Wing to expand drone delivery to 150 more Walmart stores

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

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

The expansion shows customers using Wing’s drone delivery services enough to warrant growth. Rivera said the top 25% of customers use the service three times a week. Some of the most commonly ordered items are eggs, beef, fresh tomatoes, avocados, limes, pastries, and snacks such as Takis.

The announcement of the 150-store expansion follows plans announced in June 2025 to launch in Houston, Orlando, Tampa, and Charlotte. Rivera said Wing will launch in Houston on Jan. 15. Once the expansion is complete, Wing will operate from more than 270 Walmart stores, including Los Angeles, St.

Announcement of place in the former Google X project firmly in the commercial enterprise category. And while Wing has a partnership with DoorDash, its primary avenue for commercial operations was, and still is, through Walmart.

The first company to cooperate 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 expanded to 18 Walmart Supercenters in Dallas-Fort Worth and more recently to stores in Atlanta.

Wing will continue to develop technology and operations, according to Rivera; The company recently completed the first commercial flight for a larger aircraft that can carry a payload of five pounds, for example. But mostly, he said Wing is focused on finding services at Walmart sites and consolidating the operation.

Rivera said Wing will try several different approaches to expand operations like clustering store openings. That’s the approach Wing used last year when it launched six stores simultaneously in Atlanta. Rivera would not indicate if the operation was profitable or when it was possible. But Rivera noted he was brought to the scale of the business.

“And that’s what I have to do, and be happy,” he said, then noted that “volume always powers our flywheel.” In other words, scale to many stores in many markets is essential to the economics of the business.