'JS Journal', Christmas 1976

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• Christmas belles—JS style
  01

  Christmas belles—JS style
  ANNETTE BANNISTER, a weekend student at JS's Walsall
  branch, was chosen Miss JS Midlands at Pontin's holiday camp
  in Southport.
  Annette, who is 17 and studying for her A-levels, said she felt
  'ever...

• ...and a prosperous new year
  02

  ...and a prosperous new year
  BETTER THAN EXPECTED—that's
  the news from the JS Christmas trading
  front so far.
  'All our original estimates have had to
  be revised up' says director 'Robbie'
  Roberts. 'What is really...

• Contents Page
  02

  Pages 1-7
  General news
  Pages 8-17, 20-24
  Features
  Page 18
  Letters
  Page 19
  People

• Plans to give JS lorries a new look
  02

  Plans to give JS lorries a new look
  TWO NEW LIVERIES for JS lorries are
  currently on trial before a final decision is
  made by the board.
  At Charlton depot one lorry has been
  painted in each of the colour schemes,
  which were...

• JS rides high in the valley
  03

  JS rides high in the valley
  Cwmbran on opening morning—customers as far as the eye can see 'BENDEGEDIG' is how Elwyn Davies
  summed up the opening of JS's first store
  in Wales on November 30, at Cwmbran.
  'It means wonderful,...

• Broadfield—JS's new family size superstore
  04

  Broadfield—JS's new family size superstore
  A BITING WIND and intermittant
  showers of rain and hail greeted the
  opening of the new superstore at Broadfield,
  near Crawley, on December 7.
  So only the very hardy were...

• Incentive schemer
  04

  Incentive schemer
  AN INCENTIVE of a shilling was paid to
  every invoice checker at JS who found a
  mistake, according to a recent article in
  The Observer on fringe benefits.
  One checker, the article said, obtained
  his fringe...

• JS goes over well Down Under
  04

  JS goes over well Down Under
  A MELBOURNE HOUSEWIFE did her
  Christmas shopping at JS's Walsall
  branch without leaving Australia!
  How?
  She wrote to manager Peter Purslow
  asking if he could arrange for Christmas
  hampers to be...

• Backdated increase for JS veterans
  05

  Backdated increase for JS veterans
  GOOD TIDINGS for JS pensioners.
  Backdated from October 20 this year the
  JS pension has been increased by 15 per
  cent, for all those who retired before
  March 4,1976.
  JS pensioners were told...

• Tesco results-the same but different
  05

  Tesco results-the same but different
  JS AND TESCO publish their trading
  results within a few weeks of each other
  and the 1976/77 half-year figures (right)
  make an interesting comparison.
  Superficially, the results look very...

• To beans, or not to beans...
  05

  To beans, or not to beans...
  You'd look miserable too if you were an escaped convict lying low in an attic with nothing but
  cold baked beans to eat—even if they are Sainsbury's.
  That's the predicament convicts Gilbert and...

• What's this ear?
  05

  What's this ear?
  EDIBLE EARRINGS, as featured on
  the front cover of December's Harper
  & Queen, are on sale at JS stores—next to
  the jelly diamonds!
  Pink Sainsbury's sugar flower cake decorations
  were listed among the...

• Duchess makes a grand tour of Horsham
  06

  Duchess makes a grand tour of Horsham
  HER GRACE, LAVINIA, Duchess of
  Norfolk showed a keen business sense
  during her visit to Horsham branch on
  November 24. Her Grace toured the store
  after officially opening the Swan...

• HMP puts a different slant on things
  06

  HMP puts a different slant on things
  HAGGIS AND CHOW MEIN may seem
  a bit like wearing a sporran with top hat
  and tails but for Haverhill Meat Products
  (a JS associate company) it's one of the
  end products of a successful new...

• New company secretary takes over in January
  06

  New company secretary takes over in January
  NIGEL MATTHEWS takes over as company
  secretary on January 14.
  He takes over from Stuart Parker, who
  is leaving the company after eight years'
  service, five of them as company...

• Pensions—time to study the options
  06

  Pensions—time to study the options
  A NEW STATE PENSION SCHEME
  comes into operation in April 1978, which
  may sound like a long way off to be
  thinking about it now. But before that
  date a lot of things have to be...

• JS advertising goes Dutch
  07

  JS advertising goes Dutch
  JS HAS TAKEN OUT ADVERTISING
  SPACE in the Anglo-Dutch Shopper—a
  newspaper distributed on board ships
  and through travel agencies in Holland
  and Belgium to people coming on shopping
  trips to...

• Langney's late night shopping special
  07

  Langney's late night shopping special
  All ready to give a helping hand the volunteer force at Langney. (Manager Richard Rawson is the man in the middle.) Also in the picture
  some early customers and youthful Red Cross helpers....

• JS counsellors spread the word- on toast
  08

  JS counsellors spread the word- on toast
  Cynthia Gillett shows Barking Townswomen's Guild how to make a simple spread from JS own-label products. 'THERE'S NO SUCH THING as a typical
  talk' explained Cynthia Gillett as she
  went...

• What's an elephant doing in the old canteen?
  09

  What's an elephant doing in the old canteen?
  THE FORMER JS CANTEEN in Colombo
  Street, Blackfriars, has now been
  transformed into the 'Elephant Shop'—
  the main outlet for jewellery, furniture,
  leatherwork and pottery hand...

