Tall Grab Handle
Above the rim, contrasting
It stands above the rim so there is one obvious thing to take hold of on a stack of forty. The contrasting colour makes it visible as well as reachable, which changes the first ten seconds of every shop.
Tall grab handle · findable in a stack · contrast colour
A roller basket with a tall grab handle standing above the rim in a contrasting colour. In a stack of forty, it is the only thing you can actually get hold of.
Studio angles on white, with close-ups below.
Pulling the top basket off a stack of forty identical ones is more awkward than it should be. There is nothing to grip, the rims are flush, and shoppers end up dragging the whole column sideways. A tall grab handle standing above the rim solves it: there is one obvious thing to take hold of and the top basket lifts straight off.
The handle is in a contrasting colour for the same reason, so the grab point is visible as well as reachable. It is a small detail that changes the first ten seconds of every shop, which is the interaction most stores never think about.
A roller basket with a tall grab handle standing above the rim in a contrasting colour. In a stack of forty, it is the only thing you can actually get hold of.
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.
Two handles on one basket doing two different jobs. These four keep them apart.
Above the rim, contrasting
It stands above the rim so there is one obvious thing to take hold of on a stack of forty. The contrasting colour makes it visible as well as reachable, which changes the first ten seconds of every shop.
Grab to lift, telescope to pull
The grab handle lifts the basket; the telescopic handle pulls it. Keeping them separate means neither is a compromise, which a single handle doing both jobs always is.
Column stays clean
In a stack the grab handles sit alongside each other rather than on top of one another. The column is slightly taller than a flush-rim build and it does not jam.
Into the rim, load bearing
The grab handle mounts into the rim and carries the full loaded weight when the basket is lifted. It is a structural fixing rather than a moulded-on detail.
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.
This model
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 equipment lists by store size.
This fixes the first ten seconds of every shop. Cheap, and nobody thinks about it.
Tell us how deep your basket stacks get at the entrance. Above about twenty, the top basket becomes genuinely awkward to lift and the grab handle stops being a nicety.
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.
No — the handles nest alongside each other as the baskets stack. The column is slightly taller than a flush-rim build, which is the small cost of making the top basket easy to lift off.
Because lifting and pulling want different geometry. A single handle doing both jobs is a compromise at both, and the grab handle costs very little as a separate moulding.
Contrast, if the point is to be found quickly. A matching handle is tidier and gives up most of the benefit, which is worth deciding deliberately rather than by default.
It is a structural fixing into the rim rather than a moulded-on detail, and it is specified to carry the full loaded weight. That is what separates it from a decorative tab.
