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Alphabet’s drone delivery outfit, Wing, has inked a deal with a major Australian supermarket chain that will see it deliver household staples – in small bundles. The chain is called Coles and its 800-plus stores collectively earn AU$38 billion (US$28B) a year in revenue and account for almost 30 per …

After graduating from Alphabet‘s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) moonshot factory, X, last summer, Wing commenced commercial drone deliveries in Australia last month after obtaining regulatory approval in that country. That was after conducting a pilot program over the course of 18 months, and the company has previously said it was preparing to …

In July, I wrote about how Wing – one of Google X’s pet drone projects – “graduated” to become a full company under the Alphabet banner. Now, after months of testing its drone delivery service in Australia, the company is expanding to Europe with a trial planned in Finland next …