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Plastic Straws

Maybe

An estimated 0.3% of orders come back. But prices span $2.08–$13.01, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Plastic Straws is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
63
63 / 100
Top 12% of 5,777 Home & Garden niches · +12 vs the category median of 51
Market size
£331K/yr711K searches / yr
90-day growth
+25.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
45%top-5 click share · 17 brands · 32 sellers

Flapen Score

Plastic Straws against its category

The dotted line is the Home & Garden average. Past it, Plastic Straws is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

63Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Plastic Straws market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Plastic Straws 711K times last year and spent an estimated £331K. The top 5 brands take 66% of clicks. Demand peaks in Aug–Sep. Flapen scores it 63 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 8.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 711K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 8.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +25.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £331K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
711K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+25.8%
Conversion, latest week
8.5%
Market size, estimated
£331Ka year
Peak month
August1.7× the quietest month
Top search term
plastic straws466K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.47.

Listings sell for £5.47 on average, from £2.08 to £13.01. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 50K to 60K a year. The average listing sells 1,250 to 1,500 of them. At £5.47 that is £7K to £8K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.47under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.08–£13.01
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
50K–60K
Units per listing a year
1,250–1,500
Revenue per listing a year
£7K–£8K
Returns
0.3%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

83% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #90 within Barware. It carries 257 reviews at 4.29 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
83%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
2.1%
Average rank
#90in Barware
Average rating
4.29 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
257per listing
Listings tracked
29

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 9 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

9 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 25 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
9
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
25 months

Products

Top Plastic Straws products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 27, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 45% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£33K£66K£99K£132K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

17 falling

Sellers

32

Est. top-5 brand share

66%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

45%

Top 20: 88%

Open market

29%

  • Sylva35%
  • Greenland12%
  • AUAUY8%
  • Xyedyaup6%
  • Coreint5%
  • upkpvid5%

Demand

Plastic Straws search demand

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

35K25KHoliday '24Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Aug, Sep · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Plastic Straws search terms shoppers use

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

  • plastic straws466K/yr
  • plastic straws disposable66K/yr
  • straws plastic45K/yr
  • plastic straw25K/yr
  • plastic drinking straws16K/yr
  • drinking straws plastic13K/yr
  • disposable plastic straws10K/yr
  • plastic bendy straw7K/yr
  • plastic straws bendy10K/yr
  • thick plastic straws5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Plastic Straws

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

17%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
17%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.3%of orders come back
“i just did not read the size properly”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”17% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Plastic Straws questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data