Canberra

Wing – a subsidiary of a subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet – quietly ceased flying convenience items such as food, coffee and pharmacy items to Gungahlin suburbs at the end of August.

Wing’s Australian spokesperson Jesse Suskin told ABC radio that the company had decided to move away from leasing and running its own merchant-stocked warehouses to flying from large shopping centres in densely populated areas, such as south-east Queensland.