Armed security is usual at HEB grocery stores on my side of town, as the OP described most are thirty-ish, look like former Military. One store also has a canine sometimes.
There's an armed guard most everywhere
I go anymore. Not that it's a deterrent to
crime at all
I didn't figure they needed guards in Texas!!
Too many out-of-staters have moved here and
brought the woke agenda with them from their
rathole states. Used to be able to saddle your
own horses and kill your own snakes
