operation-megawhooper:

shubbabang:

The yearly curse has lifted

Not a curse.

Those employees knew what they were doing when they signed the dotted line.

Some people fear death so much that they will find any way around it.

If that means becoming a permanent part of a store that exists in the shell of others, never aging but only existing for a mere month out of a year, so be it.

They are hiding from the reaper.