Grocery Stores and Monopoly Dealers Will No Longer Sell Ice Cream

According to the latest decisions of the Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA), as of January 1, 2022, there was a 50 percent increase in electricity. In addition to the successive hikes in recent months, it was decided to switch to a gradual postpaid system in electricity. According to this decision, electricity bills, on different tariffs will be calculated.

This uncontrolled increase in electricity and the new calculation system left all citizens, especially businesses, in a difficult situation. Grocery store and monopoly dealer operators, after the transition to the postpaid system in electricity, return refrigerators to companies started to do.

Operators started returning refrigerators due to electricity bills

After the gradual transition to electricity, refrigerators that were constantly connected to the power supply became an additional burden for liquor stores and grocers. Grocery stores and monopoly dealers started to return refrigerators to the relevant companies as high bills began to come. Ozgur Aybaş, President of Monopoly Dealers Platform, said: decision not to sell ice cream announced that they had

Stating that many businesses have fallen into a difficult situation after the 127 percent increase in electricity, Chairman Özgür Aybaş said, “There are many refrigerators in our shops. We are unable to afford them. There was already a high electricity bill, this will come exponentially. Today, we see that the electricity bill to the worst grocery store, monopoly dealer will be over 5-6 thousand liras. It’s starting to come now. Electricity bills, which were 2 thousand and 2 thousand 500 liras last month, came in the form of 4 thousand 700, 5 thousand liras. We don’t have the strength to remove them.” said.

In this case, the President of the Monopoly Dealers Platform, announcing that they have decided not to sell ice cream to grocery stores and dealers throughout Turkey, “This is a reaction, not to punish the consumer. Indeed, we do not have the strength to bear these costs. If it is 5-6 thousand liras right now, we cannot think about it in the summer. It will come at an even higher rate in the summer.” said. Expressing that they will work to pay their electricity bills, Aybaş said, that they want the hikes to be withdrawn stated.