When Google distributes cookies, it's referring to the fragmentary pieces of text sent to a web browser to improve personalized ads. When Wing, the search leviathan's drone-delivery subsidiary, talks about delivering cookies, it actually, well, delivers cookies. As in the baked, sometimes chewy confectionary sold door-to-door by Girl Scouts.
"We began talking to the local [Girl Scout] troop in Christiansburg [Virginia] about a month ago," Lia Reich, global communications lead for Wing, told Digital Trends. "Even with loosening COVID restrictions, the traditional method of selling cookies outside of grocery stores or shops is difficult this year, and sales are down about 50% from prior years."
So Wing decided to help, and, in the process, publicly demo another possible use case for the eagerly anticipated (and, in some select locations, already happening) dream of drone delivery. Through the end of May, locals in Christiansburg — a quiet, restful town in Montgomery County, Virginia — can order their Girl Scout cookies to instead be delivered by drone, via the Wing app. The cookies will be packed up and flown direct to the customers' homes.
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