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Cola Bottles

Fail

Demand is soft, at -8.2% this quarter, so Cola Bottles is a Fail.

Flapen Score
44
44 / 100
Ranks 1,743 of 2,976 Grocery niches · −2 vs the category median of 46
Market size
£108K/yr193K searches / yr
90-day growth
-8.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
64%top-5 click share · 11 brands · 53 sellers

Flapen Score

Cola Bottles against its category

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

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

Market

The Cola Bottles market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Cola Bottles 193K times last year and spent an estimated £108K. The top 5 brands take 87% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 44 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

6.2% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 193K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 6.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -8.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £108K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
193K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-8.2%
Conversion, latest week
6.2%
Market size, estimated
£108Ka year
Peak month
December3.1× the quietest month
Top search term
cola bottles70K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £9.02.

Listings sell for £9.02 on average, from £0.49 to £20.59. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 13K to 15K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At £9.02 that is £2K to £5K a year per listing.

Average price
£9.02under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£0.49–£20.59
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
13K–15K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
£2K–£5K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

39% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 89% ship with Prime. On an average day, 11.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #12 within Confectionery. It carries 889 reviews at 4.39 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
39%
Prime listings
89%
Out of stock, average day
11.4%
Average rank
#12in Confectionery
Average rating
4.39 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
889per listing
Listings tracked
18

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 2 launches as successful.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 0 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 50 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
50 months

Products

Top Cola Bottles 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 64% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£11K£22K£32K£43K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

11 falling

Sellers

53

Top-5 brand share

87%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

64%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

10%

  • HARIBO58%
  • Sweetzone11%
  • Bargain Gateway7%
  • BRIT TREAT6%
  • Berrymans6%
  • Candy Lane3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (5 brands, 10%)

Demand

Cola Bottles search demand

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

8K6KHoliday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.1×

Search terms

Top Cola Bottles search terms shoppers use

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

  • cola bottles70K/yr
  • cola bottle sweets27K/yr
  • haribo cola bottles28K/yr
  • giant cola bottles22K/yr
  • cola sweets15K/yr
  • haribo giant cola bottles13K/yr
  • cola bottles sweets8K/yr
  • haribo cola4K/yr
  • giant cola bottles haribo3K/yr
  • cola bottle2K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Cola Bottles

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

Complain

Size-Overall17%−0.06

Small cola bottles

these are huge

There quite small

Taste-Overall12%+1.46

Gross, nothing like what cola bottles should taste like

Tub half empty, taste awful

Thrown straight into the bin Awful taste

Sweetness9%+0.13

we all know sugar is 100% bad for us

Sweets good me tho- I ate them all in a week I feel disgusting

Sour7%−0.03

They are sour, chewy, and cola taste too

was hoping for sour fizzy as they looked like the old fashioned style. not the haribo rubbish today

Stale/Rotten/Spoiled5%−0.06

Gross

The sweets were stale

Stale sweets

Love

Taste-Overall35%+1.46

and thankfully, they tasted lovely

Perfect treat

Great taste

Quality-Overall14%+0.93

Good value for money considering the good quality of sweets

Excellent product

Easy and good quality

Value For Money13%+1.45

Good value

Good value for money

Value for money

Sweetness7%+0.13

Fast delivery and nice sweets

Love haribo sweets

Sweetd

Gifting Purpose6%+0.55

Perfect gift

This was a birthday gift for someone who has a sweet tooth

Perfect gift for my grandchild

FAQ

Common Cola Bottles questions

Answered from the same tracked data.