{"id":1045823,"date":"2026-10-30T08:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045823"},"modified":"2026-10-30T08:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:09:16","slug":"doordash-strikes-17-billion-deal-for-us-rival-instacart-in-bets-on-grocery-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/30\/doordash-strikes-17-billion-deal-for-us-rival-instacart-in-bets-on-grocery-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"DoorDash strikes $17 billion deal for US rival Instacart in bets on grocery delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DoorDash said on Thursday it would buy Instacart in a deal valued at about $17 billion, stepping up its push into the fast-growing US grocery delivery market as competition among app-based platforms intensifies. <\/p>\n<p>Heightened competition following a slowdown in orders from the pandemic peaks, along with rising cost pressures and tough regulatory scrutiny over the treatment of gig workers, has spurred a flurry of deals in the industry. <\/p>\n<p>These include Just Eat Takeaway acquiring Grubhub for $7.3 billion, DoorDash&#8217;s purchase of Wolt and UK&#8217;s Deliveroo in 2025, as well as Uber&#8217;s $15 billion deal for Delivery Hero earlier this year and Postmates in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DoorDash said on Thursday it would buy Instacart in a deal valued at about $17 billion, stepping up its push into the fast-growing US grocery delivery market as competition among app-based platforms intensifies. Heightened competition following a slowdown in orders from the pandemic peaks, along with rising cost pressures and tough regulatory scrutiny over the treatment of gig workers, has spurred a flurry of deals in the industry. These include Just Eat Takeaway acquiring Grubhub for $7.3 billion, DoorDash&#8217;s purchase of Wolt and UK&#8217;s Deliveroo in 2025, as well as Uber&#8217;s $15 billion deal for Delivery Hero earlier this year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045841,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045823\/revisions\/1045841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}