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Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher

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🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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0:00.0	Blaze Radio Network.
0:03.0	And now, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher.
0:06.0	Those of you who have become accustomed to getting Walmart deliveries to your home from drones in Phoenix, Salt Lake City, and Tampa,
0:17.8	you're going to have to dry your eyes because they are pulling the plug on that.
0:22.0	I know, very sad. Now they're pulling the plug on that. I know very sad. Now they're pulling the plug on that
0:25.1	so that they can up their drone delivery in the Dallas-Fort Worth area which
0:31.6	makes me very happy because I am just outside of their
0:35.9	drone delivery service so I'm hoping that this puts me in their drone
0:40.7	delivery service I'll let you know how it is. Now those three
0:46.1	cities were the big rollout in 2022 but now no more. So 70 employees, about 17% of drone ups staff are losing jobs in those cities
1:00.2	and the reduction will cut drone-ups delivery service to 15 Walmart locations, 11 in
1:06.2	Dallas, 3 near Walmart's Bentonville, Arkansas headquarters, and 1 in Virginia Beach where Drone Up is based.
1:15.0	Drone Up CEO Tom Walker said that Phoenix Salt Lake City in Tampa
1:20.0	provided valuable lessons about consumer demand, but were way too small to be sustainable.
1:27.0	So what they're really focusing on now is automation and a drone with a higher payload capacity and longer range.
1:34.6	Wow.
1:35.4	So earlier this year, they drone up, which is partially owned by Walmart,
1:40.6	big surprise, unveiled a proprietary autonomous drone ecosystem that Walker
1:46.0	says will revolutionize last mile logistics.
1:50.0	Okay, well I mean that's what the issue is.
1:53.7	And it also includes automated climate controlled storage
1:57.4	locker where drones can pick up and drop off packages
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