• Over her shoulder goes one...
  10

  Over her shoulder goes one...
  ANYONE visiting JS's Sittingbourne
  branch intending to cause trouble is warned.
  The branch has on its staff ajudo gold
  medallist, namely 17-year-old weekend
  student Maria Djumic.
  Maria, who won...

• Getting away from it all
  11

  Getting away from it all
  All of us at some time or another must have
  wished for a few months off work. No
  problems, no deadlines, no bosses—just a little
  illness (nothing serious, of course) that will
  allow us to lounge at...

• Get your drinking caps on!
  12

  WE HAVE TIMED this year's spirited competition
  to coincide with the festive season
  to give our readers something to fill in those
  idle moments between the Christmas pud and
  the Christmas cake; the haggis and the hangover.
  Get...

• Star of stage, stove and store
  14

  Star of stage, stove and store
  MAKING CUSTOMERS FEEL WELCOME
  and happy whilst in JS's Kingsland
  Road branch is no problem to
  sprightly customer services assistant
  Gerrard Poole. And should he at times
  send them on their way...

• ...and takes the supermarket into the schoolroom
  15

  ...and takes the supermarket into the schoolroom
  A TELEVISION CREW from the Open
  University spent October 18 at Wood
  Green branch watching mothers and their
  children shopping.
  They were making a programme in a
  series called...

• TV teaches the art of interviewing . . .
  15

  TV teaches the art of interviewing. . .
  ACTION REPLAYS are helping managers,
  supervisors and foremen at Basingstoke
  depot to learn how to interview
  applicants for jobs.
  Closed-circuit television is just one of
  the techniques...

• . . .and it comes out here
  16

  ... and it comes out here
  A QUICK AND EASY communications
  link-up exists between Blackfriars and the
  depots—thanks to Kalle Infotec 6000.
  Infotec, which has partly replaced telex,
  transmits 'photostat' copies of...

• Rory - TV's super salesdog
  17

  Rory - TV's super salesdog
  HAVE YOU SEEN the advertisement on
  TV for a certain dog food—the one featuring
  an Irish red setter tucking into a bowl
  full of meaty chunks in Norfolk Wild Life
  Park? If you have, it's very likely...

• We also heard . . . Hobson's choice!
  17

  We also heard . . . Hobson's choice! MANY BRANCH MANAGERS will
  perhaps feel that their lives were summed
  up in a recent item in the daily bulletin.
  'Choice of items for plinth display will
  be left to the manager's discretion'...

• 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 We spring a leek!
  From: Jones the Admin, at present...

• Appointments
  19

  Appointments
  I Wilson, formerly deputy manager of
  Northfield, has been appointed manager.
  R Hughes, formerly manager of Holloway,
  has been appointed manager of
  Muswell Hill.
  A Redford, formerly manager of Kentish
  Town, has...

• Highland homage to farm manager
  19

  Highland homage to farm manager
  Sandy Martin (right) receives a beautifully
  hand-carved Scottish walking stick
  from chairman John Sainsbury, as a
  special gift following Mr Martin's retirement
  as manager of JS's farm...

• Long Service
  19

  Long Service
  Gordon Chant, manager, Winton, celebrated
  40 years' service with JS in November.
  Mr Chant started with the company at
  Bognor Regis, transferring to Bexhill and
  later Boscombe before leaving to do his
  war...

• Retirements
  19

  Retirements
  Alfred Frank Coster, manager at Tunbridge
  Wells, retires on December 24 after
  being with JS for 43 years.
  Mr Coster joined JS at 31 Eastbourne,
  moving on to Bexhill and Hastings before
  being called up for...

• The winners — competition ends
  20

  The winners — competition ends
  'IT'S A SHAME there can only be one
  winner' says Sydney Harding, who, as
  judge of the JS Journal photographic
  competition, wanted to give first prize to
  at least ten of the nearly 200...

• in a talented photo-finish!
  21

  in a talented photo-finish!
  Second prize
  FOR SOMEBODY WHO doesn't really
  like black-and-white and who doesn't
  take many landscapes, Terry Killick is a
  very good black-and-white landscape
  photographer.
  He took the shot that...

• The rest of the magnificent seven
  22

  The rest of the magnificent seven
  Here are some of the photographs that
  came close to carrying off the big prizes—
  five more pictures that Sydney picked out
  as being of a very high standard indeed.
  We're giving them a...

• James Boswell-editor and artist
  23

  James Boswell-editor and artist
  JAMES BOSWELL was editor of the JS
  Journal from 1951 until his death in 1971
  of cancer. But it is not as a talented
  journalist that he is currently receiving
  international acclaim—it is as an...

• A Happy Christmas to everyone
  24

  A Happy Christmas to everyone
  SUSAN SONAIKE—paper hat, tinsel
  and all—expresses thejoy and laughter of
  the Christmas season.
  What Susan, a secretary in JS's research
  and scientific services division, looks forward
  to...

• Numbers game
  24

  Numbers game
  ARE YOU AN AVERAGEGENIUS? If
  you are then it should take you between
  10-15 minutes to work out this numerical
  crossword, says JS computer operator,
  Cliff Meggs, who devised it.
  So here's your chance to fit the...

• PumpKing Kong
  24

  PumpKing Kong
  PUMPKIN
  POWER—for
  those of you
  who tried to
  guess the weight
  of the pumpkin
  we showed in
  the December
  issue, the monster
  weighed in at
  10.67 kilograms
  (231bs 5oz).