'JS Journal', December 1975

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• Letter from John Sainsbury
  01

  'WE HAVE just concluded the most intensive period of
  store opening in our history.
  In no less than ten weeks we
  have opened 12 new supermarkets,
  three freezer centres
  and made a large extension
  to one supermarket, a...

• PROFITS TAKE A BASHING
  01

  PROFITS TAKE A BASHING THE FULL IMPACT of the country's economic
  problems has at last hit JS forcibly. The trading
  results announced on November 12 showed that
  profits for the first half-year are more than onefifth
  less than...

• The Big one . . . KEMPSTON OPENS
  01

  The Big one . . . KEMPSTON OPENS RIGHT ON the button JS's
  largest ever store opened on
  November 18 at Kempston,
  about two miles south-west of
  Bedford.
  There were no fanfares.
  There was no need. Everything
  about the new...

• BRIGHTON CONFERENCE CANCELLED
  02

  BRIGHTON CONFERENCE CANCELLED
  PLANS FOR THE 1976 MANAGERS' CONFERENCE,
  scheduled to be held at Brighton in January, have been
  shelved in favour of a number of smaller conferences,
  held on an area basis.
  In a statement to...

• Follow that bike
  02

  Follow that bike AN ODD CHASE through the
  streets of Brighton ended
  when John Lawrence, provisions
  manager at 1/3
  London Road, ran a shop-lifter
  to ground.
  Flight
  A store detective alerted
  John when the shop-lifter,...

• Kingston area office moves to Woking
  02

  Kingston area office moves to Woking KINGSTON AREA
  OFFICE (Mr Westcott's
  area) opened three new
  branches in 15 days last
  month - and they also
  miraculously transformed
  themselves into Woking area
  office.
  On Friday, October...

• MORE LIKE PLASTIC
  02

  MORE LIKE PLASTIC than flaky
  pastry' complained a customer
  recently about a chicken and ham
  pie she had bought.
  And she was right - it was
  plastic!
  The pie was discovered to be a
  dummy, and made of a plasticlike...

• Mum's twin-seater trolley
  02

  Mum's twin-seater trolley
  TAKING A PAIR OF
  LIVELY two-year-old twins
  around a supermarket to buy the
  monthly shopping sounds like
  asking for double trouble.
  But mother-of-three Glenys
  Valpy takes her family —...

• Good food costs less at Charlton's new staff shop
  03

  Good food costs less at Charlton's new staff shop
  STAFF AT CHARLTON
  depot now have the chance to
  buy damaged groceries at half
  the retail price at a new depot
  shop.
  The shop began 'trading' on
  November 5 and it follows...

• MONDAY TRADING GOES ON TRIAL IN THE MIDLANDS
  03

  MONDAY TRADING GOES ON TRIAL IN THE MIDLANDS
  MONDAY TRADING IS
  BEING TRIED out at JS's two
  most northerly stores.
  Doncaster, which opened in
  October last year, and Sheffield,
  which had a traditional Tuesday
  opening on...

• More opt for a share of the action
  03

  More opt for a share of the action ANOTHER 375 EMPLOYEES
  have options on 145,089 shares
  in the second year of the JS
  Share Option Scheme.
  They join the 1,255 people
  with options on 1,148,523
  shares who subscribed when...

• NEW PACKER HAS IT ALL WRAPPED UP
  03

  NEW PACKER HAS IT ALL WRAPPED UP A NEW, SAFER, CHEAPER, more reliable, easier-touse,
  British packing machine is making its first appearance
  in branch meat preparation rooms. After a trial at
  Wandsworth branch and a
  debut at...

• Price'n'easy to read
  03

  Price'n'easy to read 'Keep it clear' is the message for
  staff at Woking branch.
  Badly priced goods are the
  bane of a cashier's life - they
  hold up queues, cause mistakes,
  lose money, and are generally a
  great...

• WHICH?
  03

  Grocers under the microscope THERE WAS SOME good news
  and some bad news for JS in the
  latest survey of grocery prices by
  Which? magazine.
  But there was no earthshattering
  news except the
  reminder of how much prices
  have...

• KEEP JS IN FIGHTING TRIM
  04

  The battle for turnover is on in a big way
  between the nation's food retailers, but
  by the end of this financial year JS will
  at least in one respect be better off
  without having sold an ounce of extra
  food. And it will all...

• DARTFORD SHOPPERS JUST LOVE OUR CREAM CAKES
  05

  DARTFORD SHOPPERS JUST
  LOVE OUR CREAM CAKES SSAINSBURY'S SCORED two firsts in
  IDartford's Arndale Centre on November 4.
  When chairman John Sainsbury opened
  tthe first JS branch in the area, it was also
  tthe first store to be...

• Freezer threesome
  05

  Freezer threesome
  Last month saw the opening of three more
  JS freezer centres. One alongside the new
  store at Kingswood, Bristol; the other two, at
  Bretton and Central Luton, are the first to be
  opened within an existing IS...

