Wall Mart turns largely with the expansion of the delivery of drones

For nearly two Years, alphabet Unmanned The Wing Company has managed to hand over a handful of Wall Mart sites in the Dallas Fort Worth area. Customers in the metro area can click “Exit” with a small request on a Walmart site or application, and in the average delivery window of 19 minutes, see the drone over the grass or the rear yard and lower the connection box on the rope.

The two companies now say that the service is ready for serious expansion. They announced on Thursday that the Wing drone delivery will be deployed to 100 additional American stores next year, including Walmart sites in Atlanta, Charlott, Houston, Orlando and Tamba. Companies say that the expansion will give “millions” homes access to the delivery of drones within 30 minutes or less, making the drone connection network the largest in the country.

The expansion will test the enthusiasm of shoppers in favor of high-end delivery-the attention of societies with the participation of the airspace with a new type of delivery vehicle. It is also possible that the two companies will help the commercial feasibility analysis of drone delivery services, which have been offered to a handful of regions around the world – including northwest of Arkansas, Rally Metro, North Carolina, and Luxeford, CaliforniaIn addition to parts of Australia, Finland and Ireland and Rwanda–But it has not yet turned How global consumers think about rapid delivery.

Some critics who have studied the drone industry can suspicion that routine delivery can be truly profitable. Matthias Winnnbach, who directs research at the Massachusetts Institute Center for Technical and is cited organizational collars, high costs for employing drones, and working challenges in unexpected situations with unpredictable people – i.e. clients and customers themselves. In addition, he says, it is difficult to overcome the efficiency and price of the “good UPS truck”.

Wing says she will use what she learned about Dallas drone delivery operations to quickly provide services to other cities that start in the coming months. In that area, 18 stores were equipped with 18 drones each. Adam Woodworth, CEO of the Pavilion Company, says they are submitting about 1000 requests per day. He says that the best delivery operations include napkins of children and eggs, as well as the elements that may not be delivered to a person usually but now she wants: a half liter of milk because the child wants a cup or a forgotten component. In most stores, wing workers choose, packages, and deploy drones orders; The plane -like drones, which contain five feet wings, can hold up to 5 pounds.

Parts of Dallas have access to drone delivery operations from a wide range of elements for a $ 20 charge fee, which is free to Walmart+ for $ 98. There is a limited set of items – which are generally priced differently from Walmart stores – available to all customers for free delivery from the Wing application. In initial expansion sites, only the last option to order through the Wing application will be available.