Wing Drones Reach Ocoee Walmart, And Police Say They’re Not Theirs

Wing is now delivering Walmart orders by drone from the Supercenter at 10500 W. Colonial Drive in Ocoee, Florida, the West Orange Times & Observer reported on Friday, November 13. Ocoee joins the Apopka and Clermont stores that opened Wing’s first Florida market on July 29.

The Ocoee Police Department has told residents not to worry about the aircraft overhead. “It’s not one of our police drones,” the department said, and it asked people not to interfere with the deliveries.

Wing said on July 29 that it planned to add Ocoee “in the coming weeks.” The first report of deliveries there came 107 days later.

Ocoee’s First Reported Flights Came 15 Weeks After Wing’s July Plan

Wing listed three more stores as planned for the coming weeks when it launched Greater Orlando on July 29: Ocoee, a second Clermont Supercenter on US Highway 27, and Haines City. The Observer’s report is the first DroneXL has found of Ocoee flying, and it gives no start date…

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