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I hope American halloween culture evolves to the point where we can have a high quality more expensive seasonal halloween store to compete with the shittiness of Spirit Halloween. Like the Whole Foods to their Walmart. 
No, I'm not still mad about how hard it was to find a cool costume last year that wasn't either incredibly cheap and crappy or incredibly overpriced, why do you ask?
Maybe selling the same shit you can get at Dollar Tree with 1000% markup wasn't the best business idea. >

This right here. It was all cheap garbage with a markup. Then people used to go there for halloween costumes and Spirit Halloween flooded the market.