The “Jack The Reaper” emblem displayed within the home windows of a Spirit Halloween seasonal vacation retailer on the website of a closed former Mattress Tub and Past retail retailer on August 26, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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Need a Travis Kelce/Taylor Swift {couples} costume delivered to your door? Now you may Uber it.
Uber Technologies simply introduced a brand new partnership with Spirit Halloween, opening up supply of Halloween costumes, decor and all issues spooky to be delivered on-demand by way of Uber Eats, Postmates and the Uber app.
“As a working mother, I understand how vital that last-minute face paint or masks may be on the morning of the varsity parade or the hour earlier than potluck, and I am thrilled that we’ll be capable of meet this demand on Uber,” mentioned Beryl Sanders, Director of Uber’s U.S. grocery and retail partnerships, in a press launch.
Uber added all Spirit Halloween shops to its supply apps as of Friday morning, an Uber spokesperson instructed CNBC. This season, the retailer is about to open a report 1,525 North American places, up roughly 1.3% from the 1,506 opened in 2023.
Spirit Halloween merchandise shall be accessible on the identical costs that customers can discover at their bodily places, in keeping with the announcement. Uber is already partnering with different holiday-centric retailers like Michael’s and Social gathering Metropolis to succeed in a broader shopper base past restaurant takeout.
The Halloween buying season is persistently one of many largest shopper spending occasions in the US. This yr, Halloween gross sales are anticipated to succeed in 11.6 billion dollarsin keeping with the Nationwide Retail Federation.
Spirit Halloween didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Correction: Spirit Halloween is opening roughly 1.3% extra North American retail places this yr in comparison with 2023. That share was misstated in an earlier model of this text.
