Is dropshipping worth starting for a supplements and health store in Saudi Arabia?

Worth starting, yes — worth staying in, only if something changes. Dropshipping is the cheapest way to find out whether anybody wants what you are selling, and close to the worst way to make a living once they do.

The honest answer

Treat the first six months as paid research. The moment a product sells repeatedly, the margin argument flips: holding stock on that one line usually doubles the contribution per order, and the capital needed is small because you already know it sells.

Dropshipping trades margin for not holding stock, and the trade only works while traffic is cheap. For a supplements and health store in Saudi Arabia, the answer turns on one thing in particular: Subscription behaviour without a subscription: people finish a tub and reorder, often on the same day of the month.

What is different about Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is the largest ecommerce market in the region by some distance, and the most phone-dominated.

Cash on delivery remains common in Saudi Arabia, which changes the economics of every refused delivery.

What is different about a supplements and health store

The part nobody plans for is returns: if the supplier will not take one back, the store is the returns department.

Where a mobile app comes into it

Reorder reminders are the whole opportunity, and they are free through an app and paid through anything else.