The economic impact of Halloween is staggering. From The Silicon Graybeard:
Some Astounding Halloween Facts
From the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE).
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- An estimated $575.26 million total will be spent on Halloween pumpkins alone in 2018, according to Finder, at an average price of $3.89 per pumpkin. That will exhaust about 80 percent of the US pumpkin supply.
- An estimated 95 percent of Americans plan on buying candy during the Halloween season, spending a total of $2.6 billion.
- Americans are projected to spend some $9 billion total on Halloween in 2018, according to the National Retail Federation. That’s a couple billion dollars more than was spent on federal elections in 2016.
Four more at the site as well as some other curious facts.
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