I've just replaced our 30 year old fridge with a new KA French Door. Ours does have the dispenser and icemaker, but it's a newer model that has a slimmer dispenser and the icemaker is up in the ceiling of the fridge - still gives me all my shelf space, but does lessen the door shelf space.

The bins will roll more easily when they are loaded down. I hated all the bins in all the models I looked at because they seemed so flimsy and cheap feeling. But, with stuff in them, they are better.

I've filled up the wide drawer with cheeses and cream cheese and butter and deli meat.

I currently have broccoli, brussel sprouts, celery and 2 lbs of carrots in one of the crisper drawers. It had a container with some leftover onion and a container with some prepped garlic in it earlier - and it still wasn't completely full. Being a KA, it's made by Whirlpool and the very similar Whirlpool model has three crisper bins - one is a tiny one in the center. I have no idea what I'd use a tiny crisper drawer for.

The freezer bins are plastic and seem sturdy. I can't give you any long-term review on that, though, as it's not been in the house a week.

I talked to multiple salespersons in multiple stores. They all told me that everything is of comparable quality and that I won't get 30 years out of anything I buy today. (10-15 being the number they quoted)

I read online of more LG issues than I was entirely comfortable with. Most of the high-end Kenmores seemed to be made by LG (look at the icemakers in the door).

GE has some sort of agreement with LG. No one could tell me exactly who was making what, but the icemaker in the GE I looked at looked very similar to the LG icemakers.

I went with the KA over the similar Whirlpool model for two reasons. 1) I didn't want that stupid tiny 3rd crisper bin and 2) KA's warranty was much better. The Maytag version of mine had only 2 crisper bins, but, again the warranty on the KA model was better.

The KA warranty has the refrigeration system covered out to 10 years on my model. With the liner of the fridge and freezer covered out to 6. In addition to the standard 1 year warranty they all come with.

The Maytag version had a warranty on the just the compressor out to 10 years I think. And LG had at least one model with a 10 year compressor warranty.

So far, I like it. I still don't know where everything lives in the new one, though.

Here's the KA that I have:
http://www.ajmadison.com/cgi-bin/ajmadison/KFIS29BBWH.html

Jim

Here is a link that might be useful: KA Fridge at AJ Madison