Retailers: Halloween spending down slightly this year but still near peak

An inflatable Grim Reaper on a pumpkin wagon pulled by a horse. A 10-foot tall blowup dragon with an orange belly. A wooden witch’s cottage belching fog. Kurt Harvey’s front yard is everything a trick-or-treater could want.And there’s more: full-size Snickers bars, Skittles bags and other top-shelf candy — about $300 worth — that Harvey and his wife, Marcia, hand out to the hundreds of kids who show up at their house in Nevada, Iowa, each Halloween. […]
Source: The Jacksonvill Daily News