It's so weird to see how much Halloween has changed since I was little, and it kinda stinks. Some people still go out and around (always with their parents now, never in groups anymore) but most go to shopping centers. Let me tell you how much it stinks working retail and also being required to do Halloween (most of these were for what my managers had to do with, as I was usually fortunate enough not to work during that time):
Basically, the whole shopping center is required by the owners to buy x amount of candy... with their own money, most of the time. In smaller businesses, it's hard to juggle helping actual customers, and a bunch of kids coming up asking for candy. Then candy runs out FAST because A LOT of kids go by, which require MORE candy runs (and more manager money...) and apparently parents would get pissed at workers that they ran out. These shopping center Halloweens aren't fun for many workers, due to this :/ Just stinks how it can't be traditional anymore, because of people being scared to go outside and whatnot (and I think a lot of neighborhoods just don't care anymore and keep their lights off, too). Also, it's dumb not being ON the 31st anymore. I saw a bunch of signs where it would be starting on the 28th, cause weekend.
