Compact Body
Full one still carryable
Sized against what a person can carry rather than against a capacity number. A shopper who keeps hold of the basket keeps adding to it, which is the entire commercial argument for a smaller one.
Compact · light when full · convenience formats
A smaller hand basket, sized so it is still comfortable to carry when it is completely full. Which is a real constraint, and one most basket ranges ignore.
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Most hand baskets are sized to a capacity figure rather than to what a person can comfortably carry, with the result that a full basket is genuinely heavy and shoppers put it down. A compact basket sized so a full one is still light changes shopper behaviour: they keep hold of it, keep walking, and keep adding.
It suits convenience formats where the mission is short anyway, and it works as the smaller of two sizes in a larger store — a compact basket at the top-up entrance and a full size one at the main door.
A smaller hand basket, sized so it is still comfortable to carry when it is completely full. Which is a real constraint, and one most basket ranges ignore.
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.
Sizing to a person rather than to a number changes every dimension. These four are the result.
Full one still carryable
Sized against what a person can carry rather than against a capacity number. A shopper who keeps hold of the basket keeps adding to it, which is the entire commercial argument for a smaller one.
Densest hand basket
A shorter body means a shorter stack pitch, so a column of compact baskets holds more units in the same height. At an entrance where floor is tight that compounds with the smaller footprint.
Full size grip
The handles are full size even though the basket is not. Scaling the grip down with the body would make it uncomfortable, which would undo the entire reason for a compact basket.
Weight kept down
The perforation pattern is kept at full density despite the smaller wall area. Every gram out of the empty basket is a gram a shopper can put back in as stock.
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.
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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.
Baskets stack, which makes them the densest thing we ship. A column of nested baskets is close to solid plastic, so the freight cost per basket is a fraction of anything else in this catalogue — which is why baskets are almost always added to a container that is going anyway rather than shipped on their own. We do not publish litre capacities for this range. The figures circulating for it came from an old third-party listing rather than from our own production records, and they are being confirmed with the factory first.
A trolley bay is part of the front of store, and what it stands next to decides how well it works.
The lane length has to leave room for a loaded trolley to turn out of it, which is a dimension worth checking before either is ordered.
See checkout countersAisle width is set by two loaded trolleys passing, so the shelving depth and the trolley size are one decision rather than two.
See shelving baysA promotion square at an aisle head is the first thing a trolley has to get past, and the clearance between them is worth drawing.
See promotional display tablesHow 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 project page.
Smaller baskets often produce bigger transactions. Tell us your format.
Tell us your store format and how long an average shop takes. In convenience formats a smaller basket that stays in the shopper's hand often produces a larger transaction than a big one they put down.
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.
The opposite, in practice. A shopper who can comfortably carry a full basket keeps hold of it and keeps adding; one with a heavy basket puts it down and stops. Smaller baskets often produce larger transactions in convenience formats.
It works in a larger store with two entrances — compact at the top-up door, full size at the main one. In a single-entrance store, pick the one that matches your dominant mission.
No, they are full size. Scaling the grip down with the body would make it uncomfortable to hold, which would undo the whole reason for a compact basket.
Yes — a shorter body gives a shorter stack pitch, so a column holds more units in the same height. At a tight entrance that compounds with the smaller footprint.
