{"id":124553,"date":"2026-01-15T17:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/124553\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:40:10","slug":"walmart-launches-first-drone-delivery-service-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/124553\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart launches first drone delivery service in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Starting Thursday, Houston residents can order groceries, household essentials, and over-the-counter medicine from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Walmart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Walmart\/\">Walmart<\/a> and have them delivered by drone in minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Deliveries are available from five local Walmart stores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The launch event, attended by press, partners, and city officials, will feature the Metro area\u2019s first-ever residential drone delivery flight. Attendees can watch the drone take off, tour Wing\u2019s \u201cNest\u201d delivery hub, and hear from Walmart and Wing executives about the service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Eligible items for drone delivery include groceries, last-minute gifts, household essentials, and over-the-counter medicine. The service promises to deliver forgotten items, like fresh tomatoes or ground beef for dinner, in as fast as 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Residents can check their address eligibility and join the waitlist for future expansion at <a href=\"https:\/\/wing.com\/walmart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wing.com\/walmart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">A launch event is happening at 11 a.m. Thursday, located at 15955 FM 529 in Houston. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starting Thursday, Houston residents can order groceries, household essentials, and over-the-counter medicine from Walmart and have them delivered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[53898,56,58,57,20263,53896,25236,53897],"class_list":["post-124553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-drone-delivery","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-walmart","tag-walmart-delivery","tag-walmart-drone","tag-wing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}