Single Pull Handle
One post, fewer failures
One central post instead of two. It is marginally less comfortable to pull and it has half as many parts to jam or snap, which on a fleet with rough handling is the trade most stores want.
Single central handle · fewer parts · stacks flat
A roller basket with one central pull handle instead of a twin-post telescope. Fewer moving parts means fewer things to break in a fleet that gets rough handling.
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A twin-post telescopic handle has two sliding posts, two stops and a cross member, and every one of those can jam or snap in a fleet that gets dragged, dropped and stacked. A single central handle halves the mechanism. It is slightly less comfortable to pull and it lasts noticeably longer.
For stores with high basket turnover and rough handling — which is most of them — that trade usually comes out in favour of the simpler mechanism. For a premium format where the shopper experience matters more than the replacement cycle, the twin-post handle is nicer to use and worth the extra failures.
A roller basket with one central pull handle instead of a twin-post telescope. Fewer moving parts means fewer things to break in a fleet that gets rough handling.
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 handle is the only thing that differs, so three of these four are the mechanism and what it costs.
One post, fewer failures
One central post instead of two. It is marginally less comfortable to pull and it has half as many parts to jam or snap, which on a fleet with rough handling is the trade most stores want.
One stop, not two
A single stop at the top of the travel rather than two that have to stay synchronised. Twin-post handles most often fail because one side stops and the other does not.
Centred on the body
The post mounts on the centreline so the pull load goes straight into the body rather than into one corner. It is what makes a single-post handle viable at all.
Stacks clean
Retracted, the single post sits flush with the rim like the twin-post build. Nothing about the simplification costs you stacking density.
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 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 supermarket layout design page.
How rough is your basket handling? That is the whole decision here.
Tell us honestly how your baskets get treated. If they are thrown into stacks rather than set down, the single-post handle will outlast the twin-post one by a wide margin.
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.
Slightly — a twin-post handle is more comfortable because the pull is balanced. The single handle lasts longer. Choose on whether your replacement cycle or your shopper experience matters more.
Most often one post stops and the other does not, which racks the cross member and jams the telescope. A single post has no synchronisation to lose.
On both builds the handle assembly can be replaced rather than the basket, which is worth setting up as a maintenance routine if you run a large fleet.
Yes, because the post is on the centreline. An off-centre single handle would pull the basket into a curve, which is why the mounting position matters more here than on a twin-post build.
