I imagine it's some marketing manipulation horseshit about mainly selling beer from concession stands so that after you wait in a 30 minute line for a $14 cup of domestic beer you're more likely to buy other things they're peddling since you're already there.
I don't know which country has the worse labor protections, but I definitely know which country's citizens would not give two shits about seeing a 120lb woman destroying her spine carrying an 80lb keg of budweiser on her back.