Trader Joe’s puts banana price up by 21 per cent

For more than two decades, US supermarket chain Trader Joe’s has sold individual bananas for just 19 cents each.

So the story goes, former chairman and CEO Dan Bane set that price point after speaking to a customer in store, and the company held it there ever since.

But now, less than a year after Bane retired, the Aldi Nord-owned retailer has apparently raised the price

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