Everyone wants a bit of Ricky Conner’s luck.

With Saturday’s Powerball jackpot surging upwards of $800 million, Oliver’s Store saw an influx of lottery ticket buyers on Friday, according to his wife, Brenda Conner.

On New Year’s Day, Ricky Conner, owner of Oliver’s Grocery/Ricky and Roy’s Catering, won $1 million in the Virginia Lottery’s New Year’s Millionaire Raffle — with a ticket that he purchased from his own store. Conner, on Friday, said he bought 400 Powerball tickets.

“Customers have come in saying Lady Luck usually strikes twice in the same place,” said Brenda Conner. “We’ve had people come in and rub the lottery machine, saying they hope Ricky’s luck rubs off on them.”

An unprecedented number of Powerball tickets has been sold in Virginia and nationwide, according to the Virginia Lottery. Other stores in Suffolk have also had higher than usual ticket sales.

“We’ve probably had five times our usual sales,” Bennett’s Creek Market clerk Shannon Griffin estimated. Several people spent big money on Powerball tickets — one customer bought $600 in tickets on Friday, she added.

The Virginia Lottery estimated sales of 6.9 million Powerball tickets in Virginia on Saturday, the day of the drawing. At peak times on Saturday, Powerball tickets will be selling at a rate of 13,800 tickets per minute across Virginia.

If one ticket matches all six numbers in Saturday’s drawing, that person will have a choice of taking the full $800 million in 30 annual payments, or a one-time cash option of $496 million before taxes, according to the Virginia Lottery.

If they win, several Suffolk residents said they would donate most of it to charity.

As he bought tickets Friday, Ken Murray, a systems analyst at Lockheed Martin, said he would retire and keep 20-30 percent of the winnings.

“I would use the rest to help my family, single women with children and people in need,” Murray said. “I don’t want the headache.”

North Suffolk resident Bill Spence reeled off a list of benefactors: “My family, charities, Union Mission and my church, if they would have it.”

Bennett’s Creek Market employee Wendy Gillie said she could not imagine winning that much money.

“I don’t know how to dream in numbers that big,” Gillie said. “But I would give most of it away, then lose my phone and hide.”

Marcus Bailey said he would invest in his dream of opening his own auto mechanic shop.

“I would quit my job and retire to the Bahamas for a year or two,” said Michael Adams, buying tickets at Bennett’s Creek.

Larissa Thomas of Chesapeake said she bought 12 tickets when she stopped to buy gas at 7-Eleven Friday.

“This is the first time I’ve played,” she said. “I would pay off my mortgage, my children’s mortgages and take a vacation. I don’t know who would get the rest.”