Need New Customers, Rent a Creepy Clown

When a new store opens up here street entertainment is key to luring in new customers. On my walk home from school the other day I found this creepy clown performing outside of a newly opened cell phone store. Often instead of a clown there might be scantily clad girls singing and dancing around an archway of balloons. I don't really understand how this is culturally accepted when modesty is a big part of female culture here.

For some odd reason clowns on stilts are primarily used for cell phone and electronic store openings. What does that say about the demographic, huh.  I wonder how lucrative being a promo clown is...