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) are launching the "world's largest drone delivery expansion" to Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina, adding 100 Walmart stores across five major cities and aiming to serve millions of households.
Building on proven success in Dallas-Fort Worth, the highly automated Wing service offers fast deliveries (under 20 minutes) of items under 5 pounds from compact store-adjacent hubs.
This significant expansion indicates confidence in anticipated FAA regulatory changes (Part 108 and Section 2209) which are expected to simplify and standardize Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone operations, paving the way for wider national adoption.

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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.