Wing, the Alphabet-owned firm that delivers groceries, over-the-counter drugs, and scorching lattes, is increasing its partnership with Walmart for the second time in lower than a yr.
The 2 firms introduced on Sunday plans to deliver the on-demand drone supply service to an extra 150 Walmart shops. The rollout, which builds off present companies at shops in Dallas-Fort Value and Atlanta, will happen all through this yr and into 2027, Wing’s new chief enterprise officer Heather Rivera advised TechCrunch.
The enlargement suggests prospects are utilizing Wing’s drone supply service sufficient to warrant development. Rivera stated its prime 25% prospects are utilizing the service 3 times per week. Among the mostly ordered gadgets are eggs, floor beef, recent tomatoes, avocados, limes, lunchables, and snacks akin to Takis.
The 150-store enlargement announcement follows plans shared in June 2025 to launch in Houston, Orlando, Tampa, and Charlotte. Rivera stated Wing will launch in Houston on January 15. As soon as the enlargement is full, Wing will function from greater than 270 Walmart shops, together with Los Angeles, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Miami and serve about 10% of the U.S. inhabitants.
The announcement locations the previous Google X venture firmly within the industrial enterprise class. And whereas Wing does have a partnership with DoorDash, its main path to industrial operations has been, and nonetheless is, by means of Walmart.
The businesses first partnered in 2023, launching a pilot program to check on-demand drone supply at two shops within the Dallas metro space that reached about 60,000 houses. This system later grew to 18 Walmart Supercenters in Dallas-Fort Value and extra just lately unfold to shops in Atlanta.
Wing will proceed to evolve its expertise and operations, in line with Rivera; the corporate just lately accomplished the primary industrial flights for its bigger plane that may carry a five-pound payload, as an example. However on the whole, she stated Wing is targeted on co-locating its service at Walmart websites and integrating into their operations.
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Rivera stated Wing will doubtless strive a few completely different approaches to scaling its operations like clustering retailer openings. It’s an method Wing used final yr when it launched six shops collectively in Atlanta. Rivera wouldn’t share if its operations are worthwhile or after they could be. However Rivera did observe she was introduced in to scale the enterprise.
“And so that’s what I’m right here to do, and enthusiastic about,” she stated, later noting that “quantity is certainly powering our flywheel.” In different phrases, scaling to as many shops in as many markets as doable is important for its enterprise economics.
