Hilariously before you named the store I was thinking back of my experience in exactly a Tsutaya in Tokyo.

Found some cool origami books that I had to take a chance on buying them, since I couldn't look through them as they were also wrapped in plastic.

Extra fun tidbit, I bought them tax-free, which is super straightforward in Japan, and then they told me I should not remove the plastic wrap and "use" the books, since that would invalidate their tax-free status and I'd have to repay tax...