The Automous Future Will Be In Atlanta Soon.

Axios Atlanta reports that Wal-Mart will soon offer drone delivery at some metro-Atlanta stores.

The big picture: The expansion is the retailer’s latest move to tap technology to get goods to customers faster and easier, and it has real bottom line consequences for the retailer.

• “When we see a customer adopt fast delivery, their spend with Walmart doubles, and then when they use it four times, spend triples,” the company’s Chief Operating Officer Kieran Shanahan said Thursday.

The latest: Working with drone provider Wing, Walmart will launch the drone service at 100 stores, building on existing operations in Northwest Arkansas and Dallas-Fort Worth.

• Wing drones can fly up to 6 miles from their store.

Wing was incubated at Google and is part of the Alphabet family.

Last week, my family and I took a vacation in sunny California. While in San Francisco, I noticed that the autonomous taxi company Waymo had cars everywhere, and it seems San Franciscians and tourists have embraced them.

I’ve written before about Waymo’s presence in Atlanta. Since that post, they’ve identified a zone of operation and are now offering rides through the Uber app.

I hope Waymo’s fate in Atlanta resembles San Francisco, and they don’t experience what they’re currently experiencing in Los Angeles.

An autonomous future is out there, and it’s making its way to Atlanta. Consider yourself warned.