I have a friend who has a store that was robbed repeatedly. He installed a vestibule like an airlock with two doors. On the wall were pictures of previous thieves, and a very obvious camera system. All customers coming in were remotely vetted. Cause trouble in the store, and your picture goes on the Wall Of Shame.

He said it was very effective in reducing bad behavior.

Back in the 70's when I'd frequent auto salvage yards, behind the front desk was a Wall of Shame covered in bad checks. You only got to try to pass a bad check once.

I also wouldn't be surprised to see shopowners starting to share data about who the thieves are, and the thieves will find themselves denylisted.

>I have a friend who has a store that was robbed repeatedly. He installed a vestibule like an airlock with two doors. On the wall were pictures of previous thieves, and a very obvious camera system. All customers coming in were remotely vetted. Cause trouble in the store, and your picture goes on the Wall Of Shame.

This is why stores in the ghetto have such systems for dealing with customers. It's not because their owners and employees like dealing with people through a tiny bank teller-like hole. It's from painful experience.

(Same goes for why certain items are locked up, only retrievable by an employee, in drugstore chains' outlets in certain locations but not elsewhere.)

You can tell the high crime neighborhoods in the Seattle area by the banks. High crime areas place the tellers behind bulletproof glass with an interlock tray. Low crime areas, the tellers are just behind a counter.

This neighborhood-by-neighborhood variation even happens for branches of the same bank.