Walmart announced Thursday that it plans to expand its drone delivery services to five additional cities: Atlanta, Charlotte, N.C., Houston, and Orlando and Tampa, Fla. It already makes deliveries in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and in northwest Arkansas, near its Bentonville headquarters.

Walmart said it has completed more than 150,000 successful drone deliveries since 2021, though it did not specify how many of those deliveries have taken place within the last year. Drone technology, while of major interest to both the retail giant and its competitor Amazon, has been slow moving in terms of scaling up adoption. Last summer, Walmart grounded drones in Salt Lake City, Tampa and Phoenix, citing a desire to hone in on the Dallas-Forth Worth metro area. Those sites were operated by ex-par

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