In case you don’t know what I am talking about, I wrote a post entitled It’s Not Mercury Retrograde When an Appliance Breaks Down– Particularly the NEW Appliance! . It was about a new (as in right out of the box) Whirlpool Gold® ENERGY STAR® qualified 25 cu. ft. 4-Door French Door Refrigerator that died in less than 24 hours upon plug-in. The quibble I had with Whirlpool is that the owner’s manual was not on display with the refrigerator on the sales floor nor did the sales associate at the store where it was purchased KNOW that the company policy was that the refrigerator should NOT BE USED at all for food storage within the first 24 hours. One only finds out about this when the refrigerator is delivered and your old one is GONE — and the food is sitting out waiting to go into the new refrigerator.

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