Crate edging · lift-out crates · sign rig
An island edged with black plastic crates along the whole deck line. The crates hold the produce, lift out for washing and get swapped full for empty — which is how a fast department actually restocks.
Studio angles on white. The crate edging, the deck line, the sign rig and the timber body are photographed below.
A deck that produce sits on directly has to be emptied and wiped before it can be restocked. A deck edged with crates does not: the crate comes out full of the last of the stock and a fresh one goes in, and the wiping happens in the back room while the fixture keeps selling. This island runs black plastic crates along its whole deck line for exactly that reason.
They are also the right visual language. A crate reads as market produce, not as retail packaging, and a run of them along the edge of a dark timber island tells a shopper what kind of department they are standing in before they have looked at a single price. A sign rig above carries the pricing.
An island edged with black plastic crates along the whole deck line. The crates hold the produce, lift out for washing and get swapped full for empty — which is how a fast department actually restocks.
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 crates are the whole idea, so the first two close-ups are the crate and the line it sits in.
Black, along the deck line
Each crate lifts straight out. A full one replaces an empty one in seconds and the washing happens away from the shop floor, which is the only way a fast produce department keeps a fixture looking full all day.
Crates sit into the edge
The crates sit into the deck edge rather than standing on top of it, so the line stays level and nothing catches a sleeve. It also means a missing crate leaves a recess rather than a hole.
Pricing above the deck
With crates on the deck edge there is nowhere to clip a ticket, so pricing goes overhead. The two decisions are linked: crate edging without a rig means handwritten cards inside the crates within a week.
Board in a steel frame
The body is dark board in a black frame, which lets the black crates read as part of the fixture rather than as something placed on it. A pale body under black crates looks like a delivery nobody unpacked.
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 seafood display casesLoose 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 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 project page.
Send the crate you already use — the island is built to it, not the other way round.
Send the dimensions of the crate you already use in store. The island is built to your crate rather than to ours, so your existing stock keeps working.
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.
They can be, but most stores already have crate stock and would rather the island were built to it. Send the crate you use — dimensions and depth — and the deck line is cut to it.
Yes, and the body colour is then worth choosing against them. Black crates on a dark body read as one fixture; the same crates on a pale body read as boxes left on a table.
Open decking, trays or more crates, decided against your range. The edging is what the build is about; the centre is a per store plan decision because it depends what you are selling.
Standard produce crates are perforated and they drain into whatever is under them, which is why the deck below the crate line is specified against your range. Tell us if the lines are wet and it comes back with a fall.
