Brand New iPhone 13 mini with cracks

So, I literally JUST got my 13 mini yesterday, and when I got home today I noticed something at the bottom of my screen, I wiped it with my thumb to see what it was and was looking at it in the light.. and turns out, it’s a crack. And observing the rest of the screen, there are little cracks elsewhere on the screen. And I promise you, swear on my entire families graves I didn’t drop it nor did it come in contact with anything in my pockets for it to have been scratched. The only other things in my pockets with it were paper receipts and my reusable cloth mask. I don’t think it would be right to go to the Apple store and for them to charge me to fix the screen when these little scratches appeared literally the day after I bought it and when I had done nothing to it for this to have happened, and one of the workers at my local Apple store knows I care for my phones right cause I had my last iPhone (7) for a little over 2 years and never dropped it once and there wasn’t any cracks nor even dents on it. Is it possible for my screen to be fixed for free in this case..?