Maybe Tabcorp, maybe another party, has been updating lottery retailer details in Google Maps, indicating TheLott as the business name and products sold, but including, often the newsagent phone number and open ing hours.
Here is one example of this, which I chose at random from many examples available:
I first heard about this happening from a newsagent who happened to be checking out their own Google listing. The found a TheLott listing instead.
Something is going on and I am not sure what.
My advice: search for your business in Google and check what comes up in the general search and in maps. You can change it by claiming ownership of the listing.
This is good advice Mark. I found it had happened to me recently. Needless to say denials all round when I asked how it had been done.
It appears that The Lott has identified its outlets within a region.
This is possibly nothing more than a location of the nearest The Lott Agency for the local community seeking consumer to go to. It seems to promote “off LIne” sales rather than “on Line”
This can only help consumers and the retail outlet to place their investment when they are out and about.
Many of the outlets are newsagencies on the far North Coast and Hinterland of NSW.
We actually have a cafe in town called “The Lott” somehow google merged our listings causing our business name and address to be listed with the cafe’s phone no and trading hours. Caused us a lot of grief for a couple of months
Shayne,
It looks like a Google blunder to me. They don’t seem to be very particualr just a random association linking excise This is probably what’s happenning with Mark’s post pointing this out. I thought maybe it was The Lott promoting Retail Outlets-silly me.
Yes they took over my Google account and camped on it allowing only the lott to be shown in Google Maps for my business. When I attempted to Change it I was very curtly told no by Google. So I have abandoned that account to the Lott and am now setting up a new account with my business name as suits my business. It means after the successful completion of a new account 2 Google markers will be shown for my business. I still have completed the set up the new account by entering the number to verify it sent on a postcard to me by snail mail.
Next effort will be Apple maps.