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Root Trainers

Fail

Demand is soft, at -77.3% this quarter, so Root Trainers is a Fail.

Flapen Score
36
36 / 100
Ranks 5,242 of 5,777 Home & Garden niches · −15 vs the category median of 51
Market size
£7K/yr66K searches / yr
90-day growth
-77.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
56%top-5 click share · 16 brands · 36 sellers

Flapen Score

Root Trainers against its category

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

36Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Root Trainers market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Root Trainers 66K times last year and spent an estimated £7K. The top 5 brands take 75% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Feb–Mar–Apr–Oct. Flapen scores it 36 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 1.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 66K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 1.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -77.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £7K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
66K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-77.3%
Conversion, latest week
1.0%
Market size, estimated
£7Ka year
Peak month
February9.9× the quietest month
Top search term
root trainers17K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £11.30.

Listings sell for £11.30 on average, from £7.31 to £17.00. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 5K to 6K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £11.30 that is £1K to £3K a year per listing.

Average price
£11.30under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£7.31–£17.00
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
5K–6K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£1K–£3K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

59% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 59% ship with Prime. On an average day, 7.7% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #217 within Greenhouses & Plant Germination Equipment. It carries 549 reviews at 4.45 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
59%
Prime listings
59%
Out of stock, average day
7.7%
Average rank
#217in Greenhouses & Plant Germination Equipment
Average rating
4.45 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
549per listing
Listings tracked
27

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 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 37 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
37 months

Products

Top Root Trainers 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 26, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 56% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£356£712£1K£1K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

16 rising

Sellers

36

Est. top-5 brand share

75%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

56%

Top 20: 93%

Open market

21%

  • Garden Haven27%
  • Haxnicks21%
  • Oakland Gardens10%
  • Garland10%
  • Nutley's8%
  • Gardening Naturally4%

Demand

Root Trainers search demand

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

3K2KSpike '25Spike '26MarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Peak months: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, Oct · busiest ÷ quietest = 9.9×

Search terms

Top Root Trainers search terms shoppers use

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

  • root trainers17K/yr
  • deep seed trays7K/yr
  • deep root trainers7K/yr
  • root trainers reusable4K/yr
  • sweet pea pots4K/yr
  • root trainers for sweet peas15K/yr
  • deep root seed trays4K/yr
  • sweet pea root trainers7K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Root Trainers

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

25%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
12%of negative reviews mention “Thickness”
0.2%of orders come back
“Cheap thin plastic”
A buyer, on “Thickness”12% 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.

14 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Root Trainers 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