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Small Plastic Bags

Fail

Prices span $2.05–$8.76, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Small Plastic Bags is a Fail.

Flapen Score
44
44 / 100
Ranks 520 of 740 Business, Industry & Science niches · −5 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£133K/yr443K searches / yr
90-day growth
-0.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
62%top-5 click share · 19 brands · 41 sellers

Flapen Score

Small Plastic Bags against its category

The dotted line is the Business, Industry & Science average. Past it, Small Plastic Bags is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

44Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Small Plastic Bags market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Small Plastic Bags 443K times last year and spent an estimated £133K. The top 5 brands take 73% of clicks. Flapen scores it 44 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 6.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 443K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 6.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -0.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £133K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
443K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-0.3%
Conversion, latest week
6.8%
Market size, estimated
£133Ka year
Peak month
February1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
small plastic bags83K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £4.39.

Listings sell for £4.39 on average, from £2.05 to £8.76. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 30K to 40K a year. The average listing sells 1,250 to 1,500 of them. At £4.39 that is £5K to £7K a year per listing.

Average price
£4.39under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.05–£8.76
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
30K–40K
Units per listing a year
1,250–1,500
Revenue per listing a year
£5K–£7K
Returns
0.6%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

84% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #55 within Packaging & Shipping Supplies. It carries 1,689 reviews at 4.46 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
84%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
2.5%
Average rank
#55in Packaging & Shipping Supplies
Average rating
4.46 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,689per listing
Listings tracked
25

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 37 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Small Plastic Bags products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 21, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 62% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£13K£27K£40K£53K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

19 flat

Sellers

41

Est. top-5 brand share

73%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

62%

Top 20: 93%

Open market

24%

  • sent 4 u ltd42%
  • ezkart16%
  • QBL6%
  • Generic5%
  • Sabco3%
  • Wddeevoi3%

Demand

Small Plastic Bags search demand

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

10K6KHoliday '24Spike '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Small Plastic Bags search terms shoppers use

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

  • small plastic bags83K/yr
  • small ziplock bags45K/yr
  • resealable plastic bags38K/yr
  • grip seal bags33K/yr
  • plastic bags sealable24K/yr
  • sealable plastic bags25K/yr
  • zip lock bags small20K/yr
  • seal bags19K/yr
  • small sealable bags18K/yr
  • small plastic bags sealable17K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Small Plastic Bags

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

21%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
33%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.6%of orders come back
“Small bags”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”33% 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.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Small Plastic Bags questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data