Every year fall comes around, the Halloween spirit possesses retail. All the abandoned retail spaces are suddenly filled with the pop up store spirit of Halloween. But how does a business survive off of a single season of profit?

There is a lot of planning and preparation that goes into the iconic Halloween pop up every year. First of all the space needed is of the utmost importance. They need a temporary space and a large one too. They scout for spaces between 5,000-50,000 feet. Then they rent the space for a temporary amount of time. Once they occupy the space, they fill it up with their products. The whole space is used. You may even notice how towards the back they put up curtains to cover up their storage, which you can see between the cracks.

Spirit bids a goodbye to its customers a few days following Halloween. However, that goodbye comes with a fantastic send off. Spirit needs to leave no trace of their existence, which means major clearance following the next few days. This allows all Halloween lovers to take everything until there is no ghoul left standing. But wait, what if theory still has products that haven’t been sold? Well in their consignment terms, they state the corporation takes back the unsold merchandise for repurposing. Spirit lets no merchandise become rotting skeletons.

Spirit Halloween is one of the few businesses that make quite an impression from just a short period of time. They truly bring the spirit of Halloween everywhere they go.

Sources:

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043278951/spirit-halloween

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-rise-of-spirt-halloween-retail-apocalypse-photos-history-2021-10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_Halloween#Business_operations

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