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Gritting Salt

Fail

Demand is soft, at -90.3% this quarter, so Gritting Salt is a Fail.

Flapen Score
37
37 / 100
Ranks 729 of 811 Automotive niches · −12 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£85K/yr88K searches / yr
90-day growth
-90.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
74%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 21 sellers

Flapen Score

Gritting Salt against its category

The dotted line is the Automotive average. Past it, Gritting Salt is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

37Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Gritting Salt market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Gritting Salt 88K times last year and spent an estimated £85K. The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Nov. Flapen scores it 37 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 8.2% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 88K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 8.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -90.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £85K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
88K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-90.3%
Conversion, latest week
8.2%
Market size, estimated
£85Ka year
Peak month
January178.4× the quietest month
Top search term
rock salt for driveways27K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £11.77.

Listings sell for £11.77 on average, from £8.01 to £16.83. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At £11.77 that is £3K to £6K a year per listing.

Average price
£11.77under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£8.01–£16.83
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
£3K–£6K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

64% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 18% ship with Prime. On an average day, 4.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #6 within Car Accessories. It carries 577 reviews at 4.45 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
64%
Prime listings
18%
Out of stock, average day
4.3%
Average rank
#6in Car Accessories
Average rating
4.45 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
577per listing
Listings tracked
11

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 3 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 66 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
66 months

Products

Top Gritting Salt products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 74% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

7 rising

Sellers

21

Top-5 brand share

97%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

74%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

3%

  • Brand 151%
  • Brand 222%
  • Brand 310%
  • Brand 47%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 64%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 3%)

Demand

Gritting Salt search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

50K30KBlack Friday '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 178.4×

Search terms

Top Gritting Salt search terms shoppers use

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

  • rock salt for driveways27K/yr
  • deicing salt7K/yr
  • de icing salt11K/yr
  • driveway salt4K/yr
  • ice salt4K/yr
  • snow salt grit7K/yr
  • salt for ice and snow25K/yr
  • path salt3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Gritting Salt

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

25%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
26%of negative reviews mention “Value For Money”
<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero
“could be cheaper”
A buyer, on “Value For Money”26% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Gritting Salt questions

Answered from the same tracked data.