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Ice

brand-locked demand (top 5 brands take 100% of clicks) — Ice doesn't clear our bar today.

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Flapen Score

47
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Market size 48Growth 95Conversion 95Competition 4Returns 100Price range 0Avg price 9Brand share 0Review moat 46Quality gap 24
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Is Ice profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Ice is a £259K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (628K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 100% of demand. Verdict: Skip it — 47/100.

Ice: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Not really. Search demand moved +112.0% over the last 90 days and 12.2% of searches end in a purchase.

£259K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr100K
Search volume / yr+112.0%628K
Conversion rate12.2%
Avg price£3.38

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 100% of demand, so 0% of the market is open.

0%

open market share

Brands · sellers5 · 35
Top-5 product click share96%
Open market0%
Avg brand age31 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.6★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 7 products

Sponsored placement29%
New entrants (1y)0· 0 succeeded
Avg rating4.6★
Avg reviews1,867

Top Ice products & what they sell for

Every tracked product — its share of the shelf, its review moat, and what it sells for.

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products capture 96% of clicks — a locked-up shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£26K£52K£78K£104K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

5 flat

Sellers

35

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

96%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Ice Club52%
  • Iceland39%
  • RAM ONLINE5%
  • CO OP2%
  • PHINOX2%
  • Open — no brand owns it (0%)

Top Ice search terms shoppers use

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

  • ice549K/yr
  • ice cubes76K/yr
  • frozen ice2K/yr

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Ice

What buyers mention most, as a share of all reviews.

What buyers love

93% of reviews
Ease Of Use22%

Easy to use

Quality-Overall16%

Great product

Value For Money14%

Great value

Size-Overall13%

decent size

Design-Overall8%

Whilst the design of this product seems good

What buyers complain about

85% of reviews
Color22%

almost all yellow

Functionality-Overall17%

does not work

Size-Overall16%

The storage bin is huge

Durability11%

Break Quickly

Ease Of Use11%

It makes it difficult to press

Ice return rate & reasons

Why buyers send it back, as a share of all return requests.

0.1%

Return rate

77%

Fixable by listing

The "fixable" share counts expectation-mismatch reasons — size, look, advertised-vs-actual — that better copy and images address.

1Size-Overall
64%
2Defective Material/Parts
11%
3Advertised Vs Actual Product
7%
4Functionality-Overall
7%
5Color
5%

Common Ice questions

The questions sellers ask about this niche, answered from the tracked metrics.

Flapen scores Ice 47/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Skip it. The niche generates £259K/yr across 7 tracked products. Search demand moved +112.0% over the last 90 days.
Ice buyers on Amazon United Kingdom complain most about Color, Functionality-Overall, Size-Overall, the themes mined from the niche's reviews. Its return rate is 0.1%.