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, bringing service to Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Houston within 12 months.
This expansion will add 100 Walmart stores to the drone delivery network, building on the success of their existing highly automated service in Dallas-Fort Worth that completes deliveries in under 20 minutes.
The significant growth is underpinned by confidence in anticipated FAA regulations (Part 108 and Section 2209) expected to standardize and simplify beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone operations.

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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.