How competitive is the Root Beer niche on Amazon United Kingdom?

8 brands and 35 sellers compete in Root Beer on Amazon United Kingdom. The top 5 Root Beer products take 69% of clicks and its top 5 brands hold 93% of demand.

What do buyers complain about in Root Beer?

Root Beer buyers on Amazon United Kingdom complain most about Taste-Overall, Value For Money, Sweetness, the themes mined from the niche's reviews. Its return rate is 0.0%.

What does it cost to enter the Root Beer niche?

Root Beer sells for £17.74 on average on Amazon United Kingdom, inside our $15–$100 sweet spot. Listings span £5.68–£33.76. The average incumbent carries 737 reviews — the moat a new listing must climb.

Root Beer

brand-locked demand (top 5 brands take 93% of clicks) — Root Beer doesn't clear our bar today.

Flapen Score

Skip it

This niche Category average

Is Root Beer profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Root Beer is a £203K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (187K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 93% of demand. Demand peaks in Sep. Verdict: Skip it — 48/100.

Root Beer: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Not really. Search demand moved +5.1% over the last 90 days and 6.1% of searches end in a purchase.

£203K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr13K

Search volume / yr+5.1%187K

Conversion rate6.1%

Avg price£17.74

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 93% of demand, so 7% of the market is open.

open market share

Brands · sellers8 · 35

Top-5 product click share69%

Open market7%

Avg brand age55 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.5★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 13 products

Top Root Beer products & what they sell for

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

Top sellers

by 90-day click share

Tropical Sun Root Beer 330ml Cans Non-Alcoholic Fizzy Drink Sweet & Refreshing Caribbean Flavour Caffeine-Free Soft Drink Pack of 24

Price: £15.84
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 1,473
Age: 10y ago

A & W Root Beer 355ml Cans (2 X 12 Pack) - Total 24 Cans

Price: £24.43
Rating: 4.7/5
Reviews: 1,444
Age: 6y ago

A&W Root Beer 12 Fl Oz (Pack Of 12)

Price: £16.38
Rating: 4.7/5
Reviews: 37
Age: 2y ago

A&W Root Beer Fridge Pack Cans 12x335ml (Pack of 12) Packaging may vary

Price: £15.95
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 1,376
Age: 14y ago

A&W Root Beer Singles to Go Drink Mix 15 g

Price: £5.68
Rating: 4.1/5
Reviews: 216
Age: 10y ago

Newest

by launch date

A & W Root Beer 355ml Cans (2 X 12 Pack) - Total 24 Cans | Packaging may vary | Canadian Root Beer

Price: £26.61
Rating: 4.8/5
Reviews: 13
Age: 3mo ago

AA&WW Root Beer Soda 355ml x 12 Pack Limited Edition USA Import American Party Pack For Parties and Special Ocassions

Price: £19.27
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 27
Age: 10mo ago

Bunda-berg Root Beer | Australian Family Owned | 375ML Bottle | Pack of 12

Price: £33.76
Rating: 5.0/5
Reviews: 4
Age: 11mo ago

A&W Root Beer 12 Fl Oz (Pack Of 12)

Price: £16.38
Rating: 4.7/5
Reviews: 37
Age: 2y ago

A & W Root Beer 355ml Cans (2 X 12 Pack) - Total 24 Cans

Price: £24.43
Rating: 4.7/5
Reviews: 1,444
Age: 6y ago

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 69% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

Top-5 brand share

93%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

69%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

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

Root Beer demand & seasonality

Weekly search volume, with the niche's key stats alongside.

Volume187KCVR6.1%Products13Brands8Top 5 Brands93%OOS Rate23.9%Rating4.5★Reviews737Avg BSR#107

Peak months: Sep · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.7×

Top Root Beer search terms shoppers use

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

root beer163K/yr +5.5%5.4% conv.
a&w root beer14K/yr +8.5%9.6% conv.
aw root beer5K/yr +3.6%8.1% conv.
root beer cans3K/yr -17.8%8.5% conv.
a&w2K/yr -6.2%6.6% conv.

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Root Beer

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

What buyers love

85% of reviews

Taste-Overall34%

“Tastes fine, very easy to do”

Flavor13%

“Always great flavour”

Quality-Overall10%

“Good quality”

Alcohol Flavor9%

“A&W root beer is a true class beverage”

Sweetness5%

“The use of maple syrup as the sweetener is absolutely brilliant”

What buyers complain about

84% of reviews

Taste-Overall39%

“leaves a horible after taste”

Value For Money11%

“It's a shame it's so expensive but”

Sweetness9%

“no sweeteners that leave a bad after taste”

Flavor6%

“the maple syrup flavour is barely noticeable”

Artificial Sweeteners6%

“no sweeteners that leave a bad after taste”

Root Beer return rate & reasons

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

0.0%

Return rate

Fixable by listing

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

1Defective Material/Parts

100%

Common Root Beer questions

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

Flapen scores Root Beer 48/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Skip it. The niche generates £203K/yr across 13 tracked products. 1 of 3 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved +5.1% over the last 90 days.