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Root Beer

Fail

The top 5 brands take 93% of clicks, so Root Beer is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Top 40% of 2,976 Grocery niches · +2 vs the category median of 46
Market size
£203K/yr187K searches / yr
90-day growth
+5.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
69%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 35 sellers

Flapen Score

Root Beer against its category

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

48Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Root Beer market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Root Beer 187K times last year and spent an estimated £203K. The top 5 brands take 93% of clicks. Demand peaks in Sep. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 6.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 187K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 6.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +5.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £203K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
187K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+5.1%
Conversion, latest week
6.1%
Market size, estimated
£203Ka year
Peak month
September2.7× the quietest month
Top search term
root beer163K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £17.74.

Listings sell for £17.74 on average, from £5.68 to £33.76. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At £17.74 that is £9K to £13K a year per listing.

Average price
£17.74inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£5.68–£33.76
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
£9K–£13K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

31% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 69% ship with Prime. On an average day, 23.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #107 within Fizzy Drinks. It carries 737 reviews at 4.52 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
31%
Prime listings
69%
Out of stock, average day
23.9%
Average rank
#107in Fizzy Drinks
Average rating
4.52 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
737per listing
Listings tracked
13

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 3 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 55 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
55 months

Products

Top Root Beer products & what they sell for

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

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 24, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 69% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£20K£41K£61K£81K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

35

Est. top-5 brand share

93%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

69%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

4%

  • A & W52%
  • Tropical Sun22%
  • Soda Folk8%
  • Puregro6%
  • FIZZYBERRIES5%
  • Hartridges3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 4%)

Demand

Root Beer search demand

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

5K3KSpike '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Sep · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.7×

Search terms

Top Root Beer search terms shoppers use

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

  • root beer163K/yr
  • a&w root beer14K/yr
  • aw root beer5K/yr
  • root beer cans3K/yr
  • a&w2K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Root Beer

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

34%of positive reviews mention “Taste-Overall”
39%of negative reviews mention “Taste-Overall”
<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero
“leaves a horible after taste”
A buyer, on “Taste-Overall”39% 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.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Root Beer 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