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Missing out on getting your fix of your coworker’s daughter’s Girl Scouts Thin Mints during the pandemic? Now, a Google affiliate in Virginia is using drones to deliver Girl Scout cookies to people’s homes in Virginia.
The town of Christiansburg, Virginia, has been a testing ground for commercial delivery drones operated by Wing, a subsidiary of Google’s corporate parent Alphabet.
And now the company is adding the iconic boxed cookies to the mix of drugstore offerings, FedEx packages, locally made pastries, tacos and cold brew coffees that it’s been hauling to a thinly populated area of residential subdivisions since 2019.