To think they should have to tell you when the scratchcard prizes are gone

[PeppermintCrayon]

Shops have scratch cards and displays saying you can win x amount when actually you can't because there are no top prizes left. See here: www.national-lottery.co.uk/games/scratchcards/prizes

I think they should have to have this information on display at every till point selling scratchcards. Surely it's false advertising to let people think they have a chance of winning something they don't?

Yanbu.

I've never really thought about what happens when the prizes have been won.

I do think there should be updates on scratch card stands which advise the remaining prizes.

YABU.

The information is in the public domain online. If you want to check first before you go to buy some scratchcards, you can. It's not like it's kept a secret.

There's that many types of scratchcards it's unrealistic to expect every shop to clearly display it.

I think you'd have a point if the info wasn't available at all, but it is.

Yanbu

It's not unrealistic for shops to display it. A simple sticker on each on saying no big prizes left.
No one expects to win the big prizes because the odds are so low but you don't expect the odds to be 100% no big prizes.

YABU

They already do.

Those little screens at the front of each terminal tell you when top prizes on scratchcards have been won as well as telling you the jackpots for upcoming draws.

It's not unrealistic for shops to display it. A simple sticker on each on saying no big prizes left.

Really? You don't think it's unrealistic for thousands of individual shops to be supplied with stickers to apply to a dispenser within a certain time of the prizes being won and then removed again when the games change? Perhaps it's because I have worked in such a shop in the past that this seems a wholly unrealistic expectation to have.