Wing, Walmart Bet Big on Drone Delivery With 3-State Expansion

Partners say the expansion will add 100 Walmart stores and ‘millions of households’ to their network.

Jack Daleo

Friday, June 06, 2025 at 04:00 PM ET

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An autonomous Wing drone delivers a package for partner Walmart. [Courtesy: Walmart]

Key Takeaways:

Walmart and Wing (Alphabet's drone arm) are launching the "world's largest drone delivery expansion" to Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina, adding 100 Walmart stores within the next 12 months.
The expansion builds on successful operations in Dallas-Fort Worth, aiming to deliver groceries and essentials weighing under 5 pounds to millions of households in less than 20 minutes using highly automated drones.
This significant scale-up is seen as a vote of confidence in pending FAA regulations (Part 108 and Section 2209) expected to standardize and simplify commercial drone operations, particularly for beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flights nationwide.

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The world’s largest store-to-doorstep drone delivery service will land in Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina within the next 12 months.

In what the partners are billing as the “world’s largest drone delivery expansion,” Walmart and Wing—the drone delivery arm of Google parent Alphabet—on Thursday announced they will deliver items like bananas, eggs, and ice cream to “millions of households” in Atlanta, Houston, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Orlando and Tampa, Florida. The move will add 100 Walmart stores across the five new markets, they said.