Stepped Bins Over The Curve
Clear, tilt-out, tiered
The bin tiers continue around the radiused head rather than stopping square at it. It is a fiddly thing to build and it is what makes the aisle head into selling space instead of a dead corner.
Bulk island · tilt bins and open cubbies · curved ends
An island that carries two kinds of stock at once — stepped clear bins for loose goods along one part of the run, and open cubby shelves for sacks and cartons along the rest, so a store does not need two fixtures for one aisle.
Two studio angles on white. The bin tiers, the curved end ring, the cubby back panel and the bull-nose edge are shown in close-up below.
Most bulk aisles carry two things that want different fixtures: loose goods that need a bin, and bagged or cartoned goods that just need a shelf big enough to stand on. This island does both. Stepped clear bins occupy part of the run, and the rest of the carcase is opened up into square cubby shelves with a perforated back panel, which is where the sacks go.
A black wire guard rail runs along the top edge. It is there to stop a shopper resting a basket on the bin tops, which is the single most common way a bin lid gets bent. The timber is a honey tone with the grain running vertically, and both ends are radiused with the base ring carried around the curve in black.
An island that carries two kinds of stock at once — stepped clear bins for loose goods along one part of the run, and open cubby shelves for sacks and cartons along the rest, so a store does not need two fixtures for one aisle.
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.
Carrying two display systems on one carcase means twice the detailing. The perforated cubby backs are the part most fixtures skip.
Clear, tilt-out, tiered
The bin tiers continue around the radiused head rather than stopping square at it. It is a fiddly thing to build and it is what makes the aisle head into selling space instead of a dead corner.
Timber bent to the radius
The facing board is bent around the end and the black base ring follows it underneath. The ring is what a trolley wheel actually hits, so it is steel rather than timber.
Open shelves, vented back
The cubbies have a perforated back rather than a solid one. Bagged goods sitting against a sealed panel are the ones that sweat, and the perforation is a cheap fix that most fixtures skip.
Front lip, full length
A dark rolled edge caps the front lip along the whole run. It takes the knocks that would otherwise chip the board, and it gives the ticket strip something square to clip onto.
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, and a bulk island is the one that travels best.
Bulk islands travel as panels — carcase sides, shelves, bin rails, 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.
This model
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. That is the expensive end of the freight scale, and it is the reason a counter order and a bulk order load so differently.
Because this island ships as panels rather than assembled, the container arithmetic runs on panel count instead of on finished size — which is why two islands of the same footprint can load very differently depending on how many compartments each one carries. We do not publish a units-per-container figure for that reason. It is worked out against your actual order and comes back on the packing list together with the case dimensions, once the island size is confirmed.
A bulk island rarely arrives on its own. These three categories share the dry goods aisle with it, and putting them on one order is what lets a single colour reference run across the whole aisle, because it is then one batch of coating rather than three.
Loose grain and loose dry goods almost always share an aisle, and both want stainless wherever a scoop lands. Ordering them together keeps the two halves of the aisle in one timber.
See grain racksThe bays that run behind and alongside a bulk island are what a shopper sees while standing at it, so they carry the same colour and the same board tone.
See shelving baysLoose lines are promoted constantly, and a 1000 mm promotion square at the head of the aisle is the cheapest way to push one without rebuilding the island.
See promotional standsHow 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 equipment lists by store size.
Tell us the split you want between bins and open cubbies and we will draw it against your aisle length.
The one thing worth sending with this build is what the cubbies have to hold — a 25 kg rice sack and a carton of pulses do not want the same compartment.
The four that come up on nearly every enquiry for this build. If yours is not here, send it with your aisle drawing and it is answered alongside the quotation.
The compartments are built to the stock rather than to a standard, so the size follows what you tell us. Send the sack or carton you are stocking — weight as well as dimensions — and the cubby size comes back on the drawing.
Yes. The split photographed here is one arrangement rather than a fixed product. An all-bin island and an all-cubby island are both built off the same carcase, and mixing them along one run is simply what most bulk aisles end up wanting.
It is fitted rather than welded on, so it comes off. Stores that merchandise tall product over the bin line usually take it off; stores with heavy basket traffic keep it, because a basket dropped on a bin lid is what breaks the lid.
They can. Stainless steel board goes in wherever a scoop or a wet line touches the fixture, and that includes cubbies carrying anything that leaks. It is a per store plan decision because it is driven by your range rather than by the build.
