It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s drone delivery drop-off descending into Memphis-area market soon
Walmart and Wing's delivery drones can travel between 100 and 200 feet in the air at around 60 miles per hour. (Courtesy Wing)
If you live in the Bartlett area and see small bundles drifting from the sky to your neighbor’s driveway later this year, don’t worry.
It’s not “Disclosure Day.” The alien arrival hasn’t begun.
Yet.
The flight is more delivery than invasion.
Walmart and Wing drone deliveries are set to take flight over Bartlett, possibly later this year, from the Walmart at 8400 U.S. 64. An exact launch date from the store on the suburb’s eastern edge has not yet been set.
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Michael Waddell
Michael Waddell is a native Memphian with more than 20 years of professional writing and editorial experience, working most recently with The Daily News and High Ground News.
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