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  • Marylebone brings down the curtain in the West End 01

    Marylebone brings down the curtain in the West End MARYLEBONE BRANCH
    closed its doors for the last
    time on March 6. The store,
    which has served shoppers in
    Marylebone High Street since
    1916, is not being replaced,
    thus...

  • Savings mount up 01

    Savings mount up
    SAVINGS across the
    company amounting to some
    £400,000 were achieved
    during the second quarter
    (periods seven to nine) of JS's
    cost improvement programme.
    This includes the
    central departments,...

  • WENDY WINS THE JUDGES' VOTE 01

    Miss JS Finals WENDY WINS THE JUDGES' VOTE THE MONTHS OF WAITING,
    WANTING AND WISHING
    FOR TEN REGIONAL
    LOVELIES THROUGHOUT
    JS FINALLY ENDED ON
    SA TURD A Y FEBR UARY 28,
    IN THE THAMES SUITE
    OF THE WEST CENTRE
    HOTEL, LONDON...

  • Cream-pot mystery almost licked 02

    Cream-pot mystery almost licked
    SOME OF THE QUESTIONS asked by JS archivist Honor
    Godfrey about the cream-pot in the JS Journal (January issue) may
    never be answered.
    What is clear is that there were two sizes of cream-pot and...

  • DATE TO REMEMBER 02

    DATE TO REMEMBER
    YOU DONT have to be
    Jeane Dickson to predict that
    June 20 will be the biggest
    fun day of the year in the
    south east
    That's the day JS's Bromley
    area, under the leadership
    of AGM Dennis Males, take
    over...

  • Food music 02

    Food music
    SHOPPING trips to JS
    were the stimulus behind
    the writing of the hit pop
    song 'We Do It' by R & J
    Stone, according to TV
    chat show compere
    Russell Harty.
    Introducing the musical
    duo, who were guests on
    his...

  • FRONTWAY SECURITY TIGHTENS 02

    FRONTWAY
    SECURITY
    TIGHTENS 'WE'VE MADE the backway secure - now we're looking at
    the frontway in a commonsense security way' says Len Lewis,
    director of branch trading.
    'We're trying to close a gap that's open to security...

  • 'I couldn't believe it' says Peter 02

    'I couldn't believe it' says Peter A HUSHED CROWD in the
    Basingstoke depot canteen on
    March 1 waited with bated
    breath for the winning ticket
    to be drawn in the raffle.
    The prize was well worth
    having. It was a brand...

  • TESCO BIGGY 02

    TESCO BIGGY
    MEANWHILE at Irtam,
    near Manchester, on
    February 24, Tesco opened
    the country's biggest hypermarket.
    The development,
    which is reported to have cost
    £3-5 million, covers 9,300
    square metres (lOOfiOO
    square...

  • WHEN THE VOTE COMES IN ... 02

    WHEN THE VOTE COMES IN ... WALLY BEAUCHAMP,
    secretary of the
    Blackfriars JCC (Joint
    consultative committee)
    presides over the
    counting of votes at
    the JCC elections on
    February 26.
    He was helped out by
    Aneeta Nayar (left)...

  • Woolco pulls out of Pitsea 02

    Woolco pulls out of Pitsea
    SPECULATION is high at
    Pitsea following Woolco's
    decision to shelve plans to
    build a multi-million pound
    store on a ten acre site, not
    far from JS's new store,
    which opens on April 6.
    Woolco, a...

  • Bob's cause goes to the dogs 03

    Bob Smith - the loneliness
    of the long distance
    runner. SAINT Valentine's Day,
    traditionally the day when
    Cupid has a free licence to
    go mad with his bow and
    arrow, is also the occasion
    for other types of arrow...

  • Earthy accent 03

    Earthy accent
    IT TOOK a bit of lateral
    thinking to fathom out the
    address on a letter sent to the
    JS Journal recently which
    read: J Thamesbury,
    Stumford House, Stumford
    Street.
    It's obvious really when
    you realise that a...

