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 are launching the world's largest drone delivery expansion within 12 months, adding 100 Walmart stores across Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina to serve millions of households.
This significant expansion builds on successful operations in Dallas-Fort Worth, where highly automated systems deliver items like groceries in under 20 minutes.
The initiative signals Walmart's commitment to drone delivery as a key part of redefining retail and Wing's confidence in pending FAA regulations that aim to streamline large-scale beyond visual line of sight 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.