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> Total retail and food services sales in the U.S. $6.22tn

I cannot bring myself to believe that that number means what it sounds like it means, because the total GDP of the USA is $24.8 trillion and that makes food 25% of the American economy, which seems implausibly high.

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Retail _and_ food, not retail food. I had to read it a few times as well.

Retail food & beverage is $850bn while groceries is $800bn, so that makes about $1.6tn combined.

That makes a lot more sense; thanks :)

That does seem high. I would put it at closer to 8% of GDP. The point I made stands though.

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