The Trump administration does have a tool it can use to force the humble mini-mart to stock healthier options. Food stamps are an essential part of convenience stores’ business, but to participate in the program, retailers must carry products across a range of food groups. Those standards are poised to get an overhaul: “We are requiring that every outlet that accepts food stamps double the amount of real food that it sells in its facility,” Kennedy said last week. That decision is really up to Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, whose agency runs the food-stamp program, and she made similar comments at a press conference earlier this month. When I asked the Department of Agriculture for more details about the planned changes, a spokesperson directed me to a proposal released in draft form last fall. Under those new rules, stores would be required to carry seven varieties of food across four categories: protein, dairy, grains, and vegetables and fruits.