'JS Journal', December 1976

Table of content

• Didn't we do well!
  01

  Didn't we do well!
  A WELCOME RETURN to more normal
  profit levels, but a warning of 'a very
  tough time in 1977' are the central features
  of JS's half year results, published on
  November 10.
  Compared with this time last year...

• Contents Page
  02

  Pages 1-11, 22-24
  General news
  Pages 12-17
  Features
  Pages 18-19
  Letters
  Pages 20-21
  People

• The village shop
  02

  The village shop An artist's impression of Norfolk village life—Bowthorpe style, with the JS supermarket shown top right. JS HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL with its
  tender to construct a shopping centre of
  unusual design in a new housing...

• Updating gets updated
  02

  Updating gets updated
  A NEW, MORE ACCURATE, easy-to-
  read system of updating the price book is
  now in operation at branches.
  'It's a fundamental re-think of the
  whole system of price up-dating'explains
  branch trading manager...

• Busy going nowhere!
  03

  Busy going nowhere!
  The persistent pedallers are, left to right, Elaine Kitson, Bob Bartlett, Helen Critchell,
  David Day and Karl Gregory. SIX PEOPLE travel nearly 300 miles on
  two bikes. That may sound like a...

• Long holidays ahead
  03

  Long holidays ahead
  LONG HOLIDAY WEEKENDS are
  ahead for most of us at JS as Christmas
  Day and New Year's Day fall on a
  Saturday this year.
  As so many people work a Monday to
  Friday week, alternative days have been
  declared...

• Rolling out the money
  03

  Rolling out the money
  JS OWNS 80,000 ROLL PALLETS and
  at £33 each it is hardly surprising that they
  are expected to earn their keep by being
  kept on the move and in use.
  About 40,000 of them are always at the
  branches at...

• A model evening at Telford
  04

  A model evening at Telford
  ALL SMILES and informality from 21-
  year-old JS cashier Erica Lattauschke as
  she relaxes in the spacious and well laidout
  Telford shopping precinct.
  Only a few days earlier in the same
  setting...

• Inside (leg) information
  04

  Inside (leg) information
  CHELTENHAM BRANCH were given
  a more-than-usually detailed tip-off by
  the local shops' early warning system.
  'Suspected shoplifter, male, 53-60 years
  old, 5ft 6in, very slim, 36in chest, 30in
  waist,...

• SSA membership grows and grows
  04

  SSA membership grows and grows
  SSA MEMBERS attending their annual
  general meeting at Stamford House on
  October 27 were told that more and more
  staff, attracted by the variety of activities,
  are joining up.
  In his report SSA...

• Top Dutch food technologist visits JS
  04

  Top Dutch food technologist visits JS
  A LEADING food hygiene technologist
  from Holland, Dr Michael Van Schothorst,
  visited JS's research and scientific
  services division at Blackfriars on Friday
  October 29.
  Dr Van...

• A new best of health service
  05

  A new best of health service HEALTH EDUCATION for JS branch
  staff—that is the programme now under
  way, organised by the employee services
  department at Blackfriars.
  Already officials from local health departments
  have...

• And now for something completely different . . .
  06

  And now for something completely different . . . PUMPKINS ARE the latest addition to
  the vegetable range in a dozen JS
  branches.
  Their grower, a one-man enterprise in
  Hereford, one day dropped in on JS
  produce buyers at...

• Butter-proof!
  06

  Butter-proof!
  JS BRANDY BUTTER will be making
  mince pies even tastier this Christmas.
  It's a new line that will be on sale for the
  first time in about 50 branches a fortnight
  before Christmas. Made from equal parts
  of butter...

• Mmm . . mightier-meatier
  06

  Mmm.. mightier-meatier
  PREMIUM beefburgers and porkburgers
  are two new lines going into branches
  in the next few weeks.
  Premium Beefburgers are already on
  sale in some stores and will be in all
  branches by the beginning of...

• Maidstone is ahead of the competition
  07

  Maidstone is ahead of the competition Above: Maidstone branch manager
  Dennis Taylor.
  Below: The crowded shop on opening day. ON NOVEMBER 2, Sainsbury's new
  supermarket and freezer centre became
  the first units to open for...

• Worcester takes off!
  08

  Worcester takes off!
  Chairman John Sainsbury flew out by helicopter to open the branch, landing in a field next to the store. Manager David Butolph. THE THIRD LARGEST STORE in the
  JS chain opened on the outskirts of...

• New right hand men at the top
  09

  New right hand men at the top
  NEWS of two new appointments—
  Martin Whitty becomes personal assistant
  to chairman John Sainsbury, and
  Bob Pearman becomes personal assistant
  to marketing director Joe Barnes.
  Both Martin and...

