My local HEB (Central TX) has been out of Minute brand microwave serving rice, all types, brown, brown + wild, jasmine, many other brands of rice, for a couple of weeks now.
That sounds like a good thing.
I bought some of that yesterday.
Yeah, rice has been low where I live but I can eventually get some. The candy isle is empty. Crackers isle empty short time but now is filling up again. Paper plates running out but t.p. ok. Plenty of milk, eggs, yogart, cottage cheese and off brand cream cheese. Pkg deli meats ok.
No staff shortage at WM that I can see. Plenty of consumers at all hours and are friendly. I noticed car plates from AZ and Michigan, FL and SC ... and plenty from my own state of NC