It's that time of year again: former Rack Room Shoes, Hobby Lobby, Party City, Sears, Bealls, Joann Fabrics, Big Lots, Dollar Stores and a variety of other empty chain store strip mall locations ...

You can tell winter is coming in Florida when the colors change. All the bright orange and yellow Spirit Halloween signs come down. But not all Spirit Halloween stores close when Halloween passes.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Halloween is just over a week away but we've seen the familiar orange-signed Spirit Halloween stores across Florida since August.

Those in need of a last-minute costume before Halloween are in luck, as Spirit Halloween will be open on the spookiest day of the year. Spirit Halloween, purveyor of just about everything ...

Around early September, you may notice that a Spirit Halloween store seems to pop up in every empty building or abandoned retail store. In a world where physical businesses seem to crash and burn ...