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Whole Milk

Maybe

Buyers convert on 30.7% of searches. But products sell for $4.06 on average, outside the sweet spot, so Whole Milk is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
51
51 / 100
Top 27% of 2,976 Grocery niches · +5 vs the category median of 46
Market size
£3.4M/yr2.7M searches / yr
90-day growth
+4.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
66%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 57 sellers

Flapen Score

Whole Milk against its category

The dotted line is the Grocery average. Past it, Whole Milk is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

51Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Whole Milk market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Whole Milk 2.7M times last year and spent an estimated £3.4M. The top 5 brands take 94% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Feb–Nov. Flapen scores it 51 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

30.7% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 2.7M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 30.7% 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 £3.4M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
2.7M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+4.2%
Conversion, latest week
30.7%
Market size, estimated
£3.4Ma year
Peak month
January8.4× the quietest month
Top search term
milk2.1M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £4.06.

Listings sell for £4.06 on average, from £1.22 to £19.13. 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 50,000 to 60,000 of them. At £4.06 that is £203K to £244K a year per listing.

Average price
£4.06under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.22–£19.13
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
50,000–60,000
Revenue per listing a year
£203K–£244K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

16% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #40 within Fresh & Chilled. It carries 2,050 reviews at 4.66 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
16%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#40in Fresh & Chilled
Average rating
4.66 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
2,050per listing
Listings tracked
19

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 73 months on average, so the names here are established.

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

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 66% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£338K£676K£1.0M£1.4M101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

57

Top-5 brand share

94%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

66%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

4%

  • by Amazon64%
  • Cravendale11%
  • Morrisons7%
  • Yeo Valley6%
  • Graham's5%
  • Big Milk3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 4%)

Demand

Whole Milk search demand

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

70K50KSpike '24Black Friday '24Spike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Feb, Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 8.4×

Search terms

Top Whole Milk search terms shoppers use

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

  • milk2.1M/yr
  • semi skimmed milk147K/yr
  • whole milk113K/yr
  • organic milk91K/yr
  • cravendale milk46K/yr
  • full fat milk20K/yr
  • fresh milk16K/yr
  • grahams milk13K/yr
  • blue milk15K/yr
  • morrisons food shopping with prime milk14K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Whole Milk

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

Complain

Taste-Overall30%−0.03

Tastes plastic

Odd taste

Weird taste

Quality-Overall12%+0.88

Poor quality

Quality control on the milk containers is poor

awsome and cheap

Value For Money10%+0.62

Waste of money personally

Just seems to be going up in price which makes it less value milk

Twice the price

Ease Of Use4%−0.03

as once opened the time for use is limited

tricky to open

Flavor4%−0.03

Odd taste

It seems to have lost the richness

the flavour is off as the milk tastes sweet

Love

Taste-Overall29%−0.03

Smooth,creamy and delicious

It tastes lovely and creamy

Excellent taste

Quality-Overall18%+0.88

In fact, I've ordered it many times because the quality has always been consistent and dependable

Excellent quality

Good quality milk at a fair price

Value For Money15%+0.62

Good price

good value

Excellent value

Freshness9%+0.95

Fresh

Fresh and a good date on it

Fresh Milk

Vegan/Organic4%+0.36

Organic milk

Much better than non organic

Organic real milk

FAQ

Common Whole Milk questions

Answered from the same tracked data.