In the Central Anatolian province of Nigde, a man and a woman rode a donkey into a supermarket and calmly left with it after loading what they shopped.
As a separate incident, the 37-year-old Arif Arifoglu in the eastern province of Erzurum shared footage on his social media accounts showing him riding a wheelbarrow in a supermarket for the same purpose.
Under a new government regulation introduced on Jan. 1, grocery stores in Turkey are obligated to charge customers 25 kurush — 0.25 Turkish Liras — for a single plastic bag.
If authorities determine that a store is giving plastic bags to customers free of charge, the store will be fined 10 Turkish Liras ($1.85) per each square meter of their property.
Some people simply switched to classic string bags for multiple use, while others decided to protest the new charge by posting tongue-in-cheek videos online.
In one video, a woman was seen sewing her old plastic bags to repair them.
Based on Hurriyet
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