MBP retina screen flicker black?

Hello, after doing so much research and feels like getting no answer I decided to post on this forum, I hope I will get any answer
so I own a new MBP retina 15", it just came last week and I just start really using it yesterday. When I was working with photoshop i notice sometimes random black flicker will just flashes out in a milisecond. It doesnt happen only once but numerous times, a restart doesn't fix it.
Sadly I can't provide any screenshot here because it just randomly happen & gone so fast.
Anyone knows why and how to fix it? I'm pretty sad to find this problem in a really newly bought product

thank you for the reply, CT.
my flickering is not as bad as the one on the video, but still it annoys me because it's something like black long bar flashing.
so.. looks like this issue is going to be (maybe) fixed by bringing it to the store....?

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