'JS Journal', June 1973

Table of content

• Contents Page
  01

  1,400 at veterans'
  jubilee lunch
  Page 2
  Four new French wines
  on sale
  Page 4
  The night race
  Pages 6-7
  JS win Cambridge
  appeal
  Page 8
  When the sirens
  sounded...
  Page 2
  Staggering home
  from work
  Page 8

• Flood nearly stopped Orpington opening
  01

  Flood nearly stopped Orpington opening With a sigh of relief - and
  many crossed fingers - Orpington
  had a dry opening.
  The store had been constantly
  'water penetrated' from the
  time it was taken over to the
  opening on May 8....

• Stamford Group gives kids a holiday
  01

  Stamford Group gives kids a holiday Sixty-nine deprived children
  from Blackfriars had an
  action-packed seaside holiday,
  thanks to the efforts and
  interest of JS staff at Blackfriars.
  Under the auspices of the
  Stamford Group,...

• Watches for 53 at 25 Club's record dinner
  01

  Watches for 53 at 25 Club's record dinner For the first and probably
  the last time in JS history
  nearly all the 747 members of
  the JS 25 Club - for employees
  who have completed 25 years'
  service - sat down together
  for the...

• 1,400 at veterans' jubilee lunch
  02

  1,400 at veterans' jubilee lunch
  This year's veterans' gettogether
  was a slap-up lunch,
  held at the Royal Lancaster
  Hotel on June 2.
  The special occasion was to
  celebrate the 25th anniversary
  of the formation of...

• Basingstoke's first wine-in goes well 's first i well
  02

  Basingstoke's first wine-in goes well
  's first
  i well Some of the finer points of
  home-brewing and winemaking
  were debated at the
  JS Wine Club's first official
  taste-in and committee
  meeting, held at Basingstoke
  earlier...

• Better carriers will all cost 1p
  02

  Better carriers will all cost 1p Because of the high cost of
  providing free carrier bags,
  JS is to change its policy and
  introduce a new, larger bag,
  for which a charge of 1 p will
  be made. Up to now the bags
  have been given...

• Food for one
  02

  JS have just published a
  new booklet. Entitled 'Food
  for one', the book gives advice
  on shopping and cooking for
  Food for one those living on their own. It
  contains 28 recipes and costs
  lOp. More about the book in
  our next...

• JS builds over old priory
  02

  JS builds over old priory The remains of a medieval
  priory have been uncovered
  at the site of the new Hastings
  store - and it's hoped that
  they can be preserved. Work
  began on the 1,640 sq metres
  (17,653 sq ft) store in...

• Meet Sainsbury the rabbit
  02

  Meet Sainsbury the rabbit
  rabbit
  Charmed by the news that a play 'What happened to
  Sainsbury' was being produced, JS lent a Worcester theatre
  all it needed to stage a supermarket scene. Picture shows
  Sainsbury the rabbit star...

• Miss Sou-west is a June bride
  02

  Miss Sou-west is a June bride
  Linda Stratford from Chesham and currently Miss JS Southwest,
  wants to settle down and have two children. But don't all
  rush, lads - she's chosen her man and gets wed on June 30!

• When the sirens sounded...
  02

  When the sirens sounded...
  When the sirens sounded in
  London on Thursday May
  24 it was only a flood
  warning practice - but it
  could have been for real.
  For, at certain times of the
  year and in certain weather
  conditions, a...

• 15 girls say 'thank you' to JS branch
  03

  15 girls say 'thank you' to JS branch When 15 girls from a local
  secondary school visited the
  Boreham Wood branch on
  May 16 manager Michael
  McHale used the visit as an
  excercise for his junior staff.
  Mr McHale welcomed...

• JS hold Harris to a tie
  03

  JS hold Harris to a tie The annual cricket match
  between JS and Harris of
  Calne, played on Saturday
  June 2 at Dulwich in fine
  sunshine, resulted in a draw.
  JS, the home side and holders
  of the cup, retained it
  for the...

• Kettering men take darts cup again
  03

  Kettering men take darts cup again
  For the first time ever, the
  annual Midlands five-a-side
  darts competition was won for
  the second year running
  by the same team when
  Kettering beat Coventry Area
  Office in the final on May...

• Pork steaks and mince for braising
  03

  Pork steaks and mince for braising Discerning cooks are demanding
  a greater variety
  of economical boneless cuts
  of meat and Frank Gold and
  his team in fresh pork
  trading have come-up with
  two new pork products that
  fit the...

• Year-end film gets a good reception
  03

  Year-end film gets a good reception Much better than last years'
  video tape - sums up what
  most people thought of this
  year's new style colour film
  presentation of the JS end of
  year results.
  Made by a professional
  film...

