Alphabet-owned Wing and Walmart have more than doubled their Greater Houston drone delivery footprint, spinning up eight additional Nests at Walmart Supercenters beginning July 8, 2026. The expansion brings the region's operational sites to 13 and puts autonomous tether-drop delivery within reach of more than one million residents across Houston, Spring, New Caney, Katy, Crosby and Kemah.
From five stores to thirteen in six months
Wing and Walmart launched Greater Houston in January 2026 with five stores; the July 8 additions include Walmart locations at 13003 Tomball Parkway, 12353 FM 1960 Road West, 2901 Riley Fuzzel Road in Spring, 20310 US Highway 59 in New Caney, 1025 Sawdust Road, 13484 Northwest Freeway, 13750 East Freeway and 3506 Highway 6 South. Each store becomes a Nest — a rooftop or lot-mounted pad where a Walmart associate loads a package onto a Wing aircraft that cruises around 150 feet at up to 60 mph and lowers the parcel by tether to a picnic-blanket-sized spot on a customer's property.
1 million deliveries and rising demand
The Houston push follows Walmart's disclosure that Wing has crossed 1 million lifetime drone deliveries across 66 stores in five metros, with more than 200,000 completed in Texas alone. Forty percent of those deliveries landed in Walmart's fiscal Q1 2027 alone, a signal that shoppers are moving from novelty orders to repeat use for baby wipes, medicine, ingredients and other 2.5-pound-and-under essentials. Walmart says average delivery time is 23 minutes, with a record of 4 minutes 44 seconds.
A coast-to-coast build-out to 270 stores
The expansion is a warm-up for a much bigger 2026 pipeline. Wing and Walmart in June named seven new metros for launch this year — Memphis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area and Salt Lake City — as part of a plan to reach 40 million Americans across more than 270 stores by 2027. It slots into a broader Wing operating push that includes FAA Part 135 additions in California, Zipline's Austin and Cleveland launches and Wing's healthcare-focused rival buys across the drone delivery sector.
Reporting based on coverage from Wing, Walmart and My Neighborhood News.