'JS Journal', January 1976

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• After a slow start it's a happy Christmas after all
  01

  After a slow start it's a happy Christmas after all JS Christmas trade, traditionally a key element in the company's
  financial performance, finished satisfactorily after a
  late start, with all stores right across the company...

• No sex, please, we're discriminating
  01

  No sex, please, we're discriminating THERE can be few people
  around who are not aware
  that the Sex Discrimination
  Act came into force on
  December 29,1975.
  The news media left no
  person-hole cover (formerly
  known as man-hole...

• WE NEED MORE TRADE, LESS COSTS
  01

  WE NEED MORE TRADE, LESS COSTS Chairman tells
  top managers JS's retail conference scene has had a new look this
  year, with a series of smaller, more specialised
  conferences replacing the larger Brighton get togethers
  of...

• What a worker!
  01

  There is no Text

• ALE STORM
  02

  ALE STORM
  JS BEER took a pasting in a
  taste test in What's Brewing, the
  magazine of CAMRA, the Campaign
  for Real Ale.
  Beers from four supermarket
  chains were tasted, and the four
  panellists were pretty uniformly
  rude about...

• BPO's and deputies join courses at Dulwich-and it's a great success
  02

  BPO's and deputies join courses at Dulwich-and it's a great success FOR THE first time sessions of a JS branch personnel officers'
  course and a deputy managers' course have been combined -
  and both men and women agree it was a...

• DEPOT VETERANS GET TOGETHER FOR A REGULAR NATTER
  02

  DEPOT VETERANS GET TOGETHER FOR A REGULAR NATTER BUNTINGFORD retirement
  association is one year old
  this month and it is going
  from strength to strength.
  The association has an
  'overall objective to keep the
  retired people...

• Don't sling your hook
  02

  Don't sling your hook
  WANTED: A bone crochet
  hook for an elderly lady whose
  arthritic hands cannot cope
  with modem metal hooks.
  We don't usually make this
  sort of plea in the Journal, but
  Jill Mitchell (who works...

• JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED
  02

  JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED BALHAM DEPUTY manager
  Barry Cotterill must have
  thought he was in the wrong
  shop when a lady came up and
  presented him with a prescription.
  But no. the lady's doctor had
  written her a...

• Long service awards go up in value
  02

  Long service awards
  go up in value FROM JANUARY 1 this year
  all staff completing 25 years
  with JS will receive a gift to the
  value of £25 and £75 on completion
  of 40 years service.
  Staff completing 25 years will
  continue...

• Nurse becomes patient
  02

  Nurse becomes patient
  DOREEN MAYES, nurse at
  Buntingford depot, has been
  receiving some of her own
  medicine recently.
  Doreen broke her ankle
  when she fell down the
  depot's steps after work on
  November 28. So now she...

• Wanted!
  02

  Wanted!
  CAN YOU make those
  margarine roses that used to
  be such a feature of JS shop
  window displays? If you can,
  and you're prepared to
  demonstrate your skill,
  archivist Honor Godfrey
  would like youf help with...

• WHY FIVE JS LORRIES ARE BLUE
  02

  WHY FIVE JS LORRIES ARE BLUE IF YOU SEE a blue JS lorry,
  don't blink and swear to stay off
  the bottle.
  Five lorries based at Basingstoke
  depot are painted in a
  smart blue and white livery, with
  the words 'J Sainsbury' in...

• JS dips a toe in the pallet pool
  03

  JS dips a toe in the pallet pool A NEW SCHEME that should make JS's pallet system
  for produce cheaper, safer and more efficient is on a
  four month's trial.
  JS is hiring wooden pallet boards from the new GKN
  Chep National...

• KEMPSTON CAKE
  03

  KEMPSTON CAKE
  HOW TO HAVE your cake, eat it,
  and make money has been solved at
  Kempston with the invention of the
  Kempston cake.
  Usually the middles cut out of a
  type of sponge cake are thrown
  away.
  Not at Kempston's...

• NUT CRUNCH
  03

  NUT CRUNCH
  THERE WAS a crushing put down
  for one of the management staff at
  Tonbridge branch just before
  Christmas.
  A customer holding a bag of
  Brazil nuts approached one of the
  managers.
  Customer: 'Could you tell...

• SUPER-SAVERS RUN UP SEVEN FOOT BILL
  03

  SUPER-SAVERS RUN UP SEVEN FOOT BILL A COUPLE in a hurry were
  Alvin and Judith Howard, when
  they had four minutes to grab
  what they liked from the shelves
  of JS's Chippenham branch.
  The grub-grab was their prize
  for winning...

