Want to give Halloween thrill seekers a real scare this year? Transform your home into a haunted house.
For the first time, retailer Home Depot, ever on the prowl for new revenue streams, is selling illuminated ghosts, inflated spiders and other Halloween decorations, joining a crowded list of chains looking to profit from the annual fright night.
The National Retail Federation expects consumers to shell out $4.96 billion for Halloween this year, up from $3.29 billion in 2005. While the vast majority of those dollars will purchase candy and costumes, about 17 percent, or $840 million, will be spent on decorations.
Think a six-foot-long coffin with a pop-up skeleton will chill the bones of trick-or-treaters? Maybe they’ll never come back — and all that candy will be yours!
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