Store Workers Win Lottery

Shoppers at the local Pathmark supermarket might have to wait a little longer for someone to ring up their purchases.

Thirty-three of the store’s 250 employees shared one of the two winning tickets for a Big Game lottery jackpot worth $115 million.

The other half of the Friday night jackpot in the multistate game goes to the holder of a ticket sold in Camden.

Paul Silecchia was the first Pathmark worker to realize he and his colleagues were rich.

He came in early Saturday to go through their pool of tickets and found that one had all six numbers. The colleagues each put $10 into the pot.

Taking their winnings as annuities with payouts spread over 26 years would be just under $68,000 annually per person before taxes. Taking the onetime cash option would come to about $800,000 each.

“I’m still numb, in shock, total disbelief,” said employee Lillian Mahaffey.