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Kathleen Martin
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A company owned by Google parent Alphabet that is revolutionising “last mile” delivery services for fast food, coffee and even items tradies is expanding in Australia this year.
Drone delivery service Wing has taken off in Queensland and the ACT over recent years, starting out in Canberra in 2019 in a world-first.
Homes and commercial premises across the ACT have been able to have curries, burgers, ice cream, groceries, office supplies, pharmacy items, hardware products and even pet treats flown straight to them, with Vietnamese food chain Roll’d last week added to Wing’s delivery network.
The company has been in the sunshine state for two years and in another world first in August, began operating a drone delivery “nest” on the rooftop of Grand Plaza in Logan, south of Brisbane, sending out goods on-demand from a range of businesses at the shopping centre to surrounding suburbs within a 10km radius.
The business boomed last year as the pandemic raged on, with deliveries rocketing more than 600 per cent compared to 2020.
“It’s usually young families who take to the service pretty quickly. When Covid started and people were isolating at home, all of a sudden we saw a big uptake in our service from more elderly people,” spokesman Jesse Suskin told NCA NewsWire on Monday.
“Every lockdown in Canberra and Queensland, of which there were quite a few, we were having hundreds more people sign on to the service.”
Wing has very specific criteria for where it chooses to operate: fast growing, “urban sprawl” areas where residents don’t live within walking distance from their local shops and spend a lot of time in their cars.
Continue reading: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/drone-delivery-business-to-expand-in-qld-and-eyeing-off-other-states/news-story/9894919aefa95c6f5910e293a4ae2c41
Drone delivery service Wing has taken off in Queensland and the ACT over recent years, starting out in Canberra in 2019 in a world-first.
Homes and commercial premises across the ACT have been able to have curries, burgers, ice cream, groceries, office supplies, pharmacy items, hardware products and even pet treats flown straight to them, with Vietnamese food chain Roll’d last week added to Wing’s delivery network.
The company has been in the sunshine state for two years and in another world first in August, began operating a drone delivery “nest” on the rooftop of Grand Plaza in Logan, south of Brisbane, sending out goods on-demand from a range of businesses at the shopping centre to surrounding suburbs within a 10km radius.
The business boomed last year as the pandemic raged on, with deliveries rocketing more than 600 per cent compared to 2020.
“It’s usually young families who take to the service pretty quickly. When Covid started and people were isolating at home, all of a sudden we saw a big uptake in our service from more elderly people,” spokesman Jesse Suskin told NCA NewsWire on Monday.
“Every lockdown in Canberra and Queensland, of which there were quite a few, we were having hundreds more people sign on to the service.”
Wing has very specific criteria for where it chooses to operate: fast growing, “urban sprawl” areas where residents don’t live within walking distance from their local shops and spend a lot of time in their cars.
Continue reading: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/drone-delivery-business-to-expand-in-qld-and-eyeing-off-other-states/news-story/9894919aefa95c6f5910e293a4ae2c41
