Stores in downtown DC ghetto districts have everything that is worth more than $2 behind locked glass display shelves. If you need it you ask a sales clerk, they take it out and you pay for it at the front counter and it is handed to you.
Maybe the new Amazon method will be the new trend. Walk out of the Amazon store with an item and it charges your account. You don’t get in the store without the app.
In San Jose, Costa Rica—where theft and its prevention seems to be a national pastime—little neighborhood stores have one or two pretty rough-looking guys standing by the door. One will open the metal door to let you in. I assume if you try and steal something, they’ll let you know their disapproval.
And don’t even think about banks. One guy with a shotgun outside the front door lets customers in one or two at a time. Inside a guy with a shotgun watches you conduct your business.
Don’t think it’s catch and release there.