Frame assembly benches in the Keshun plant where shopping trolley frames are built

Shopping Trolleys and Baskets

Shopping Trolleys, Rolling Baskets, Hand Baskets and Platform Trolleys

Forty builds, and the only category in the catalogue where the fixture goes home with the shopper's hands on it. What it holds matters less than whether it stacks.

Full Range

Trolleys And Baskets We Have Built

Forty builds, photographed in our own studio: twenty-two baskets and eighteen trolleys. This is by far the widest range we make, and unusually the reason is not that stores want variety. It is that a supermarket needs several of these at once — a hand basket by the door, a rolling basket for the shopper who came in for six things, a full trolley for the weekly shop, and a platform trolley for staff.

Hand basket in white with red handles

A pale body with contrasting handles, which shows dirt sooner but reads much cleaner in a store with a bright interior.

Hand basket, two-tone

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Three-tier shelf trolley

Three wire shelves rather than one basket. It is what a store uses for shelf-edge replenishment, because stock can be sorted by aisle before anyone leaves the stock room.

Three-tier shelf trolley

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Two-tier platform trolley

A deck with a second level above it, so two orders or two categories can be moved without being stacked on each other.

Two-tier platform trolley

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Rolling basket with a grey pull handle

A quieter finish for stores that do not want the basket fleet to be the loudest thing at the entrance.

Rolling basket, neutral handle

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Slim upright shopper in red

An upright body on a narrow wheelbase, closer to a shopping trolley than to a basket. It suits a market stall or a store with very narrow aisles.

Upright shopper, narrow base

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Standard rolling basket in black

The plain version of the rolling basket and the highest volume build in this half of the range. Nothing on it that a shopper can break off.

Standard rolling basket

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Large trolley with an orange handle

The large basket with an orange handle bar. Bright handles are worth the small extra cost in a big car park, where a loose trolley is much easier to spot.

Large nesting trolley, bright handle

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Compact coated trolley with a low frame

A small trolley on a low open frame, easy to steer one-handed. Stores put these near the entrance for shoppers who do not want a full trolley.

Compact trolley, low frame

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Compact rolling basket

A smaller body for stores with a short shop: enough for a lunch run or a top-up, and it stacks more per metre of the basket stand.

Compact rolling basket

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Rolling basket with a long pull handle

A wheeled basket with a telescopic pull handle, dragged behind the shopper like a case. It carries far more than a hand basket without asking anyone to take a full trolley round a small store.

Rolling basket, telescopic handle

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Rolling basket with an orange handle

Same body, orange rail. Stores commonly order two handle colours and use them to separate a small basket from a large one at a glance.

Rolling basket, orange rail

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Rolling basket with a tall pull handle

A longer handle so a taller shopper is not stooping to pull it. Worth specifying if the store's own staff use the baskets to pick online orders.

Rolling basket, tall handle

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Tall rolling basket with a slim base

Taller and narrower than the standard rolling basket, so it takes less aisle in a store where the gaps between fixtures are tight.

Tall rolling basket, narrow base

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Rolling basket with a coloured handle rail

The standard body with the handle rail picked out in a second colour, which is what a store specifies when the baskets have to be findable across a busy floor.

Rolling basket, two-colour handle

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Rolling basket with a bright handle

A high-visibility handle in a strong colour, usually specified where the basket stand is somewhere a shopper has to spot from the door.

Rolling basket, high-visibility handle

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Rolling basket with a blue handle rail

Same body, blue rail. Colour on the handle is the cheapest way to distinguish two basket sizes on a stand without printing anything.

Rolling basket, blue rail

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Wheeled basket with a moulded grip

The same rolling format with a shorter moulded grip instead of a telescopic pole. Cheaper, lighter, and it nests deeper because there is no handle assembly in the way.

Rolling basket, fixed grip

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Roll cage with fold-down sides

A caged logistics trolley for moving stock between the lorry and the stock room. The sides fold so it returns empty in a fraction of the space.

Roll cage, folding sides

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Hand basket in red

Red is the most ordered colour in the range, for the ordinary reason that it is the easiest to see from the door and the hardest to lose in a car park.

Hand basket, red

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Nesting trolley with a green handle and seat

Standard basket, green handle, child seat down. Shown with the seat open because that is how most of them spend their working life.

Nesting trolley, green livery

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Large nesting wire trolley

A deeper basket on the same nesting geometry, for a store where the weekly shop is genuinely weekly and a standard trolley fills up halfway round.

Large nesting trolley

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Nesting trolley with a blue handle and seat

Blue handle, child seat, standard basket. Handle colour is usually chosen to match the store's own livery rather than for any functional reason.

Nesting trolley, blue livery

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Nesting wire trolley with a red handle

The standard supermarket trolley: a tapered wire basket that nests into the one in front of it, on four castors with a coloured handle bar.

Nesting wire trolley

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Upright shopper in green

A tall narrow body in a single bright colour. Loud on purpose: this is a build for a store that treats its baskets as part of the branding.

Upright shopper, single colour

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Trolley with a display board

A frame trolley carrying a flat board panel at handle height, which is used either for store notices or as a working surface for staff picking orders.

Frame trolley with a display board

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Deep rolling basket in red

A deeper body on the same wheelbase, for a convenience store where shoppers routinely fill the basket and would otherwise need a trolley.

Deep rolling basket

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Nesting wire trolley with a child seat

The same trolley with a fold-down child seat in the rear of the basket, which is the single most requested option in the whole category.

