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Kroger is rapidly expanding its e-commerce grocery capabilities, announcing three new locations for fulfillment centers.

Jun. 13—Kroger's first commercial drone delivery only took a few minutes Wednesday. But there's an historical through-line between that brief flight in Centerville and years of work by local advocates pursuing federal authorization for a certain kind of drone research in the Dayton and Springfield areas. That first drone delivery did not happen in the New Jersey backyard of TELEGRID ...

E-commerce keeps evolving at a staggering pace as large retail chains constantly look for ways to automate the process, expand and become more cost-effective. And drone delivery seems to tick all the boxes for yet another big grocery chain.

Kroger joins drone delivery race with pilot from Ohio store BLOOMBERG Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg Rodney McMullen, Kroger’s chairman and CEO, wants to double the retailers digital sales by 2023. Kroger Co. is diving into drone delivery, starting a pilot at a store near its Cincinnati headquarters. The Cincinnati-based supermarket chain is partnering with Drone Express, a unit of Telegrid Technologies, to deliver groceries from a store in Centerville, Ohio, later this spring, the companies sai...