ICEBOXES (COMMENT). One of the ways that Walmart (and stores like Costco) cut costs is to shift some of the costs of shopping to their customers. People buy in larger quantities and perform the storage. Before home refrigerators, home storage was done in an icebox. The iceman brought large chunks of ice with a huge pair of tongs. Because iceboxes were small, people went to the grocery store frequently. In England, refrigerators arrived late, around 1960 and English people my age remember iceboxes and almost daily trips to the grocery store.
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Dad had an old wooden icebox in the kitchen growing up and they were indeed incredibly tiny inside. The only thing I remember fitting in there were cracker boxes and marshmallow packs. I still remember playing with the locking brass handles on it and how the interior was this ugly green metal.