Purchs Launches Marketplace to Help Retailers Find Canadian Grocery Suppliers

New open marketplace makes it fast and easy for retailers to discover and source from Canadian vendors

who deliver to their area

Toronto, Ontario, September 21, 2026 — Purchs, the intelligent ordering and replenishment platform for

grocery, today announced the launch of its open wholesale marketplace. Demand for Canadian products

is reshaping grocery procurement. According to Statistics Canada, 40.7% of retailers reported increased

sales of Canadian products, and nearly one-third of businesses importing from the United States planned

to increase domestic sourcing. But finding those suppliers is still slow and manual. The Purchs

marketplace closes that gap.

“Grocery retail is digitally modernizing, and the brands that leverage this as a market opportunity will win,”

says Marcia Woods, founder and CEO of Purchs. “As retailers lean harder than ever into stocking

Canadian-made products, suppliers who don’t adapt might risk being pushed off the shelf by those who

do. We built this marketplace to make that shift easier and to put both retailers and suppliers on the

winning side of it.”

Suppliers can list their products on Purchs under a free account to get discovered or subscribe to unlock

Purchs’ automated order-to-cash system, turning inbound retailer interest directly into orders, invoicing,

and payment without manual back-and-forth.

The marketplace launch builds on Purchs’ core platform, which lets retailers place wholesale orders by

text or web, without requiring suppliers to join first. Every transaction generates demand intelligence.

Purchs is POS-agnostic and requires no app, no login, and no training.

About Purchs

Purchs is building intelligent ordering and replenishment infrastructure for grocery. Retailers currently

place thousands of wholesale orders through calls, emails, portals and spreadsheets, creating stockouts,

excess inventory and food waste. Purchs lets them order from any supplier conversationally, without

requiring that supplier to join first, and turns those transactions into demand intelligence. Purchs is POS-

agnostic and requires no app, no login and no training. A merchant can sign up and place their first order

in under 10 minutes. Learn more at purchs.io.

Media Contact:

Marcia Woods

Founder & CEO, Purchs

226.400.4396

media@purchs.io