Compact food package display refrigerator

A compact retail display refrigerator for displaying refrigerated food packages maintained at super chilled temperature comprises a small cabinet with a refrigerated upper compartment containing a row array of package guideways formed of a plurality of vertically extending guide pins upstanding from a perforated base support plate. Self acting spring loaded lift devices mounted within the guideways support stacks of food packages therein and urge them upwardly step-by-step to automatically locate the existing topmost package in each stack at a predetermined selection level. Refrigerating mechanism located within a lower compartment of the cabinet includes a pair of cooling coils having alternately operating cooling and defrosting cycles and mounted in a bottom cooling chamber portion of the cabinet, and an electric fan forces the cooled air from the cooling chamber upwardly through a vertical duct at the back of the cabinet and having a forwardly directed side outlet opening at its top end for directing a stream of the chilled air forwardly across the top of the row array of package stacks and downwardly therebetween and through the perforated base support plate back into the cooling chamber.