The bottle of orange juice cost $5 at ShopRite, but Tayeb Souami's wife had found the same brand on sale for $2.50 elsewhere. Yes, it was only 250 pennies, but every one of them mattered to a family that had just refinanced its home and had a daughter headed to college.Get more news about 包网公司,you can vist nb68.com

So on May 19, Souami dutifully trudged back to the store in Hackensack, New Jersey, - OJ and receipt in hand.

But at the customer service counter, he saw a sign for the Powerball jackpot, which had ballooned to $306 million at that point, according to video of Souami's news conference posted by CBS New York. He liked the number and was feeling lucky, so he purchased two tickets using the money he got from the returned orange juice and mostly forgot about the lottery for the rest of the day.

The next morning, it was more errands. Souami, 55, had some work to do in the yard, but he also wanted to get his car washed while his wife stayed at their home in Little Ferry, preparing meals for the week.

But on the way to the carwash, he stepped into a 7-Eleven convenience store to check the tickets.

"I scanned the first ticket. It wasn't a winner. And the second ticket it was good, but always I see $2, $4, but that day I see, 'Must be seen by the retailer.' I scan it again and it [said the same thing]. And I say to the lady, I hand it to the lady and I say 'Can you check? I think your machine is not working.'

Souami said the clerk scanned the ticket and said, "Oh, my God!"

"My heart, it was just beating beating, beating," he told reporters. "And she kept saying, 'Oh, my God. Oh, my God.' It's like when you see a "Tom and Jerry" cartoon: The heart goes boom boom boom boom.