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Shrimps and Bananas Sweets

Fail

Prices span $5.43–$13.23, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Shrimps and Bananas Sweets is a Fail.

Flapen Score
43
43 / 100
Ranks 1,873 of 2,976 Grocery niches · −3 vs the category median of 46
Market size
£32K/yr41K searches / yr
90-day growth
+28.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
79%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 14 sellers

Flapen Score

Shrimps and Bananas Sweets against its category

The dotted line is the Grocery average. Past it, Shrimps and Bananas Sweets is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

43Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Shrimps and Bananas Sweets market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Shrimps and Bananas Sweets 41K times last year and spent an estimated £32K. The top 5 brands take 83% of clicks. Flapen scores it 43 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

8.8% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 41K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 8.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +28.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £32K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
41K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+28.4%
Conversion, latest week
8.8%
Market size, estimated
£32Ka year
Top search term
shrimps and bananas sweets27K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £8.95.

Listings sell for £8.95 on average, from £5.43 to £13.23. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 4K to 5K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At £8.95 that is £2K to £4K a year per listing.

Average price
£8.95under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£5.43–£13.23
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
4K–5K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
£2K–£4K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

55% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 82% ship with Prime. On an average day, 49.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #236 within Confectionery. It carries 354 reviews at 4.50 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
55%
Prime listings
82%
Out of stock, average day
49.6%
Average rank
#236in Confectionery
Average rating
4.50 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
354per listing
Listings tracked
11

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 2 launches as successful.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 0 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 43 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Shrimps and Bananas Sweets 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 79% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£5K£10K£14K£19K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 rising

Sellers

14

Top-5 brand share

83%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

79%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

13%

  • Barratt46%
  • Bargain Gateway19%
  • Turners Sweet Shop8%
  • THE SWEET JAR CO.6%
  • Sweetish4%
  • Bentley & Ackerman4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 13%)

Demand

Shrimps and Bananas Sweets search demand

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

1K750Spike '26JanFebMarAprMayJunJul

Peak months: Jun · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.9× · 7 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Shrimps and Bananas Sweets search terms shoppers use

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

  • shrimps and bananas sweets27K/yr
  • banana and shrimp sweets7K/yr
  • shrimp and banana sweets4K/yr
  • shrimps and bananas sweets 3kg3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Shrimps and Bananas Sweets

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

Complain

Taste-Overall26%+0.64

The shrimps taste weird

No taste

These tasted really horrible and fake somehow

Size-Overall10%−0.12

shrimps & bananas really small & very very hard

big bananas

These were tiny

Flavor8%−0.02

Not as I expected the banana flavour ones are okay

No Flavour

Flavour let's them down

Hard Feel8%−0.13

shrimps & bananas really small & very very hard

this batch are to hard

Too hard

Stale/Rotten/Spoiled6%+0.24

Got susar in them

this is my fourth order and the banana foam texture is not there, they're hard and almmost stale

Love

Taste-Overall35%+0.64

Great taste in these Banana & Shrimps

Great taste

Taste just as I remember

Value For Money14%+0.62

Great value

Good value

Worth the money

Sweetness12%+0.01

Great Sweets

Lovely sweets so soft

sweet are nice firm good value for money

Advertised Vs Actual Product8%+2.05

as advertised

Just as described

Flavor6%−0.02

Nice flavour, enjoyed them

as they're my favourite

soft foam sweets yummy flavours

FAQ

Common Shrimps and Bananas Sweets questions

Answered from the same tracked data.