Does live shopping work for grocery in Kuwait?

It works where seeing the product move, drape or be demonstrated changes the decision, and it does very little where a photograph already told the whole story.

Where it works

The reliable signal is your own returns data. High return rates for fit, colour or scale mean the still images are not doing the job — which is exactly the gap a live stream closes.

Live selling works where the product has to be seen moving, worn or demonstrated, and does little where it does not. For a grocery or food store in Kuwait, the answer turns on one thing in particular: Grocery margins are thin and baskets are large, so the whole model lives or dies on delivery cost per order.

What is different about Kuwait

A small, dense, high-income market where delivery is quick and word of mouth moves faster than advertising.

Local payment habits favour cards and instant transfer.

What is different about a grocery or food store

The work is not the video. It is buying inside the video, because a link to a product page loses most of the audience.

Where a mobile app comes into it

Weekly reordering is the behaviour, and an app that remembers the last basket removes most of the work.