Spirit Halloween is Taking Advantage of the Suburbs

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8 ай бұрын

Spirit Halloween, the king of seasonal Halloween pop-up stores, has turned the suburbs into a maze of animatronics and costumes galore. But a spooky secret lies beneath their overwhelming amount of retail locations. 🎃
In addition to their massive plastic waste and fast fashion labour exploitation, Spirit Halloween stores reveal and take advantage of the detrimental urban planning practices haunting our communities. The Suburban Experiment gone wrong!
Since the dawn of the retail apocalypse, big box stores and malls have gone out of business, leaving behind a mass of abandoned storefronts. This might be a great thing for people who like to look at spooky props and robot clowns for 3 months out of the year, but it’s fatal to the communities that are left with massive vacant buildings, useless infrastructure, and dead malls. And while Spirit Halloween isn’t making the physical retail spaces from scratch, their monopoly-like model of swooping in with short-term leases and then leaving might not be as good for the cities as you might think.
In this video essay, we explore the memes and urban planning practices that make Spirit Halloween both a beloved part of our Halloween season and a chilling reminder of the flaws in our retail landscape. We also take a tour of Woodbine Mall and Honeydale Mall in Toronto to discuss the impact of abandoned retail on the people that live around them.in Toronto to discuss the impact of abandoned retail on the people that live around them.
Happy halloween everyone!
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@davelewis8270 8 ай бұрын

That fact that 30 minutes drive away is considered close in America kinda blows my mind as an English person. That's so far.

@els1f 8 ай бұрын

30 minutes starts to feel like walking to your kitchen here 🙃

@finalfroggitapproaches6418 2 ай бұрын

God, life must be so convenient in Europe.. I drive 37min each way to my job where I make $10.25/hr.

@els1f 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for making a Halloween themed episode about the decay of suburban eyesores through Tim Burton analogies, Community, Parks and Recreation, and What They Do In The Shadows 🙃

@finchfry 7 ай бұрын

There's a dying mall near me, and it has become a conglomeration of office spaces, small businesses, and event spaces. The Ulta Beauty was turned into an event space where they host pop-up art galleries and a local annual film festival. The Macy's is now an event space where they host concerts in the summer and warming shelters for unhoused citizens in the winter.

@SnickerFoodle 3 ай бұрын

That's amazing!

@jrdewitt100 Ай бұрын

Who the fuck cares?

@TRyanLearnBikes 8 ай бұрын

Fantastic, informative and extremely entertaining ...as always .Pro level on camera presence with equally impressive editing .10/10

@Mayeko 8 ай бұрын

Ah, the decaying malls of my Toronto youth. Cloverdale is the one that comes to mind, they had a circus in the parking lot once, and my mom made me ride the elephant they had, which even as a child felt Wrong. I wonder if they could turn those big empty lots into developments like the condos that replaced Stonegate Community Centre in south Etobicoke (I grew up there, and the place was mostly a parking lot with an L shaped strip of small shops and a Valuemart along it's edges), I would appreciate building up density with condos in the suburbs or on top of single purpose builds like that LCBO on King and Spadina. Did not expect this walk down municipal memory lane in a video ostensibly about Spirit Halloween stores, good stuff!

@taverner. 8 ай бұрын

Spirit Halloween is the Mad Max of the retail apocalypse.

@DottyMcInk 3 ай бұрын

Wish u made more videos like this one

@evansmith7969 7 ай бұрын

Impressively well done...

@eatatjoes6751 3 ай бұрын

Ahhhhh, dead malls.

@JeffHanke 8 ай бұрын

Great video! The Strong Towns link in the description didn't work for me though.

@ArianaAlexis 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for letting me know! Try this link: www.youtube.com/@strongtowns

@esaebriano551 8 ай бұрын

Please make a video about community.

@infinitewindow164 8 ай бұрын

Based video also love ur hair

@andrewdickhout6289 8 ай бұрын

Couch era Ari is on the streets!

@TRyanLearnBikes 8 ай бұрын

Quick hello to you Andrew .I heard you may not be playing between the pipes this year .We will miss you out there .I always looked forward to our chats on everything video... hope all is well ..cheers to you good sir 🍻