Is your fridge driving you nuts? You're not alone

As freelance journalist Maggie Hennessy moved between apartments, and the fridges that came with them, she found herself unsatisfied with her cold storage space. She explored the world of fridges — and why consumers are often unhappy with them — for Taste, and she spoke with “Marketplace” host Kristin Schwab about her findings.

“We have more options for configurations, you know like drawer-in-drawer compartments and modular shelving and freezers with pullout drawers, and a lot of people said it wasn’t working for their lifestyles,” Hennessy said. “I started to realize there was a combination of things happening, one being people weren’t using the new configurations that manufacturers had put in based on a lot of focus groups and surveys.”

Another factor is that today, more people have big collections of refrigerated goods like sauces and drinks that require a lot of storage space.

Click the audio player above to hear the conversation.