Skip to content

Red Straws

Fail

Prices span $1.88–$13.06, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Red Straws is a Fail.

Flapen Score
49
49 / 100
Ranks 7,059 of 14,768 Health & Household niches · on the category median
Market size
$47K/yr54K searches / yr
90-day growth
+27.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
50%top-5 click share · 18 brands · 26 sellers

Flapen Score

Red Straws against its category

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

49Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Red Straws market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Red Straws 54K times last year and spent an estimated $47K. The top 5 brands take 74% of clicks. Flapen scores it 49 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 10.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 54K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 10.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +27.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $47K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
54K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+27.6%
Conversion, latest week
10.6%
Market size, estimated
$47Ka year
Top search term
red straws33K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $8.22.

Listings sell for $8.22 on average, from $1.88 to $13.06. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 4K to 5K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $8.22 that is $822 to $2K a year per listing.

Average price
$8.22under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$1.88–$13.06
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
4K–5K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$822–$2K
Returns
0.3%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

85% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 4.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #283 within Disposable Drinkware. It carries 827 reviews at 4.70 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
85%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
4.2%
Average rank
#283in Disposable Drinkware
Average rating
4.70 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
827per listing
Listings tracked
27

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 5 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

5 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 41 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
5
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
41 months

Products

Top Red Straws products & what they sell for

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

Sign in to see the products

The products selling in this niche are for signed-in readers. Every market figure above stays open to everyone.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 50% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

18 flat

Sellers

26

Top-5 brand share

74%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

50%

Top 20: 95%

Open market

21%

  • Brand 124%
  • Brand 223%
  • Brand 310%
  • Brand 49%
  • Brand 57%
  • Brand 65%

Demand

Red Straws search demand

Weekly searches over the year. Pick a range.

2K2KSpike '26Feb '26Mar '26Mar '26Apr '26May '26May '26Jun '26

Search terms

Top Red Straws search terms shoppers use

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

  • red straws33K/yr
  • red plastic straws9K/yr
  • red straws plastic8K/yr
  • red straw4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Red Straws

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

20%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
24%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.3%of orders come back
“Smaller than normal”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”24% 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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Red Straws questions

Answered from the same tracked data.