When does Spirit Halloween open 2026 is a question with a season for an answer. The first store opened on August 1, the last ones in late September, and the whole chain has now closed for the year.

This guide from HomeStiyle gives the complete, dated record. Every date below comes from the company’s own announcements or from store pages read directly, and each one is sourced where it stands.

If you arrived here hoping to shop today, read the short answer first. The stores are closed, but two doors are still open, and one of them opens this Friday.

The Short Answer

Spirit Halloween’s 2026 season ran like this:

• First opening: the flagship grand opening, Saturday, August 1, 2026, in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey
• Official announcement: Tuesday, August 18, 2026, with more than 1,550 stores promised
• The wave: individual stores kept opening through August and September

And the season’s end:

• Final count: 1,587 stores listed on the company’s store locator
• Season close: Monday, November 2, 2026 for most stores; 39 closed on Halloween itself
• Open now: the online store (year round) and Spirit Christmas, opening 38 converted stores on Friday, November 6, 2026

There was never a single national opening day. Anyone who gave you one date for the whole chain was simplifying past the truth.

The full picture lives in our Spirit Halloween hub. This page is the calendar of the cluster: the dates, the order they happened in, and how to check any store yourself.

A promise on method: where two good sources gave slightly different numbers this year, this guide prints both and says why, rather than quietly picking the rounder one for you. Seasonal retail runs on snapshots, and dated honesty is the whole game.

The 2026 Season Timeline

Read the season as six beats. Together they explain every date anyone quoted you, including the ones that seemed to contradict each other.

Date (2026)	What Happened
Saturday, August 1	Flagship grand opening in Egg Harbor Township, NJ: the season’s first store and biggest flagship event ever
Tuesday, August 18	Official season announcement: more than 1,550 stores, Camp Harbor Lake theme revealed
Late August	The main wave: most markets open; some stores still show coming soon
September	The tail of the wave: remaining stores open as leases and build outs finish
By about October 1	The last locator stores open; the locator ultimately lists 1,587 stores
Saturday, October 31	Halloween: peak trading day; 39 stores close for the season that night
Monday, November 2	Season close for the remaining 1,547 stores
Friday, November 6	38 of the Halloween stores reopen at the same addresses as Spirit Christmas

August 1: The Flagship Goes First

The flagship is Spirit’s showcase store in its headquarters town, at 6725 Black Horse Pike in Egg Harbor Township. It opens first every year, and in 2026 it opened with a festival.

Spirit called it the biggest flagship grand opening in its history. Early access was pre registered and capped at 2,000 tickets, and they sold out.

The comeback framing was real. The 2025 flagship event had been canceled amid supply chain disruption, so 2026 carried a year’s worth of pent up fan demand.

Inside, the flagship debuted Camp Harbor Lake, the 2026 in store theme: an abandoned camp built on campfire tales and 1980s horror, rolled out at select stores.

August 18: The Announcement

The press release landed two and a half weeks after the flagship opened. It confirmed more than 1,550 stores across the United States and Canada and presented the season as officially underway.

That gap explains a common confusion. Pages written from the release date the season from August 18, while fans who watched the flagship date it from August 1. Both are describing the same wave from different banks.

The Wave: Late August Through September

Most stores opened in the second half of August. Local reporting shows the texture clearly: in Cincinnati, several suburbs were open by late August while nearby towns still read coming soon.

In Dayton, local news counted eight stores for 2026, up from six in 2025, opening in former big box spaces. Market by market, the wave looked like that: dated, local, uneven.

By about October 1, the last stores on the locator had opened. A dataset built from the store pages, the Haunted Attraction Network’s opening guide, tracked 1,587 stores in total, with all but one open by October 10.

October 31 and November 2: The Close

Halloween fell on a Saturday in 2026, and it was the chain’s peak day. For 39 stores, it was also the last day: they closed that night.

The rest, 1,547 stores, traded two more days and closed on Monday, November 2. Their store pages now read closed for season, which is the status you will see across the locator today.

Thirty eight of the Halloween night closings had a reason. Those addresses needed the week to change over, because on November 6 they reopen as Spirit Christmas.

The Flagship Phenomenon

Opening day at the flagship is a fan event in its own right, closer to a festival than a store opening. Understanding it explains why August 1 anchors the whole season’s calendar.

