Delivery giant DoorDash is buying to-your-door grocery service Instacart for $17 billion, the company announced Thursday.The deal means users will be able to order groceries and items from other retailers via DoorDash and its delivery network.
The companies said Instacart customers can now shop at more than 50,000 additional stores on top of the nearly 100,000 stores on the Instacart platform today.DashPass and Instacart+ members will now also pay one membership fee instead of two.DoorDash is expected to keep the Instacart brand and its technology.
Until the transaction closes, DoorDash and Instacart will continue to operate as separate and independent companies.“Over the last 14 years, Instacart has transformed online grocery by helping retailers of all sizes compete and grow, and joining forces with DoorDash allows us to do even more,” said Chris Rogers, CEO of Instacart.The deal represents the latest chapter of consolidation in the delivery industry.
Last year, DoorDash bought UK-based Deliveroo, while Uber now owns Postmates and Delivery Hero.DoorDash has emerged as the most successful stand-alone online delivery platform in America, commanding some two-thirds of all food-delivery volumes as of 2024, according to Bloomberg data.
But over the past year, the company has seen its share price decline by approximately a third, largely due to rising costs.Instacart, meanwhile, reached the pinnacle of its success during the Covid-19 pandemic, when lockdowns sent millions of consumers to their phones to order up groceries.
But the company’s stock has gone nowhere over the past two years, as Instacart struggled to find new paths to growth while facing increasing competition from Amazon and Walmart’s grocery-delivery offerings.For SubscribersFOR SUBSCRIBERSTrump says Alaska’s Democratic Senate candidate should be prosecuted over Dan Sullivan ballot disputeFOR SUBSCRIBERSElection betting odds became less accurate as primaries neared, report findsFOR SUB...