  • ELECTRICS LOSE SPACE BATTLE 03

    ELECTRICS LOSE SPACE BATTLE IN ORDER to make more
    room for top selling hardware
    lines like glass and
    crockery JS has discontinued
    its range of
    electric kettles, toasters and
    irons.
    'It is not that these lines
    did badly'...

  • Good service award for JS store 03

    Good service award for JS store ' EVERYBODY'S
    DELIGHTED' says Geoff
    Vine, manager of West Bromwich
    branch. And so they
    should be, because their local
    paper has awarded the
    branch its Good Service
    Award.
    White rosette
    The...

  • NEW PRICING GUN MAKES ITS MARK 03

    NEW PRICING GUN MAKES ITS MARK TWO HUNDRED MILLION price tickets per year will be
    printed by a new pricing gun that's to become die standard
    price marker throughout JS.
    By June 1977 all branches should have been issued with...

  • TABLE TENNIS FINALS AT NEW RECREATION CENTRE 03

    TABLE TENNIS FINALS AT NEW RECREATION CENTRE BRANCHES as far afield as
    Wolverhampton and Haywards
    Heath were represented
    in the annual JS table
    tennis tournament, the first
    major event to be staged in
    the new recreation...

  • the quick and the dud 03

    the quick and the dud A QUICK ALERT and close
    co-operation between stores
    in Worcester helped put an
    end to the passing of fake 50p
    pieces. Woolworth's were the first
    store to find the coins, and
    they told all the other...

  • BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES 04

    AT TELFORD AND KEMPSTON IT'S ALL THE RAGE TO USE YOUR LOAF . . . THE SIGN says freshy baked bread' and the
    smell of hot bread straiglt from the oven tells you
    it's true. This is the scere at Kempston and Telford,
    the first JS...

  • It's a fab start for Jean 05

    It's a fab start for Jean
    YOU'VE GOT TO BE SPECIAL to have a whole page
    devoted to you in Fab 208 magazine — a magazine that forms a
    major part of the staple reading diet of most teeny-boppers.
    That distinction is the proud...

  • Ron's the cactus king 05

    Ron's the cactus king
    MORE AND MORE people
    are taking an interest in
    growing cacti and succulents,
    according to Ron Harvey,
    non-perishables foreman at
    Hoddesdon depot, who with
    the help of night manager
    George Edwards,...

  • Wake up! Your lorry's here 05

    Wake up! Your lorry's here
    'JS MANAGERS are paid
    for 168 hours a week, but
    we do like to get to bed
    occasionally' says Terry
    Delves, manager of Solihull.
    And it was at ten past
    ten, just after Mr Delves
    had gone to bed on...

  • A SAINSBURY VETERAN 06

    A SAINSBURY VETERAN, Mrs Helena Roberts, who
    retired from the company in 1957 having served at
    Blackfriars, has recently had a block of bungalows in
    Leicester named after her.
    Mrs Roberts has for a long time been...

  • Balham plays heavenly host 06

    Balham plays heavenly host AN ANGELIC SIGHT for customers in Balham branch was
    a BBC crew fuming a scene for the television series 'Angels'.
    Actress Faith Brook, who plays Miss Windrup, the instructor
    at the nursing school that...

  • Branch openings & planning applications 06

    Branch openings & planning applications An updated
    look at JS's
    plans for
    future stores
    and extensions
    Opening programme to
    date:
    Pitsea: Supermarket
    opening April 6.
    Bexhill and Horsham:
    Supermarkets scheduled to
    open...

  • YOUR LETTERS 06

    Breakages are shattering From: D Day, Basingstoke
    depot
    WITHOUT wishing to enter
    the argument on the merits of
    staff-shops, I would say
    though that my flabber was
    well and truly gasted to read
    Angus Clark, an...

