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Kitchen Roll

Fail

The top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Kitchen Roll is a Fail.

Flapen Score
46
46 / 100
Ranks 1,444 of 2,976 Grocery niches · on the category median
Market size
£6.2M/yr4.1M searches / yr
90-day growth
-3.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
70%top-5 click share · 4 brands · 97 sellers

Flapen Score

Kitchen Roll against its category

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

46Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Kitchen Roll market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Kitchen Roll 4.1M times last year and spent an estimated £6.2M. All 4 brands take every click. Flapen scores it 46 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

26.3% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 4.1M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 26.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -3.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £6.2M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
4.1M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-3.1%
Conversion, latest week
26.3%
Market size, estimated
£6.2Ma year
Peak month
November1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
kitchen roll2.7M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.81.

Listings sell for £5.81 on average, from £1.15 to £15.62. 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 60,000 to 80,000 of them. At £5.81 that is £349K to £465K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.81under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.15–£15.62
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
60,000–80,000
Revenue per listing a year
£349K–£465K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

80% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #143 within Kitchen Roll, Toilet Roll & Tissues. It carries 14,197 reviews at 4.60 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
80%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#143in Kitchen Roll, Toilet Roll & Tissues
Average rating
4.60 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
14,197per listing
Listings tracked
15

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 1 of last year's 1 launches as successful.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 1 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
1
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
50 months

Products

Top Kitchen Roll 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 70% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£621K£1.2M£1.9M£2.5M1001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

4 falling

Sellers

97

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

70%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • by Amazon55%
  • Regina26%
  • PLENTY11%
  • Morrisons8%

Demand

Kitchen Roll search demand

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

100K60KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Kitchen Roll search terms shoppers use

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

  • kitchen roll2.7M/yr
  • kitchen towel379K/yr
  • kitchen rolls129K/yr
  • regina blitz kitchen rolls129K/yr
  • kitchen towels128K/yr
  • plenty kitchen roll61K/yr
  • blitz kitchen roll70K/yr
  • regina blitz48K/yr
  • blitz64K/yr
  • kitchen roll bulk47K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Kitchen Roll

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

Complain

Quality-Overall20%−0.03

Reduced quality

Cheap and not very good quality

Extremely poor quality

Thickness20%−0.19

My toilet paper is thicker than this

Not as thick as some

Not incredibly thick

Size-Overall14%−0.09

Small in size

Huge

Sheets are smaller

Value For Money7%+3.00

Waste of money

overpriced

Not worth money

Absorbency7%

aren't as absorbent

Doesnt absorb much

It certainly not Super Absorbent

Love

Value For Money30%+3.00

Good value for money

GREAT VALUE

Amazing value

Quality-Overall23%−0.03

Brilliant quality

Amazon affordable quality product

It satisfies the price n quality

Absorbency9%

Absorbent enough

absorbs water well

It is super absorbent for sure

Advertised Vs Actual Product5%+0.20

As described

As Described by seller

Does the job just fine

Thickness4%−0.19

Nice thick sheets

Lovely and thick

happy with the thickness

Return

0.1% Return rate 18% Fixable by listing

Quality-Overall26%█▆▅▃▅▃

Reduced quality

Cheap and not very good quality

Extremely poor quality

Value For Money10%▄▂▂▃█▂

Waste of money

overpriced

Not worth money

Thin8%▃█▂▆▄▅

Too thin

Its ok a bit thin get what you pay for handy though

Thin

Size-Overall8%▁▁▅▄▂█

Small in size

Huge

Sheets are smaller

Advertised Vs Actual Product8%▂▂█▂▁▁

so its deceiving

Looks nothing like the picture and description

Not as described

FAQ

Common Kitchen Roll questions

Answered from the same tracked data.