The crowds plan for it. Early access tickets, capped at 2,000, sold out ahead of the day. Fans travel to Egg Harbor Township the way other fandoms travel to conventions.

The product debuts there. The season’s animatronics, costumes, and theme build are revealed in one room on one morning, and walkthrough videos from opening weekend become the internet’s stock catalogue for the year.

The theme gets a face. Camp Harbor Lake’s abandoned camp, with its counselors’ cabins and lake house dread drawn from 1980s slashers, was built out fully at the flagship before select stores received their versions.

The mascot presides. Spirit’s own release language has fans counting down until Jack the Reaper appears and the doors open. The reaper is the brand’s season clock made visible.

The 2025 cancellation sharpened all of it. A skipped year turned a retail opening into a comeback event, and the company leaned in, calling 2026 its biggest flagship opening ever.

For everyone else, the flagship matters for one practical reason: it is the season’s starting gun. When the flagship has opened, your local wave is weeks, not months, away.

Shopping the Wave: When to Go

The date you shop changes what you find as much as the date your store opened. The 2026 season rewarded each phase differently.

When	Selection	Crowds	Best For
Opening weeks (August)	Fullest of the year; headline animatronics in stock	Light, except flagship weekend	Serious haunters, party planners, sizes that sell out
September	Deep, with early gaps in popular pieces	Moderate, building	Family costume runs with choice still open
Early to mid October	Thinning on headline items; restocks vary by store	Heavy on weekends	Atmosphere shopping, accessories, decor
Final week	Picked over; the experience at its peak	Heaviest of the season	Last minute costumes, the full haunted store feel
November 1 to 2	Remainders	Light again	Opportunists, next year’s stock at season’s end

August is the professional’s month. The animatronics that anchor home haunts are floor stock, not back order, and the year’s theme pieces are complete.

October is the experience’s month. The stores are fully dressed, the crowds are part of the show, and the trade is selection certainty for atmosphere.

Neither is wrong. They are different products sold by the same store in different months, and the opening calendar is what lets you choose between them on purpose.

The Season Where You Live

National dates frame the season; local dates fill it. The footprint data shows where the wave ran deepest in 2026.

Hiring maps the footprint. The states with the most seasonal job postings were California (1,678), Florida (1,202), Texas (1,130), New York (866), and Illinois (572), per the company’s job board as reported in season.

Local counts moved. Dayton went from six stores in 2025 to eight in 2026, all in former retail spaces, while Cincinnati’s suburbs opened in sequence across late August.

Canada shares the model. The announcement’s store counts cover both countries, and Canadian store pages carry their own dates and hours on the same locator.

Your market’s story is written in its store pages and its local paper, in that order. The national guides, this one included, can only hand you the frame and the method.

A Short History of the Opening

The wave has a history. Spirit Halloween was founded in 1983 and grew from a single seasonal shop into North America’s largest Halloween retailer by industrializing the pop up.

The model’s genius is negative space. American retail sheds large, well located boxes every year, and a tenant who wants them for exactly three months at the calendar’s emptiest stretch is landlord gold.

Party City’s collapse fed the model’s biggest recent expansion. The party chain’s stores were the right size, in the right centers, and about 100 of them flew orange banners in fall 2026.

Spirit Christmas is the model’s second act. A pilot in 2024 became 30 stores in 2025 and 43 listed stores in 2026, reusing the same leases, fixtures, and in many cases the same staff pipelines.

Each extension lengthens the season the wave serves. The Halloween opening now has a holiday sequel, which is why the closing dates and the Christmas dates in this guide belong together.

The ownership sits behind all of it: Spencer Spirit Holdings, headquartered in the same Egg Harbor Township where the flagship performs its annual first opening.

What to Do This Week

If you missed the season, three moves are still live:

1. Shop the online store

It never closed. The full catalogue ships year round, and the pieces your local store sold out of in October are a search away.

2. Visit a Spirit Christmas store

Thirty eight open Friday at Halloween addresses, with five more already trading since mid October. The stock is holiday, but the trip scratches the same seasonal itch, and the stores are worth seeing in their second costume.

3. Set next year’s markers

Mid July for the locator watch, August 1 for the flagship pattern, and your store’s page the moment it appears. Next year’s wave will not be a surprise to anyone who read this far.

