Chrome Bag Rail
Holds bags open at the mouth
The rail holds carrier bags open so the shopper packs with both hands. It is a small piece of chrome and it is the single cheapest thing you can do to a lane to speed up the packing end of it.
Bag holder rail · packing bay · twin stainless tops
A standard lane with one thing added that changes how it works: a chrome rail on the packing bay that holds carrier bags open, so the shopper packs with two hands instead of one.
Studio angles on white. The rail, its bracket, the stainless tops and the body panel are photographed below.
Watch a shopper at a checkout without a bag holder and they use one hand to hold the bag and one to pack. It takes roughly twice as long, and on a busy lane that time comes straight out of your throughput. This counter carries a chrome rail on the packing bay that holds bags open at the mouth, which frees both of the shopper's hands.
Everything else is a conventional charcoal lane: two pressed stainless tops, an 850 mm worktop, cashier at one end and packing bay at the other. The rail is fitted rather than welded on, so it can be positioned to whichever end of the bay your shoppers actually stand at, and it can come off entirely in a market that brings its own bags.
A standard lane with one thing added that changes how it works: a chrome rail on the packing bay that holds carrier bags open, so the shopper packs with two hands instead of one.
Supermarkets, convenience stores, chain retail and speciality stores. Tell us the store format and the floor area and the specification comes back written against them.
The rail is the reason to buy this lane over the plain one, so the first two close-ups are the rail and the bracket that carries it.
Holds bags open at the mouth
The rail holds carrier bags open so the shopper packs with both hands. It is a small piece of chrome and it is the single cheapest thing you can do to a lane to speed up the packing end of it.
Bolted, not welded
The bracket is bolted through the panel rather than welded to it. That is what lets the rail be moved to the other end of the bay, or taken off completely in a market where shoppers bring their own bags.
Two, at 850 mm
Cashier top and packing top are pressed separately at the same height. Splitting them means the packing end can be replaced after a decade of abuse without touching the till end.
Powder coated steel
The body under the packing bay takes the most contact of any panel on a lane, because that is where trolleys are parked and pushed against. Plain charcoal is specified there because it hides what the position does to it.
Every item on this page is made to order. Send a floor plan, a hand sketch or a photograph of a fixture you like, and we quote against it.
Store fixtures are light for their size, so a container fills up on volume long before it fills up on weight. What decides your freight is not what one unit weighs — it is what shape the goods are in when they go through the container door. Everything we build leaves in one of three shapes.
Shelving bays, produce islands and bulk cabinets travel as panels — uprights, shelves, back panels and plinths, strapped flat with bubble wrap on every component. They are built up on the shop floor, so the packing list and the assembly drawings travel with the goods.
Trolleys slide into one another and baskets stack. Past the first unit, each extra one adds only its nesting pitch instead of its full length, so the shipped volume ends up a fraction of what the unit count suggests.
A checkout lane is welded, coated and fitted out as one piece, so it is crated whole with padding on the steel. Nothing waits to be assembled at the store beyond levelling it into the lane, and the crate is the counter plus a margin.
This modelA checkout lane ships assembled, so the crate is the counter plus a margin and the length you order is the length that loads. That is the expensive end of the freight scale, which is why a counter order is usually put on the same container as flat packed shelving and nested trolleys rather than shipped on its own. The loading plan comes back with your quotation.
A checkout lane almost never arrives alone. These three categories share the front of the store with it, and putting them on one order is what lets a single colour reference run across the whole front, because it becomes one batch of coating rather than three.
The trolley bay sits within a few metres of the lane, and the lane length has to leave room for a loaded trolley to turn out of it.
See supermarket shopping cartsThe 1000 mm promotion square is what fills the queue side of a lane, and it is the cheapest impulse position in the store.
See promotional display tablesThe bays a shopper faces while queuing carry the same colour and board tone as the lane itself.
See shelving baysHow many of each a store needs is a floor area question rather than a product question, and it is answered store by store on the supermarket layout design page.
Tell us which side your shoppers pack from and the rail goes on that end.
Tell us which side of the packing bay your shoppers stand on. The rail is fitted rather than welded, so it goes on the end they actually use rather than the end the drawing assumed.
The four that come up on nearly every enquiry for this build. If yours is not here, send it with your layout and it is answered alongside the quotation.
It is bolted through the panel rather than welded, so it can be added to most of our lanes. Tell us which counter you have or are ordering and we will confirm whether the panel takes it.
It holds standard carrier bags open at the mouth. Bag sizes vary by market more than most buyers expect, so send the bag you actually issue and the rail spacing is set against it.
Chrome is what is photographed and it is the usual choice because it does not show handling. The rail can be powder coated to match the counter instead, which suits a store where the lane is part of the branding rather than just equipment.
It sits at the back edge of the packing bay rather than over the working surface. If your shoppers mostly bag into trolleys rather than carrier bags, the honest answer is that you do not need it — and the rail comes off.
