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If you plan on storing anything for longer than a couple weeks, stay away from a frost free. What the salesman told you is spot on. Frost free freezers work by periodically warming to a temperature above freezing so the frost melts. Everything in the freezer will warm up a bit and start to thaw. It will ruin a lot of your food if you tend to store it for a long period of time. When the freezer kicks back in, all the moisture that has formed on the food will freeze as well, which is why you get all that ice on food in a frost free freezer and why your popsicles get gooey after a while.
Unless they have drastically changed the way a frost free freezer works in the last few years, I would never buy one as my main freezer.
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