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National Post
17-07-2025
- Business
- National Post
Cizzle Brands' CWENCH Hydration™ Now Sold in Over 300 Sobeys Locations Across Canada
Article content In addition to in-store availability at its supermarkets, Sobeys' grocery delivery service Voila is also now carrying five flavours of CWENCH Hydration™ in the ready-to-drink format. As part of its strategic playbook, Cizzle Brands is steadily building the presence of CWENCH Hydration™ in the grocery category through strong partnerships with grocery conglomerates such as Sobeys Inc. and its parent entity Empire Company. Article content TORONTO — Cizzle Brands Corporation (Cboe Canada: CZZL) (OTCQB: CZZLF) (Frankfurt: 8YF) (the 'Company' or 'Cizzle Brands'), is pleased to announce that over 300 Sobeys locations are now carrying CWENCH Hydration™ in its ready-to-drink (' RTD ') format in its Blue Raspberry, Rainbow Swirl, Tropical Flow and Pink Lemon Flow flavours. As CWENCH continues to become part of more Canadians' hydration routines, consistent availability in the grocery channel is proving to be a key driver of growth for repeat purchases. As of this writing, more than 3,300 locations across Canada, the United States, and Europe carry CWENCH Hydration™ including supermarkets, convenience stores, sports arenas, and fitness clubs. Article content In a press release dated July 16, 2025, Cizzle Brands announced the launch of Pink Lemon Flow, a new flavour of CWENCH Hydration™ developed with Coach Chippy, which will exclusively be carried in the grocery category by Sobeys Inc. banners including Sobeys, Longos, Safeway, Thrifty Foods, and Farm Boy. The introduction of additional CWENCH Hydration™ SKUs to the Sobeys chain further strengthens the brand's presence in the network of Empire Company, which is the parent entity of Sobeys Inc., operating in all ten of Canada's provinces with over 1,600 retail stores and more than 350 retail fuel locations. Prior to the recent launch of Pink Lemon Flow across Sobeys Inc. banner stores, CWENCH Hydration™ was already being carried in nearly half of all Farm Boy 's locations in Ontario (as announced in a March 27, 2025 press release). Article content The Voila grocery delivery service operated by Sobeys Inc. is also now carrying the full range of CWENCH Hydration™ flavours. First launched in June of 2020, Voila picks and delivers its orders from Customer Fulfillment Centres in Toronto, Montreal, and Calgary, which can help to enhance penetration of the CWENCH Hydration™ brand in some of Canada's largest urban population centres. Article content Cizzle Brands' Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer John Celenza commented, 'Lockstep with the increased awareness of CWENCH Hydration™ across Canada, we're building its presence in the grocery category. We're highly selective of which retail partners we work with and focus on building solid relationships with them. This is why we're excited to be working with Sobeys and its several well-known banners. Their footprint across Canada means that Canadians can find CWENCH just about anywhere they want it. There is plenty more to come from us as we strive to become the market leader in hydration and sports nutrition for athletes of all ages.' Article content About Cizzle Brands Corporation Article content Cizzle Brands Corporation is a sports nutrition company that is elevating the game in health and wellness. Through extensive collaboration and testing with leading athletes and trainers across several elite sports, Cizzle Brands has launched two leading product lines in the sports nutrition category: (i) CWENCH Hydration™, a better-for-you sports drink that is now carried in over 3,300 locations in Canada, the United States, and Europe; and (ii) Spoken Nutrition, a premium brand of athlete-grade nutraceuticals that carry the prestigious NSF Certified for Sport® qualification. All Cizzle Brands products are designed to help people achieve their best in both competitive sports and in living a healthy, vibrant, active lifestyle. Article content This news release contains 'forward-looking information' which may include, but is not limited to, information with respect to the activities, events or developments that the Company expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future, such as, but not limited to: new products of the Company and potential sales and distribution opportunities. Such forward-looking information is often, but not always, identified by the use of words and phrases such as 'plans', 'expects', 'is expected', 'budget', 'scheduled', 'estimates', 'forecasts', 'intends', 'anticipates', or 'believes' or variations (including negative variations) of such words and phrases, or state that certain actions, events or results 'may', 'could', 'would', 'might' or 'will' be taken, occur or be achieved. Various assumptions or factors are typically applied in drawing conclusions or making the forecasts or projections set out in forward-looking information. Those assumptions and factors are based on information currently available to the Company. Article content Forward looking information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other risk factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking information. Such risks include risks related to increased competition and current global financial conditions, access and supply risks, reliance on key personnel, operational risks, regulatory risks, financing, capitalization and liquidity risks. