U.S. Halloween retailing in 2020 and 2021 was spooked by the pandemic. Last year, supply issues left shoppers with empty shelves at big box stores such as Target, Home Depot and Walmart. This year, however, there’s been a 27% increase in the amount of Halloween home merchandise online, and a 61% increase in Halloween costumes and accessories, as Refinitiv discovered in a collaboration with StyleSage. Moreover, October to-date, 10% of the Halloween apparel online is completely sold out. Although Halloween merchandise has been selling out faster this year, luckily for procrastinators, there still seems to be more Halloween items available