How Walmart and Alphabet Jumped Ahead of Amazon in Drone Delivery
Freeman writes:
Drone delivery could be poised to take off in the United States.
Earlier this month, Google's sister company, Wing, began offering a drone delivery service in the Dallas suburbs of Frisco and Little Elm. Wing drones take off from nests" in two Walgreens parking lots to deliver things like health products or ice cream to nearby customers. Wing describes it as the first ever commercial drone delivery service in a major US metropolitan area."
One reason for that last caveat: Walmart has been running its own drone delivery service near its Bentonville, Arkansas, headquarters since November. Walmart delivers a range of products to customers within a 1.5-mile radius of two Walmart stores. The service will soon expand to a third Walmart store in the same corner of Arkansas.
Meanwhile, Amazon's drone efforts got some unflattering press coverage last week.
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