This Can't be a Good Sign

Yesterday I was in the Kroger supermarket here in scenic Alvin, Texas. Whenever I'm in Kroger, I go by the book rack to see what's there. Or, as in this case, to see what's not there. The westerns had disappeared. In the past, the Kroger book rack has always had ten or fifteen western novels. Not this time. Not one. I don't know if this is a temporary glitch, if it's something that's happened only in Alvin, or if it's something that's occurred throughout the chain. But it doesn't look good.