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Chocolate

Maybe

An estimated 0.1% of orders come back. But products sell for $5.55 on average, outside the sweet spot, so Chocolate is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
61
61 / 100
Top 4% of 2,976 Grocery niches · +15 vs the category median of 46
Market size
£7.3M/yr18.4M searches / yr
90-day growth
-15.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
25%top-5 click share · 28 brands · 230 sellers

Flapen Score

Chocolate against its category

The dotted line is the Grocery average. Past it, Chocolate is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

61Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Chocolate market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Chocolate 18.4M times last year and spent an estimated £7.3M. The top 5 brands take 69% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 61 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 7.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 18.4M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -15.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £7.3M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
18.4M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-15.5%
Conversion, latest week
7.1%
Market size, estimated
£7.3Ma year
Peak month
December4.0× the quietest month
Top search term
chocolate8.0M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.55.

Listings sell for £5.55 on average, from £1.14 to £24.03. Amazon reports units sold in ranges, and this niche reaches the top one: 1,000,000 units or more a year. The average listing sells 12,500 to 15,000 of them. At £5.55 that is £69K to £83K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.55under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.14–£24.03
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
1,000,000 or moreAmazon's top range
Units per listing a year
12,500–15,000
Revenue per listing a year
£69K–£83K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

11% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #257 within Chocolate Candy. It carries 3,785 reviews at 4.61 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
11%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
2.2%
Average rank
#257in Chocolate Candy
Average rating
4.61 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
3,785per listing
Listings tracked
70

04 · Newcomers

6 of last year's 6 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

6 products launched here in the last 12 months. 6 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 52 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
6
Successful launches
6Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
52 months

Products

Top Chocolate 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 24, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 25% of clicks, no more. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£218K£436K£654K£871K1001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

28 falling

Sellers

230

Est. top-5 brand share

69%

Top 20: 95%

Est. top-5 click share

25%

Top 20: 59%

Open market

28%

  • Cadbury49%
  • Lindt6%
  • KitKat6%
  • GALAXY5%
  • Chocohugs3%
  • Nestlé3%

Demand

Chocolate search demand

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

1.5M1.0MSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 4.0×

Search terms

Top Chocolate search terms shoppers use

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

  • chocolate8.0M/yr
  • chocolate bars1.8M/yr
  • chocolates gift box2.4M/yr
  • chocolates1.2M/yr
  • cadbury chocolate745K/yr
  • chocolate gift770K/yr
  • chocolate box603K/yr
  • dairy milk464K/yr
  • box of chocolates451K/yr
  • cadbury399K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Chocolate

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

37%of positive reviews mention “Taste-Overall”
20%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.1%of orders come back
“Disappointed with size”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”20% 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.

13 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Chocolate 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