Twin Folding Handles
Flat on the rim
Both handles fold onto the rim so the baskets stack flat. On a stack of forty at an entrance, handles that do not fold are forty handles standing up in the way.
Twin folding handles · moulded green · stacks flat
The standard twin-handle hand basket in green. It is the basket most shoppers pick up without thinking, which is exactly the job it has to do.
Studio angles on white, with close-ups below.
A hand basket succeeds by being invisible. A shopper walking in should pick one up without weighing it as a decision, and anything that makes them hesitate — a heavy basket, an awkward handle, a stack that will not release — loses you the sale that basket would have carried.
So the specification is all about removing friction: handles that fold flat so the stack is clean, a body light enough to carry loaded, and a taper that releases cleanly from the basket below it. Green is the colour fresh-led stores choose most often, and it stays legible under the cool lighting those departments use.
The standard twin-handle hand basket in green. It is the basket most shoppers pick up without thinking, which is exactly the job it has to do.
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.
A hand basket is judged on friction, and all four of these are a place friction could appear.
Flat on the rim
Both handles fold onto the rim so the baskets stack flat. On a stack of forty at an entrance, handles that do not fold are forty handles standing up in the way.
Releases cleanly
The wall taper is set so a basket lifts cleanly off the one below rather than sticking. Baskets that jam when stacked are the ones staff stop restacking properly.
Colour through the material
Green moulded through the material rather than applied to it. It stays legible under the cool lighting fresh departments use, which is most of why fresh-led stores choose it.
Where fingers close
The grip section is shaped where fingers close on it. A round-section handle on a loaded basket cuts into the hand within about a minute, which is when shoppers set the basket down.
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.
This model
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 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.
Green suits a fresh proposition. Tell us your department mix.
Tell us what your store leads on. Green reads as fresh and holds up under cool department lighting, which is why fresh-led stores choose it more often than any other colour.
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.
Removing friction. It has to be light enough to carry loaded, the handles have to fold flat, and it has to release cleanly from the stack. A shopper who hesitates at the basket stack often carries their items instead and buys fewer.
It reads well against produce and it stays legible under the cool lighting fresh departments use. It is a genuine pattern in our order book rather than a coincidence.
Light enough that a full one is still comfortable. The perforation pattern is what takes the weight out, and it is worth more attention than most buyers give it.
That is where a twin-handle basket eventually fails. The pivots carry the load through four points rather than two, which is why they outlast a swing-handle basket.
