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But at his smaller stores, he says adding foods like green beans, corn, peas, and diced tomatoes to meet the requirements would take valuable shelf space from better-selling items.

Which is why Forsyth says he may have to make the difficult decision to stop accepting SNAP at some of his smaller stores.

I'm Carla Javier for Marketplace.

There's a sort of curious retailer lurking around every corner of my social media feed.

And if you're a millennial like me, chances are it's lurking around yours as well.

Quince.

It's a San Francisco-based online retailer known for its affordable copycats of luxury goods, a handbag that looks strikingly similar to one by Loewe, luggage that people compare to those Away suitcases, and $50 cashmere.

Amanda Mull at Bloomberg wrote about Quince, how it decides what to make and how it keeps prices low.

Amanda, thanks for joining us.

Yeah, it's great to be here.

I always enjoy coming on.

So for the uninitiated, what is Quince and what do they sell?

Quince is an online clothing retailer, although I think it might be a little bit misleading to call it that now.

You know, Quince has been around for a really short time and it started with clothes and now it sells furniture and supplements and kids stuff and pretty much anything that you can imagine.

Yeah, I've always found Quince to be really mysterious.

Like, to me, it doesn't have a lot of its own personality as a brand, but it also sells a lot of things that seem to be trending.

I also randomly got an ad for Quince this morning for champagne and caviar.

Tell me a little bit more about what's going on there.

Yeah, so its demographic in the US is, you know, people who are relatively affluent, people who want to buy nice things, but maybe feel a little bit squeezed by prices right now.

So it uses a data scraping operation to figure out what is selling sort of across the internet.