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Plastic Tub

Fail

Demand is soft, at -30.8% this quarter, so Plastic Tub is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Ranks 3,444 of 5,777 Home & Garden niches · −3 vs the category median of 51
Market size
£46K/yr61K searches / yr
90-day growth
-30.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
45%top-5 click share · 16 brands · 24 sellers

Flapen Score

Plastic Tub against its category

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

48Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Plastic Tub market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Plastic Tub 61K times last year and spent an estimated £46K. The top 5 brands take 83% of clicks. Demand peaks in Sep. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 7.2% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 61K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -30.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £46K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
61K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-30.8%
Conversion, latest week
7.2%
Market size, estimated
£46Ka year
Peak month
September1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
food containers disposable10K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £10.30.

Listings sell for £10.30 on average, from £1.87 to £22.67. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 4K to 5K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £10.30 that is £1K to £3K a year per listing.

Average price
£10.30under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.87–£22.67
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
4K–5K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£1K–£3K
Returns
0.4%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

87% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 81% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #46 within Food Storage. It carries 1,539 reviews at 4.28 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
87%
Prime listings
81%
Out of stock, average day
2.0%
Average rank
#46in Food Storage
Average rating
4.28 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,539per listing
Listings tracked
31

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 3 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 41 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
41 months

Products

Top Plastic Tub 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£2K£5K£7K£9K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

16 falling

Sellers

24

Est. top-5 brand share

83%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

45%

Top 20: 88%

Open market

14%

  • We Can Source It Ltd48%
  • Zuvo19%
  • Caterserve8%
  • ZMCYN4%
  • Sabary4%
  • MERCHARII3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (10 brands, 14%)

Demand

Plastic Tub search demand

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

5K3KSpike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Sep · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Plastic Tub search terms shoppers use

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

  • food containers disposable10K/yr
  • 650ml food containers with lids10K/yr
  • chinese takeaway boxes13K/yr
  • take away containers6K/yr
  • chinese takeaway containers4K/yr
  • takeaway boxes plastic4K/yr
  • plastic take away container with lid4K/yr
  • plastic takeaway containers4K/yr
  • chinese containers with lids4K/yr
  • chinese food containers3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Plastic Tub

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

22%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
21%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
0.4%of orders come back
“Disappointed with the quality”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”21% 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.

13 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Plastic Tub 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