Reinforced Base
Thicker where it lands
The base moulding is thickened where the load lands. It is the part that fails on a roller basket fleet, and reinforcing it is the cheapest way to extend the working life of the whole order.
Reinforced base · kerb impacts · telescopic handle
A roller basket with the base moulding reinforced. It is the version for stores where baskets get taken to the car park, up kerbs and over thresholds.
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A roller basket does not usually fail at the handle or the wheels — it fails at the base, where the whole load lands every time the basket is dropped down a kerb or set down hard on a counter. Thickening that moulding is the single most effective thing you can do to extend the life of a basket fleet.
It matters most where baskets leave the building. A store where shoppers take a roller basket to the car park and back is putting the base through impacts that a store with baskets confined to the shop floor never sees, and the standard moulding is not specified for that.
A roller basket with the base moulding reinforced. It is the version for stores where baskets get taken to the car park, up kerbs and over thresholds.
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.
This build differs from the standard basket in exactly one place. Three of these four are that place and its consequences.
Thicker where it lands
The base moulding is thickened where the load lands. It is the part that fails on a roller basket fleet, and reinforcing it is the cheapest way to extend the working life of the whole order.
Spreads the impact
Ribbing under the base spreads a point impact across the moulding rather than letting it land on one spot. It is what stops a kerb drop cracking the base at the wheel mounting.
Into the thicker section
The wheels mount into the reinforced section rather than into the standard wall. On a basket that gets dropped, the mounting is the second place to fail after the base itself.
Where it is picked up
The rim is where somebody grabs the basket to lift it over a kerb rather than roll it. On this build it is thickened to match, because a reinforced base with a standard rim just moves the failure.
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.
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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 store layout planning page.
Do your baskets go to the car park? That is the question this build answers.
Tell us whether your baskets leave the building and whether there are kerbs or thresholds between the door and the car park. Those impacts are what this build is specified for.
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.
If they do, this is the build to specify. Kerb drops and car park thresholds put impacts through the base that a shop floor never does, and the reinforced moulding is the difference between two years and five.
Slightly, empty. Loaded the difference is immaterial. If your baskets never leave a flat shop floor the extra weight buys you nothing and the standard build is the better choice.
A cracked moulding is not repairable in practice — the basket is replaced. That is exactly why the reinforcement is worth specifying up front rather than after the first year of breakages.
Marginally. A thicker base means a slightly taller column for the same number of baskets, which shows up on the packing list rather than in the store.
