Pitched Deck
Rises to the centre
The deck rises toward the middle rather than lying flat. Everything on it is angled toward whichever side the shopper is standing on, which is how a wide island stops wasting its own centre.
Dark slats · pitched deck · four sided
A rectangular four-sided island in dark slatted timber with a pitched deck. The pitch is not styling — it tips the produce toward the shopper on all four sides instead of hiding the middle of the display.
Studio angles on white. The pitch, the dark slats, the frame and the corner are photographed below.
A flat-topped island wastes its own middle. Anything more than an arm's length in is out of sight and out of reach, and on a wide fixture that can be a third of the deck. This one pitches the deck up toward the centre so the display steps toward the shopper from all four sides, which turns the middle from dead space into the highest part of the presentation.
The body is dark slatted timber in a black frame, which is the opposite treatment to the pale builds in this category. Dark makes the fixture an object in the room rather than a neutral platform, and it suits a store selling the idea of a market rather than the idea of a warehouse.
A rectangular four-sided island in dark slatted timber with a pitched deck. The pitch is not styling — it tips the produce toward the shopper on all four sides instead of hiding the middle of the display.
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 pitch is the idea and the slats are the treatment. These four cover both, plus what holds them together.
Rises to the centre
The deck rises toward the middle rather than lying flat. Everything on it is angled toward whichever side the shopper is standing on, which is how a wide island stops wasting its own centre.
Open slats, dark board
Dark board in open slats. The slats keep air moving as they do on every produce fixture here; the dark tone is what makes the island read as furniture rather than as a platform.
Welded, panels inset
The panels sit inside a welded frame that stands slightly proud of them. It gives the island a defined edge from across the department and it takes the trolley contact that would otherwise land on the board.
Every face a front
On a four sided island there is no back to hide a rough corner in. Each corner is finished the same way, which is more work than a wall-side fixture needs and is the reason this build costs more.
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.
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 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.
Produce islands ship flat as panels, so the container arithmetic runs on panel count rather than on finished size. Two of the builds in this category carry recorded dimensions — 1200 × 750 × 850 mm for the standard island table and 1200 × 800 × 1300 mm for the tall build — and those two are the reference points a loading plan is worked from. Everything else is cut to your aisle and confirmed on the packing list.
Produce is the wettest, heaviest and fastest turning department in the store, and it rarely arrives on its own. These three categories share the fresh aisle with it.
Where the produce run meets the fish counter, both fixtures want stainless at the contact surfaces and a drain in the same floor.
See ice display tablesLoose dry goods sit alongside loose produce in most store plans, and the two departments are read by shoppers as one open market area.
See bulk food binsProduce is promoted harder than any other department, and a 1000 mm square at the head of the aisle is how a glut gets moved.
See retail 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 supermarket layout design page.
Send the island width. That is what decides whether the pitch is worth it.
Send the island width along with the floor area. The pitch earns its cost on a wide island and adds little on a narrow one, and width is the number that decides which you have.
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 makes it slightly slower to load and considerably better to shop, because crates have to be set rather than dropped. On a fixture that is restocked once or twice a day and shopped all day, that is a trade worth making.
It is set against the island width and against normal reach rather than being a fixed angle. Send the width and it comes back on the drawing; too much pitch and the crates slide, too little and it does nothing.
Yes, and it reads completely differently — pale recedes behind the produce, dark stands as an object in the room. Choose on the store rather than on the spec sheet, and we will build either.
It is, because the structure is a welded steel frame rather than the panels. In practice a four sided island is loaded unevenly all day and that is designed for.
