Straight lane · X-braced timber front · 850 mm worktop
A full length straight lane with a single large X brace across the timber front panel. It is the build for stores that want the counter to read as joinery rather than as equipment.
Studio angles on white. The X junction, the timber grain, the end cap and the stainless rim are photographed below.
The front panel of a checkout counter is the largest uninterrupted surface in the front of a store, and most counters waste it on a flat sheet. This one carries a single large X brace across a timber panel, framed by a grey steel body and capped in light grey at both ends. From the queue it reads as a piece of joinery; from the aisle it gives the front of the store a horizontal line that ties the lanes together.
Behind the panel it is a conventional straight lane: pressed stainless worktop with a raised rim, 850 mm off the floor, cashier station at one end and packing bay at the other. The X is applied to the panel rather than being structural, which means it can be specified on any lane length without changing the carcase.
A full length straight lane with a single large X brace across the timber front panel. It is the build for stores that want the counter to read as joinery rather than as equipment.
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 X is the whole idea of this counter, so the first two close-ups are the panel and the joint that makes it.
Applied brace, timber panel
The two diagonals meet and are set into the panel rather than laid over it, so the surface stays flush. A raised brace collects dust at the crossing, which on a counter panel at knee height is exactly where nobody looks.
1.5 to 2.5 mm board
The panel is paint-free wood grain board over the steel carcase. It is the board rather than the frame that gives the run its appearance, and it comes in a range of colours without the plastic look of a printed metal facing.
Both ends, wrapped
Each end is capped in a lighter grey that wraps the corner. It stops the timber panel dying into a raw edge and it takes the trolley knocks that always land on a lane end.
Pressed, one sheet
The worktop is pressed with a raised rim so goods slid across it stop at the edge instead of over it. On a lane without a belt, everything is slid rather than carried, and the rim is what stops the floor collecting the misses.
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 shopping carts and basketsThe 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 standsThe 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.
Lanes run 1200 to 2000. Send how many you need and the length you have.
Send the front-of-store width and the number of lanes you want in it. Recorded lanes run 1200 to 2000 mm, and those two numbers decide which end of that range you land on.
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 does, and that is the reason to specify it. A single X on one counter is a detail; four of them down a row of lanes is the front elevation of your store. Tell us the lane count and we will draw the row rather than the counter.
No — it is applied to the panel, and the strength is in the steel carcase behind it. That is deliberate: it means the same brace can go on a 1200 lane and a 2000 lane without redesigning the counter.
Yes. The board comes in a range of colours and the steel is powder coated to any RAL or PANTONE reference, held across every category on the same order. A pale board with a dark frame reads completely differently from the combination photographed here.
Pressed stainless steel with a raised rim, from a single sheet. The body under it is 0.8 to 1.5 mm metal sheet with stainless steel board where it is needed, and a heavier gauge is available on request.
