GE’s new Good Fridge automates grocery purchasing with a barcode scanner and Instacart

Good fridges are a dime a dozen at CES, and LG and Samsung have totally explored what’s attainable whenever you join your fridge to the web or slap a touchscreen on the entrance. The brand new GE Profile Smart Refrigerator with Kitchen Assistant GE is asserting forward of CES 2026 does not reinvent the wheel in that regard, nevertheless it does embrace a primary: a built-in barcode scanner for including gadgets to your purchasing record.

GE’s “Scan-to-Checklist” function makes use of the barcode scanner to rapidly (and exactly) add gadgets to a shareable purchasing record in GE’s SmartHQ app. You possibly can consult with that record whilst you’re purchasing in individual, or sync it  with Instacart and have it delivered, eliminating the necessity to go grocery purchasing fully. Contained in the fridge, GE additionally features a flush-mount LED bar with a built-in digital camera that may ship “real-time, on-demand snapshots of crisper drawers, specializing in the most expensive and perishable gadgets.” This “FridgeFocus” function is meant to forestall you from overbuying perishable produce that you simply would possibly have already got, by letting you see which perishables would possibly go unhealthy first.

On high of these good options, the GE Profile Good Fridge has a four-door stainless-steel design, with door-in-door storage and an adjustable temperature drawer. The fridge additionally has an 8-inch touchscreen show for viewing recipes or the present climate circumstances, and microphones for accepting voice instructions. Once you’re meting out water, the fridge’s water dispenser is meant to be good sufficient to fill a container with the precise correct quantity of water utilizing built-in sensors, too.

The GE Profile Good Fridge with Kitchen Assistant will probably be out there from GE and choose retailers beginning in April 2026 for a instructed MSRP of $4,899.