Campus stores know freshmen will buy anything once they move in. Same thing happens with those $80 bedding sets that pill after two washes, and the required calculator that the professor never even lets you use on exams. It's a whole system built on people who don't know any better yet. By junior year you figure out the thrift store couch and the facebook marketplace microwave do the same job for a fraction of the price. The fridge still stings though because you can't exactly return a lesson.