What we know
What we know: DoorDash to buy Instacart for $17 billion in big consolidation for grocery delivery
Compiled Oct 29
What we know
- DoorDash will acquire Instacart for $17 billion
- The Instacart brand name and app will remain, and Instacart shoppers can continue fulfilling orders
- Grocers can choose to work with either Instacart or DoorDash
- Instacart customers will gain access to 50,000 additional stores covered by DoorDash
- Instacart was founded in 2012 and specializes in grocery and convenience store delivery in the US and Canada
- DoorDash was founded in San Francisco in 2013 and started as a restaurant delivery business before expanding into pet food and electronics
What we don’t know yet
- It's not yet clear what the deal will mean for some partnerships, such as Instacart's Walmart delivery, which DoorDash stopped offering in 2022
Open questions
- What will happen to Instacart's existing Walmart delivery partnership after the acquisition?
- How will grocers decide whether to work with Instacart or DoorDash going forward?
- When is the acquisition expected to close?
- Will regulators review or challenge this consolidation in the delivery market?
Drawn from the Associated Press report. “What we don’t know” lists only what the reporting itself flags as unresolved.