Why There Is No Single Opening Day

The wave is not chaos. It is the direct result of how Spirit builds its chain every year, and understanding it makes next year’s dates predictable in shape if not in detail.

Spirit owns almost no stores. It leases vacant retail space on short seasonal terms: malls, strip centers, and empty big boxes. Fortune reported about 100 of the 2026 stores sat in former Party City buildings.

Each lease finishes on its own schedule. A store opens when its space is secured, built out, stocked, and staffed, and those four finish lines differ by address.

Hiring spreads the same way. The company staffed more than 52,000 seasonal positions in 2026, its largest hiring event ever. A rollout that size cannot start everywhere on one morning.

The flagship is the exception that proves the design. One showcase store, owned by the calendar, opens on a fixed ceremonial date while the fleet follows the leases.

How to Check Your Store

For any store, in any year, the method beats the rumor. Spirit Halloween’s official store locator is the company’s own dataset, and each store page carries its opening date, hours, and status.

Step 1: Open the locator

Enter your ZIP code or city. The results list the nearest stores with their current status attached.

Step 2: Open your store’s page

Read three lines: the opening date (or season status), the hours for this week, and whether the page says open, coming soon, or closed for season.

Step 3: Trust the page over the roundup

Store pages are updated by the company; roundups are written once. When the two disagree, as they did this year over a claimed September opening date, the page is right and the roundup is stale.

Local news helps in season. Dayton’s and Cincinnati’s openings were reported store by store, and our Spirit Halloween near me guide shows how to combine local reports with the locator for your own market.

Is Spirit Halloween Open Now?

As of today, November 4, 2026: the Halloween stores are closed. The season ended November 2, and no Halloween location will reopen until next year’s rollout.

What	Status on November 4, 2026
Spirit Halloween stores	Closed for the season (November 2; 39 stores closed October 31)
Spirit Halloween online store	Open, year round
Spirit Christmas stores	38 converted stores open Friday, November 6; 5 Christmas only stores opened October 14 to 15
Next Halloween season	No 2027 date announced; pattern below

Spirit Christmas is the live option this week. the Haunted Attraction Network’s Spirit Christmas locations guide lists 43 stores in 15 states from the locator, most of them Halloween addresses reopening at the same locations on November 6.

The online store never closed. Costumes, decor, and animatronics ship year round, which matters for anyone planning next year’s haunt or replacing a piece that sold out locally.

Discounts follow the calendar, not the closing sign. our Spirit Halloween coupon guide tracks how Spirit’s coupon pattern actually runs across the season, so you can time next year’s purchases instead of guessing.

Hours: What Can and Cannot Be Said

There is no national schedule. Hours are set store by store, posted on each store page, and extended locally in the final October weeks.

One concrete example exists: flagship coverage listed the Egg Harbor Township store at 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. most days, closing at 9 p.m. on Sundays. That is one store’s schedule, not the chain’s.

Guides that print a single opening time for 1,587 stores are inventing it. The honest sentence is short: check your store page, because your store’s hours are the only ones that will ever apply to you.

Halloween day runs longest almost everywhere, and the last weekend is the crowded peak. In season, the locator’s weekly hours for your store beat any remembered pattern, including this one.

Costume timing interacts with hours and stock, not just dates. our Spirit Halloween costumes guide covers what the 2026 lineup looked like and when the headline pieces tended to sell through.

The Counts, Honestly

You will see two store counts for 2026, and both are real. They were taken at different moments by different methods, and printing only one of them misleads.

Figure	Source	What It Counts
More than 1,550 stores	Spirit’s August 18, 2026 announcement	The season as planned and announced
1,587 stores	The store locator, read in October 2026	Every store page that existed at season’s peak
1,547 plus 39 closing split	Store pages, read late October 2026	November 2 closings plus Halloween night closings
43 Christmas stores (44 announced)	Locator read November 3; company announcement October 8	A one store gap between plan and listing

One smaller discrepancy deserves the same treatment. Two datasets from the same specialist publisher put the November 2 closing count at 1,547 and 1,548 respectively. A store’s status changed between reads; both numbers were true when read.

This is how seasonal numbers work. They are snapshots, and the professional habit is to date every figure and name its source, which this page does throughout.

One more measure deserves its place beside the store counts. The season employed more than 52,000 people, which the company framed as the largest hiring event in its history.

