Lower Deck
For bulky items
The deck takes the cases and sacks that would otherwise crush a basket load. It is open rather than a second basket, because things that go on it are lifted on and off rather than dropped in.
Basket above · lower deck below · nesting
A basket above and an open deck below, so the heavy and bulky items go underneath instead of crushing everything in the basket.
Studio angles on white, with close-ups below.
Every shopper eventually puts a case of water or a sack of pet food into a trolley basket, and everything already in there gets crushed. A lower deck solves it: bulky and heavy items go under the basket, the basket stays for normal shopping, and nothing has to be rearranged at the till.
It is the format that suits stores with a wide range of pack sizes — a supermarket that sells both single yoghurts and 12-packs of water. The deck also reduces the number of shoppers who give up and go to get a flatbed instead, which is time nobody gets back.
A basket above and an open deck below, so the heavy and bulky items go underneath instead of crushing everything in the basket.
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 tiers means the frame carries load at two heights, which is where these close-ups look.
For bulky items
The deck takes the cases and sacks that would otherwise crush a basket load. It is open rather than a second basket, because things that go on it are lifted on and off rather than dropped in.
Normal shopping
The basket above is a conventional shopping basket. Keeping it standard is deliberate — the deck should add capacity without changing how the trolley is used for everything else.
Load at two heights
The frame carries load at two heights rather than one, so the junctions between them are doing more work than on a single-basket trolley.
Full nesting kept
Both tiers are profiled so the trolleys still nest. A two tier trolley that will not nest costs you double the bay space, which cancels out the reason to have it.
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.
Trolleys are the one category where the unit count and the shipped volume are almost unrelated. They nest, so past the first unit each extra one adds only its nesting pitch instead of its full length — which is why a container of trolleys holds several times what the same container of assembled counters would. 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 before they go on the site.
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 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.
Do you sell a lot of cases and multipacks? That is what decides this build.
Tell us roughly what proportion of your sales are cases, multipacks or sacks. If the answer is 'a lot', the lower deck pays for itself in trolley turnaround alone.
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.
Loaded, yes — it carries more, so it weighs more. That is what castor specification is for, and it is why we ask about your floor and any ramp before quoting.
That is exactly what it is for. Tell us the heaviest thing your shoppers routinely buy and the deck and castors are specified against it.
Yes. Both tiers are profiled for it, because a two tier trolley that will not nest costs double the bay space and cancels out its own advantage.
Only if you sell a meaningful volume of cases, multipacks or sacks. In a store selling mostly small packs it is capacity nobody uses, and the standard build is the better buy.
