Fresh Living magazine Braille edition.
Pick n Pay’s Fresh Living magazine is now available in Braille, making it the first supermarket in South Africa to offer this to its customers.
The May issue of Fresh Living was recently piloted in Braille with 250 visually-impaired customers, and following a very positive response, will officially be trialled for two months in selected stores across the country.
The June Fresh Living Braille edition launched in selected stores this week and can be picked up at the customer care desk.
Free to Smart Shopper customers, Fresh Living has grown from 60 000 copies at launch to over 500 000 copies per month. It provides readers with lifestyle inspiration, the latest food and drink news and accessible, everyday family recipes with each edition.
It is this popularity that led a loyal customer, Jennine Britz, to contact Pick n Pay and offer her Braille translation services in order to share her favourite magazine with the visually-impaired community of South Africa.
Classified as blind, Britz has worked closely with Pick n Pay and Fresh Living’s publisher John Brown since September last year to develop the sample copy and make the Braille edition of Fresh Living a reality.
The edition was piloted in April with the Centres for the Blind in KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Bloemfontein and Johannesburg.
Copies were shared with visually impaired readers who shared their feedback and ideas on how to refine the Braille version.
“Fresh Living magazine is a wonderfully inclusive publication, and this takes us one excellent step further,” says John Bradshaw, marketing retail executive at Pick n Pay.
Britz says that the foundation of her Braille printing company came from her experience as a blind person living in a sighted-persons world.
Editor of Fresh Living, Justine Drake, says: “At Fresh Living, we make much of celebrating and embracing our differences, and our decision to print a Braille version of the country’s largest food and lifestyle magazine seemed to present a really tangible way to demonstrate this.
“I hope it brings much joy and inspiration to our blind and partially sighted communities.”
Gauteng: Welkom, Gallomanor, Florida, Bethlehem, Local Leandre, Embalenhle, Rosebank, Kensington, Clearwater Mall, Westgate, Sasolburg, Bedfordview, Kroonstad, Kimberley, Lenasia, Daveyton, Auckland Park, Secunda, Blackheath, Carlton Centre, Chrishani Crossing, The Falls, Brandwag, Victory Park, Vaal Mall, Diepkloof, Southgate and The Bridge
Eastern Cape: Langeberg Mall, WoodMill Lane Centre, Baywest, Family Grahamstown, Family Mdantsene, Family Port Alfred, Cleary park and Family King Williams Town.
KZN: Local Maluti Crescent v Western Cape: Tygervalley, Paarl Mall, Constantia, Pinelands, Vangate, Claremont, Cavendish, N1 City, Mountain Mill, Worcester, Stellenbosch, Kenilworth Campus, Local Poppy’s Retreat, Local Boston, Local Monte Vista, Waterfront, Bellville and Longbeach.
Northern region: Gezina, Wonderboom Junction and Tramshed.
Hypermarkets: Klerksdorp, Greenstone, Centurion, Ottery and Princess Crossing.
Societies for the blind: KZN society for the blind; CT society for the blind, Nkosinathi foundation for blind and partially-sighted people, BFN, Society for the blind and Partially-sighted, JHB.
For more news your way, download The Citizen’s app for iOS and Android.
Download our app and read this and other great stories on the move. Available for Android and iOS.
