Wing will expand its drone delivery service to 150 more Walmart stores

Wing, the Alphabet-owned company that offers groceries, over-the-counter medications and hot lattes, is expanding its partnership with Walmart for the second time in less than a year.

The two companies on Sunday announced plans to bring on-demand drone delivery to an additional 150 Walmart stores. The rollout, which builds on existing services at stores in Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta, will happen throughout this year and into 2027, Heather Rivera, Wing’s head of new business, told TechCrunch.

The expansion indicates that customers are using Wing’s drone delivery service enough to warrant growth. Rivera said the top 25% of her clients use the service three times a week. Some of the most popular items are eggs, ground beef, fresh tomatoes, avocados, limes, and snack foods and snacks like takis.

The 150-store expansion announcement comes on the heels of joint plans in June 2025 to launch in Houston, Orlando, Tampa and Charlotte. Wing will launch in Houston on Jan. 15, Rivera said. Once the expansion is complete, Wing will operate out of more than 270 Walmart stores, including Los Angeles, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Miami, serving approximately 10% of the U.S. population.

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The companies entered into a partnership for the first time in 2023, Launch a pilot program To test on-demand drone delivery at two stores in the Dallas metro area, reaching about 60,000 homes. The program later grew to 18 Walmart Supercenters in Dallas-Fort Worth and recently spread to stores in Atlanta.

Wing will continue to develop its technology and processes, according to Rivera; The company recently completed the first commercial flights of its larger planes that can carry a five-pound payload, for example. But overall, she said Wing is focused on sharing its services at Walmart locations and integrating into its operations.

Rivera said Wing will likely try a couple of different approaches to expanding its operations such as pooling store openings. It’s an approach Wing used last year when it launched six stores together in Atlanta. Rivera will not share if or when its operations may be profitable. But Rivera noted that she was brought in to expand the business.

“And that’s what I’m here to do, and I’m passionate about it,” she said, later noting that “volume is definitely what moves our flywheel.” In other words, expanding into as many stores as possible in as many markets as possible is crucial to the economics of its business.