That number disciplines the opening dates. A chain cannot open 1,587 stores on one morning because it cannot train 52,000 people for one morning; the wave is the staffing plan made visible.

It also explains why hiring news is a leading indicator. Job postings for a market appear weeks before its stores do, which is why the jobs coverage tracked the rollout’s tail so accurately in October.

When Does Spirit Halloween Open in 2027?

No date has been announced, as of November 2026. What exists is the pattern, and the pattern is consistent enough to plan around.

The company’s own line says stores begin to open as early as July. In 2026, the first documented opening was the August 1 flagship, so treat July as the earliest possibility, not a promise.

Expect the shape to repeat: flagship around the start of August, the formal announcement in mid August, the main wave in late August, and the tail through September.

The locator will tell the truth first, as store pages appear through the summer. Until they do, any specific 2027 date printed anywhere is speculation wearing a calendar’s clothes.

Set your own marker: check the locator in mid July 2027. You will catch your store’s page within days of it going live, which is earlier than any roundup will.

Watch the flagship news for the season’s ceremonial start. The date, the theme, and the ticket plan for the Egg Harbor Township event usually surface before the announcement, and they set fan expectations for the whole wave.

And watch the leases in your own town. A Spirit banner on a vacant box in July is the earliest local signal there is, weeks ahead of any article, including the 2027 version of this one.

Frequently Asked Questions

When does Spirit Halloween open in 2026?

The season opened in waves. The flagship store in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey held its grand opening on Saturday, August 1, 2026.

Spirit announced the season officially on August 18, 2026, with more than 1,550 stores, and individual locations kept opening through September; the last stores on the locator had opened by about October 1. There was never one national opening day.

Is Spirit Halloween open right now?

As of this report’s date (November 4, 2026), no: the seasonal stores closed for the season on Monday, November 2, 2026, and 39 locations closed on Halloween itself.

Two things remain open: the online store, which runs year round, and Spirit Christmas, which opens 38 converted stores on Friday, November 6, 2026.

When did the first Spirit Halloween store open in 2026?

The flagship, on Saturday, August 1, 2026, at 6725 Black Horse Pike in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey. Spirit called it the biggest flagship grand opening event in its history; early access was ticketed and capped at 2,000, and the tickets sold out.

The 2025 flagship event had been canceled, which fed the 2026 turnout.

Why does everyone give a different opening date?

Because the rollout is genuinely staggered. Stores open when their temporary leases and build outs complete, so one town’s store opens in mid August and the next town’s in September.

Pages that print a single date for the whole chain are simplifying past the truth; the accurate answer is the wave, plus the locator for your store.

What is the flagship store, and why does it open first?

The flagship is Spirit’s showcase store at its headquarters town, Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey. It opens first each year with a festival style event and debuts the season’s theme and animatronics lineup.

For 2026 the in store theme was Camp Harbor Lake, a campground horror setup inspired by campfire tales and 1980s horror films.

How many Spirit Halloween stores were there in 2026?

Two sourced numbers, kept separate: Spirit’s August 18, 2026 announcement said more than 1,550 locations across the United States and Canada. The company’s own store locator listed 1,587 stores when read in October 2026.

Announced counts and locator counts measure different moments, so both are reported with their sources rather than merged.

When does Spirit Halloween close in 2026?

Most stores (1,547 of the 1,587 on the locator) closed for the season on Monday, November 2, 2026, two days after Halloween. The other 39 closed on Saturday, October 31.

Of those 39, 38 reopened at the same addresses as Spirit Christmas stores on November 6.

Does Spirit Halloween stay open after Halloween?

Briefly. In 2026 the chain ran two days past Halloween, closing November 2, which matches its usual pattern of a few days of post Halloween operation. The company’s customer service information describes the season as late August through the beginning of November.

What is Spirit Christmas, and when does it open?

Spirit Christmas is the chain’s holiday format, converting selected Halloween stores to Christmas retail. In 2026 its locator listed 43 stores in 15 states.

The 38 converted Halloween stores open Friday, November 6, 2026; five Christmas only stores opened earlier, on October 14 and 15. Spirit’s announcement said 44 locations; the locator listed 43, a one store discrepancy reported here rather than resolved by guessing.

How do I check when my local store opens (or opened)?

