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  I suppose one has to begin by praising the efforts and tenacity of the shop assistant. For it is only right to have in ones mind the knowledge and determination that right is right and wrongdoings have to stop somewhere and having those thoughts and being faced with wrongdoing on ones own doorstep, it is only right that one should act.
  The fleeting thought that the miscreant could have been marched off to the local Police station toot-sweet lends the situation some sense of perspective. The Police station would have been closed.
  Perhaps lessons could be learned.
  Next time...
  -rely on the stores CCTV
  
  Well, really. That's about it. All other notions that spring to mind are mere alternatives to what actually did happen...
  -chase, catch and retrieve item and return alone to the store
  
  For a salesperson to be away from the store for over an hour, to leave the store undermanned for that time, security-wise. Are just two good reasons for acting differently. I hope that he can make-up his lost sales-bonus.
  The assistant did act in an entirely righteous fashion on the solely human level, but, to my mind, he sought too hard to get personal satisfaction. It would have been enough to retrieve the item and to let the other cards fall as they may.
  
  It was wrong, as you suggest Alan, to leave the town un-policed due to feasting. I don't suppose they could have ran after somebody who had committed a far more serious crime either.

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