Neptune ShopRite On Rt. 66 Sells Another Big-Winning Lottery Ticket

NEPTUNE, NJ — The Neptune ShopRite on Rt. 66 just sold another big-winning lottery ticket:

The store sold a ticket that matched all five numbers Tuesday, to win the $446,593 Jersey Cash 5 jackpot.

This same ShopRite made national headlines in 2024 when it sold the winning ticket for the $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpot. That ticket was sold on March 26, 2024. The winner who purchased that ticket was never revealed.

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The odds of winning a Mega Millions jackpot are roughly 1 in 290 million. The odds are much greater to win a Jersey Cash 5’s jackpot, about 1 in 1.2 million.

The Neptune ShopRite at 2202 Rt. 66 in Neptune is owned by the Saker family, which owns nearly all the ShopRites in Monmouth County.

This week's winner is a regular lottery player. He or she (their gender was not revealed) was interviewed by the NJ Lottery and said they usually purchase several lottery tickets every week. They braved a thunderstorm with lightning, high wind and heavy rain to head out to the Neptune ShopRite earlier this week and buy the lottery ticket.

“I’m very grateful for what I have gotten,” the player said. “I can’t breathe, I have to exhale! I can’t even focus today. I am a very perceptive person. I told myself that I’m going to hit the lottery real soon. It’s a dream come true.”