Jan. 11 (UPI) — Wing and Walmart on Sunday announced plans to expand the retailer’s drone delivery service to more major metropolitan areas and more than 150 additional stores this year.
The expansion plans doubles the number of cities that where drone delivery service is available from Walmart, which the top 25% of customers have used three times a week as overall deliveries tripled in a six month period last year.
The new service areas include Los Angeles, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Miami, while service is already up and running in northwest Arkansas, the Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta metropolitan areas, is set to start in Houston on Jan. 15 and has already been announced for Charlotte, Orlando and Tampa, according to a press release.
“Drone delivery plays an important role in our ability to deliver what customers want, exactly when they want it it,” Greg Cathey, senior vice president of digital fulfillment transformation at Walmart, said in a press release.
“The strong adoption we’ve seen confirms that this is the future of convenience,” he said.
Walmart started experimenting with Wing’s drone delivery service in Bentonville in 2021, making about 150,000 drone deliveries, before announcing in June 2025 that service would be expanded to Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando and Tampa over the course of the next 12 months.
Initially, the service was available from 100 stores in northwest Arkansas and Dallas-Fort Worth to customers within a 6-mile radius of the store. Service launched from six Walmart stores in Atlanta at the beginning of December.
The June announcement included plans to offer drone service in all five metro areas from 100 stores by some time this year, with the four-city expansion adding another 150 locations.
In 2027, Wing said in the release, drone delivery will be available from more than 270 Walmart locations in cities coast-to-coast in the United States and be available to roughly 40 million people.
