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I love how you call out their statistics as being bullshit without backing up anything that you say with even the slightest source of your own.
The United States GDP is $30 trillion (this is a 2 second Google search BTW). And I can easily imagine at least a third of that is grocery sales making at least 10 trillion? And New York is one of the largest states by population in the country. So either back up your bullshit with some kind of linked fact or shut the fuck up.
Not OP, but a 2 second Google search turns up that it is in fact about 1 trillion. https://www.fmi.org/our-research/food-industry-facts
I didn't see your comment until after I deleted mine. But yeah I saw a comment below that actually had statistics from datausa.io.
I still say that they should back up their rebuttal with their own sources instead of just spitting out a number.