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Rock Salt

Fail

Prices span $1.70–$16.83, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Rock Salt is a Fail.

Flapen Score
45
45 / 100
Ranks 517 of 811 Automotive niches · −4 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£512K/yr429K searches / yr
90-day growth
-11.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
78%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 51 sellers

Flapen Score

Rock Salt against its category

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

45Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Rock Salt market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Rock Salt 429K times last year and spent an estimated £512K. The top 5 brands take 90% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Nov. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 14.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 429K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 14.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -11.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £512K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
429K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-11.5%
Conversion, latest week
14.3%
Market size, estimated
£512Ka year
Peak month
January6.4× the quietest month
Top search term
rock salt183K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £8.36.

Listings sell for £8.36 on average, from £1.70 to £16.83. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 60K to 80K a year. The average listing sells 2,000 to 2,500 of them. At £8.36 that is £17K to £21K a year per listing.

Average price
£8.36under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.70–£16.83
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
60K–80K
Units per listing a year
2,000–2,500
Revenue per listing a year
£17K–£21K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

57% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 43% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #106 within Car Accessories. It carries 802 reviews at 4.56 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
57%
Prime listings
43%
Out of stock, average day
3.0%
Average rank
#106in Car Accessories
Average rating
4.56 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
802per listing
Listings tracked
14

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 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 69 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
69 months

Products

Top Rock 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 78% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

10 falling

Sellers

51

Top-5 brand share

90%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

78%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

7%

  • Brand 132%
  • Brand 222%
  • Brand 319%
  • Brand 414%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 63%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 7%)

Demand

Rock Salt search demand

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

40K30KBlack Friday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 6.4×

Search terms

Top Rock Salt search terms shoppers use

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

  • rock salt183K/yr
  • rock salt for weeds18K/yr
  • salt for weed killing8K/yr
  • bags of salt for weeds5K/yr
  • salt rock6K/yr
  • garden salt for killing weeds3K/yr
  • bag of salt3K/yr
  • rocksalt6K/yr
  • road salt14K/yr
  • grit salt84K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Rock Salt

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

28%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
28%of negative reviews mention “Salt Content”
<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero
“Apparently it doesnt get damp like the finer salt”
A buyer, on “Salt Content”28% 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.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Rock Salt questions

Answered from the same tracked data.