• TELFORD LOOKS PRETTY GOOD!
  03

  TELFORD LOOKS PRETTY GOOD! TELFORD HAS more than its fair share of pretty girls, and some of
  the prettiest work at JS's super-store in the Telford Centre.
  To prove it two of the finalists in the recent quest to find Miss...

• CHEERS!
  04

  The story of JS and the off licence
  trade goes back 56
  years. But it was only 15
  years ago, in 1961, that a
  change in the law on offlicences
  brought about the
  present boom in supermarket
  drinks sales.
  But JS started...

• . . . and one answered
  05

  . . . and one answered In December we showed
  an apricot jampot, and Mr
  K J E Hill of Winscombe
  was able to tell Honor
  plenty about it.
  The pots were used for
  JS's first own-label jams,
  introduced in four flavours
  about...

• Another archives mystery to solve . . .
  05

  Another archives
  mystery to solve . . . January's puzzler from
  the JS archives is this
  cream pot. Cream was commonly
  packed in brown or
  beige ceramic pots like this
  (the one pictured is dark
  brown) but JS archivist Honor...

• Introducing James...
  06

  Introducing
  James...
  AN EARLY start to a modelling
  career for four-month old James
  Walkley (below).
  James, or James John Tonna
  Walkley, as he usually insists on
  being addressed, is the son of
  JS textile manager Stephen...

• OUR CUSTOMERS WRITE
  06

  OUR CUSTOMERS WRITE SOMETHING VERY heart
  warming happened to me
  when shopping in your store
  at Wealdstone yesterday. I
  was rather over loaded with
  groceries and so was helped
  to my car by a young gentleman
  (and I mean that...

• QUEEN OF HERTS
  06

  A SELF CONFESSED
  romantic will be Buntingford
  depot's representative at the
  Miss JS Finals on February
  28.
  For Gillian Piggott (left),
  the new Miss JS Buntingford,
  is a keen reader of historical
  and romantic novels....

• YOUR LETTERS
  06

  YOUR LETTERS Why not a voucher bonus? From: Mrs M Hammond,
  Kenton branch.
  SINCE READING the
  notice about the Christmas
  bonuses I have been giving
  some thought to it.
  How about the staff having
  vouchers to spend in...

• A tree fell on it . . .
  07

  A tree fell on it . . .
  IN ALL the best horror films a long,
  ominous creaking sound forebodes
  disaster.
  And it was nearly the same in real
  life for Geoff Kemp, JS bakery
  goods inspector.
  On Friday January 2, the night...

• APPOINTMENTS
  07

  APPOINTMENTS Gurth Hoyer Millar has
  taken over from Timothy
  Sainsbury responsibility
  for the company's property
  interests, in addition to
  those concerning the
  development programme,
  which he assumed early
  last year.
  This...

• Double celebration for Woking's new AGM
  07

  Double celebration for
  Woking's new AGM RON YEATES ended
  1975 on the crest of a
  wave that will take him
  into 1976 and beyond.
  In December he was appointed area general
  manager designate for the
  Woking area and he...

• LONG SERVICE
  07

  LONG SERVICE Bert Black, manager at Bexleyheath,
  celebrated 40 years with
  the company in January.
  Mr Black started his career as
  an egg boy at 57b Kingston. He
  returned in 1945 after his war
  service to Tolworth branch,...

• OBITUARIES
  07

  OBITUARIES James Hilson, maintenance
  engineer at Charlton depot, died
  on December 14 after a long illness.
  He had been with the company
  for 38 years.
  He joined the engineers
  department at Union Street as a
  junior in 1937....

• RETIREMENTS
  07

  RETIREMENTS Les Price, manager of Bury
  Park, Luton, retired on December
  15, having been with JS for
  14 years.
  Mr Price started his career
  with JS as a learner at Marylebone.
  During the war he served
  in the RAF.
  He was...

• Man who knows how to produce results retires to grow his own
  08

  Harry Haslam, pictured here at JS's trials grounds at
  Cambridge, will soon be tending his own experiments,
  growing exotic fruits in his own back garden. THE M A N responsible for
  establishing JS's produce
  department,...

• New pig company looks to the future
  08

  New pig company looks to the future JS HAS joined Pauls and
  Whites Ltd, one of the major
  animal feed compounders
  and also our main pig
  suppliers, in a new company
  to produce quality pigs on
  three farms in Norfolk.
  The new...

• 'When will people learn to take those things back?'
  08

  'When will people learn to take those things back?' The Sun