Open deck island · pale worktop · raised upper shelf
A clean open deck island rather than a bin fixture: a pale worktop running the length of it, light timber cabinets underneath, and a raised shelf on a slim canopy above the deck for a second line of stock.
Two studio angles on white. The stepped shelf, an open cabinet, the radiused corner and the plinth run are shown in close-up below.
Not every dry goods line belongs in a tilt bin. Packaged goods, cartons, gift sets and anything sold in its own container want a flat surface and clear sight lines, and that is what this island is. The deck is a pale worktop that runs the full length in one plane, and the cabinets under it are light timber with a matching pale plinth.
Above the deck a raised shelf is carried on a slim canopy structure. It doubles the facing without doubling the footprint, and because it is a shelf rather than a bin row it takes boxed product that a bin would not hold squarely. The corners of the deck are radiused with the pale edging carried around the curve.
A clean open deck island rather than a bin fixture: a pale worktop running the length of it, light timber cabinets underneath, and a raised shelf on a slim canopy above the deck for a second line of stock.
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.
An open deck island is judged on its surfaces and its edges, because it has no bins to hide behind.
Canopy carried, pale finish
The shelf steps above the deck on a slim structure rather than a solid wall, so the deck below stays lit and visible. It is a second row of facings for the cost of a shelf, which is why open deck islands almost always get one.
Fitted to what you store
The interior is left clear in the standard build. Shelves, dividers or a stainless liner go in against what the cabinet actually holds.
Edging bent to the curve
The pale edging is bent around the corner rather than mitred. On an open deck the corner is where a shopper's hip lands, so it is rounded and the edging is continuous through the turn.
Set back, full length
The plinth is pale to match rather than the dark skirting used elsewhere in the category, and it is set back from the door line. Set back is what gives a mop and a shopper's toe somewhere to go.
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.
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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 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 project page.
Open deck islands are quoted on deck height as much as length. Send both and the neighbouring fixture heights.
Send the height of the fixtures on either side along with the run length. An open deck that sits proud of its neighbours is the one thing that makes an otherwise clean aisle look unplanned.
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 deck will take a bin rail, so yes in principle — but an island designed around an open deck is not the same fixture as one designed around bins, and retrofitting usually costs more than specifying it correctly. If part of your range is loose, say so now and we will build the split in.
It is built as a deck rather than as a display panel, so it carries stacked cartons. Where a store is loading unusually heavy lines we specify a heavier gauge under it — tell us what is going on it and we will confirm.
Yes, and stores selling small boxed goods often want it. The limit is sight lines rather than structure: a second tier starts to hide the deck below it, which defeats the point of an open deck island.
Yes. Stainless steel board is specified wherever a scoop or a wet line touches a fixture, and a deck that handles unpacked product is a normal place for it. It is decided against your range rather than being a fixed part of the build.
