'JS Journal', April 1976

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• Shopping's eggstra special at Pitsea
  01

  Shopping's eggstra special at Pitsea
  HUNDREDS of mums swopped their
  prams for supermarket trolleys to be
  among the first to shop at JS's new store
  at the Pitsea Centre, Basildon, when it
  opened on April 6.
  Four-wheeled...

• Contents Page
  02

  Pages 3-8
  General News
  Pages 9-17
  Features
  Pages 18-20
  People
  Pages 21-22
  Letters
  Pages 23-24
  Picture

• What's all this then . . . ?
  02

  What's all this then . . . ?
  THE same but different. That's the aim of the new look JS Journal
  you are now reading. After a lengthy and thoughtful review of the
  purpose and function of the Journal, it has been decided that...

• Ministry men find out we know our onions
  03

  Ministry men find out we know our onions
  TWENTY top horticulturists took a
  close look behind the scenes at Woolwich
  branch as part of a day's visit to JS
  on April 7.
  All of them were officers of the Agricultural
  Development...

• Produce blossoms out
  04

  Produce blossoms out SPRING arrived with a flourish at
  Kempston and Lewisham, the first two
  JS stores to sell pot plants and cut
  flowers. A logical addition to the
  produce department, their introduction
  on an experimental...

• Caramel goes 'topsy turvy'
  05

  Caramel goes 'topsy turvy' GOOD news for those with a sweet
  tooth. The JS dairy buying department
  have introduced two new variations on
  the dessert theme - chocolate and
  peppermint, and chocolate and orange.
  'Some time ago we...

• Charity begins at home
  05

  Charity begins at home EVER wondered what happens to those
  colourful sales promotion vouchers that
  drop through your letter box, offering 2p
  or 3p off certain products?
  Not the ones that go straight from the
  doormat to the...

• Gardens to visit
  05

  Gardens to visit
  SIR ROBERT and Lady Sainsbury's
  garden is one of over 1200 gardens open
  to the public during the coming months,
  in support of The National Gardens
  Scheme. Most of the gardens are not
  normally accessible to...

• Island holiday
  05

  Island holiday
  JUST the thing to blow the cobwebs
  away after a busy week at work was the
  weekend trip to the Isle of Wight taken
  by 80 SSA members on March 12. They
  stayed in two hotels, and the entertainments
  included a...

• A day of self analysis for JS scientists
  06

  A day of self analysis for JS scientists 'IMPACT' was the theme of this year's
  research and scientific services division
  (RSSD), management conference, held
  on March 29 in the conference suite at
  Rennie House. The conference...

• Bath sponge
  06

  Bath sponge
  AN embarrassing shortage of cash hit
  the JS branch at Bath on Saturday,
  March 20 when a jammed safe left the
  branch without any money to refill the
  tills at the start of the day - and on a
  day when the banks were...

• Takings taken
  06

  Takings taken
  ROBBERS got away with takings of
  over £8000 from JS's Kingsland Road
  store on Thursday evening, March 25.
  Two men set upon the Securicor guards
  as they were leaving the store. One
  guard fell through a plate...

• Thief of bag daddy
  06

  Thief of bag daddy SHOPS in the High Street at Boscombe,
  including JS, were recently hit by a
  phantom shoplifter whose trademark
  was an abandoned trolley of shopping
  near the exit, having got away with an
  unknown quantity of...

• Easter parade
  07

  Easter parade
  'EASTER eggs have been on the shelves
  two weeks longer this year' says Charles
  Pratt, head of grocery III. 'They went on
  display in the last week of February,
  which is a week later than last year, but
  then...

• Let them eat (cream) cake . . .
  07

  Let them eat (cream) cake . . . THERE has been a cream cake boom in
  more than a hundred branches, the result
  of big changes in the display of the cakes.
  JS first sold cream cakes in 1971
  when Wandsworth branch was opened
  with...

• Back in business at Temple Fortune
  08

  Back in business at Temple Fortune TEMPLE FORTUNE is back on the JS
  trading map, after an absence of 11
  years, with the opening of an
  independent freezer centre on April 6. It
  was nearly 61 years ago that the company
  opened...

• Les's driving attracts unexpecte unexpected praise
  08

  Les's driving attracts unexpecte unexpected praise 'HE WAS a driver who observed the
  three C's of an era of driving long gone -
  careful, considerate and courteous.'
  Thus wrote Mr G Hurcombe, of Christchurch,
  Dorset, who was...

• Late night line-up
  09

  Late night line-up From Monday to Friday every week, at a quarter to six,
  the evening shift begins at each branch. Some of the
  people who work on this shift have only a nodding
  acquaintance with the day workers; others are...

