When prices rise, we sometimes turn to chance: playing scratch tickets or the lottery. To escape the high cost, more and more French people have chosen gambling to try, perhaps, to win the jackpot.
The ticket that is printed is that of Evan, 20 years old, he bets on football matches to supplement his ends of the month: “ Sometimes I earn 200, 300, it helps me to pay for groceries, to pay bills too. I am alternating, I earn 800€ per month. »
Alex, 42, has been scratching gambling for a year. ” I haven’t earned a penny yet, to believe that I’m really unlucky “, he confides.
The FDJ, always a winner
But he plays again and again with the hope of escaping an increasingly expensive life and he is not the only one: I don’t think that’s a solution in people’s minds, I think it’s more of a double or nothing. That is to say, I think, people have arrived at a state of fed up where they say to themselves: “On going to let go of something, the only way to let go quickly and legally of course is to turn to gambling.”
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And that, the Française des jeux understood perfectly, according to the seller: ” We realize that the FDJ brings us a lot of novelty. Yes, it works, people are curious to test these new features, it’s a strategy they had to put in place to reach more customers. »
The FDJ recorded this quarter 400 million more stakes compared to last year.