Customers can enjoy lower prices now that Amazon is the driving force behind Whole Foods.
With Amazon’s $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods completed by Monday, Aug. 28, it wasted no time in cutting prices at Whole Foods Market on Monday—as much as 43%.
Bloomberg reported that at a Whole Foods Market on East 57th Street in Manhattan, “organic fuji apples were marked down to $1.99 a pound from $3.49 a pound; organic avocados went to $1.99 each from $2.79; organic rotisserie chicken fell to $9.99 each from $13.99, and the price of some bananas was slashed to 49 cents per pound from 79 cents.”
Bloomberg further noted that the discounts seen in Manhattan were comparable at other Whole Foods stores in San Francisco and Seattle.