11 Facts About Spencer Gifts

Spencer Gifts LLC, doing business as Spencer's, is a North American mall retailer with over 600 stores in the United States and Canada.

Spencer Gifts owns and operates a pop-up seasonal retailer, Spirit Halloween.

Spencer Gifts was founded in 1947 in Easton, Pennsylvania by Max Spencer Adler as a mail-order catalog that sold an assortment of novelty merchandise.

In 1963, Spencer Gifts opened its first retail store in the Cherry Hill Mall in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, where it operates to this day.

In 2003, Spencer's Gifts was completely rebranded after being put under new management, and with the change become known as just Spencer's.

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Spencer Gifts began to operate Universal Studios stores as a subsidiary of its parent company.

In 1999, Spencer Gifts's acquired Spirit Halloween, a seasonal retailer that was founded by Joseph Marver in 1983.

In 2006, Spencer Gifts's began its "Spirit of Children" program, which raises donations through its Spirit Halloween stores for, and hosts Halloween parties in, children's hospitals in Canada and the United States.

In 1962, Spencer Gifts was found by the Federal Trade Commission to have violated the Federal Trade Commission Act by making misleading statements in advertising its "Reduce-Eze" girdles and ordered to cease making false claims.

In 1970, Spencer Gifts was found by the FTC to have misled its customers as to the efficacy of its "non-prescription magnifying spectacles" by failing to disclose that correction of vision defects is limited to older persons who do not have any eye diseases, like astigmatism, but only need "simple magnifying or reducing lenses".

Spencer Gifts has been criticized for allowing children access to adult toys and other explicit products.