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Soft Mints

Fail

The top 5 brands take 98% of clicks, so Soft Mints is a Fail.

Flapen Score
38
38 / 100
Ranks 2,496 of 2,976 Grocery niches · −8 vs the category median of 46
Market size
£156K/yr151K searches / yr
90-day growth
-4.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
77%top-5 click share · 6 brands · 62 sellers

Flapen Score

Soft Mints against its category

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

38Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Soft Mints market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Soft Mints 151K times last year and spent an estimated £156K. The top 5 brands take 98% of clicks. Flapen scores it 38 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

15.5% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 151K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 15.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -4.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £156K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
151K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-4.2%
Conversion, latest week
15.5%
Market size, estimated
£156Ka year
Peak month
December1.3× the quietest month
Top search term
mentos88K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £6.63.

Listings sell for £6.63 on average, from £1.29 to £15.50. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 20K to 25K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At £6.63 that is £5K to £7K a year per listing.

Average price
£6.63under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.29–£15.50
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
20K–25K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
£5K–£7K
Returns
0.0%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, 1.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #98 within Confectionery. It carries 910 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
1.9%
Average rank
#98in Confectionery
Average rating
4.66 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
910per listing
Listings tracked
14

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 52 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
52 months

Products

Top Soft Mints 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 77% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£16K£31K£47K£62K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

6 falling

Sellers

62

Top-5 brand share

98%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

77%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • MENTOS86%
  • Trebor5%
  • KYNZA3%
  • Krishna Stores Limited3%
  • Generic2%
  • Espresso Yourself2%
  • Open — no brand owns it (0%)

Demand

Soft Mints search demand

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

4K3KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Search terms

Top Soft Mints search terms shoppers use

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

  • mentos88K/yr
  • soft mints17K/yr
  • mentos mints18K/yr
  • trebor softmints10K/yr
  • softmints6K/yr
  • mentos sweets5K/yr
  • soft mints trebor4K/yr
  • trebor softmints spearmint5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Soft Mints

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

Complain

Value For Money42%−0.19

Half the price in shops

this pack is very expensive

Fairly priced

Sweetness8%−0.14

Very sugar heavy though

Stale/Rotten/Spoiled8%−0.05

Not as fresh as other mentos

Durability8%

Didn't last long

Love

Taste-Overall22%+1.91

just as chewy and tasty, a great pack to have in your coat pocket or bag when you need to freshen your breath or clear nasal passages and being chewy they last longer than most other mints

These are so tasty

Great taste

Sweetness17%−0.14

Classic sweets with a nice mix of chewy and crunchy

Nice tasting sweets value for money

Love the sweets

Value For Money16%−0.19

very good value for money

Good value

while a little expensive I think are worth it

Flavor11%+0.82

Great flavours

yummy, fruity flavours these are lovely and sweet, fruity flavours and bargain for 5 packs

Lovely mint flavour

Ease Of Chewing/Swallowing11%+0.79

I use them to combat a gag reflex resulting from GERD - the chewing alleviates the need to gag

Nice tasting chewy mints would buy again

Chewy

FAQ

Common Soft Mints questions

Answered from the same tracked data.