here's something shoppers who live within a 50-mile radius of walmart headquarters in arkansas can now get items dropped off by drone the retail giant is teaming up with the drone delivery company zipline to parachute packages of goods to everyday shoppers cbs's aero barnett got an exclusive look while the supply chain backlog continues to choke ports and trucking routes many companies are now looking to the skies for solutions it's unbelievably exciting we've been working towards the state for many many years liam o'connor is zipline's chief operating officer we have done over 220 000 commercial deliveries in
overseas markets for us the promise of ultra fast delivery is is really to give access to all kinds of communities to all kinds of products once a customer places an order via the zipline walmart app items are packaged inside this specially designed box with a parachute so the first step we're doing is scanning the package so by now someone's ordered something it's been packaged up and now it's in your hand that's correct flight operations lead evan britton showed us how it's launched next we'll install the parachute and load the package into the payload bay latches
in and the next step will be to install the battery it's inspection complete zipline 963. roger watching zipline 963 in three two one for now these zips as they're called are able to drop payloads within a 50 mile radius of p ridge arkansas but walmart and zipline hope to one day expand the service nationwide if our customers enjoy the service we'll scale it so in future holidays this is probably going to play a really big part in getting things in a hurry tom ward runs walmart's last mile delivery operations customers expect us to save the
money they need us to save them time and when it comes to saving time what better way to do it than viadron zipline is part of a growing list of companies looking to make commercial drone delivery more accessible each zip returns to home base and hooks itself to this suspension cable normal recovery zipline 963. where it awaits its next mission now currently this service is free there is no cost to customers as both walmart and zipline gather data and feedback to see if this is something people really want if so the expectation is that this
service could expand across the country tony meantime heads up if you live in northern arkansas errol thank you very much