Use the official store locator (the stores subdomain of Spirit’s site). Enter a ZIP code or city; each store page carries its own opening date, hours, and status (open, coming soon, or closed for season).

That page is the only authoritative per store answer, and it is what the best ranking guide used for its whole dataset.

What hours does Spirit Halloween keep?

Hours are set per location; there is no nationwide schedule. As one example, flagship coverage listed the Egg Harbor Township store at 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. most days and 9 p.m. on Sundays, but that is that store’s schedule, not the chain’s.

Your store page on the locator is the source.

Was Spirit Halloween open on Halloween day 2026?

Yes. Saturday, October 31, 2026 was a full trading day across the chain, and for 39 stores it was also closing day. Halloween is the season’s peak, and stores plan their longest hours around the final week.

When does Spirit Halloween open in 2027?

No 2027 date has been announced as of November 2026. The reliable pattern: Spirit’s own site says stores begin to open as early as July, the flagship opens around the start of August, and the wave runs through September.

Treat any specific 2027 date printed before an official announcement as speculation.

Why do stores open as early as August for Halloween?

Because the season is the business. A three month selling window has to carry the chain’s year, fans shop early for animatronics and party planning, and the temporary leases need build out time.

Opening in waves through late summer also spreads the hiring (52,000 plus seasonal positions in 2026) across weeks instead of days.

How many people does Spirit Halloween hire?

More than 52,000 seasonal positions for 2026 across its 1,500 plus stores in the US and Canada, which the company called the largest hiring event in its history.

Job board figures reported the most openings in California (1,678), Florida (1,202), Texas (1,130), New York (866), and Illinois (572).

Who owns Spirit Halloween?

Spencer Spirit Holdings Inc., a private company headquartered in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey. The chain was founded in 1983 and describes itself as the largest Halloween retailer in North America. The Dayton ownership explainer and Fortune’s reporting are the sources behind this summary.

Where do the stores come from each year?

Vacant retail space: malls, strip centers, and former big box stores on temporary leases. Fortune reported about 100 of the fall 2026 stores sat in former Party City buildings, the party chain’s collapse having freed exactly the large, seasonal friendly footprints Spirit uses.

Will last year’s store be in the same place?

Not guaranteed. Because leases are temporary, a location can move or vanish year to year; Parade’s guide warns readers of exactly this. The locator for the current season is the check, never last year’s memory.

What was the Camp Harbor Lake theme?

The 2026 in store experience at select stores: an abandoned camp setup built around campfire tales and 1980s horror, with themed displays and animatronics. Spirit’s August 18 release launched it, and flagship coverage showed the full build out at Egg Harbor Township.

How did the flagship opening day work in 2026?

As a festival: outdoor event, early access by pre registered ticket (capped at 2,000 and sold out), and the season’s product debuts inside. Coverage described it as the company’s largest flagship opening ever, a comeback after the 2025 event’s cancellation amid supply chain disruption.

Are Canadian stores on the same dates?

The chain operates across the United States and Canada under the same seasonal model, and the 2026 announcement counted both countries in its 1,550 plus. Per store dates still vary by location, and the locator covers Canadian stores the same way.

Can I shop Spirit Halloween online all year?

Yes. The online store operates year round even while the physical chain is dark. That is the correct answer for anyone landing on this topic between November and July, along with Spirit Christmas during its own season.

When is selection best: August, September, or October?

Fullest at opening: animatronics and popular sizes sell through as the season peaks. October offers the atmosphere and the crowds; late October risks stock outs on the headline pieces.

Fans who plan flagship weekend trips in August are shopping the deepest stock of the year.

Why did some stores still say coming soon in late August?

Because their leases or build outs finished later. Local reporting from Cincinnati in 2026 showed exactly this split: several stores open by late August while others nearby still read coming soon on their pages.

The status line on your store’s page is the live truth.

What does closed for season mean on a store page?

That location has finished its Halloween season and will not reopen until next year’s rollout, if it returns at all. After November 2, 2026, that is the status across the locator, except for the addresses converting to Spirit Christmas.

Does Spirit Halloween open in July ever?

The company’s own homepage line says stores begin to open as early as July. In 2026 the first dated opening anyone documented was the August 1 flagship, so treat July as the company’s stated earliest possibility, not a 2026 fact for any specific store.

