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The glass-fronted beverage cooler is mostly used as a commercial refrigerator. These types of appliances are usually designed for specific load requirements, resulting in a larger cooling mechanism. This ensures that they are able to cope with a large throughput of drinks and frequent door opening. As a result, it is common for these types of commercial refrigerators to have energy consumption of over 4 kWh per day.

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The glass-fronted beverage cooler is mostly used as a commercial refrigerator. These types of appliances are usually designed for specific load requirements, resulting in a larger cooling mechanism. This ensures that they are able to cope with a large throughput of drinks and frequent door opening. As a result, it is common for these types of commercial refrigerators to have energy consumption of over 4 kWh per day.[citation needed]

Change the sentence to say that the refridgeration setups account for a majority percentage of ?cost or energy use? of supermarkets

https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2153&context=iracc

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Refrigerator&diff=prev&oldid=1188348052 - my smaller edits, maybe add this link to the presentation

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Effect on lifestyle
The refrigerator allows households to keep food fresh for longer than before. The most notable improvement is for meat and other highly perishable wares, which needed to be refined to gain anything resembling shelf life. (On the other hand, refrigerators and freezers can also be stocked with ultra-processed foods and convenience foods that are less healthy.) Refrigeration in transit makes it possible to enjoy food from distant places.

Dairy products, meats, fish, poultry and vegetables can be kept refrigerated in the same space within the kitchen (although raw meat should be kept separate from other food for reasons of hygiene).

Freezers allow people to buy food in bulk and eat it at leisure, and bulk purchases may save money. Ice cream, a popular commodity of the 20th century, could previously only be obtained by traveling to where the product was made and eating it on the spot. Now it is a common food item. Ice on demand not only adds to the enjoyment of cold drinks, but is useful for first-aid, and for cold packs that can be kept frozen for picnics or in case of emergency.

Global adoption
After consumer refrigerators became financially viable for production and sale on a large scale, their prevalence around the globe expanded greatly. In the United States an estimated 99.5% of households have a refrigerator. Refrigerator ownership is more common in developed western countries but has growing popularity in eastern and developing countries.

Supplantation of the Ice Trade
The Ice Trade was a industry in the 19th and 20th century of the harvesting, transportation, and sale of natural and artificial ice for the purposes of refrigeration and consumption. The majority of the ice used for trade was harvested from North America and transported globally with some smaller operations working out of Norway. With the introduction of more affordable large and home scale refrigeration around the 1920's, the need for large scale ice harvest and transportation was no longer needed, and the Ice Trade subsequently slowed and shrank to smaller scale local services or disappeared altogether.

Effect on diet and lifestyle
The refrigerator allows households to keep food fresh for longer than before. The most notable improvement is for meat and other highly perishable wares, which previously needed to be preserved or otherwise processed for long term storage and transport. This change in the supply chains of food products led to a marked increase in the quality of food in areas where refrigeration was being used. Additionally, the increased freshness and shelf life of food caused by the advent of refrigeration in addition to growing global communication methods has resulted in an increase in cultural exchange through food products from different regions of the world. There have also been claims that this increase in the quality of food is responsible for an increased in the height of United States citizens around the early 1900's.

Refrigeration has also contributed to a decrease in the quality of food in some regions. By allowing, in part, for the phenomena of Globalization in the food sector, refrigeration has made the creation and transportation of ultra-processed foods and convenience foods inexpensive leading to their prevalence especially in lower income regions. These regions of lessened access to higher quality foods are referred to as Food Deserts.

Freezers allow people to buy food in bulk and eat it at leisure, and bulk purchases may save money. Ice cream, a popular commodity of the 20th century, could previously only be obtained by traveling to where the product was made and eating it on the spot. Now it is a common food item. Ice on demand not only adds to the enjoyment of cold drinks, but is useful for first-aid, and for cold packs that can be kept frozen for picnics or in case of emergency.

Similar to the Australian program, the United States also has a program for collecting and replacing older less efficient refrigerators and other White Goods. This programs seeks to collect large appliances that may be old and inefficient or breaking, and replace them with newer and more efficient appliances. This is in an effort to reduce the cost of the additional cost these appliances impose on lower income families through their inefficient energy and gas usage, as well as reduce pollution caused by the continued use of these appliances.