  • APPOINTMENTS 07

    APPOINTMENTS K A Smithard has been
    appointed depot works engineer,
    Hoddesdon depot. Mr Smithard,
    who was formerly plant engineer
    at Buntingford depot, succeeds
    Mr C Phillips, who retires this
    month.
    L Hessey, formerly...

  • Ben closes the stable door 07

    ALL ABOUT PEOPLE
    Ben closes
    the stable
    door WHEN JS'S LAST LINK with the horse-drawn age, Ben
    Benham, retired on March 5, he was able to look back
    on a career than spanned forty-three years of enormous
    changes in...

  • LONG SERVICE 07

    LONG SERVICE Fred 'Jack' Horner, assistant
    head butcher at Oxted,
    celebrated 40 years service with
    JS in February.
    Mr Horner started working at
    68 Croydon, moving to
    Caterham, then Reigate. He
    returned to Reigate after his...

  • OBITUARY 07

    OBITUARY Henry 'Bill' Beadle, clerk in the
    perishables warehouse at
    Charlton depot, died on January
    27, after being with JS for 20
    years.
    Mr Beadle started with the
    company as a bacon stovesman
    at Union Street, then...

  • RETIREMENTS 07

    RETIREMENTS JOHN CHARLES, district
    manager, Bromley area
    office, retired on March 3. He
    had been with JS for 44 years.
    Mr Charles started at
    Ealing Road, and moved
    onto Wembley. After two
    years he moved to North
    Harrow,...

  • A CROSSED WIRE 08

    A CROSSED WIRE somewhere along the line
    meant that last month we said that the raffle at
    Esher raised 'more than £150' for the Stamford
    Group's Guide Dogs for the Blind project.
    The real figure was £133.

  • 'Checkout snappy, everybody happy' at Boscombe 08

    'Checkout snappy, everybody happy' at Boscombe 'SAY IT with a slogan'
    was the novel way in
    which Richard Wilkinson,
    b r a n c h manager,
    Boscombe, rounded up
    support for an eight-week
    campaign at his branch,
    aimed at...

  • GLENN GALE 08

    GLENN GALE is the new
    face on the JS Journal. He
    joins as an assistant editor,
    after four years as a
    journalist on The War Cry
    and The Musician, published
    by the Salvation Army. His
    notebook has contained interviews
    with...

  • NURSE OF THE YEAR 08

    NURSE OF THE YEAR
    FIRST AIDER at JS's Shirley
    store, Mrs Peggy Hamilton, has
    been awarded the Dame Mabel
    Tutte 'Nurse of the Year' trophy
    by the St John Ambulance
    nursing division. She also won,
    for the third time, the...

  • Personalities plus at JS's big night out 08

    Personalities plus at JS's big night out Cricketer David Steele
    (above) and comedy actor
    George Layton (right), two of
    the celebrities on the panel
    which chose Miss JS. Under the watchful eyes of the panel of judges, the...

  • Senior promotions 08

    Senior promotions TWO NEW senior managers
    have been announced.
    John Bell is now systems
    administrator in the nonperishables
    area of supply
    control. 19 years with JS, he
    was previously special
    assistant to the...

  • SPECIAL INSURANCE RATES FOR STAFF 08

    SPECIAL INSURANCE RATES FOR STAFF
    THE COMPANY has two staff insurance schemes whereby
    employees (and veterans) can obtain insurance at preferential
    rates.
    Says insurance manager Martin Gant: 'Both schemes are
    arranged with...

  • Spuds of the world unite-at a price 08

    THE HIGH PRICE of potatoes today is the price we
    are paying for last year's
    long, hot, dry summer.
    British potato yields are well
    down and there is a general
    potato shortage throughout
    Western Europe. Prices have
    rocketed...

  • TOP SPOT 08

    TOP SPOT in the certified
    accountants' exams last year
    went to Bob Cooper, a
    financial analyst in JS's financial
    appraisal department.
    27-year-old Bob, who has
    been with the company for 14
    months, completed the...