh suggested.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/hang-quan-mien-tay-cam-nguoi-ban-ve-so-co-nen-lam-vay-khong-20241225102941232.htm