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Wing and Walmart start drone delivery in Memphis from three stores in Tennessee and Arkansas

Wing says homes around Walmart Supercenters in Bartlett and Cordova, Tennessee, and West Memphis, Arkansas, can order by drone as of November 10. The company calls these its first deliveries in Tennessee.

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Wing delivery aircraft carrying a Walmart package in flight (file photo, not taken in Memphis)
Wing delivery aircraft carrying a Walmart package in flight (file photo, not taken in Memphis). Image: Wing / Walmart

Decision brief

If you live near the Bartlett, Cordova, or West Memphis stores, check your address in the Walmart app or at wing.com/walmart. Wing says people whose street is not covered yet can join a waitlist. Orders have to be small. Wing says its drones carry up to 2.75 pounds per trip for now.

Stores live
3

Bartlett and Cordova, Tennessee, and West Memphis, Arkansas

Order limit
2.75 lb

Per trip for now, Wing says, with 5 pounds coming

Metros now serving
6

As marked on Wing's Walmart page on November 11

The launch

Wing's first deliveries in Tennessee.

Wing and Walmart started drone delivery in the Memphis area on Tuesday, November 10. Wing announced the launch that day and said it marks the company's first deliveries in Tennessee. Wing says customers can get thousands of everyday Walmart items, from groceries to household and baby items, delivered to their yards in as fast as 30 minutes.

Where

Two Tennessee stores and one in Arkansas.

Wing says the service is available to "tens of thousands of homes" around three Walmart Supercenters. Two are in Tennessee: store #950 at 8400 U.S. Highway 64 in Bartlett and store #2322 at 577 N. Germantown Parkway in Cordova. The third is store #70 at 798 W. Service Road in West Memphis, Arkansas.

How it works

Small orders, lowered on a tether.

Customers can order in the Walmart app, on Walmart.com, or in the Wing app. Wing says its drones carry up to 2.75 pounds per trip now and that the limit is "expanding to 5 pounds soon." The company says the aircraft cruise at 150 to 200 feet and up to 60 mph. At the home, Wing says, the drone hovers at roughly 23 feet and lowers the package on a tether. WMC Action News 5 in Memphis reports that drone delivery costs $19.99 per order.

The network

Six metros now, nearly 20 planned by 2027.

Wing and Walmart named Memphis on June 8 as one of seven new metros for their network. Wing's Walmart page now marks six metros as "Now serving": Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Memphis, and Orlando. In the Memphis announcement, Wing says the two companies plan to reach nearly 20 major U.S. metros by 2027, including Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, and Miami.

The June announcement that named MemphisOur report on the seven metros Wing and Walmart added in June.

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