Klaviyo Flow evaluating price as string instead of number? Broken?

I think it’s related to the theme > templates > product.liquid theme file, specifically the two colorized parts below. I think the fix is just to change:

Price: {{ product.price|money|json }},

To:

Price: {{ product.price|money_without_currency|json }},

If any minds smarter than my own could advise if that is correct it would be greatly appreciated!

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{% if settings.newsletter_form_type == 'klaviyo' %}
<script type="text/javascript" defer="defer">
  var _learnq = _learnq || [];

  var item = {
    Name: {{ product.title|json }},
    ProductID: {{ product.id|json }},
    Categories: {{ product.collections|map:'title'|json }},
    ImageURL: "https:{{ product.featured_image.src|img_url:'grande' }}",
    URL: "{{ shop.secure_url }}{{ product.url }}",
    Brand: {{ product.vendor|json }},
    Price: {{ product.price|money|json }},
    CompareAtPrice: {{ product.compare_at_price_max|money|json }}
  };

  _learnq.push(['track', 'Viewed Product', item]);
  _learnq.push(['trackViewedItem', {
    Title: item.Name,
    ItemId: item.ProductID,
    Categories: item.Categories,
    ImageUrl: item.ImageURL,
    Url: item.URL,
    Metadata: {
      Brand: item.Brand,
      Price: item.Price,
      CompareAtPrice: item.CompareAtPrice
    }
  }]);
</script>
<!-- for klaviyo added to cart -->
<script type="text/javascript">
  var _learnq = _learnq || [];
  document.getElementById("AddToCart").addEventListener('click',function (){
      _learnq.push(['track', 'Added to Cart', item]);
  });
</script>
{% endif %}

If I don’t want to change the code in the website how I can do this in the campaign email itself?

I tried removing the dollar $ sign but it’s still not evaluating it as a string it seems. I also couldn’t find a function to convert a string to numeric?

For example event.Price = $359 will trigger the first if statement. 

{% if event.Price|find_replace:"$| " >= 400 %}

$50 discount
 {% elif event.Price|find_replace:"$| " >= 150 %} 

$30 discount

Thanks