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Salt Shaker

Maybe

The top 5 brands take only 36% of clicks. But demand is soft, at -23.6% this quarter, so Salt Shaker is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
58
58 / 100
Top 23% of 5,777 Home & Garden niches · +7 vs the category median of 51
Market size
£155K/yr439K searches / yr
90-day growth
-23.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
27%top-5 click share · 52 brands · 119 sellers

Flapen Score

Salt Shaker against its category

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

58Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Salt Shaker market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Salt Shaker 439K times last year and spent an estimated £155K. The top 5 brands take 36% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Oct–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 58 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

4.8% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 439K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 4.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -23.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £155K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
439K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-23.6%
Conversion, latest week
4.8%
Market size, estimated
£155Ka year
Peak month
December3.1× the quietest month
Top search term
salt and pepper shakers109K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £7.38.

Listings sell for £7.38 on average, from £3.14 to £20.36. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 20K to 25K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £7.38 that is £738 to £2K a year per listing.

Average price
£7.38under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.14–£20.36
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
20K–25K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£738–£2K
Returns
1.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

71% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 94% ship with Prime. On an average day, 6.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #94 within Dressing & Spice Dispensers. It carries 1,028 reviews at 4.30 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
71%
Prime listings
94%
Out of stock, average day
6.3%
Average rank
#94in Dressing & Spice Dispensers
Average rating
4.30 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,028per listing
Listings tracked
72

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 14 launches as successful.

14 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
14
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
41 months

Products

Top Salt Shaker 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 only 27% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£3K£6K£9K£12K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)1 product missing review or click data not plotted

Brands

52 falling

Sellers

119

Top-5 brand share

36%

Top 20: 80%

Top-5 click share

27%

Top 20: 66%

Open market

58%

  • HZPZPP9%
  • Tebery8%
  • Salter7%
  • Mailesi6%
  • Ravenhead6%
  • WallEgo5%

Demand

Salt Shaker search demand

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

30K20KHoliday '24Spike '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Oct, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.1×

Search terms

Top Salt Shaker search terms shoppers use

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

  • salt and pepper shakers109K/yr
  • salt shaker103K/yr
  • salt and pepper pots53K/yr
  • salt and pepper shaker18K/yr
  • salt dispenser15K/yr
  • cruet sets salt and pepper17K/yr
  • condiment set18K/yr
  • cruet set13K/yr
  • salt & pepper pots9K/yr
  • salt pepper set8K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Salt Shaker

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

Complain

Durability19%−0.21

Breakable

Poor durability

broke after a couple of months

Quality-Overall16%+0.64

Bad quality

Cheaply made and poor quality

Poor quality looks cheap

Size-Overall11%+0.60

Too big

Quite small

didn't fit

Rusts/Corrodes10%−0.12

starts to rust

the lids have started to rust

Rusty Lid

Value For Money4%+1.48

Not worth the cost

Buy cheap buy twice I suppose

The price is a bit steep for what you get

Love

Quality-Overall27%+0.64

Excellent Product

Good quality Reasonable price

The overall build quality is solid

Value For Money20%+1.48

Good value for money

Excellent price

Excellent value

Size-Overall10%+0.60

Good size

Nice big size

Love the size

Ease Of Use9%+0.69

are easy to fill

Easy to use

Easy to handle

Advertised Vs Actual Product9%+0.44

As described

Just what I needed

perfect, works as it should

Return

1.1% Return rate 52% Fixable by listing

Size-Overall41%▆▇█▆▆█

Too big

Quite small

didn't fit

Quality-Overall13%▅█▅▇██

Bad quality

Cheaply made and poor quality

Poor quality looks cheap

Functionality-Overall10%▆▅▇█▅▅
Material Quality5%▇▃▄█▇▇
Mechanism Issues4%█▂▄▃█▆

internal mechanism is rubbish despite the design looking OK

both broken plastic mechanism

Mechanism broke after just a few months

FAQ

Common Salt Shaker questions

Answered from the same tracked data.