The efficient compressor lets you afford a bigger unit -- a frost-free one, with an icemaker -- and you're right back where you started.

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But he is also right in seeing that the old way of moving white goods, in which a floorwalker had to explain every icemaker and vegetable drawer, was too labor-intensive to survive.

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