Local Safeway introducing low-sensory shopping experience
By Medicine Hat News on June 16, 2019.
Safeway at the Medicine Hat Mall will be hosting a special, low-sensory shopping experience every week starting Sunday evening. The store will have its lights dimmed, cash register noises limited and no employees will be stocking shelves between 6 and 7 p.m. – giving people a chance to shop in a quiet environment. “People with disabilities, specifically autism, tend to have really high sensory processing needs,” said CORE’s service co-ordinator Lisa Maggrah, a group that is working to promote the evening shopping hour. “We want people who can’t normally go shopping like this to experience it in a positive way.” Maggrah says Safeway is planning on holding these low-sensory nights on a weekly basis. More information can be found by calling CORE’s office or Safeway’s mall location. 6-5
