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From Sept. 16 through Sept. 21, Walmart is holding its first-ever car seat recycling event in celebration of National Baby Safety Month.
Customers can trade in used car seats at the service desk in any participating Walmart store and receive a $30 Walmart gift card that can be used in a store or online to buy items for their baby.
All car seats collected during the program will be recycled through TerraCycle.
Through the Walmart Car Seat Recycling Program, traditionally non-recyclable car seats are now nationally recyclable," said Tom Szaky, CEO and Founder, TerraCycle in a news release.
How it works:
Bring your car seat to the trade in event at your participating Walmart Supercenter .
Take the car seat to the Customer Service counter to be recycled
Receive your $30 Walmart gift card* that you can use in-store or online to buy items for your baby
Additional details about event:
Limit of 2-trade-ins per household
Any car seat brand is accepted
Booster seats are not eligible for trade-in
*Walmart $30 gift card offer with car seat trade in valid September 16, 2019 through September 30, 2019 at participating Walmart retail store locations. Not available at Walmart Neighborhood Market locations. Limit of 2 gift cards per household. Booster seats not eligible for trade-in. Please see Customer Service desk for assistance with all car seat trade-ins. Gift cards subject to terms and conditions found at:
https://help.walmart.com/app/answ...conditions.
More info on Walmart's car seat trade-in can be found here.
https://www.lex18.com/lifestyle/w...w4goKnV6Ys
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The CSR knew *of* the event but didn't know the details; apparently store managers get an email with the instructions for the return - if it's processed incorrectly the store does not receive credit for it. The had a printout regarding the event and there were instructions however they were incomplete.
Anyway, they are supposed to scan a barcode; the seats go in as damaged returns without receipt, and you have to provide an ID. The issue is the barcode that she had printed out (getting that barcode took like 30 mins as they tracked down a manager with the correct "level" that had access) wouldn't scan and manually entering the code wasn't working; fortunately the CSR recognized there were too many digits in the code and left off an initial "0" and that worked. I did have to provide my ID and got a regular store GC for both seats. (FWIW the code is 007874235474 in case you need it).
FWIW they didn't check the seats per se - I sold them a couple old Britax convertible seats. What I'm saying is that you might be able to sell them a booster-style seat as they didn't really pay much attention as to what the seats were or if they were eligible.
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Let's just saybest case you buy a $5 seat and now get a $30 Walmart gift card at a cost of $25 to you..was that worth the time and that's best case scenario. Most likely people are gonna try to get like $10 or $15
That's a deal breaker if they enforce that. I don't need another car seat!
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This is going to be exploited too easily.
People shouldn't be selling used car seats. There's a reason why thrift stores don't
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The local thrift store sells cribs with the drop down sides. Apparently they don't know the law about cribs.
Moot point anyway, my local Walmart is not having the car seat buyback.