• Have you seen the store next door?
  05

  Have you seen the store next door? JS CUSTOMERS in Kings
  Heath didn't need to look far
  for the new supermarket on
  November 4 - it was right
  next door to the old one.
  In fact, the branch will
  continue to use the floors
  above...

• SHEFFIELD IS SOMETHING SPECIAL
  05

  Opening round-up
  SHEFFIELD IS
  SOMETHING SPECIAL among other things it's
  JS's second most
  northerly branch and
  it's the first new store
  to open on Mondays THE SECOND northern-most
  branch in the JS chain opened at
  Sheffield...

• A DOG'S LIFE
  06

  A DOG'S LIFE
  WHEN A BOTTLE of JS
  lemonade exploded in a
  customer's cupboard, the
  family dog was in the
  doghouse.
  A wet patch was found
  on the carpet, and the
  culprit seemed obvious, so
  the dog felt the force of...

• HOW TO RETIRE GRACEFULLY
  06

  HOW TO RETIRE GRACEFULLY OUR FOURTH look at retirement took the JS
  Journal to Basingstoke depot to sit in on a preretirement
  course - the aim of which is to help
  staff to adjust to a different way of life. LEARNING TO RETIRE...

• LETTERS FROM CUSTOMERS
  06

  LETTERS FROM CUSTOMERS
  CUSTOMERS are always writing to JS to say
  how much they enjoy shopping at Sainsbury's or
  to praise a particular store or member of staff.
  In a way every letter of praise is a pat on the
  back for us all....

• MISS JS CHARLTON
  06

  MISS JS CHARLTON
  CARRYING THE HOPES of
  Charlton depot staff
  through to the finals of the
  Miss JS competition is
  attractive Janet Hipperson.
  Twenty-year-old Janet,
  who works in the
  administration department,
  came first out...

• MISS JS OFFICE
  06

  MISS JS OFFICE
  A WINNING SMILE from
  Miss JS Office - Debra
  Bebber of purchase
  accounts, Streatham.
  Debra won the title at a
  buffet dance held at the
  Stork Club, Streatham, on
  Saturday, November 8.
  She will...

• SEXIEST
  06

  SEXIEST
  JS TIGHTS WERE VOTED
  THE MOST SEXY by the
  Actionwoman page of Woman
  magazine, when it recently
  tested the fit and feel of seven
  different brands.

• YOUR LETTERS
  06

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• APPOINTMENTS
  07

  APPOINTMENTS Deputy chairman Roy
  Griffiths has announced the
  following appointments
  within the personnel division:
  WaHy Beauchamp took up
  the position of personnel
  manager, Blackfriars, with
  effect from October 27.
  Peter...

• HYPERMARKET CHIEF APPOINTED
  07

  HYPERMARKET CHIEF APPOINTED
  LATEST NEWS on the JS/BHS hypermarket
  front is the appointment of Timothy Grinnell as
  general manager of the joint hypermarket
  company which is currently being formed.
  Mr Grinnell was until...

• LONG SERVICE
  07

  LONG SERVICE Harold Wright, manager
  of Ilford Central, celebrated
  25 years with JS on October
  15. He started as a trainee
  butcher at Willesden Green;
  and then left the company for
  a year. He rejoined JS in
  1951 and went on...

• OUR APOLOGIES
  07

  OUR APOLOGIES to the
  families of Leslie Budd and
  L Dashwood whose obituary
  appeared in the last
  issue of JS Journal.
  Owing to a printing error
  Mr Budd's name appeared
  in the note about Mr Dashwood's
  tragic death after...

• RETIREMENTS
  07

  RETIREMENTS Taffy Saunders, reserve
  meat manager at Winton,
  retired on November 15 after
  43 years with JS.
  Mr Saunders was engaged
  as a learner butcher at
  Somers Town. He completed
  his training in 1936 and...

• SPOT THE POT
  07

  SPOT THE POT
  Here's another poser from Honor Godfrey, JS's archivist:
  She's been sent this ceramic pot, which stands about four inches high
  and is three inches in diameter.
  Honor would like to know how old the pot is, and...

• THE DETAILS
  07

  THE DETAILS published in
  the November issue about
  the appointment of Mr H S
  Ellis as retarl personnel
  manager, following the
  retirement of Mr F T Nash in the near future, are
  incorrect.
  The correct information
  is as...

• Sydney Orleans Harding FRPS
  08

  THE HIGHEST DISTINCTION IN PHOTOGRAPHY THE
  FELLOWSHIP OF THE ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC
  SOCIETY-HAS BEEN WON BY SYDNEY ORLEANS
  HARDING OFJS SUPPLY CONTROL Sydney Orleans Harding FRPS SINCE HE TOOK up
  photography in 1967, Sydney
  has...

• Wine Competition
  08

  Now in its third intoxicating year
  the JS Journal...
  Wine
  Competition ALL YOU HAVE to
  do is find out the
  correct answers to six
  simple questions and
  complete the tiebreaking
  limerick . . .
  and you could be the
  lucky...