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…