Nesting trolley, child seat

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Two-tier stock trolley in dark finish

A dark-coated version of the two-tier platform trolley, for back-of-house work where appearance matters less than the coating surviving a loading bay.

Two-tier stock trolley, dark coat

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Rolling basket with a folding grip

The grip folds flat onto the rim, so the basket nests tighter on the stand and takes less of the entrance.

Rolling basket, folding grip

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Hand basket in bright green

No wheels at all. A moulded hand basket with twin folding handles, carried rather than pulled, for the shopper who came in for three things.

Hand basket, twin handles

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Flatbed platform trolley

A long flat deck with a single push handle, for stock movement rather than for shoppers. It is a staff tool and it is built heavier than anything on the shop floor.

Flatbed platform trolley

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Rolling basket with reinforced sides

Heavier ribbing down the flanks. It is the build for a store whose baskets get dragged up kerbs and into car parks rather than kept indoors.

Reinforced rolling basket

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Compact coated trolley in orange

A small fully coated trolley, bright right through rather than chrome with coloured trim. Common in convenience formats and in stores with a strong house colour.

Compact trolley, fully coated

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Deep nesting trolley in dark finish

The large basket in a dark coating rather than bright chrome, which hides scuffs and is what a store specifies when the trolley park is outdoors.

Deep nesting trolley, dark coat

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Deep hand basket

A taller body for a store where hand baskets are doing the work a small trolley would do elsewhere. It is heavier when full, which is a real limit.

Hand basket, deep body

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Plastic basket trolley in pink

A moulded plastic basket on a wheeled frame. Lighter and quieter than wire, and it is the build most often chosen where the trolley fleet is part of the store's look.

Plastic basket on a wheeled frame

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Blue frame trolley with a lower deck

A coated frame carrying a wire basket above and a timber-faced deck below, so bulky items travel underneath instead of crushing what is in the basket.

Frame trolley, basket and lower deck

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Hand basket in blue

Same moulding in blue. Colour is a whole-fleet decision in this category, so it is worth settling at the order rather than later.

Hand basket, blue

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Standard black hand basket

The plainest thing we make and probably the most ordered. Twin folding handles, deep nesting, and nothing on it to break.

Hand basket, standard

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Narrow frame trolley without a basket

An open frame with no basket at all, so the shopper's own crate or bag sits in it. It nests almost flat and is common in wholesale and cash-and-carry formats.

Open frame trolley

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The one figure buyers always ask for in this category is litre capacity, and it is the one we will not publish here. The litre figures circulating for this range came from an old third-party listing rather than from our own production records, so they are being confirmed with the factory before they go on the site. Ask and we will send whatever is confirmed.

Stock and packing area of the Keshun plant where trolley fleets are prepared for export

Tell us the fleet size and how long the trolley bay is. Those two numbers rule out more builds than any capacity figure does.

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How Big Is Your Trolley Fleet?

Every question below is one we would have to ask you anyway. Answering them now takes a round trip out of the quotation.

Your enquiry goes to keshun@kssyt.com. Floor plans, CAD files and photographs of a store you like are all welcome — a hand sketch on paper is enough to start.

Buyer Questions

Shopping Trolley And Basket Questions

Eight things buyers ask before they order a fleet. If yours is not here, put it in the message box above and it gets answered with the quotation. Trolley size and lane length are decided together — see How to Choose a Supermarket Checkout Counter.

What capacity are your shopping trolleys and baskets?

We are not publishing capacity figures on this page yet, and it is worth explaining why. The litre figures circulating for this range came from an old third-party listing rather than from our own production records. Until the factory has confirmed them, publishing them would mean passing somebody else's numbers off as ours. Ask us and you get whatever is confirmed.

Why do you ask about the trolley bay before the capacity?

Because the bay is the real constraint. A hundred trolleys spend most of the week nested by the door, and every extra 50 mm of nest pitch adds five metres to that bay. Capacity you can usually work around; a trolley bay that is four metres too short you cannot.

Can I get trolleys with child seats?

Yes, and it is the most requested option in the range. The seat folds flush into the rear of the basket so the trolley still nests properly, which is the part that has to be engineered rather than the seat itself. Tell us how many of the fleet need one; most stores fit them to a portion rather than to all.

Should I choose chrome or a coloured coating?

Ask where the trolleys are kept. Chrome looks newer for longer indoors. A fully coated trolley hides scuffs and handles weather better, so it is the usual answer where the trolley park is outside. Coating the whole trolley also lets the fleet carry the store's own colour, which chrome with a coloured handle only half achieves.

Do you make trolleys for staff as well as shoppers?

Yes, and they are about a fifth of the range: flatbed platform trolleys, tiered shelf trolleys for shelf-edge replenishment, and roll cages for goods-in. They are load rated and coated for a loading bay rather than finished for a shop floor. Roll cage sides fold, which cuts the return shipping volume substantially.

How are trolleys and baskets shipped?

Nested, which is the reason this category ships economically at all. Baskets stack into each other and trolleys nest, so the loading quantity per container is high compared with counters or islands. Roll cages fold flat. The exact figures depend on the mix on your order and come with the packing list.

What are supermarket carts called?

Shopping cart in North America, shopping trolley in the UK and most of the Commonwealth, and grocery cart or buggy regionally. They are the same fixture. What actually changes between markets is the basket depth and the nesting pitch, not the name.

What is a nesting cart?

One built so each unit slides into the one in front of it. Past the first cart, every extra one adds only its nesting pitch instead of its full length — which is why a container of trolleys holds several times what its unit count suggests, and why the bay at your entrance takes far less floor than people expect.

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