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I think that's because they want to place the product in both the health food and dairy sections. I don't think it's from any desire to refrigerate it.

But the same is true for soda or tea.

Sometimes I just want almond milk to be cold right now. And also, the refrigerated milk section tends to be much easier to find than whatever place the store decides to put non refrigerated milks.

I’d consider it’s not about the safety ritual, but rather that both consumers and producers expect the almond milk to be found close to the milk.

Consumers because they think of it as milk, and thus it should in the same section. Producers because they want that association.