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Wal-Mart tried a video games trade-in strategy in 2009. It didn't work. With CExchange, will it work now?

Wal-Mart tried a video games trade-in strategy in 2009. It didn't work. With CExchange, will it work now?

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Ted Bauer
Mar 18, 2014
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This seems like an interesting plan: Wal-Mart is now going to accept video game trade-ins in 3,100 or so of their 4,835 U.S. stores. It's interesting because normally when you trade-in a video game -- say, at GameStop -- you use the money to probably buy another video game. But at Wal-Mart,…

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