Dexa pushes to revive Kroger drone delivery after BVLOS bottleneck
Beth Flippo says Dexa is again talking with Kroger after a 2021 pilot collapsed under costly line-of-sight rules.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Reuters
Why it matters
Drone delivery is moving from waiver-limited pilots toward regulated networks. Dexa's Kroger talks show the founder-level opportunity: small operators may finally get a scaling path, while Walmart, Amazon, Wing and Zipline bring far larger balance sheets to the same rule change.
Beth Flippo is trying to revive Dexa's Kroger drone-delivery program that stalled in 2021, telling Reuters that Dexa is in active talks with Kroger to restart the grocery pilot that both sides suspended after about eight months.…