Smart fridges are a dime a dozen at CES, and LG and Samsung have totally explored what’s possible when you connect your fridge to the internet or put a touchscreen on the front. The new GE Profile smart refrigerator with kitchen assistant GE is announcing ahead of CES 2026 doesn’t reinvent the wheel in that regard, but it does include a first: a built-in barcode scanner for adding items to your shopping list.
GE’s “Scan-to-List” feature uses a barcode scanner to quickly (and accurately) add items to a shareable shopping list in GE’s SmartHQ app. You can view that list while you’re shopping in person, or sync it with Instacart and have it delivered, eliminating the need for grocery shopping altogether. Inside the fridge, GE also includes a flush-mount LED bar with a built-in camera that can “provide real-time, on-demand snapshots of the crisper drawer, focusing on the most expensive and perishable items.” This “FridgeFocus” feature keeps you from buying more perishable produce than you already have, by allowing you to see which perishable items are likely to spoil first.
In addition to those smart features, the GE Profile Smart Refrigerator features a four-door stainless steel design, with door-in-door storage and an adjustable temperature drawer. The fridge also has an 8-inch touchscreen display for viewing recipes or current weather conditions and microphones to accept voice commands. When you’re dispensing water, the fridge’s water dispenser is supposed to be smart enough to dispense exactly the right amount of water into a container using built-in sensors.
The GE Profile Smart Refrigerator with Kitchen Assistant will be available from GE and select retailers starting in April 2026 at a suggested MSRP of $4,899.
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