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Toilet Roll

Maybe

Shoppers spend $16.0M a year here. But the top 5 brands take 94% of clicks, so Toilet Roll is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
54
54 / 100
Top 17% of 2,976 Grocery niches · +8 vs the category median of 46
Market size
£16.0M/yr8.8M searches / yr
90-day growth
-7.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
58%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 127 sellers

Flapen Score

Toilet Roll against its category

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

54Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Toilet Roll market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Toilet Roll 8.8M times last year and spent an estimated £16.0M. The top 5 brands take 94% of clicks. Flapen scores it 54 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

22.9% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 8.8M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 22.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -7.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £16.0M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
8.8M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-7.8%
Conversion, latest week
22.9%
Market size, estimated
£16.0Ma year
Peak month
November1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
toilet roll5.5M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £7.91.

Listings sell for £7.91 on average, from £2.06 to £22.35. Amazon reports units sold in ranges, and this niche reaches the top one: 1,000,000 units or more a year. The average listing sells 80,000 to 100,000 of them. At £7.91 that is £633K to £791K a year per listing.

Average price
£7.91under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.06–£22.35
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
1,000,000 or moreAmazon's top range
Units per listing a year
80,000–100,000
Revenue per listing a year
£633K–£791K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

73% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 95% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #197 within Kitchen Roll, Toilet Roll & Tissues. It carries 11,001 reviews at 4.52 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
73%
Prime listings
95%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#197in Kitchen Roll, Toilet Roll & Tissues
Average rating
4.52 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
11,001per listing
Listings tracked
22

04 · Newcomers

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

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 2 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 54 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Toilet Roll 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 58% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£799K£1.6M£2.4M£3.2M1001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

127

Top-5 brand share

94%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

58%

Top 20: 98%

Open market

3%

  • Andrex37%
  • by Amazon33%
  • Velvet17%
  • Morrisons4%
  • Cushelle4%
  • Nicky3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 3%)

Demand

Toilet Roll search demand

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

225K175KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Toilet Roll search terms shoppers use

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

  • toilet roll5.5M/yr
  • toilet paper949K/yr
  • toilet rolls600K/yr
  • andrex toilet rolls494K/yr
  • andrex195K/yr
  • loo roll178K/yr
  • toilet rolls bulk buy178K/yr
  • toilet tissue93K/yr
  • toilet roll 3 ply61K/yr
  • andrex toilet roll66K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Toilet Roll

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

Complain

Quality-Overall19%+0.18

Average Quality

Far from quality

quality has reduced

Size-Overall17%−0.13

Tube bigger

Smaller than expected

Huge

Thickness15%−0.10

Thought 4ply would be thicker

Too thick

Fairly thin paper as well

Value For Money10%+3.24

Too expensive

Waste of money

Not worth it

Hard Feel6%−0.04

NOT Super Soft

Bit hard

not soft

Love

Value For Money39%+3.24

Great deal

Excellent value for money

Very affordable

Quality-Overall23%+0.18

Quality is fair for the price

good quality quite strong

Best Quality

Soft Feel9%

Soft tissues

Amazingly soft

Soft, strong and reliable

Advertised Vs Actual Product5%+0.12

As described

Exactly as advertised

As advertised

Thickness3%−0.10

The thickness of these toilet rolls are very good

Good thickness

One of my go-toes for the thick yet soft and luxurious feel

Return

0.1% Return rate 23% Fixable by listing

Quality-Overall19%█▄▇▆▆█

Average Quality

Far from quality

quality has reduced

Value For Money13%▅▄▆▅█▇

Too expensive

Waste of money

Not worth it

Size-Overall12%█▆▄▄▄▇

Tube bigger

Smaller than expected

Huge

Thin7%▁▃▄▅█▂

Too thin

Not soft and very thin

Thin and scratchy material

Advertised Vs Actual Product7%▅██▄▃▄

Not as advertised

Totally misleading

Not as described

FAQ

Common Toilet Roll questions

Answered from the same tracked data.