How competitive is the Saure Gurken niche on Amazon Germany?

20 brands and 60 sellers compete in Saure Gurken on Amazon Germany. The top 5 Saure Gurken products take 52% of clicks and its top 5 brands hold 81% of demand.

What do buyers complain about in Saure Gurken?

Saure Gurken buyers on Amazon Germany complain most about Geschmack, Gesamtgröße, Geruch, the themes mined from the niche's reviews. Its return rate is 0.1%.

What does it cost to enter the Saure Gurken niche?

Saure Gurken sells for €8.46 on average on Amazon Germany, outside our $15–$100 sweet spot. Listings span €1.28–€35.34. The average incumbent carries 394 reviews — the moat a new listing must climb.

Saure Gurken

Saure Gurken shows low returns (0.1%), but soft demand (-13.4% this quarter) keeps it on the watch list.

Flapen Score

Worth a look

Top 28% of 1,367 Lebensmittel & Getränke niches · +4 vs the category median of 46

This niche Category average · 1,367 niches

Is Saure Gurken profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon Germany niche tracking, Saure Gurken is a €76K/yr Amazon Germany market (106K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 81% of demand. Verdict: Worth a look — 50/100.

Saure Gurken: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Worth a look. Search demand moved -13.4% over the last 90 days and 8.5% of searches end in a purchase.

€76K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr15K

Search volume / yr-13.4%106K

Conversion rate8.5%

Avg price€8.46

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 81% of demand, so 19% of the market is open.

19%

open market share

Brands · sellers20 · 60

Top-5 product click share52%

Open market19%

Avg brand age58 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.4★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 42 products

Top Saure Gurken products & what they sell for

Every tracked product — its share of the shelf, its review moat, and what it sells for.

Top sellers

by 90-day click share

Hengstenb. Gewürzgurken 720ml Glas Abtropfgewicht 360g

Price: €2.79
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 254
Age: 16y ago

HARIBO - Saure Gurken - Weingummi/Fruchtgummi - 1 35 kg Box mit 150 Stück

Price: €11.98
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 537
Age: 8y ago

Hainich Gewürzgurken Auslese 360 g

Price: €2.07
Rating: 4.3/5
Reviews: 176
Age: 2y ago

Kühne Gewürzgurken (0.67 kg)

Price: €2.31
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 29
Age: 12y ago

Kühne Gewürzgurken 370ml

Price: €2.07
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 135
Age: 10y ago

Newest

by launch date

Genussleben Box Get One Gurken 9 Dosen á 250 g (100 g Abtropfgewicht) knackige eingelegte XXL Gurke mit Spießer ideal für Küche als Geschenk Party Freunde Familie & Vorrat

Price: €29.92
Rating: 4.8/5
Reviews: 6
Age: 6mo ago

Van Holtens Pickles 3er Mix Zufällige Auswahl aus 5 Sorten (Pickle Rick Sour Sis Hot Mama Garlic Joe & Big Papa) | Amerikanischer Snackklassiker | Original USA-Import | Einzeln verpackt

Price: €14.08
Rating: 3.0/5
Reviews: 7
Age: 8mo ago

Alnatura BIO Gewürzgurken (0.67 kg)

Price: €3.32
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 8
Age: 1y ago

Hainich Gewürzgurken Auslese 360 g

Price: €2.07
Rating: 4.3/5
Reviews: 176
Age: 2y ago

Hainich Gurkensticks Geviertelt 360 g

Price: €1.83
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 146
Age: 2y ago

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 52% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

20 falling

Sellers

Top-5 brand share

81%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

52%

Top 20: 82%

Open market

16%

Kühne31%
Hainich16%
HARIBO16%
Hengstenberg15%
HeartGlobal3%
SpiceMasters.co.uk2%
Open — no brand owns it (14 brands, 16%)

Saure Gurken demand & seasonality

Weekly search volume, with the niche's key stats alongside.

Volume106KCVR8.5%Products42Brands20Top 5 Brands81%OOS Rate4.9%Rating4.4★Reviews394Avg BSR#100

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Top Saure Gurken search terms shoppers use

The exact queries shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth and conversion.

gewürzgurken27K/yr -9.0%10.9% conv.
saure gurken19K/yr -18.9%7.3% conv.
essiggurken14K/yr -22.7%10.8% conv.
pickles10K/yr -9.1%2.3% conv.
pickle10K/yr +2.6%1.0% conv.
eingelegte gurken7K/yr -17.9%3.6% conv.
haribo saure gurken6K/yr -16.8%5.1% conv.
saure gurken haribo6K/yr -22.2%6.3% conv.
gurken im glas4K/yr -8.0%12.2% conv.
van holten pickle2K/yr -1.1%0.5% conv.

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Saure Gurken

What buyers mention most, as a share of all reviews.

What buyers love

89% of reviews

Geschmack insgesamt51%

“schmeckt”

Qualität insgesamt12%

“Positives:”

Geschmack11%

“Super Geschmack”

Würzigkeit3%

“Knax scharf würzig”

Salzgehalt3%

“Kühne Salzdillgurken”

What buyers complain about

83% of reviews

Geschmack30%

“Fauliger Geschmack”

Gesamtgröße12%

“Mini”

Geruch7%

“Wirklich sehr starker Geruch”

Sauer7%

“Schmecken einfach nur sauer und komisch”

Hartes Gefühl7%

“Zu weich”

Saure Gurken return rate & reasons

Why buyers send it back, as a share of all return requests.

0.1%

Return rate

Fixable by listing

The "fixable" share counts expectation-mismatch reasons — size, look, advertised-vs-actual — that better copy and images address.

1Gesamtgröße

100%

Common Saure Gurken questions

The questions sellers ask about this niche, answered from the tracked metrics.

Flapen scores Saure Gurken 50/100 on Amazon Germany — Worth a look. The niche generates €76K/yr across 42 tracked products. 0 of 3 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved -13.4% over the last 90 days.