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Forks

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $11.0M a year here. But the top 5 products take 79% of clicks, so Forks is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
54
54 / 100
Top 28% of 14,768 Health & Household niches · +5 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$11.0M/yr5.5M searches / yr
90-day growth
+13.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
79%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 19 sellers

Flapen Score

Forks against its category

The dotted line is the Health & Household average. Past it, Forks is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

54Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Forks market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Forks 5.5M times last year and spent an estimated $11.0M. The top 5 brands take 89% of clicks. Demand peaks in May. Flapen scores it 54 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 20.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 5.5M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 20.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +13.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $11.0M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
5.5M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+13.4%
Conversion, latest week
20.1%
Market size, estimated
$11.0Ma year
Peak month
May1.6× the quietest month
Top search term
plastic forks1.7M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $10.02.

Listings sell for $10.02 on average, from $3.12 to $25.73. Amazon reports units sold in ranges, and this niche reaches the top one: 1,000,000 units or more a year. The average listing sells 80,000 to 100,000 of them. At $10.02 that is $802K to $1.0M a year per listing.

Average price
$10.02under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$3.12–$25.73
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
1,000,000 or moreAmazon's top range
Units per listing a year
80,000–100,000
Revenue per listing a year
$802K–$1.0M
Returns
0.3%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

91% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 6.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #36 within Disposable Plates, Bowls & Cutlery. It carries 3,925 reviews at 4.68 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
91%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
6.5%
Average rank
#36in Disposable Plates, Bowls & Cutlery
Average rating
4.68 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
3,925per listing
Listings tracked
11

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 57 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
57 months

Products

Top Forks products & what they sell for

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

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 79% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

19

Top-5 brand share

89%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

79%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

6%

  • Brand 162%
  • Brand 29%
  • Brand 37%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 55%
  • Brand 65%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 6%)

Demand

Forks search demand

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

100K60KHoliday '24Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: May · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.6×

Search terms

Top Forks search terms shoppers use

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

  • plastic forks1.7M/yr
  • forks1.6M/yr
  • forks stainless steel631K/yr
  • forks disposable268K/yr
  • disposable forks237K/yr
  • fork171K/yr
  • dinner forks138K/yr
  • clear plastic forks74K/yr
  • plastic forks heavy duty94K/yr
  • heavy duty plastic forks78K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Forks

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

23%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
12%of negative reviews mention “Strength”
0.3%of orders come back
“Cheap and flimsy”
A buyer, on “Strength”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 Forks questions

Answered from the same tracked data.