Halloween divides the public every year as to whether or not we should be splashing our hard-earned cash on a (sort of) holiday just weeks before the festive season begins. In some shops this year locals can find Halloween decorations in one aisle and Christmas decorations in the next, prompting them to speak up on whether the spooky season is worth all the fuss.
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00:00My name's Kelly, I'm from Wolverhampton, I'm 41 and I'm just shopping with the family.
00:05I think Halloween is a money making thing, it's a waste of money and it's just like to get money out of you basically really.
00:14I like to spend my money on Christmas and my kids are growing up anyway.
00:19Scrap Halloween and the money they spend on Halloween you can spend it on Christmas and have more celebration with the family.
00:25We didn't even really bother with Halloween because it was a waste of money to be fair.
00:28We used to go Halloweening but we just thought it was a money making thing and obviously the world's dangerous at the moment anyway.
00:35So you can't be out, it's not safe.
00:37Hi I'm Chris Ball from Forbidden Planet Wolverhampton, 50 years old and we're looking forward to Halloween.
00:44My views on Halloween are yeah we should be doing it, it's a lot of fun for the customers, especially in retail.
00:49Just something to celebrate, a lot of people celebrate Halloween, me personally.
00:54Excess, job done, sweets.
00:57But yeah it's important for the stores to have an event.
01:02We have an event coming up on the 26th and 27th of October for Halloween.
01:07We've still yet to put out the information but yeah we will be doing an event, lots of fun and we'll have some free complexes as well.
01:14The products and themes that sell through Halloween is usually something like the Kill Stars, Teddies that we sell.
01:22My name's Macaulay, I'm 19 and I'm from Hogwarts.
01:27I think it's a great idea but I do wish it would be treated differently.
01:33In what way?
01:35I feel like now people don't put effort into it so like people don't do the costumes and trick or treating.
01:42I think it's a good thing, it's good for like the kids to go out and go trick or treating at the parties and things but nowadays it's not as fun.
01:50My name is Natasha, I'm from Wollinore, I'm looking to get some wellies.
01:55Hi my name is Paul, I'm from Wollinore, I'm down here to get some wellies.
01:59Both getting wellies, have you got them?
02:02Just one more pair.
02:05That's how we get our hold for Halloween, we do away, we do a holiday for Halloween.
02:10It feels celebrated, it's neutral really, you don't, very rare we get butchery where we come from.
02:16We've just got some odd ones, little ones, you know what I mean, so I'm going to get a little bit of Harry Potter stuff.