• Playing at shops helps mum
  11

  Playing at shops helps mum JUST above Sainsbury's in Farnborough's
  new Kingsmead shopping
  centre there is a development in
  shopping that could have a big future.
  It's the Timberden Shoppers' Nursery,
  thought to be the first...

• How JS is responding to the new Acts
  12

  How JS is responding to the new Acts JUST as the company's standards of
  hygiene and quality far exceed the
  requirements of the law, so in the field of
  employee relations, JS is aiming to
  comply not only with the letter of...

• Safety first
  12

  Several important, far-reaching new pieces of legislation came
  into force during 1974 and 1975, which give new rights to
  employees and which impose new responsibilities on employers.
  Three of the most significant new Acts to be...

• Stan's our officer of the law
  12

  Stan's our officer of the law 'PEOPLE only understand if they want
  to understand' says Stan Ramage,
  company safety adviser, whose job it is
  to spread the message of safety in
  general and of last year's Health and
  Safety at...

• JS plans a fair exchange
  16

  JS plans a fair exchange 'MR WATSON, come here. I want you'
  are reputed to be the first words spoken
  over a telephone when, in 1876,
  Alexander Graham Bell, its inventor,
  first succeeded in transmitting and
  receiving...

• You tell us . . . head lion news!
  17

  You tell us . . . head lion news! THE NATIONAL PAPERS were full
  of it when a woman wearing a leopardskin
  coat in Woking was pounced on
  and severely licked by a lion.
  In fact this epic encounter between the
  short-sighted king...

• Appointments
  18

  Appointments
  P Coles, formerly manager at Sidney
  Street, Cambridge, has been appointed
  manager of Pitsea.
  R Wilkinson, formerly manager at
  Bpscombe, has been appointed manager
  of Walton-on-Thames.
  R Gosling, formerly deputy...

• Long Service
  18

  Long Service
  Norman Harding, district manager
  for Coventry area, celebrated 40 years'
  service with JS in March.
  Starting as an egg boy at
  Brondesbury, he was promoted to bacon
  hand before leaving for his war service.
  He...

• Retirements
  18

  Retirements
  Ivy Creed, part-time cook at Bristol,
  retired on February 21, after being with
  JS for a total of 14 years, with a year's
  break in 1965.
  Mrs Creed started her career as a
  meat packer, and later qualified as...

• Obituary
  19

  Obituary
  Nancy Coates, part-time supply
  assistant at Leatherhead, died on March
  3. She had been with the company for
  four years. Mrs Coates died in an
  accident when her car collided with a
  lorry.
  Mrs Coates leaves a...

• Big wheel in transport retires
  20

  Big wheel in transport retires JACK BURRILL'S magnificent
  moustache may suggest a lifetime in the
  air, but he has had his wheels firmly on
  the ground during the 28 years he
  worked with JS's transport fleet, until...

• George hands in his keys
  20

  George hands in his keys KEEPER of the keys George Everard
  retired on March 5 after 45 years with
  the company. He joined JS in 1931 as an
  apprentice joiner but since 1960 he has
  been the company's locksmith. This
  meant he was...

• Your letters
  21

  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
  Blackfriars extension 2363 Apathy?
  From: C W Turner, JS veteran
  Further to...

• Karen's not just a pretty face
  22

  Karen's not just a pretty face
  PROVOCATIVE, sparkling, with a hint
  of sweetness, could well refer to one of
  the products marketed by the off-licence
  department at Blackfriars, but in this
  instance it could also apply to...

• Sydney snaps up £500 prize
  22

  Sydney snaps up £500 prize THE top prize in amateur photography
  has been carried off by Sydney Harding,
  of supply control.
  We told you in last December's JS
  Journal about some of Sydney's
  achievements with the camera, but...

• Branches win the day at badminton
  23

  Branches win the day at badminton
  PLENTY of contenders, and much new
  talent from the branches, ensured an
  exciting day's play at the JS badminton
  tournament, held on Sunday, March 14,
  at the Michael Sobell Centre,...

• Charlton carries off the cup—again
  23

  Charlton carries off the cup—again VICTORY for the Charlton depot football
  team who, for the second year
  running, have won the SSA Sunday
  football league.
  Their final game, played on March 7
  at the Griffin Athletic Club at...

• Veterans talk shop over a cuppa
  24

  Veterans talk shop over a cuppa IT TOOK an operation of near military
  precision to get 1400 JS veterans to the
  Royal Lancaster Hotel for their 28th
  annual reunion, held in the Nine Kings
  and Westbourn Suites on Tuesday...