I had a vertical fridge-freezer (Bosch I think), where the fridge and freezer were separate compartments, but behind the main door, the freezer had slide-out drawers instead of shelves.
I always thought that design would also work well for the fridge section. Instead of shelves, you have drawers, which better keep the cold air in, and are also easier to use - no more reaching over things to get something at the back of the shelf.
Or perhaps there's a market for some kind of sliding drawer to replace shelves in existing machines. Unfortunately I think they are all completely non-standard sizes. Another area that is crying out for standardization, modularity etc.
what we have is a mix - some drawers on the bottom (2 layers), and shelves on top (3 layers IIRC). It mixes nicely, since shelves have bigger 'real capacity' in my opinion and its easier to put in non-standard shapes
I always thought that design would also work well for the fridge section. Instead of shelves, you have drawers, which better keep the cold air in, and are also easier to use - no more reaching over things to get something at the back of the shelf.
Or perhaps there's a market for some kind of sliding drawer to replace shelves in existing machines. Unfortunately I think they are all completely non-standard sizes. Another area that is crying out for standardization, modularity etc.