Curved Bin Tiers
Stepped, capped in dark
The tiers curve as they climb, and a dark rail caps the top of the field. The rail is what stops the pyramid looking unfinished at its peak, and it takes the knock when somebody reaches over the top row.
Pyramid bin display · aisle head feature · curved end
Clear tilt bins stepped up into a pyramid over a dark timber base. It is a feature fixture rather than a run fixture — the one that goes at the head of the aisle where a shopper meets the loose goods section for the first time.
Two studio angles on white. The curved bin tiers, the base doors, a full bin field and an open cabinet are photographed below.
A run of islands down an aisle is efficient and completely unmemorable. The pyramid exists to solve the other half of the problem: it stacks the bins into a peak so the fixture has a silhouette from across the floor, and it puts the widest row at the bottom where the fast lines go and the narrow rows at the top for the speciality stock.
The base is a dark timber cabinet run with a curved end and recessed handles, and a dark rail caps the bin field along the front. Every bin carries a ticket holder, which on a pyramid does more work than usual because a shopper reading it from an angle needs the label to be at the bin rather than on a shelf edge somewhere below it.
Clear tilt bins stepped up into a pyramid over a dark timber base. It is a feature fixture rather than a run fixture — the one that goes at the head of the aisle where a shopper meets the loose goods section for the first time.
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 pyramid is read from below and from an angle, almost never square on. That is what drives the cap rail, the ticketing and the base.
Stepped, capped in dark
The tiers curve as they climb, and a dark rail caps the top of the field. The rail is what stops the pyramid looking unfinished at its peak, and it takes the knock when somebody reaches over the top row.
Recessed handles, dark timber
The base is a closed cabinet run in dark timber. A pyramid empties quickly at the bottom rows, so having the refill stock directly under it is not a nicety here.
Ticket holder per bin
Seen straight on, every bin has its own ticket holder. On a stepped display the ticket has to sit at the bin rather than on a shelf edge, because a shopper reading from below cannot tell which label belongs to which compartment otherwise.
Interior fitted to your stock
The end is radiused and the base behind it is storage. Interior fit-out follows what you store rather than being quoted as a fixed specification.
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 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 store layout planning page.
Pyramids are quoted on ceiling height as much as footprint. Send both with the aisle head plan.
Send the ceiling height along with the floor space. A pyramid works by having a silhouette, and the sight lines you want to keep across the store are what cap its height.
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 top of a pyramid is display rather than working stock. Fast lines go in the wide bottom rows where a scoop is comfortable; the narrow top rows suit pre-bagged speciality stock. If everything in your range is scooped, a tiered island is the better fixture.
It is capped by your ceiling and by the sight lines you want to keep across the store, not by the structure. A pyramid that blocks the view of the back wall will be resented by your own staff within a week — send the ceiling height and we will draw it against the sight lines.
Yes, as a half pyramid stepping up against the wall. It loses the silhouette that makes the free-standing version work, so most stores that ask end up preferring a wall unit with a tiered island in front of it.
No. It flat packs as panels and bin rails with bubble wrap on every component, packed in a standard wooden export case and labelled by type, title, quantity and manufacturer, with the assembly drawings in the case.
