Torts/Personal Injury
Oct. 8, 2026
Trick-or-tort: The scary truth about seasonal stores
Spirit Halloween can turn vacant retail space into an operating store in less than a week, creating a compressed premises liability analysis involving landlords, retailers, contractors, store managers and disappearing evidence.
Jason Javaheri
Co-Founder and Co-CEO
J&Y Law
1880 Century Park East, Suite 717
Century City , CA 90067
Email: jason@jnylaw.com
Halloween is a time to play dress-up, and vacant retail spaces get to play, too.
Big-box stores that have sat empty for months suddenly come back to life. You can spot the signs. They are orange and starting to appear everywhere. Temporary walls go up, displays fill the aisles, animatronics begin moving, seasonal employees arrive, and a Spirit Halloween store is suddenly open for business.
Then a month later, everything disappears, and many of those spaces return to vacancy...
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