• Butter prices down
  04

  Butter prices down As a result of a Common
  Market butter subsidy introduced
  on May 14, JS have
  now marked down prices of
  five butters - including JS
  Special Blend, which
  accounts for almost half of
  JS butter sales.
  Special...

• Come to the aid of the bridge party
  04

  Come to the aid of the
  bridge party The bridge bug has bitten
  at Blackfriars, Basingstoke,
  Clapham and Streatham.
  Where will it bite next? Cyril
  Preston, dp technical services
  manager at Tress House, is
  hoping for a bridge...

• Four more French wines on sale
  04

  Four more French wines on sale Four new JS wines were
  introduced to the larger licensed
  branches on June 11.
  These French wines were
  chosen from the lesser known
  areas and will sell in the
  medium price range.
  In choosing...

• Good prizes cost less at JS!
  04

  Good prizes cost less at JS! Shopping at JS gave two
  Chelmsley Wood housewives
  a £5 bonus in May when they
  beat the challenge of another
  local supermarket to buy a
  cheaper bag of groceries
  elsewhere.
  Vicar's wife Mrs...

• JS beat the gimmickry by 90 minutes at Langney
  04

  JS beat the gimmickry by 90 minutes at Langney Tony Blackburn signs autographs, Simon Sainsbury looks on. One helicopter, one army
  band, a car park filled to
  capacity, a bright sunny day,
  and a dj who told terrible
  jokes: that...

• Man captured in Clapham car park
  04

  Man captured in Clapham car park Thanks to the sharp eyesight
  of Paul Good a suspected
  forger was captured
  by the police in the JS car
  park at Clapham.
  During the afternoon on
  May 31, Paul, a window
  cleaner at JS, spotted...

• New' Jumbos' join lorry fleet
  04

  New' Jumbos' join
  lorry fleet
  Pack sizes get larger, so why not vehicles? Over the past
  year JS have added some 'jumbo-size' artics to its fleet. The 41
  feet long monsters carry 33 roll pallets - six more than the
  capacity of...

• Journal who's who
  05

  Journal who's who Top Richard Gaunt, Diane Hill. Below Eddie Manly Richard Gaunt, 26, is the
  editor of the JS Journal. He
  joined JS early in April from
  the Ofrex Group of companies
  where he was press
  relations manager. He...

• Letters
  05

  Letters
  Why didn't they speak up? From Anthony Gayfer
  Charlton
  1 was astonished, even
  appalled, at the meagre level
  of the questioning session in
  the middle management
  meeting on April 30. Within
  this group there is an...

• Obituary
  05

  Obituary
  A Sprules, who joined the
  company in 1939 as a butcher,
  died suddenly on January 29.
  He was a district meat manager
  in the Bromley area.
  Mrs A Smart, supply assistant
  at Norbury, who had
  worked for the...

• Retirements
  05

  Retirements
  L W Marsh, perishables
  warehouse, Basingstokedepot
  retired on April 6 - 4 4 years'
  service.
  A Howell, manager Haverstock
  Hill, retired on March
  2 4 - 4 4 years' service. B Wilkinson, non perishables
  warehouse...

• The night race
  06

  THE NIGHT RACE
  Once a night Hoddesdon depot's perishables
  warehouse copes with a massive order of up to
  72,000 cases of fresh produce, to be delivered
  127 branches in 140 vehicles by 7.30 the
  next morning. No mean feat that...

• Frankie rings a break after 42 years
  08

  Frankie rings a break after
  42 years An old custom of ringing
  the break is revived by Len
  (Frankie) Franklin as he
  rings his final break at his
  retirement party.
  He started with JS 42 years
  ago as an egg boy. 'The
  lowest...

• Mum's like 'super' baby minder
  08

  Mum's like 'super' baby minder Do you remember Denise
  Weller? She was the baby who
  was taken from her pram
  outside a Harlow supermarket
  a couple of years ago.
  It was a news story that put
  a dread in every mother's
  heart....

• New Cambridge site follows appeal decision
  08

  New Cambridge site follows
  appeal decision JS won an important planning
  appeal on May 1, which
  will allow the company to
  build an edge of town shopping
  development in Cambridge.
  The development will be
  situated abagrt If...

• Staggering home from work
  08

  Staggering home from work
  Phyllis Lane At 8.25 every morning one
  encounters a group of bleary
  eyed individuals at the lift
  door, a goodly percentage of
  them carrying that reviving
  cup of coffee in their tired
  little hands....

• Streatham football success
  08

  Streatham football success
  Haven't they done well? Since
  being formed three years ago,
  Streatham have won the JS
  Sunday Football League twice
  (and dropping four points only
  at that) and have now just won
  a special knockout...

• Work starts on new lab in old pie factory
  08

  Work starts on new lab in
  old pie factory For the first time Londonbased
  laboratory personnel
  will be able to work together
  under one roof instead of
  scattered over about five
  addresses at Blackfriars.
  Work began in April...