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Students at Loyola University Maryland are the first to use Amazon.com Inc.’s Just Walk Out technology in a Grubhub partnership. The tech enables students, faculty, and staff to shop and walk out with their purchases billed within the app. Funding sources can be a meal plan, account balance, or credit or debit card.
Announced Tuesday, the deployment is the first Grubhub-partnered campus to use the tech. Developed by Amazon initially for its own stores, the tech has since been used at Six Flags Great Adventure and other campuses in a deal with Transact Campus Inc.
At Loyola’s Baltimore campus, the purchase experience starts with the customer scanning a QR code in the Grubhub app to enter. The Just Walk Out tech detects what each shopper removes from or returns to the shelves.
“When guests have completed their shopping experience, they are able to leave the store without having to wait in line and the payment will automatically be deducted from their meal plan, declining account balance, or other store payment methods linked to their Grubhub account when they leave the store,” Chicago-based Grubhub says.
The Just Walk Out technology debuted in 2016 in testing and became available to the public when Amazon opened a Seattle Amazon Go store to all in 2018.
Grubhub says it works with 300 higher-education institutions and it has the only food-ordering and delivery marketplace that works with campus-dining programs. Students at Loyola can get access to Grubhub+, a plan that includes no delivery fees on eligible orders, discounts, and donation matching.
