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Walmart expands drone delivery to hundreds of new locations

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A Wing drone sits on a table next to two delivery parcels, one labeled DoorDash and the other labeled Walmart.

Walmart is building out its on-demand drone delivery service to an additional 150 stores across the country in another major partnership with Wing.

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The drone company is owned by Google parent Alphabet and first partnered with Walmart in 2023. Since then, Wing has made an aggressive push to service additional retail locations and scale its operations across the country. With the new drone offerings, the company will operate its autonomous delivery drones in 270 locations and service about 10 percent of the U.S. population, or around 40 million Americans, TechCrunch reported. The company has referred to it as the "largest residential drone delivery service."

Building off of infrastructure in the Dallas-Forth Worth and Atlanta areas, customers will see drone delivery options roll out gradually throughout 2026 and into 2027, pushing into major metropolitan cities like Los Angeles, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Miami.

In June, Walmart expanded its drone delivery service to five cities — Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa — and more than 100 store locations, marking the first major retailer to scale drone delivery across five states and hundreds of locations. According to the company, Walmart has completed more than 150,000 successful drone deliveries since launch.

"Whether it’s a last-minute ingredient for dinner, a must-have charger for a phone, or a late-night essential for a busy family, the strong adoption we’ve seen confirms that this is the future of convenience,” said Greg Cathey, senior vice president of digital fulfillment transformation at Walmart, in a press release.



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