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Retail TouchPoints
APRIL 5, 2024
Uber Eats has expanded its partnership with Waymo — the autonomous vehicle division of Google parent company Alphabet — adding driverless food deliveries in the Phoenix-area cities of Tempe, Mesa and Chandler, Ariz. This is just the latest effort by Uber Eats to expand autonomous deliveries.
Retail TouchPoints
JANUARY 10, 2024
Walmart is dramatically expanding its drone delivery footprint in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex, operating from stores in 30 towns and municipalities and opening up airborne delivery to up to 75% of the area’s population. Area stores’ delivery radius will be up to 10 miles. in a statement. in a statement.
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Retail TouchPoints
AUGUST 29, 2023
Walmart ’s drone delivery program is already well underway, with the retailer having completed 10,000 deliveries over the last two years in partnership with DroneUp. Now Walmart is expanding its efforts to offer “drone deliveries at scale,” through a new partnership with Google parent company Alphabet.
Retail TouchPoints
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Walmart has introduced parcel stations — essentially mini “post offices” designed to streamline stores’ receiving and delivering of orders — and will have them operating in more than 40 stores by the end of 2023. Many are operating now, in time for the holiday season, and Walmart plans to expand the stations to additional stores next year.
Retail TouchPoints
JANUARY 4, 2024
Despite now being a regular occurrence around the world, for many, drone delivery still carries an aura of sci-fi mysticism. A recent study by Northwestern University found that drones and ground-based robots are particularly off-putting for consumers — even compared to other automated delivery options like self-driving cars.
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