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A point-of-sale display for selling containers of chilled food items includes a quadrilateral vessel having a bottom and end and side walls, the walls containing thermally insulating material. At least seven removable panels each of which contains a material that is liquid at room temperature and ha

A point-of-sale display for selling containers of chilled food items includes a quadrilateral vessel having a bottom and end and side walls, the walls containing thermally insulating material. At least seven removable panels each of which contains a material that is liquid at room temperature and has a freezing point of about 32 degrees Fahrenheit or colder are configured to fit together to form vertical walls about at least one interior chamber in the vessel and sized to be placed into the vessel with two panels on opposed vessel ends, two panels each on opposed vessel sides and one panel extending between the vessel sides spaced from each vessel end, the panel extending between the vessel sides extending fully between the vessel sides and the panels on each vessel side together not extending fully along the side. The panels can be placed in a freezer below the freezing point of the liquid until the liquid freezes and then placed in the vessel to form an interior chamber in the vessel. Containers of food items to be sold may be loaded into the interior chamber and kept cold by their proximity to the panels.

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1. A method of selling chilled food items comprising:locating an insulated vessel in a retail location, chilling a plurality of removable panels, each of which contains a material that is liquid at room temperature and has a freezing point of about 32 degrees Fahrenheit or colder until the liquid fr

1. A method of selling chilled food items comprising:locating an insulated vessel in a retail location, chilling a plurality of removable panels, each of which contains a material that is liquid at room temperature and has a freezing point of about 32 degrees Fahrenheit or colder until the liquid freezes, placing the chilled panels in the insulated vessel in a pattern to form vertical walls around at least one interior chamber in the vessel, loading containers of food items to be sold into the interior chamber, keeping the containers of food items cold by proximity to the panels for an extended period of time so that they are available to customers in the retail location, permitting customers to remove containers of food items from the vessel and pay for them, and replacing a thawed panel with a frozen panel without disturbing the containers of food items.