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The Company undertakes no obligation, except as otherwise required by law, to update these forward-looking statements if management's beliefs, estimates or opinions, or other factors change. Article content Article content Article content Article content Article content
The Guardian
16-07-2025
- Business
- The Guardian
Aldi is trialling grocery delivery in Australia. We put it to the test against Coles and Woolworths
Aldi is known for its permanently discounted prices and its famously odd products sold in the middle aisle. Last week, the German-owned supermarket chain took another step into the Australian mainstream, trialling a grocery delivery service with DoorDash in Canberra ahead of a potential expansion around the country. Aldi has long resisted offering deliveries, given the service would make a basket of groceries more expensive, undercutting its price advantage over Coles and Woolworths. Guardian Australia tested it out. I normally take an ad hoc approach to grocery shopping and visit a few different stores, rather than doing a weekly shop. There's an Aldi near my home, as well as a Coles, and a family-owned fruit and vegetable store. Using my DoorDash account, I added 10 popular items to my Aldi basket, listing a Canberra address for delivery. These comprised a dozen free range eggs, a head of iceberg lettuce, a two-litre bottle of A2 brand light milk, a loaf of multigrain sourdough bread, a pack of RSPCA-approved chicken breast fillets, five brushed potatoes, five bananas, a 1kg bag of carrots, a pack of four beef mince burgers, and a 250g block of tasty cheese. This came to a total of $52.57, or $58.88 once DoorDash's $6.31 service fee was included. I was offered free delivery on my first order. Sign up for Guardian Australia's breaking news email According to the DoorDash website, its loyalty program, DashPass, which costs $9.99 a month or $96 a year, would give me free delivery on orders over $30. Aldi would not disclose the standard delivery fees for Canberra, other than to say they are based on distance. In Canberra, you can order from Coles on DoorDash, where a basket of 10 comparable items cost me $75.36 and from Woolworths on Uber Eats, where my basket worked out to $71.19 without any eggs, which weren't available. Both of these totals included service fees, but not delivery. So, if I use a third-party platform like DoorDash to purchase from the major chains, the price increases significantly. But most shoppers would choose the supermarkets' in-house delivery services. Unlike Aldi, Woolworths and Coles have built their own delivery services. Both require a minimum $50 spend to order from their websites. My basket of 10 items came to $61.23 from the Woolworths website, and $56.17 from Coles, excluding delivery. This suggests Aldi – where my basket came to $58.88 including the DoorDash service fee – loses its usual significant discount to the major chains due to the costs associated with its third-party delivery platform. The delivery fees are cheaper if you plan ahead, but, for the sake of comparison, I chose the fastest option possible, with Coles offering an 'as soon as possible delivery option', in an estimated 64 minutes, for $15. The supermarket's website tells me if I signed up for a Coles Plus membership – for $19 a month or $199 a year – I would be eligible for free delivery. Woolworths also offered a $15 fast delivery in 'approximately 50 minutes'. Its website tells me I would be eligible for free delivery on orders of $75 or more with a Delivery Unlimited subscription, for $15 a month or $119 a year. The calculations change according to delivery fees, which in Aldi's case can vary according to how far you live from a store. Aldi has acknowledged the cost of running an online shopping service will affect its prices. The total cost of an online Aldi order includes the item prices, a DoorDash markup, delivery fee and service fee, all of which are set by the delivery platform. Sign up to Breaking News Australia Get the most important news as it breaks after newsletter promotion A spokesperson for Aldi said it was committed to being the most affordable supermarket on DoorDash but acknowledged some of its prices on the platform 'may vary slightly' from those in-store. 