Ready or not, it's time to start looking for your next Halloween costume.
With most of August still ahead, at least one sign of fall has already arrived in Milwaukee: Spirit Halloween has opened locations across the city.
The popular costume store doesn't have any permanent locations. Instead, it opens pop-up stores during the holiday season. In 2026, Spirit plans to open the most stores nationwide in company history, with 1,575 stores, up from 1,546 in 2025, USA TODAY reported.
Spirit opened its first store in 1983 at the Castro Valley Mall in California. Now, the Halloween retailer looks to place its stores in locations with more than 35,000 people within a 3- to 5-mile radius.
There are a handful of locations already operating in the Milwaukee area.
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Here are Spirit Halloween's locations in the Milwaukee area, according to the retailer's store locator.
A former thrift store at 6731 W. Greenfield Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53214
A former Forever 21 at 5766 N. Bayshore Drive, Glendale, WI 53217
Opening soon in a former Kohl's at 5300 S. 76th St., Greendale, WI 53129
A former Buy Buy Baby at 665 Main Street, Brookfield, WI 53005
Next to Five Below at 1110 W. Sunset Drive, Waukesha, WI 53189
Opening soon at a former Five Below at 1070 N. Port Washington Road, Grafton, WI 53024
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Milwaukee's first sign of fall isn't the weather. It's Spirit Halloween