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Stainless Steel Food Containers

Maybe

The products selling today average only 3.8★. But shoppers spend only $58K a year here, so Stainless Steel Food Containers is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
59
59 / 100
Top 20% of 5,777 Home & Garden niches · +8 vs the category median of 51
Market size
£58K/yr206K searches / yr
90-day growth
-11.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
28%top-5 click share · 47 brands · 82 sellers

Flapen Score

Stainless Steel Food Containers against its category

The dotted line is the Home & Garden average. Past it, Stainless Steel Food Containers is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

59Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Stainless Steel Food Containers market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Stainless Steel Food Containers 206K times last year and spent an estimated £58K. The top 5 brands take 45% of clicks. Flapen scores it 59 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

1.9% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 206K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 1.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -11.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £58K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
206K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-11.3%
Conversion, latest week
1.9%
Market size, estimated
£58Ka year
Peak month
September1.7× the quietest month
Top search term
stainless steel containers with lids36K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £15.04.

Listings sell for £15.04 on average, from £7.78 to £37.43. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 4K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At £15.04 that is £0 to £2K a year per listing.

Average price
£15.04inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£7.78–£37.43
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
3K–4K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
£0–£2K
Returns
1.9%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

93% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 90% ship with Prime. On an average day, 11.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #652 within Food Storage. It carries 106 reviews at 3.83 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
93%
Prime listings
90%
Out of stock, average day
11.0%
Average rank
#652in Food Storage
Average rating
3.83 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
106per listing
Listings tracked
60

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 2 of last year's 29 launches as successful.

29 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 2 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 26 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
29
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
26 months

Products

Top Stainless Steel Food Containers 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 28% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£2K£4K£5K£7K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

47 rising

Sellers

82

Top-5 brand share

45%

Top 20: 79%

Top-5 click share

28%

Top 20: 65%

Open market

52%

  • Umigy11%
  • Everusely10%
  • CTDMJ9%
  • Misichao8%
  • CECOMBINE8%
  • aieieii3%

Demand

Stainless Steel Food Containers search demand

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

7K5KSpike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Stainless Steel Food Containers search terms shoppers use

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

  • stainless steel containers with lids36K/yr
  • metal food containers with lids26K/yr
  • stainless steel food containers with lids27K/yr
  • stainless steel storage containers18K/yr
  • stainless steel food storage10K/yr
  • metal containers with lids9K/yr
  • stainless steel food storage containers with lids6K/yr
  • metal storage containers8K/yr
  • steel containers with lids10K/yr
  • stainless steel containers8K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Stainless Steel Food Containers

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

Complain

Quality-Overall14%+0.53

Average quality

Poor quality lid

The tubs are also not good quality

Size-Overall13%+0.21

some do not fit

Lids didnt fit

Too small

Strength10%−0.05

feel very flimsy

Flimsy

the lids are too fragile

Advertised Vs Actual Product6%−0.10

Looks can be deceiving

As such false advertising

Not as described

Value For Money6%−0.04

Good a little expensive

so definitely not good value

Not worth the money

Love

Quality-Overall19%+0.53

Good quality

seems well made

Very good quality lids although some are hard to put on things improve with use

Size-Overall15%+0.21

Good size

Good range of sizes

They are in a good variety of sizes

Storage Capacity9%+0.95

They are cute containers for storage

good for storage

Brilliant for fridge storage

Durability6%+0.31

I love these lunch boxes - they are durable

Durable and lightweight

Excellent well made durable product

Ease Of Cleaning6%+0.92

Easy clean

They wash really easily too

Cleaning is effortless

Return

1.9% Return rate 76% Fixable by listing

Size-Overall66%▇▇█▇▇▆

some do not fit

Lids didnt fit

Too small

Quality-Overall10%▅▅▄▇▄█

Average quality

Poor quality lid

The tubs are also not good quality

Strength4%▅█▄▆▇▆

feel very flimsy

Flimsy

the lids are too fragile

Advertised Vs Actual Product3%▂▇▅▅▇█

Looks can be deceiving

As such false advertising

Not as described

Leak-Proof2%▄▁█▁█▃

NOT leakproof

I had to cover each one in clingfilm to hold lids on as juice leaked from them

I don't recommend to use this lunchbox because is not leakprof as advertised

FAQ

Common Stainless Steel Food Containers questions

Answered from the same tracked data.