'This reflects the added convenience of having everyday essentials delivered quickly and easily,' they said. I visited an Aldi store in person to check out prices, bearing in mind that my local is in Melbourne, not the same store as one of those delivering from Canberra. Most of the prices were identical, although the iceberg lettuce, eggs, bananas and potatoes were a bit cheaper in the store. Overall, my basket cost $48 when shopping in person, saving more than $10 compared to going through the DoorDash site with its service fee. But I also had to factor in a 25-minute round trip on the tram to get there, which comes with its own costs – or a 40-minute walk or 20-minute bike ride up and down a steep hill. Aldi tried a similar service with a third-party delivery provider in the UK, but it didn't last. The chain is also hesitant to build its own delivery system because that would add significant costs to the business, which would either result in higher grocery prices, or less profits for its German owners. Prof Gary Mortimer, a retail expert at the Queensland University of Technology, says Aldi has had to respond to the delivery trend. 'Online food and groceries now represent anywhere between 10 to 12% of supermarket revenue,' Mortimer says. 'As Aldi enters into that space, even using a third-party provider like DoorDash, Coles and Woolworths will be looking at how they go about defending that market share.' The retail expert Bronwyn Thompson says Aldi considers the competitive advantage of a delivery service to be worth the additional expense. 'If they're trying to be more of a 'whole shop' destination, this is part of that,' Thompson says. 'They've come a long way from just being a place where you'd get a few things.' The Aldi Australia chief commercial officer, Jordan Lack, said: 'We know Australians will rejoice at the news of Aldi taking our first step in offering customers this convenient shopping format'.
The Guardian
08-07-2025
- Business
- The Guardian
Amazon asks corporate workers to ‘volunteer' help with grocery deliveries as Prime Day frenzy approaches
Corporate employees of Amazon were asked on Monday to volunteer their time to the company's warehouses to assist with grocery delivery as it heads into its annual discount spree known as Prime Day. In a Slack message reviewed by the Guardian that went to thousands of white-collar workers in the New York City area from engineers to marketers, an Amazon area manager called for corporate 'volunteers to help us out with Prime Day to deliver to customers on our biggest days yet'. It is not clear how many took up the offer. The ask came the day before Prime Day kicks off. The manager said volunteers are 'needed' to work Tuesday through Friday this week, in two-hour shifts between 10am and 6pm in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, where the company operates a warehouse as part of its grocery delivery service, Amazon Fresh. Corporate employees seconded to the warehouse would be tasked with picking items, preparing carts and bags of groceries for delivery, packing boxes on receiving carts, and working to 'boost morale with distribution of snacks', though they would be allowed to step into a conference room to take meetings and calls, according to the message. The manager noted such an effort would help 'connect' warehouse and corporate teams. Amazon routinely hires thousands of extra warehouse workers in advance of its annual Prime Day sale, which sees the massive online retailer discount thousands of goods, creating a surge in orders and demand for delivery. Amazon Fresh, available to Prime subscribers but separate from Amazon subsidiary Whole Foods, is also offering discounts this week during Prime Day, such as a free 90-day trial of the delivery services and $30 off of deliveries for current members, while maintaining its same-day or next-day delivery service. New York is one of Amazon's busiest areas in the US. An Amazon spokesperson, Griffin Buch, said this is not the first time 'grocery corporate' employees have been 'invited to volunteer' with fulfillment. 'This support is entirely optional, and it allows corporate employees to get closer to customers while enabling our store teams to focus on the work that's most impactful,' Buch said. Amazon Fresh has faced turbulence in recent years. Amid cost-cutting efforts in 2023 and a struggle to turn a profit on grocery delivery, CEO Andy Jassy closed several physical Amazon Fresh locations and laid off hundreds of employees in the segment. Amazon has laid off more than 27,000 employees overall since cost-cutting efforts began in 2022. A week ago, Jassy spoke on CNBC of a future at Amazon where drones and even robots were used to fulfill and deliver goods to people. Sign up to TechScape A weekly dive in to how technology is shaping our lives after newsletter promotion 'Over time, as we expand the use of robotics in our fulfillment centers, we will have robots doing fulfillment and transportation for us,' he said.
