Here’s a kooky question for our dozens of holiday readers: Which retail hellhole has the best returns policy?

We do most of our returns on eBay, but only because even Wal-Mart doesn’t want our half-melted candles and scorched spoons. (Needles, fortunately, are easy to swap.)

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