OPINION: What does a Moose Lodge or a grocery store have in common with a casino? Nothing.

OPINION: What does a Moose Lodge or a grocery store have in common with a casino? Nothing.

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  • Doug Sprankle, Chair of the Pennsylvania Taverns and Players Association, PennLive
August 23, 2022 9:17 PM
  • Doug Sprankle, Chair of the Pennsylvania Taverns and Players Association, PennLive

Skill games have helped and even saved small businesses. I could tell hundreds of stories of how businesses, along with fraternal clubs and veterans organizations, have benefited in exceptional ways from legal skill games.

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Instead, I will just tell one story, my story. Sprankles Neighborhood Markets is a small family business run by my father, brother and I. We are a central place in the three towns where we are located. In 2018 we decided to try something new in our stores, adding skill games.

We had no idea just how much the games would change our business. For the first time, we were able to provide health benefits to our employees and provide free lunches for them, all through skill game revenue.