Why does he go into a betting shop?
People make a direct choice to buy scratchcards rather than to go into a betting shop.
He would not be required to place a bet, but at least he could see that a betting shop is nothing like a retail shop.
There are thousands of people—in this instance betting shop managers—who at the moment, because they are betting shop managers, work six days.
You can enter a betting shop and make a bet.
This will enable the big betting shop chains to denigrate, far more convincingly than they already do, the state of health of the on-course market.
That document certainly does not lack for flexibility, giving powers to operate any sort of business—from a betting shop to a boarding-house.
It helped to keep him out of the pub and from squandering time and money in the betting shop—money which he could not afford.