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Oil

Maybe

An estimated 0.1% of orders come back. But demand is soft, at -17.5% this quarter, so Oil is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
51
51 / 100
Top 27% of 2,976 Grocery niches · +5 vs the category median of 46
Market size
£670K/yr911K searches / yr
90-day growth
-17.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
54%top-5 click share · 12 brands · 73 sellers

Flapen Score

Oil against its category

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

51Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Oil market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Oil 911K times last year and spent an estimated £670K. The top 5 brands take 85% of clicks. Flapen scores it 51 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 12.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 911K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 12.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -17.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £670K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
911K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-17.5%
Conversion, latest week
12.8%
Market size, estimated
£670Ka year
Peak month
March1.3× the quietest month
Top search term
oil348K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.73.

Listings sell for £5.73 on average, from £1.55 to £25.33. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 125K to 150K a year. The average listing sells 4,000 to 5,000 of them. At £5.73 that is £23K to £29K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.73under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.55–£25.33
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
125K–150K
Units per listing a year
4,000–5,000
Revenue per listing a year
£23K–£29K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

21% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #180 within Oils, Vinegars & Salad Dressings. It carries 1,432 reviews at 4.66 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
21%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
1.5%
Average rank
#180in Oils, Vinegars & Salad Dressings
Average rating
4.66 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,432per listing
Listings tracked
24

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 66 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
66 months

Products

Top Oil products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 54% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£27K£54K£80K£107K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

12 rising

Sellers

73

Est. top-5 brand share

85%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

54%

Top 20: 96%

Open market

10%

  • Morrisons30%
  • by Amazon18%
  • Flora15%
  • Crisp 'N' Dry14%
  • Filippo Berio8%
  • Pura5%
  • Open — no brand owns it (6 brands, 10%)

Demand

Oil search demand

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

20K15KSpike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Search terms

Top Oil search terms shoppers use

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

  • oil348K/yr
  • cooking oil194K/yr
  • sunflower oil145K/yr
  • vegetable oil126K/yr
  • sunflower oil 5l19K/yr
  • veg oil11K/yr
  • vegetable oil 5 litre11K/yr
  • vegetable oil cooking6K/yr
  • oil 5l6K/yr
  • cooking oil 5l8K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Oil

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

29%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
17%of negative reviews mention “Value For Money”
0.1%of orders come back
“Could be a bit cheaper”
A buyer, on “Value For Money”17% 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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Oil 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