$336M Powerball ticket sold at Rhode Island Stop & Shop

The winning ticket in Saturday’s $336.4 million Powerball jackpot was sold at a Stop & Shop supermarket in Newport, but no one has come forward yet to claim the prize, Rhode Island lottery officials said Monday.

“We’re very excited to find out who it is, we don’t know who, but I would really like to see who it is,” said Duane Maitland, the manager of Stop and Shop.

The lottery’s Powerball is played in 42 states and when the jackpot rose Wednesday, people across the country rushed to get their hands on tickets. But Saturday’s drawing had only one jackpot winter.

“This is the largest jackpot that we’ve ever had. It’s the largest cash payout for Powerball in the history of Powerball,” said the Director of the Rhode Island Lottery, Gerald Aubin. “If they choose to take the cash payout, which is the trend today, it’ll be $210 million dollars in cash.”

Stop and Shop says the ticket was purchased around 6 p.m. Saturday.

“We know it was a $9 purchase. We know it was three quick picks,” said Aubin.

Customers at the Stop and Shop wish they had bought the lucky ticket.