{"id":113103,"date":"2020-09-16T17:02:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T00:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/walmart-now-piloting-on-demand-drone-delivery-with-flytrex"},"modified":"2020-09-16T17:02:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T00:02:33","slug":"walmart-now-piloting-on-demand-drone-delivery-with-flytrex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/walmart-now-piloting-on-demand-drone-delivery-with-flytrex","title":{"rendered":"Walmart Now Piloting On-Demand Drone Delivery with Flytrex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/walmart-now-piloting-on-demand-drone-delivery-with-flytrex2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sept. 9, 2020 By Tom Ward, Senior Vice President, Customer Product, Walmart.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago, our founder Sam Walton famously said, \u201cI have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they\u2019ve been.\u201d It remains a guiding principle at Walmart to this day. From being an early pioneer of universal bar codes and electronic scanning cash registers to our work on autonomous vehicle delivery, we\u2019re working to understand how these technologies can impact the future of our business and help us better serve our customers.<\/p>\n<p>Our latest initiative has us exploring how drones can deliver items in a way that\u2019s convenient, safe, and \u2013 you guessed it \u2013 fast. Today, we\u2019re taking the next step in our exploration of on-demand delivery by announcing a new pilot with Flytrex, an end-to-end drone delivery company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 9, 2020 By Tom Ward, Senior Vice President, Customer Product, Walmart. Years ago, our founder Sam Walton famously said, \u201cI have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they\u2019ve been.\u201d It remains a guiding principle at Walmart to this day. From being an early pioneer of universal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}