This only makes practical sense if your energy costs are exorbitant compared to the western industrialized world and you don't care about cold-storage volume relative to room square footage and/or ready access to stored items.

Thus, vertical refrigerators and freezers absolutely dominate.

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Tepix 3 hours ago | parent [-]

They are quite popular on sailboats.

	▲	0wis 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		For exactly the same reason : space is scarce but power even more. Power can also become unavailable in a degraded situation much often than on land. Therefore, it is a better design choice to have a chest freezer. In a city appartement where floor space is scarce, convenience is a key feature and power costs barely nothing, it is a less obvious choice.