{"id":6421,"date":"2026-10-28T19:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T00:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/doordash-in-talks-to-buy-instacart-in-17b-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T19:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T00:30:26","slug":"doordash-in-talks-to-buy-instacart-in-17b-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/doordash-in-talks-to-buy-instacart-in-17b-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"DoorDash In Talks To Buy Instacart In $17B Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The reported acquisition could reshape restaurant delivery, grocery ordering, and competition, with potential implications for independent restaurants across the St. Louis region. ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 28, 2026 (StLouisRestaurantReview) DoorDash is reportedly in advanced negotiations to acquire Instacart in a potential transaction valued at approximately $17 billion, a development that could reshape the restaurant delivery and grocery ordering industries across the United States. Reuters reported on October 26 that DoorDash and Instacart were discussing a transaction that could close as early as Wednesday, October 28. Bloomberg also reported advanced negotiations involving DoorDash and Instacart\u2019s parent company, Maplebear Inc.,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/stlouisrestaurantreview.com\/doordash-talks-buy-instacart-17b-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reported acquisition could reshape restaurant delivery, grocery ordering, and competition, with potential implications for independent restaurants across the St. Louis region. ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 28, 2026 (StLouisRestaurantReview) DoorDash is reportedly in advanced negotiations to acquire Instacart in&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6423,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421\/revisions\/6423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}