Bright Top Rail
Full lane length
The rail runs the whole lane and wraps the ends. It is the element that reads from the far side of a shop floor, which is why it takes the brightest of the three tones rather than the body.
Two colour livery · bright top rail · brand colours
A counter built as a piece of branding: a bright top rail running the length of the lane over a contrasting front panel, both cut to your own colour references rather than to ours.
Studio angles on white. The rail, the colour break, the plinth and the stainless top are photographed below.
Most checkout counters are one colour because one colour is what a catalogue can carry. This one is deliberately two: a bright rail wraps the top edge along the whole lane, and the front panel below it is a contrasting block, with the plinth in a third darker tone. The combination photographed here is one example rather than the product — everything is plastic powder coated to any RAL or PANTONE reference you give us.
That matters more for a chain than for a single store. A colour reference held across an order means the lanes, the shelving, the promotion tables and the trolley bay all leave the same coating batch, and they still match after the second and third container three years later. It is the single most common reason buyers come back to us rather than to whoever was cheapest.
A counter built as a piece of branding: a bright top rail running the length of the lane over a contrasting front panel, both cut to your own colour references rather than to ours.
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.
On a livery counter the colour break is the workmanship. These four are where the colours meet.
Full lane length
The rail runs the whole lane and wraps the ends. It is the element that reads from the far side of a shop floor, which is why it takes the brightest of the three tones rather than the body.
Panel to panel
Two coated panels meet on a line rather than a colour being masked and sprayed. Every panel is coated separately and complete, so the break stays crisp and neither colour has an overspray edge.
Third tone, at the floor
The plinth takes a darker tone than either body colour. It is at trolley height and it is the part that gets scuffed, so a colour that hides marks there buys the counter a couple of extra years of looking new.
Pressed top, 850 mm
The stainless is left as the only uncoloured surface. It is a working top rather than a branding surface, and keeping it plain is what stops a three-colour counter turning into a four-colour one.
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.
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.
This modelA checkout lane ships assembled, so the crate is the counter plus a margin and the length you order is the length that loads. That is the expensive end of the freight scale, which is why a counter order is usually put on the same container as flat packed shelving and nested trolleys rather than shipped on its own. The loading plan comes back with your quotation.
A checkout lane almost never arrives alone. These three categories share the front of the store with it, and putting them on one order is what lets a single colour reference run across the whole front, because it becomes one batch of coating rather than three.
The trolley bay sits within a few metres of the lane, and the lane length has to leave room for a loaded trolley to turn out of it.
See supermarket shopping cartsThe 1000 mm promotion square is what fills the queue side of a lane, and it is the cheapest impulse position in the store.
See promotional standsThe bays a shopper faces while queuing carry the same colour and board tone as the lane itself.
See shelving baysHow 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 project page.
Send your RAL or PANTONE references and they are held across the whole order.
Send your colour references with the enquiry. Whatever you give us is held across the lanes, the shelving and the trolley bay on the same order, so the front of the store matches the aisles.
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.
That is the point of this build. Everything is plastic powder coated to any RAL or PANTONE reference you supply, and the same reference is held across every category on the order — lanes, shelving, promotion tables and trolley bay all leave in one batch.
Because the colour is specified as a reference rather than as a sample, a second container two years later is coated to the same number. That is why chains specify RAL or PANTONE rather than sending us a paint chip.
Three is what is photographed here — rail, front panel and plinth — and three is about where it stops being livery and starts being noise. We will build more if you want them, and we will say so if we think it is too many.
A non-standard colour is a coating batch rather than a material change, so the cost sits in the batch size rather than in the colour itself. Ordering the whole store at once is what makes it economic, which is the same reason it also makes it match.