Yahoo
08-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Amazon partners GoPuff for ultra-fast UK grocery delivery
Amazon has teamed up with delivery firm GoPuff to provide customers with grocery and home essentials delivery across the UK described as 'ultra-fast'. The partnership enables shoppers to receive items such as fresh food, cleaning supplies, baby essentials, snacks and alcohol within an hour, with the possibility of delivery in as little as 15 minutes. The service utilises GoPuff's micro-fulfilment centres, strategically positioned near customers to ensure rapid delivery. These centres are critical to the service, allowing for a wide range of products to be available for order 24/7 in most locations. Amazon grocery partnerships director Russell Jones stated: 'We are always working to give customers more choice and more convenient options to have their groceries delivered. 'Partnering with GoPuff and other grocery partners is an important way of offering Amazon customers their favourite stores and brands, ordered via our website. The new launch with GoPuff brings our customers access to a convenient and affordable way to access their everyday groceries.' Following initial launches in Birmingham and Salford in May, 2025 the service is now available in areas such as Birmingham, Cambridge, Manchester, Newcastle and Swansea. Amazon's partnership with GoPuff is the latest in a series of collaborations with UK retailers, beginning with Morrisons in 2015 and later including Iceland and Co-op. In July 2025, Amazon announced its plan to invest £40bn ($53.7bn) in the UK between 2025 and 2027 to construct four new fulfilment centres and delivery stations across the country. "Amazon partners GoPuff for ultra-fast UK grocery delivery" was originally created and published by Retail Insight Network, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.
The Guardian
08-07-2025
- Business
- The Guardian
Amazon asks corporate workers to ‘volunteer' help with grocery deliveries as Prime Day frenzy approaches
Corporate employees of Amazon were asked on Monday to volunteer their time to the company's warehouses to assist with grocery delivery as it heads into its annual discount spree known as Prime Day. In a Slack message reviewed by the Guardian that went to thousands of white-collar workers in the New York City area from engineers to marketers, an Amazon area manager called for corporate 'volunteers to help us out with Prime Day to deliver to customers on our biggest days yet'. It is not clear how many took up the offer. The ask came the day before Prime Day kicks off. The manager said volunteers are 'needed' to work Tuesday through Friday this week, in two-hour shifts between 10am and 6pm in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, where the company operates a warehouse as part of its grocery delivery service, Amazon Fresh. Corporate employees seconded to the warehouse would be tasked with picking items, preparing carts and bags of groceries for delivery, packing boxes on receiving carts, and working to 'boost morale with distribution of snacks', though they would be allowed to step into a conference room to take meetings and calls, according to the message. The manager noted such an effort would help 'connect' warehouse and corporate teams. Amazon routinely hires thousands of extra warehouse workers in advance of its annual Prime Day sale, which sees the massive online retailer discount thousands of goods, creating a surge in orders and demand for delivery. Amazon Fresh, available to Prime subscribers but separate from Amazon subsidiary Whole Foods, is also offering discounts this week during Prime Day, such as a free 90-day trial of the delivery services and $30 off of deliveries for current members, while maintaining its same-day or next-day delivery service. New York is one of Amazon's busiest areas in the US. An Amazon spokesperson, Griffin Buch, said this is not the first time 'grocery corporate' employees have been 'invited to volunteer' with fulfillment. 'This support is entirely optional, and it allows corporate employees to get closer to customers while enabling our store teams to focus on the work that's most impactful,' Buch said. Amazon Fresh has faced turbulence in recent years. Amid cost-cutting efforts in 2023 and a struggle to turn a profit on grocery delivery, CEO Andy Jassy closed several physical Amazon Fresh locations and laid off hundreds of employees in the segment. Amazon has laid off more than 27,000 employees overall since cost-cutting efforts began in 2022. A week ago, Jassy spoke on CNBC of a future at Amazon where drones and even robots were used to fulfill and deliver goods to people. Sign up to TechScape A weekly dive in to how technology is shaping our lives after newsletter promotion 'Over time, as we expand the use of robotics in our fulfillment centers, we will have robots doing fulfillment and transportation for us,' he said.
