Stepped Bin Rows
Three tiers, clear, tilt-out
Each row sits back from the one below it. The step is what lets a shopper at the near edge still see what is in the top row, and it is why a three-tier island holds a range that a flat table cannot.
Bulk food bin island · three tiers · rounded ends
The island most stores start with when they open a loose goods aisle: a closed cabinet base that stores the refill stock, and three stepped rows of clear bins above it so a shopper reads the whole range from one standing position.
Two studio angles on white. Close-ups of the bin rows, cabinet doors, plinth and radiused end are further down the page.
Three tiers of clear tilt bins step up the long face of this island, each row set back from the one below so the contents of the top row are still visible to somebody standing at the bottom one. The bins hinge forward to fill and lift out for washing. Under them the carcase is a run of closed cabinets on recessed handles, which is where the refill stock lives — the reason this island can be re-stocked without a trolley being wheeled into the aisle.
Both ends are radiused rather than cut square. That is a traffic decision more than a styling one: a bulk aisle is walked at trolley height and a square corner on a full-length island is the corner that gets clipped. The dark timber facing runs vertically in narrow planks, with a black steel plinth carrying the whole thing clear of the floor for washing down.
The island most stores start with when they open a loose goods aisle: a closed cabinet base that stores the refill stock, and three stepped rows of clear bins above it so a shopper reads the whole range from one standing position.
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.
Four things worth looking at closely before ordering an island: how the bin rows step, how the doors sit, what carries the weight, and how the ends are finished.
Three tiers, clear, tilt-out
Each row sits back from the one below it. The step is what lets a shopper at the near edge still see what is in the top row, and it is why a three-tier island holds a range that a flat table cannot.
Closed refill cabinets
The handles are let into the door face rather than standing proud. On an aisle this narrow a protruding handle is what catches a coat or a trolley, so the whole base run is flush.
Powder coated, set back
The base is carried on a dark plinth that is set back from the door line. It keeps the timber off a wet floor and gives a mop somewhere to go without knocking the facing.
Curved both ends
The timber top rail is bent around the end rather than mitred into a corner. It costs more to build and it is the part of the island that survives longest in a busy aisle.
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 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 equipment lists by store size.
Send the aisle length and we will come back with the bay count, the bin count per row and the loading plan.
Tell us the run length you have to fill and whether the island is against a wall or free-standing. The bay count, bin count and container plan come back with the price.
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.
Yes. Each bin tilts forward on its front edge to be filled and lifts clear of the rail to be washed. Nothing is fixed into the frame, so a bin that gets damaged is replaced on its own rather than pulling the row apart.
The base run photographed here is a closed cabinet, which most stores use as flat refill storage. Internal shelves, dividers or a stainless liner can be built in — those are decided against what the compartment carries, so they are settled against what the compartment carries.
It is built in bays, so the length follows the aisle rather than a catalogue size. Send the aisle length and we will come back with the bay count and the length it makes.
No. Bulk islands ship flat as panels — carcase sides, shelves, bin rails, back panels and plinths, strapped with bubble wrap on every component and packed in a standard wooden export case, with the assembly drawings in the case.
