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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

7.2% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 61K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 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

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 3 launches as successful.

3 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 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

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 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

Top-5 brand share

83%

Top 20: 100%

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 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

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

Complain

Quality-Overall21%−0.05

Disappointed with the quality

These containers are really very poor quality

Not as good quality as I expected

Strength19%−0.24

They are flimsy

Flimsy Plastic

Very brittle

Size-Overall13%−0.05

Not fit for purpose

They are too big

These are tiny

Durability10%−0.13

Break easily

Break very easily

Broken on 1st use

Thickness7%−0.07

very thin flimsy

The tubs aren't the thickest or feel incredibly sturdy

they could be thicker

Love

Quality-Overall22%−0.05

Good quality not flimsy like some

Excellent product

Great quality containers

Value For Money15%+1.74

Excellent value for money

Great value

Good Value

Size-Overall12%−0.05

good size

Nice size containers

the lids fit very well

Advertised Vs Actual Product10%+1.14

Did the job perfectly

Just what I needed

As described

Ease Of Use7%+0.47

Easy to use

easy to open

Easy to fill

Return

0.4% Return rate 71% Fixable by listing

Size-Overall61%████▇█

Not fit for purpose

They are too big

These are tiny

Quality-Overall10%▆▅█▃█▅

Disappointed with the quality

These containers are really very poor quality

Not as good quality as I expected

Strength5%▄▆▆█▅█

They are flimsy

Flimsy Plastic

Very brittle

Advertised Vs Actual Product4%█▅▅█▇▄

Deceiving description

Misleading

These are extremely misleading

Defective Material/Parts4%█▇▃▇█▇

FAQ

Common Plastic Tub questions

Answered from the same tracked data.