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Cafe Au Lait Intenso Dolce Gusto Pods

Fail

The top 5 brands take 96% of clicks, so Cafe Au Lait Intenso Dolce Gusto Pods is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Top 40% of 2,976 Grocery niches · +2 vs the category median of 46
Market size
£239K/yr109K searches / yr
90-day growth
-18.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
74%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 58 sellers

Flapen Score

Cafe Au Lait Intenso Dolce Gusto Pods against its category

The dotted line is the Grocery average. Past it, Cafe Au Lait Intenso Dolce Gusto Pods is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

48Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Cafe Au Lait Intenso Dolce Gusto Pods market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Cafe Au Lait Intenso Dolce Gusto Pods 109K times last year and spent an estimated £239K. The top 5 brands take 96% of clicks. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

12.6% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 109K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 12.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -18.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £239K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
109K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-18.5%
Conversion, latest week
12.6%
Market size, estimated
£239Ka year
Peak month
October1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
dolce gusto decaffeinated pods24K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £17.40.

Listings sell for £17.40 on average, from £3.22 to £33.17. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 13K to 15K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At £17.40 that is £13K to £17K a year per listing.

Average price
£17.40inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.22–£33.17
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
13K–15K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
£13K–£17K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

50% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 75% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #224 within Coffee. It carries 1,069 reviews at 4.45 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
50%
Prime listings
75%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#224in Coffee
Average rating
4.45 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,069per listing
Listings tracked
16

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 2 of last year's 3 launches as successful.

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 2 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 55 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
55 months

Products

Top Cafe Au Lait Intenso Dolce Gusto Pods products & what they sell for

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

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

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

£0£24K£48K£72K£95K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

7 rising

Sellers

58

Top-5 brand share

96%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

74%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

2%

  • Nescafé Dolce Gusto82%
  • Caffè Vergnano 18825%
  • by Amazon3%
  • StormBrew3%
  • CAFFÈ BORBONE3%
  • Barista Italiano3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 2%)

Demand

Cafe Au Lait Intenso Dolce Gusto Pods search demand

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

4K3KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Cafe Au Lait Intenso Dolce Gusto Pods search terms shoppers use

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

  • dolce gusto decaffeinated pods24K/yr
  • dolce gusto coffee pods decaf22K/yr
  • dolce gusto decaf12K/yr
  • dolce gusto decaf coffee pods12K/yr
  • decaf dolce gusto coffee pods11K/yr
  • decaf coffee pods dolce gusto7K/yr
  • dolce gusto decaf pods6K/yr
  • dolce gusto coffee pods decaffeinated7K/yr
  • dolce gusto pods decaf4K/yr
  • nescafe dolce gusto coffee pods decaf4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Cafe Au Lait Intenso Dolce Gusto Pods

What buyers praise, what they complain about and why they send it back, from the reviews.

Complain

Taste-Overall20%−0.30

Worst coffee Ive ever tasted

Tastes like old socks

Awful taste

Bitter14%−0.23

very bitter ok as a alternative

Decent coffee, its quite bitter

Bitter taste

Quality-Overall11%−0.16

Poor quality

A really expensive way to purchase poor quality instant coffee

low quality pods ruin them

Flavor11%+0.45

Very good, some pods don't have enough flavour

And the flavour isnt as good as Id hoped

The taste is nothing like the branded version, very weak, hardly any aroma and tasteless

Value For Money11%+2.72

A bit expensive

They are a bit on the expensive side though

This therefore turns them into a big waste of money

Love

Taste-Overall29%−0.30

Tasty coffee

Great taste

Delicious coffee

Value For Money23%+2.72

Good price

Excellent value

Excellent value

Caffeine Content12%+0.38

Also nice treat for husband who has been advised to avoid caffeine

Great tasting coffee that's caffeine free at a value for money price

actually pretty good if you need it to be caffeine free

Quality-Overall10%−0.16

Great variety

Excellent product

Reliable quality

Flavor8%+0.45

Good flavour

Strong flavour

This coffee has good flavour

Return

0.0% Return rate 0% Fixable by listing

Value For Money100%▁█▁▁▁▁

A bit expensive

They are a bit on the expensive side though

This therefore turns them into a big waste of money

FAQ

Common Cafe Au Lait Intenso Dolce Gusto Pods questions

Answered from the same tracked data.