I hadn't even gotten far enough to notice that, I was mainly looking at large-scale geometry of event layouts.

Based on your further observations, they may have been thinking "Let's keep the crips out." >_<

I stumbled across one store where absolutely every garment had some weird, aggravating feature like scratchy fabric, lace panels, fashion seams, etc. How do you keep freaks out? Make products they can't stand to touch. I'm not even sure it was deliberate, but it was very thorough. Most places only have a high percentage, not totality.