Is Paper Plates and Bowls profitable to sell on Amazon United States?

Flapen scores Paper Plates and Bowls 45 out of 100 on Amazon United States, a Fail. Shoppers spend $7.3M a year across 8 tracked products. 1 of the 1 products launched in the last year cleared the first-year sales bar. Search demand grew +0.3% in the last 90 days.

How competitive is the Paper Plates and Bowls niche on Amazon United States?

5 brands and 56 sellers compete in Paper Plates and Bowls on Amazon United States. The top 5 Paper Plates and Bowls products take 90% of clicks, and the top 5 brands take 100%.

What do buyers complain about in Paper Plates and Bowls?

Paper Plates and Bowls buyers on Amazon United States complain most about Size-Overall, Strength, and Value For Money. An estimated 0.3% of orders come back.

When does demand for Paper Plates and Bowls peak?

Search demand for Paper Plates and Bowls on Amazon United States peaks in May–Jun–Jul, and the busiest month runs 20.1× the quietest.

What does it cost to enter the Paper Plates and Bowls niche?

Paper Plates and Bowls sells for $9.45 on average on Amazon United States, outside the $15 to $100 sweet spot. Listings run $3.28 to $19.16. The average product has 11,405 reviews, the count a new listing must catch up to.

Paper Plates and Bowls

Fail

The top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Paper Plates and Bowls is a Fail.

Flapen Score: 45
45 / 100Ranks 9,665 of 14,768 Health & Household niches · −4 vs the category median of 49
Market size: $7.3M/yr3.6M searches / yr
90-day growth: +0.3%search demand this quarter
Competition: 90%top-5 click share · 5 brands · 56 sellers

Flapen Score

Paper Plates and Bowls against its category

The dotted line is the Health & Household average. Past it, Paper Plates and Bowls is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

45Fail

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Market

The Paper Plates and Bowls market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Paper Plates and Bowls 3.6M times last year and spent an estimated $7.3M. All 5 brands take every click. Demand peaks in May–Jun–Jul. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 21.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 3.6M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 21.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +0.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $7.3M a year.

Searches, last 12 months: 3.6M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90: +0.3%
Conversion, latest week: 21.7%
Market size, estimated: $7.3Ma year
Peak month: May20.1× the quietest month
Top search term: paper bowls1.6M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $9.45.

Listings sell for $9.45 on average, from $3.28 to $19.16. Amazon reports units sold in ranges, and this niche reaches the top one: 800K units or more a year. The average listing sells 100,000 to 125,000 of them. At $9.45 that is $945K to $1.2M a year per listing.

Average price: $9.45under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range: $3.28–$19.16
Amazon United States median price: $24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year: 800K or moreAmazon's top range
Units per listing a year: 100,000–125,000
Revenue per listing a year: $945K–$1.2M
Returns: 0.3%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

75% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #14 within Disposable Plates, Bowls & Cutlery. It carries 11,405 reviews at 4.71 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings: 75%
Prime listings: 100%
Out of stock, average day: 0.0%
Average rank: #14in Disposable Plates, Bowls & Cutlery
Average rating: 4.71 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews: 11,405per listing
Listings tracked: 8

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 43 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: 43 months

Products

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 90% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

5 falling

Sellers

Est. top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

90%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

Amazon Basics65%
Dixie Ultra22%
Dixie6%
ECOLipak4%
Zddaoole3%

Demand

Paper Plates and Bowls search demand

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

Peak months: May, Jun, Jul · busiest ÷ quietest = 20.1×

Search terms

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Paper Plates and Bowls

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

17%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”

28%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”

0.3%of orders come back

“Small Bowl”

A buyer, on “Size-Overall”28% 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.

17 topics

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