• How the West was won...
  10

  How the West was won...
  JS's FIRST SUPERMARKET IN
  DEVON opened on Tuesday, November
  23 in the new £5 million red-bricked
  Guildhall shopping centre, Exeter.
  The new shop, with a sales area of 1,475
  square metres (15,876...

• Two more opening gambits
  10

  Two more opening gambits
  A SECOND JS STORE opens at Crawley,
  Sussex on December 7. The new
  supermarket is at Broadfield, on the outskirts
  of Crawley. It has a sales area of
  1945 square metres (nearly 21,000 square
  feet) and...

• JS gets the pick of the crop
  11

  JS gets the pick of the crop
  At the Marden fruit show the agricultural experts examine the apples and pears. THE VERY BEST apples and pears from
  English orchards were on sale at Lewisham
  and Forest Hill branches from
  Friday...

• What's the score?
  12

  What's the score? Peter Ireson: Our latest profit figures are
  nearly double what they were this time last
  year, which sounds pretty good. Are you
  pleased with them ?
  John Sainsbury: I think they are good
  but you have to...

• Faces in the news...
  15

  Faces in the news...
  ONE WEEK Michelle Cheatle was being
  crowned Miss JS Eastern, the next she was
  under the surgeon's knife having her
  appendix removed.
  Michelle, now 18, is a display assistant
  at Great Yarmouth, and she...

• Food today: friend or foe?
  16

  Food today: friend or foe? Have you read the headlines in the papers recently?
  Headlines concerning heart disease and animal fats,
  polyunsaturates, cholesterol and eggs, monosodium
  glutamate and 'hot flushes', antibiotics in...

• "I've seen that face somewhere before!"
  18

  "I've seen that face somewhere before!"
  From: Ted Spriggs, manager, Welwyn
  Garden City branch
  This cartoon recently appeared in our
  local newspaper. I think that the driver of Z Victor One is supposed to be yours truly.
  But...

• Your letters
  18

  Your letters
  Letters are welcome and should be
  addressed to the editor. Don't forget
  you can dictate one by using the
  Journal's phone-in service on 01-921 6221 Time is money?
  From: B R Lucas, deputy manager,
  Nuneaton...

• JS gets into training for the second time running
  19

  JS gets into training for the second time running
  ONCE AGAIN JS HAS gained the Distributive
  Training Award—presented by
  the Distributive Industry Training Board.
  The award is made for three years, and JS
  previously won it...

• Appointments
  20

  Appointments
  T Brown, formerly manager of Sutton, has
  been appointed manager of Lewisham.
  R K Palser, formerly manager of Stockwell,
  has been appointed manager of
  Sutton.
  B Thake, formerly manager of
  Leamington, has been...

• Long Service
  20

  Long Service
  Len Barton, meat manager at Harold Hill,
  celebrated 40 years' service with the company
  in October.
  He started his career as a butcher's
  learner at Cranbrook Road, Ilford, and
  after six months he was transferred...

• Retirements
  20

  Retirements
  Norman Barrance, manager of Romford,
  retired on November 20, after 44 years'
  service with the company.
  Mr Barrance joined JS as a learner at
  259 Ilford. He progressed to salesman at
  Leytonstone and was then...

• Retiring watchdog stays alert
  21

  Retiring watchdog stays alert AN 'INDUSTRIAL SPY'—that was one
  of the accusations levelled at Alec Hadden,
  manager of JS's retail competition
  department, as he 'looked over' the shop
  of a competitor.
  Mr Hadden, who created...

• Finger-clicking good! part two
  22

  Finger-clicking good! part two
  JUST A FEW DAYS LEFT! If you want to enter the JS Journal photographic
  competition you'll have to get your skates on, because the closing date for entries is
  December 1.
  You can send as many...

• We also heard... a robotic relationship
  23

  We also heard . . . a robotic relationship
  'MECHANICAL MATE male/female',
  ran a job advert in a recent current
  vacancies list.
  Sounds to us like not so much a job title,
  more a piece of gossip.
  A ROYAL VISITOR FOR...

• What's in it for you?
  23

  What's in it for you?
  0 UTLA N DISH—but edible—sandwich
  fillings are what we asked for in the last
  issue, with a 50p JS gift voucher for every
  one we printed before Christmas. Here are
  three that tickled our palates; plus...

• An up-dated look at what 's in store at JS
  24

  An up-dated look at what's in store at JS
  Opening Programme for next 12 months
  Broadfield
  (Crawley)
  Cwmbran
  Poole
  Cannon Park
  (Coventry) and
  Wellingborough
  Uxbridge
  Cowley
  (Oxford)
  Lords...

• Energy-plus SSA weekend at Brean
  24

  Energy-plus SSA weekend at Brean
  NOT EVEN inclement weather could
  prevent 2,500 SSA members and friends
  having a weekend to remember at Pontin's
  holiday camp in Brean.
  Says SSA organiser Len Starling, 'The
  campers generated...