Two level island · glazed rails · raised deck
A bulk island that works on two levels: a lower deck at working height and a raised second deck behind it, separated by glass panels held in a slim black rail so the back row is on show rather than hidden.
Two studio angles on white. The glazed rail, the cantilever bracket, the base doors and the curved end are photographed in close-up below.
The problem with a single flat deck is that anything on the far side is out of sight. This build answers it by lifting the back half onto a second level and glazing the rail between the two, so a shopper standing at the near edge sees both rows at once. The glass is held in a black steel frame that is welded rather than bolted, and the panels sit in the frame rather than clamping to the timber.
The base is a run of timber cabinets on recessed handles, and the top deck is carried on cantilever brackets rather than on legs coming down through the display area. That is the detail that makes the lower deck usable end to end — there is no post standing in the middle of it.
A bulk island that works on two levels: a lower deck at working height and a raised second deck behind it, separated by glass panels held in a slim black rail so the back row is on show rather than hidden.
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.
A two level island lives or dies on its junctions. These four are where the load goes, and where a badly built one starts to sag.
Recessed handles, flush face
The cabinet doors run flush with the carcase and the frame passes in front of them. Nothing stands proud of the face, which matters on a two level island because a shopper leans in against the base to reach the top deck.
Glass in welded steel
The glass sits in the rail rather than being clamped against the timber. It stops product rolling off the back of the lower deck without walling the upper deck off from view.
No post in the display area
The upper deck is carried off the carcase on brackets. It is the reason the lower deck runs end to end without a leg standing in the middle of the merchandise.
Rail bent to the radius
The steel rail is bent around the end and the glass follows it. A mitred corner would have been cheaper and it is the first thing that looks wrong when an island is seen from the aisle head.
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.
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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.
Two level islands are quoted on deck heights, so send the height of the fixtures either side of it.
The useful thing to send with this one is the height of whatever stands next to it, because the upper deck should read level with the run rather than fighting it.
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.
The glazing specification is set per order, because a fixture heading for a store with a high child footfall is not glazed the same way as one going into a wholesale room. Tell us the store type with your enquiry and the glass spec comes back on the quotation.
Yes. The upper deck is a flat platform in these photographs, and bins can be fitted to either level. Which level gets bins is worth deciding against your range — loose goods on the upper deck are further from a shopper's reach than most stores expect.
A leg coming down through the lower deck takes a run of merchandise out of the middle of the island. The bracket puts the load back into the carcase instead, and the lower deck stays usable from one end to the other.
Yes, and the two level arrangement suits a wall run particularly well because the raised rear deck is doing the job the wall would otherwise waste. Tell us which it is when you send the layout.
