Today’s Herald Sun reports that Tattersalls has advised its suburban retail network that they cannot sell the soon to launch lottery products from Intralot. As I blogged here a month ago, at the time of the Intralot appointment by the State Government of Victoria, both the Government and Intralot want a different outlet network. This was made very clear in their respective press releases.
While existing Tattersalls outlets ought to try and get Intralot products, none of us should be surprised if Intralot says no and or Tattersalls upholds its contract and says we cannot do this. Think about it, if Intralot products were sold in existing Tattersalls outlets, what would all the change have been about other than to split lotteries revenue with Intralot. No, too much noise has been made about broader consumer choice for the same outlets to be used.
The time for action on lottery licences in Victoria was a year ago, back when the lottery agents association and the local newsagents association were sitting on their hands.