White Body, Contrast Handles
Premium formats
White with contrasting handles reads as clean rather than clinical, which is the distinction a pharmacy or a health food shop is trying to hold. Without the contrast it reads as a laundry basket.
Moulded white · contrast handles · premium formats
A white basket with contrasting handles, for pharmacies, health food shops and premium formats where a black plastic basket would undercut everything else in the room.
Studio angles on white, with close-ups below.
A pharmacy, a health food shop or a premium grocer spends heavily on making the room feel clean, and a stack of black plastic baskets at the door undoes some of that in one object. White is the answer, and the contrasting handles are what stop it looking like a laundry basket.
It has to be said plainly that white shows wear faster than any other colour. A store choosing it is buying a look and accepting a shorter replacement cycle, which is a reasonable trade in a format where the room matters more than the fleet cost.
A white basket with contrasting handles, for pharmacies, health food shops and premium formats where a black plastic basket would undercut everything else in the room.
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.
White is the least forgiving finish we make, so three of these four are about how it ages.
Premium formats
White with contrasting handles reads as clean rather than clinical, which is the distinction a pharmacy or a health food shop is trying to hold. Without the contrast it reads as a laundry basket.
Where white shows it first
The bottom corners are where a white basket ages fastest. Nothing can be done about that in the moulding, which is why the replacement cycle is shorter and worth budgeting for.
Matt rather than gloss
The surface is matt rather than gloss. A gloss white basket shows every scuff as a grey mark; a matt one diffuses them, which buys the fleet some months.
Contrast at the grip
The handles are the one part that will not show ageing, being both coloured and the part most often replaced. Putting the contrast there is a practical decision as well as a visual 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.
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 supermarket layout design page.
White buys a look and costs replacement cycle. Both are worth stating.
Tell us how much the appearance of your entrance matters relative to fleet cost. White is the right answer in a premium room and the wrong one in a high-volume store, and it is worth deciding deliberately.
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.
Faster than any other colour, and we would rather say so before you order. A store choosing white is buying a look and accepting a shorter replacement cycle, which in a premium format is often a reasonable trade.
Surface dirt wipes off; scuffs are abrasion into the material and do not. Most premium stores rotate the visibly worn baskets out of the front stack rather than trying to restore them.
Because without contrast a white basket reads as a laundry basket. It is also practical: the handles are the part most often replaced, so putting the colour there costs least to change.
Matt. A gloss white basket shows every scuff as a grey mark; a matt surface diffuses them and buys the fleet some months of looking new.
