Soon: Best Buy Will Accept Your Junk
After years of selling us junk, Best Buy is now going to take some of it back.
Under pressure to help dispose some of the electronic waste it helped create, Best Buy Co. is testing a free program that will offer consumers a convenient way to ensure millions of obsolescent TVs, old computers and other unwanted gadgets don’t poison the nation’s dumps.
The trial, expected to be announced Monday, covers 117 Best Buy stores scattered across eight states that will collect a wide variety of electronic detritus at no charge, even if the Richfield, Minn.-based retailer didn’t originally sell the merchandise.
The pilot stores are in Best Buy’s Northern California, Minneapolis and Baltimore markets, as well as parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Now if they would just lower the music that plays in the store so you don’t go deaf just walking in the door.
Seriously though, I think this program is awesome and I hope they expand it to all their locations soon.
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