Bad ghosting / image retention on X240

I bought an X240 a week or two ago and for the first time noticed that it has very bad ghosting (also known as image retention or burn-in), especially on the edges of the screen. See linked pictures below (easier to see if you zoom out, but the checkerboard pattern impossible to miss from any zoom).
Image 1: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6625784/ghost1.jpg (this shows a ghosted tab from my Chrome browser, which stayed on the screen for about 10 minutes. It is MUCH more noticeable in person--the fact that I was even able to capture it in a picture shows how bad it is in person).
Image 2: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6625784/ghost4.jpg (this is a picture I took after running the image retention test at http://www.marco.org/rmbp-irtest.html. You can see a checkerboard pattern across the screen which is ESPECIALLY bad at the screen edges).
I have read that image retention issues get worse with time... and this laptop is only about 2 weeks old!
Any thoughts or advice, other than trying to return or exchange it?
Moderator note: broken image test link fixed.
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FHD LCD on the X240? It will get slightly worse few weeks into the usage. You can try returning it, but i think there is a good chance that this is an unavoidable issue.
Regards,
Jin Li
May this year, be the year of 'DO'!
I am a volunteer, and not a paid staff of Lenovo or Microsoft

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