How big is Spirit Halloween compared with other Halloween retailers?

It describes itself, in its own release, as the largest Halloween retailer in North America, with over 1,550 seasonal locations in 2026. No rival seasonal chain operates at a comparable store count, which is why its opening dates anchor the category’s calendar.

What time do stores open on opening day?

Per store. Opening day hours are posted on each store page, and event stores like the flagship run their own schedule. There is no chain wide opening hour to print honestly, which is why guides that state one are guessing.

Is there an opening day sale or early access program?

At the flagship, access was managed by free pre registered tickets in 2026 (capped at 2,000), not a sale. Individual stores may run local promotions, but no chain wide opening sale was announced in the season release.

When did hiring start for the 2026 season?

Ahead of the openings: staffing ran through the summer, with stores opening from early August and hiring continuing through the season. The jobs guide’s October update still listed openings as stores completed their rollout.

What happened to the 2025 flagship opening?

It was canceled, with reporting citing international disruptions and supply chain challenges. That cancellation is part of why the 2026 event drew its record framing and its ticket demand; the Dayton explainer and Bisnow’s reporting are the sources.

Why do some articles say Spirit opens around September 23?

At least one mapped roundup printed that claim for 2026, and it is contradicted by the company’s announcement, its locator record, and every dated local report, which put openings from August 1 onward.

It is a useful reminder to weight dated, sourced reporting over roundups.

How long is the Spirit Halloween season?

Roughly three months at full stretch: first openings at the start of August, peak through October, closing November 2 in 2026. The company’s customer service summary (late August through the beginning of November) describes the typical store rather than the wave’s edges.

Do all stores close on the same day?

No. In 2026, 39 stores closed on Halloween and the rest on November 2, and Spirit Christmas conversions closed earliest of all (October 31) to allow the changeover week. Closing, like opening, is a per store date on the locator.

What should I do if my store has already closed?

Shop the online store (open year round), check whether a nearby address converts to Spirit Christmas on November 6 if your need is decor generally, or buy ahead next season in August when selection is deepest. Post season, those are the real options.

Are the animatronics available at opening, or do they arrive later?

The flagship debuts the season’s lineup at its grand opening, and animatronics are opening season stock at stores generally; the headline pieces are exactly what sells out first as October approaches. Walkthrough videos from opening weekend are the fan community’s stock check.

How do fans find out opening dates first?

The pattern that worked in 2026: watch the official store locator for your store’s page and status, the company’s mid August season announcement, and local news in your market, which often reports individual store openings (Dayton’s eight stores were covered this way).

What is the best source for opening dates?

The company’s own store pages, read directly. The strongest ranking guide built its entire dataset from them and said so, with read dates. Press releases fix the season’s frame; the locator fixes your store.

Did Spirit Halloween open any brand new market areas in 2026?

Growth showed up as count and reuse rather than new regions: 1,587 locator stores against the 1,550 plus announced, about 100 former Party City spaces absorbed, and local gains like Dayton’s move from six stores in 2025 to eight in 2026, per local reporting.

When will 2027 store locations be announced?

On the 2026 pattern, the locator populates through the summer and the formal announcement lands mid August. Nothing official exists yet for 2027 as of this report; the article will say exactly that, with the pattern, instead of a guessed date.

Why does this article answer in the past tense?

Because the 2026 season is complete: it opened from August 1, peaked in October, and closed November 2. Pages still promising a future 2026 opening in November are stale.

The useful answers now are what happened, what is open instead, and how next season will run.

What is the one date to remember from 2026?

August 1: the flagship grand opening that started the season. Everything else (the August 18 announcement, the September wave, the November 2 close, the November 6 Spirit Christmas opening) hangs off that first Saturday. —

Conclusion

When does Spirit Halloween open 2026 now has its complete answer. The flagship opened August 1, the announcement landed August 18, the wave ran through September to 1,587 stores, and the season closed November 2.

The wave is the lesson. A leased, seasonal chain cannot open on one day, and every source that pretended otherwise sent someone to a locked door this year.

Check the locator, not the rumor. Your store’s own page carries its dates and hours in every season phase, and it is the only source that updates when plans change.

Two doors remain open: the online store all year, and Spirit Christmas from November 6 at 38 familiar addresses. Next season’s wave starts forming in July; you now know exactly how to watch it arrive.