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Dark Roast Coffee Beans

Maybe

Returns run at only 0.1% of orders. But demand is soft, at -22.6% this quarter, so Dark Roast Coffee Beans is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
58
58 / 100
Top 8% of 2,976 Grocery niches · +12 vs the category median of 46
Market size
£151K/yr106K searches / yr
90-day growth
-22.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
38%top-5 click share · 22 brands · 165 sellers

Flapen Score

Dark Roast Coffee Beans against its category

The dotted line is the Grocery average. Past it, Dark Roast Coffee Beans is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

58Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Dark Roast Coffee Beans market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Dark Roast Coffee Beans 106K times last year and spent an estimated £151K. The top 5 brands take 65% of clicks. Demand peaks in Oct–Nov. Flapen scores it 58 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

7.8% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 106K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 7.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -22.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £151K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
106K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-22.6%
Conversion, latest week
7.8%
Market size, estimated
£151Ka year
Peak month
October2.0× the quietest month
Top search term
strong coffee beans25K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £18.22.

Listings sell for £18.22 on average, from £4.77 to £69.45. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £18.22 that is £2K to £5K a year per listing.

Average price
£18.22inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£4.77–£69.45
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
6K–8K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£2K–£5K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

75% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 98% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #131 within Coffee. It carries 2,084 reviews at 4.49 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
75%
Prime listings
98%
Out of stock, average day
0.5%
Average rank
#131in Coffee
Average rating
4.49 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
2,084per listing
Listings tracked
48

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 4 of last year's 8 launches as successful.

8 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 4 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 75 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
8
Successful launches
4Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
75 months

Products

Top Dark Roast Coffee Beans 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 only 38% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£5K£9K£14K£18K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

22 rising

Sellers

165

Top-5 brand share

65%

Top 20: 99%

Top-5 click share

38%

Top 20: 78%

Open market

29%

  • Black Donkey17%
  • by Amazon16%
  • Lavazza14%
  • LAVAZZA9%
  • Grano Milano8%
  • Skull Crusher Coffee6%

Demand

Dark Roast Coffee Beans search demand

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

4K3KSpike '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Oct, Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.0×

Search terms

Top Dark Roast Coffee Beans search terms shoppers use

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

  • strong coffee beans25K/yr
  • dark roast coffee beans19K/yr
  • robusta coffee beans12K/yr
  • coffee beans dark roast11K/yr
  • lavazza espresso ground coffee8K/yr
  • coffee beans strong7K/yr
  • lavazza espresso8K/yr
  • robusta coffee4K/yr
  • lavazza espresso beans5K/yr
  • dark roast coffee beans 1kg4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Dark Roast Coffee Beans

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

Complain

Taste-Overall21%+0.48

Horrible taste

Bland taste

Taste is odd

Bitter10%−0.08

Too bitter

on the bitter side - lacking any pleasant flavour

Slightly bitter taste

Smell9%−0.07

absolutely no fragrance

Smells bad

Not good weird smell

Quality-Overall8%+0.46

quality is fairly low

Quality has gone downhill

Needs better quality control

Flavor7%+0.47

The beans have absolutely no flavour, very disappointed

Not overly impressed with the flavour

Just a slightly odd flavour to me

Love

Taste-Overall29%+0.48

delicious coffee

rich taste

Delicious coffee

Caffeine Content16%+1.77

a hight caffeine content

I think this bean secures top spot for my preferred caffeinated bean

Did not find the caffeine any different

Flavor13%+0.47

good strong flavour

Fantastic flavour

nice intense flavour

Value For Money11%+0.83

Excellent value

Not overpriced

Great value

Quality-Overall11%+0.46

the quality is reliable

Excellent build quality

Excellent Product

FAQ

Common Dark Roast Coffee Beans questions

Answered from the same tracked data.