Editing Ice cream (section)

== Retail sales ==
[[File:Mystic Ice Cream flavor selection sign.jpg|thumb|right|Selection of ice cream flavours available at an ice cream shop in [[Fruitland Park, Florida]]]]
[[File:Pappagallo jäätelökioski.jpg|thumb|right|Ice cream kiosk in [[Ekenäs, Finland]]]]

Ice cream can be mass-produced and thus is widely available in developed parts of the world. Ice cream can be purchased in large [[carton]]s (vats and [[squround]]s) from supermarkets and grocery stores, in smaller quantities from ice cream shops, [[convenience store]]s, and [[milk bar]]s, and in individual servings from small carts or vans at public events. In 2015, the US produced nearly {{convert|900|e6gal}} of ice cream.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dairy Products 2015 Summary|url=http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/nass/DairProdSu//2010s/2016/DairProdSu-04-28-2016.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819121545/http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/nass/DairProdSu//2010s/2016/DairProdSu-04-28-2016.pdf |archive-date=19 August 2016 |url-status=live|publisher=[[United States Department of Agriculture]]|access-date=5 July 2016}}</ref>

=== Specialty job ===
[[File:Indonesia bike34.JPG|thumb|A bicycle-based ice cream street vendor in [[Indonesia]]]]
[[File:East Village ice cream truck.jpg|thumb|[[Ice cream van]] vendor delivery]]

Today, jobs specialize in the selling of ice cream. The title of a person who works in this speciality is often called an 'ice cream man', however women also specialize in the selling of ice cream. People in this line of work often sell ice cream on beaches. On beaches, ice cream is either sold by a person who carries a box full of ice cream and is called over by people who want to purchase ice cream, or by a person who drives up to the top of the beach and rings a bell. In the second method, people go up to the top of the beach and purchase ice cream straight from the ice cream seller, who is often in an [[ice cream van]]. In Turkey and Australia, ice cream is sometimes sold to beach-goers from small powerboats equipped with chest freezers.

Some ice cream distributors sell ice cream products from travelling refrigerated vans or carts (commonly referred to in the US as "ice cream trucks"), sometimes equipped with speakers playing children's music or folk melodies (such as "[[Turkey in the Straw]]"). The driver of an ice cream van drives throughout neighbourhoods and stops every so often, usually every block. The seller on the ice cream van sells the ice cream through a large window; this window is also where the customer asks for ice cream and pays. Ice cream vans in the United Kingdom make a [[music box]] noise rather than actual music.