Drone grocery delivery is headed for Salt Lake City.

That’s according to Walmart and Alphabet, the parent company of Google, which announced the move this week.

Alphabet’s Wing drones can travel at speeds of up to 60 mph to deliver groceries, medications, electronics and other items to customers in as little as 30 minutes — using a tether to “gently lower packages directly to a customer’s yard or driveway,” according to a news release.

The companies announced Salt Lake City on Tuesday as one of seven new metros in their drone-delivery network, joining Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston, where drone deliveries are already available.

The news release said the service would “soon” be available in Salt Lake City. A spokesperson said the goal is to begin operations by 2027.

Before launching in each city, the companies say they “work closely with local leaders and community leaders.”

Walmart and Wing have already announced the service in Miami, Orlando, Tampa, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Los Angeles, but their website indicates those locations have not yet begun deliveries.

Other cities announced Monday include Memphis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego and the San Francisco Bay area.

The companies hope to expand to more than 270 locations by 2027.

Once the service is available, customers in the delivery area should see the option for drone delivery on the Walmart app or website, as well as through the Wing app or at wing.com/walmart.

Deliveries will be dependent on weather conditions and are typically only available if the customer is located within 6 to 8 miles of a store and the package weighs 2.1 pounds or less, according to Walmart.

Drone delivery service has been long-promised but slow to take off in the U.S., in part because of Federal Aviation Administration regulations, the Associated Press reported last summer.

In Utah, Walmart had already once partnered with a drone delivery provider in 2022, aiming to serve both Herriman and Lindon residents. The company halted that service in 2024, saying at the time that the model wasn’t able to scale up, Axios reported.

But more recently, the FAA proposed a rule last year that “would make it easier for companies to fly drones outside of an operator’s line of sight and therefore over longer distances,” the Associated Press reported.

While that rule has not yet been approved, companies like Wing and Amazon are making moves to scale up.

“You want to be at the right moment where there’s an overlap between the customer demand, the partner demand, the technical readiness and the regulatory readiness,” Wing CEO Adam Woodworth told the Associated Press in 2025. “I think that we’re reaching that planetary alignment right now.”