Luckiest lottery ticket sellers in Western WA? These stores had the most wins
Every week, Washington’s Lottery hold several drawings. Players eagerly check their tickets to see if they’ve gotten lucky.
Could the place where you purchase your ticket be a deciding factor in whether you win or lose?
Washington’s Lottery has complied a list of the “luckiest” retailers in the Evergreen State — highlighting the local stores that sold the most winning lottery tickets worth $1,000 or more in 2025.
The state lottery divided Washington into a total of seven regions, ranging from the northern and southern areas of the Puget Sound to Eastern Washington and the Tri-Cities area.
The South Puget Sound has been the “luckiest region” in the state for the eight years in a row, with the top 10 retailers in the region totaling 170 wins, lottery officials said in a March 9 news release.
Here’s who made the list:
Which Seattle-area stores sold the most winning tickets?
Some stores in the South Puget Sound region have appeared on the state lottery’s luckiest retailers list for multiple years in a row, according to the release.
In 2025, a Fred Meyer grocery store in Renton celebrated its fourth consecutive year in the top 10, Washington’s Lottery said, while Fred Meyer in Burien and Safeway in Federal Way made their second appearances on the list.
A Fred Meyer location in Auburn made the top 10 luckiest retailers list for the third year in a row in 2025 — after landing in first place the previous year with 20 wins.
According to lottery officials, these South Puget Sound grocery stores sold the most winning tickets worth $1,000 in 2025:
- Hilltop Red Apple Market, 2701 South Beacon Ave. in Seattle: 20 wins
- All Star Grocery, 2825 South 200th St. in SeaTac: 20 wins
- Fred Meyer, 365 Southwest Renton Center Way in Renton: 18 wins
- Safeway, 13308 East Meridian in Puyallup: 18 wins
- Fred Meyer, 14300 South First Ave. in Burien: 17 wins
- Fred Meyer, 801 North Auburn Way in Auburn: 17 wins. This is the 3rd year in a row on the Top 10 list
- Fred Meyer, 17404 East Meridian in Puyallup: 16 wins
- Safeway, 17230 Southeast 140th Ave. in Renton: 15 wins. This is the 4th year in a row on the Top 10 list
- Safeway, 1207 South 320th St. in Federal Way: 15 wins. This is the 2nd year in a row on the Top 10 list
- Fred Meyer, 16735 Southeast 272nd St. in Covington: 14 wins
Where are lucky lottery retailers in Bellingham? Lynnwood?
Further north, lottery ticket sellers also had a lucky year.
The top 10 retailers in the North Puget Sound region sold a total of 96 winning tickets worth $1,000 or more, Washinton’s Lottery officials said.
A Fred Meyer supermarket in Lynnwood landed on the luckiest retailers list for the second time in 2025, lottery officials said, and WinCoFoods in Edmonds scored a top 10 spot for the fourth year in a row.
These local stores sold the most winning tickets, according to the state lottery:
- Fred Meyer, 2902 Southwest 164th St. in Lynnwood: 15 wins
- Fred Meyer, 9925 State Ave. in Marysville: 12 wins
- Fred Meyer, 21045 Bothell Everett Highway in Bothell: 10 wins
- Evergreen Food Storer, 7306 Evergreen Way in Everett: 9 wins
- Fred Meyer, 800 Lakeway Drive in Bellingham: 9 wins
- Haggen, 1815 Main St. in Ferndale: 9 wins
- Safeway, 4128 Rucker Ave. in Everett: 8 wins
- Fred Meyer, 4615 Southwest 196th St. in Lynnwood: 8 wins
- Safeway, 11031 Southast 19th Ave. in Everett: 8 wins
- WinCo Foods, 21900 Highway 99 in Edmonds: 8 wins
Where are the lucky lottery retailers
In the Olympic Peninsula region, a total of 10 lottery retailers sold
Safeway stores in Port Orchard, Sequim and Silverdale and made repeat appearances on the luckiest lottery retailers list, as did Fred Meyer locations in Bremerton and Shelton.
Meanwhile, an Albertsons in Port Orchard snagged a spot in the top 10 for the second year in a row.
According to Washington’s Lottery, these retailers sold winning tickets worth $1,000 or more:
- Safeway, 2890 Northwest Bucklin Hill Road in Silverdale: 13 wins
- Fred Meyer, 1900 Southeast Sedgwick Road in Port Orchard: 11 wins
- Safeway, 23961 Northeast State Route 3 in Bellfair: 10 wins
- Safeway, 221 West Heron St. in Aberdeen: 8 wins
- Safeway, 3355 Southeast Bethel Road in Port Orchard: 8 wins
- Safeway, 680 West Washington St. in Sequim: 7 wins
- Fred Meyer, 5050 Northeast State Highway 303 in Bremerton: 6 wins
- Fred Meyer, 301 East Wallace Kneeland Blvd. in Shelton: 6 wins
- Mt. Pleasant Village, 3010 East Highway 101 in Port Angeles: 6 wins
- Albertsons, 1434 Southeast Olney St. in Port Orchard: 6 wins.
This story was originally published March 22, 2026 at 5:00 AM.