Alphabet’s Delivery by Drone Surge to Stay-at-Home Customers
- Toilet paper, baby food, pastries flown to homes in Virginia
- Wing has been conducting delivery tests since October
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Alphabet Inc.’s Wing unit is seeing a dramatic increase in the number of customers using its drone delivery service in rural Virginia during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Wing, which began routine deliveries under a test program approved by the federal government last October, has added new vendors and expanded the items customers can order to better serve people during the epidemic, the company said in a statement Wednesday.