>Bertyar88 is your average Eastern European basement dweller - unemployed, and with $1,000 in his account
Here's a $1098 refrigerator: https://www.homedepot.com/p/GE-25-3-cu-ft-Side-by-Side-Refri...
Lowes.com is good tho
The "best seller" refrigerator goes for $1,500. Granted, that is probably more of "model we would most like to sell", but still gives some insight to what the store thinks a reasonable price point for a "typical" unit is.
Unlesd I set the app to sort by price, there are 20 non-sponsered units before one that is below $1k.
Sure, it is not the low end of the market but $1000 is well within the range of prices for refrigerators.
Welcome to inflation.