By Paul Smithy
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Garden centres these days stock a wide variety of products, host product demonstrations and even hold events. It's not uncommon to find cafe / restaurant areas in larger centres and there are often ample parking facilities. For this reason they can be popular location for days out. Despite offering many additional product ranges which may have more in common with home than garden, the core products of garden centres are just that - products, plants and materials for use outdoors. The plants, shrubs and various soil and compost mixes can be either heavy, unwieldy, wet, or a combination of all of these things. The ideal solution therefore for shopping in a convenient, clean, and relatively easy way is to use a garden centre trolley.
Garden centres often feature outdoor and indoor areas, and it is common for customers to move between and around the 2 areas during one shopping outing. The car park area will also need to be negotiated by the customer, and due to the nature of the goods, it's likely that the customer will need to take the trolley with them to the car. This means that the garden centre trolley will need to have plain bore, wider diameter wheels, preferably solid construction. This way the trolley can be manoeuvred relatively easily even with a bulky load without having to worry about wear and tear on the wheels.
Since the trolley as a whole is likely to be subject to a variety of more heavy duty knocks and scratches, a metal construction is preferable. Trolleys may also need to be used and left out in the elements. For this reason, a strong, tidy galvanized finish is a good option.
Not everybody who goes into a garden centre buys just large and bulky items. There may also be a need to for example protect smaller plants and keep them upright whilst negotiating the shop. For this reason, a good garden centre trolley will have a pot basket at the handle end, as well as having a good sized main basket for the bulky items. These trolleys should be strong and capable enough of carrying relatively heavy loads (up to 80Kg), and light enough in themselves to be gathered up and moved around by staff e.g. a net weight of around 19Kg is good.
As with most trolleys, there are always other possible applications. Since garden centre trolleys are so strong, durable and large they could conceivably be used for a wide variety of other loading and moving duties in places other than garden centres e.g. factories and warehouses or to load and unload vehicles.
Paul writes on a number of topics such as trolleys and a wide variety of specialised trolleys and trucks.
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