DoorDash to Buy Instacart for $17B in Delivery Mega-Deal

DoorDash says Instacart customers could shop at more than 50,000 additional stores, on top of the nearly 100,000 stores already on the Instacart platform. DashPass and Instacart+ members would pay one membership fee instead of two, which the company estimates would save them about $100 million per year on membership fees alone.

For workers, DoorDash says more orders for local businesses could create more earning opportunities, with more choice over when and how they earn. Instacart Shoppers would keep the features they use today, including the flexibility to choose how much they work and the information they need to decide which batches to accept.

DoorDash also committed to an open platform with no grocery exclusivity, meaning local grocers can work with any delivery platform they choose. "Grocery is one of the hardest things to get right online," DoorDash CEO Tony Xu said. "Someone has to pick a ripe avocado, find a substitute you'd choose yourself, and get the ice cream to you before it melts."

Instacart CEO Chris Rogers said the company has spent 14 years transforming online grocery and that joining DoorDash would let it do more for retailers, brands, customers and shoppers. Instacart currently has a market cap of more than $13 billion, and its stock price is up 25% for the year to date.

TechCrunch reports that Instacart likely saw this as an opportune time to sell at a desirable price, ahead of intensifying competition in the grocery delivery market. Bloomberg previously reported that Instacart was in talks with Uber, but that Uber walked away from those discussions.

For now, nothing changes: DoorDash and Instacart will keep running as separate, independent companies until the deal closes, which is not expected before late 2027. If the acquisition goes through, customers in markets where both apps operate could see more store choice and a single membership instead of two.

There is no announcement about how this affects Tunisia or the wider region. Neither DoorDash nor Instacart has said anything about launching local delivery services here, so readers should treat any change in availability or pricing as unconfirmed until the companies say otherwise. Prices are in US dollars; at roughly 1 USD ≈ 2.9 TND, the $65.00 per-share offer is about 189 TND, though that figure applies only to Instacart shareholders, not to consumers.