Sugar high: Girl Scout cookies delivered by drones

Wing, a subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet, says it added Girl Scout cookies to a pilot drone delivery service in Virginia to help scouts boost sales hit by pandemic.

Missing out on Thin Mints in the pandemic? A Google affiliate is using drones to deliver Girl Scout cookies to people’s doorsteps in a Virginia community. The town of Christiansburg has been a testing ground for commercial delivery drones operated by Wing, a subsidiary of Google’s corporate parent Alphabet. Now the company is adding the iconic boxed cookies to the more mundane drugstore offerings, FedEx packages and locally-made pastries, tacos and cold brew coffees it’s been hauling to a thinly populated area of residential subdivisions since 2019.