Spirit Halloween

yep well for page it's already graveyard season

oh yes yeah they've already got the uh they've actually had for a few weeks up i think i've told you before i don't remember though of course i don't uh the spirit halloween in surprise that old coals

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Yeah, she's upset because we don't have one in Castle Rock this year.

What? Apparently they used to put it at the Outlet Mall, but this time they didn't do it, so we have to drive to Lone Tree or Park Meadows or one of those ones.

Doesn't Paige have a direct line to the CEO of Spirit Halloween? Can't she complain directly?

She hasn't sent a strongly worded email yet, so I don't

Like it's a pop-up franchise.

Spirit Halloween store, the way they're operating there.

So I have a simple solution using the Mahler think tank here.

You move the Marlins.

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The Stripped Down Truth left a comment on our Lisa Frank episode from season two saying, quote, "Fun fact, Spencer's Gifts owns Spirit Halloween, and also Bailey, now is definitely the time to treat your inner child." Ooh, shut up.

No way.

I didn't know this.

Spencer's? I haven't seen one lava lamp in Spirit Halloween.

Remember those glow in the, in the dark posters? It's not making sense.

Anyways, I mean, Spirit Halloween doesn't sell pink furry handcuffs like Spencer's does, so okay.

But good for Spencer's, 'cause they weren't doing well.

These stores like Hot Topic and Box Lunch make money by catering to that need to assert ourselves in a place and a group somewhere in this world.

Side note about Hot Topic and Box Lunch, which I feel are in just about every at least okay, not completely dead mall here in the United States, Huge company, right? Spencer Spirit Holdings, which is the company that owns Spencer's Gifts, aka the dildo store at the mall, and Spirit Halloween, the Halloween store that pops up in dead big box stores every fall.

That company, Spencer's Spirit Holdings, bought Hot Topic and Box Lunch this summer, forming sort of this, like, licensed near-future garbage megacorp.

Because that's the other thing about a lot of this licensed stuff is we don't really need it.

It's sort of similar, like if Michaels wanted to start cashing in in other ways on customers, you know, incredible grief for Joanne, they could.

They could say, hey, t-shirt company, how would you like to buy the license to make Joanne t-shirts, right? And maybe 10, 15 years from now, We're going to be walking through the mall.

We'll be walking by a massive Spencer's slash Spirit Halloween slash Hot Topic.

It'll be two stories.

So that's a pretty big jump, right? So it's 143% increase.

And then spirit Halloween searches specifically.

Yeah.

So they started going way up in August.

Now, how do we get...

We need a best friend to infiltrate Spirit Halloween.

Mm-hmm.

'Cause I'm spending too much money at Spirit Halloween.

Or you know what? Actually, strike that.

Reverse it.