U.S: Zipline Drone Delivery Announces Collaboration with Health and Wellness Brand GNC

Zipline Drone Deliv­ery has announced its lat­est col­lab­o­ra­tion, this time with health and well­ness retail­er, GNC, reports a press release. Ini­tial­ly, the drones will be deliv­er­ing only in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The release explains, “With the rein­ven­tion of its retail roadmap, GNC is con­tin­u­ing to iden­ti­fy inno­v­a­tive, emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies that enable the busi­ness to get its expert­ly for­mu­lat­ed, sci­ence-backed prod­ucts into the hands of con­sumers faster and more effi­cient­ly than ever before. The com­pa­ny is now part­ner­ing with Zipline, the world’s largest autonomous deliv­ery sys­tem, to offer a ful­ly elec­tric drone deliv­ery option in select mar­kets in the U.S in 2023 and beyond.”

The announce­ment fol­lows a suc­cess­ful GNC launch of Same Day Deliv­ery; Buy Online Pick­up In Store; and Ship from Store as well as the intro­duc­tion of social sell­ing on GNC.com via Sales­floor.

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Alan Chester, Chief Sup­ply Chain Offi­cer at GNC, com­ment­ed, “Part­ner­ing with Zipline is pro­pelling us to the cut­ting edge in the retail cat­e­go­ry. Drone deliv­ery is an inno­v­a­tive way to make our ful­fil­ment, dis­tri­b­u­tion and deliv­ery process­es more effi­cient, more effec­tive and faster, ulti­mate­ly ben­e­fit­ing our con­sumers.”

For res­i­dents in Salt Lake City, those who wish to use Zipline to deliv­er their goods from GNC, need to first sign up with the drone com­pa­ny at https://www.flyzipline.com/gnc and con­firm their deliv­ery address.

Chester con­tin­ued, “The drone deliv­ery light­ens the bur­den on our dual dis­tri­b­u­tion cen­tres and those con­sumers liv­ing close by will get pur­chas­es much faster.”

Alan Chester

In Utah, GNC will start by using Zipline’s Plat­form 1 long-range deliv­ery sys­tem, which fea­tures a fleet of small, fixed-wing, ful­ly autonomous air­craft that oper­ate qui­et­ly and release pack­ages with para­chutes to a customer’s yard. In 2024, GNC will begin using Zipline’s new­ly announced Plat­form 2 sys­tem, which is designed specif­i­cal­ly for urban deliv­ery.

Irene Sch­er, Senior Vice Pres­i­dent of U.S Go-To-Mar­ket at Zipline, said, “We pro­vide the best deliv­ery expe­ri­ence on earth for con­sumers and busi­ness­es of any size and indus­try. It is faster, more con­ve­nient and also bet­ter for the envi­ron­ment than tra­di­tion­al auto­mo­tive deliv­ery.” Adding, “We’re excit­ed for GNC cus­tomers to use Zipline to achieve their well­ness goals in a far more con­ve­nient way than before.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.flyzipline.com/

https://www.gnc.com/

(Top image: Zipline)