7-Eleven, the world’s largest convenience store chain, shared new numbers from its drone delivery experiment today. Seventy-seven customers in Reno, Nev., have now received items ordered from 7-Eleven delivered to their doorsteps via drone.
All 77 flights were from one store to a dozen select customers who live within a mile of the shop. 7-Eleven has partnered with the drone maker Flirtey for its delivery pilot.
— ReCode
It marks the first regular commercial drone delivery service to operate in the United States, flying ahead of other, potentially bigger drone delivery projects that haven’t yet been able to take off in the U.S. — like Alphabet’s Project Wing and Amazon’s Prime Air, the latter of which only demonstrated its first delivery to a customer last week.
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what in hell one would currently order from 7-11 for home delivery by a drone?
D00D, don't mess with my meth deliveries, err Slurpee.
And a Slurpee.
77 flights to 12 customers. Maybe I can't read.
77 flights to a dozen customers, WHO LIVE WITHIN A MILE OF THE SHOP?! Slurpees are that important. You wouldn't want it to melt on the walk home.
I could never find more than 1-2 items to buy at a 7-11. Clearly I'm not normal. Thank the lord.
Big whoop. Call me when they do sevenhundredeleven successful deliveries.
(Kidding. Honestly, the world is in for a big change in how we classify "work".)
Oh, also, in arch undergrad the only break we ever took from all-nighters was to walk a block to 7-11 for PopTarts. Drone delivery allows you to keep working, BUT the break is actually healthy. I'm conflicted.
This "but mostly over-the-counter medicines" is interesting. I am thinking antacids or imodium. Or like b3ta said, meth (or at least ingredients for it?).
If you just provide coordinates, 7-11 can fly the ingredients to the ice fishing house you are using as a "lab."
every morning I purchase Coke or ReBull and a pack of gum at 7-11. The RedBull doors have alarms on them because junkies like to jack RedBull. Until 7-11 uses racing leauge drones, I am not intrigued. http://thedroneracingleague.com/
Do they deliver beer across the border?
I'd like to get myself some sweet sweet Burlington brews up here. 1 mile = 400 kilometers right?
Non you bring up an nitrating point. With the exchange rate...
Chris? What, no Pork Roll Egg and Cheese? You fraud.
In my old hood kids would be catching those drones with fishing nets...
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