"Earlier this week, meme stock retailer turned Pok é mon card pawn shop, GameStop, announced a new trade-in stunt engineered to go viral. " Trade Anything Day " will let customers come in and hand over almost anything in exchange for store credit. Employees who weren't told about the promotional stunt in advance are already preparing for the worst. Some are even trying to harness the chaos for a good cause."
"But that's not the whole story. A flyer store employees received goes into more detail and explains exactly how "Trade Anything Day"is supposed to work. Customers can only trade in one nonsense item that day. They only get $5 store credit, no matter what it is. At the very end, employees will be tasked with taking all of the qualifying items to local, approved donation drop-off points. Presumably everything else will be thrown out."
"GameStop's official announcement says people can bring in their junk and trade it in on December 6 for credit toward games and other purchases as long as it doesn't violate a long list of exceptions. Those include hazardous materials, things that pose health risks, and Meta Quest VR headsets, for some reason. Trade-ins for stuff the stores normally accept will continue as usual."
GameStop announced a December 6 "Trade Anything Day" promotion allowing customers to trade almost any single item for store credit. The promotion imposes many exceptions, including hazardous materials, items posing health risks, and Meta Quest VR headsets. Normal trade-ins will continue to follow existing policies. A store flyer clarifies customers may bring only one “nonsense” item and will receive a flat $5 credit regardless of the item. Employees are instructed to take qualifying items to approved local donation drop-off points, and nonqualifying items will likely be discarded. Employees express concern about increased calls, social-media-driven drop-offs, and handling hazardous or messy items.
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