'JS Journal', November 1977

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• Lord Sainsbury keeps his promise...
  01

  Lord Sainsbury keeps his promise...
  'WE'VE BEEN a long time coming—but
  we're here now'. With these words Lord
  Sainsbury, joint president of the company,
  opened JS's new supermarket at
  Haverhill, Suffolk on October 11....

• Contents Page
  02

  Pages 1-7
  General news
  Pages 8-17
  Feature
  Page 18
  Letters
  Pages 19-24
  People

• Stork talk . . .
  02

  Stork talk . . .
  HANNA BLOWES managed to
  'hold on' until October 17 to be
  born. Her proud father Eric Blowes
  (pictured right) tells us: 'She
  weighed 81bs 13ozs, has blue eyes,
  fair hair and she's beautiful.' Hanna
  was due...

• JS sets its 'sites' on the North
  03

  JS sets its 'sites' on the North
  WANTED—supermarket sites in Leeds,
  Liverpool, Bradford and a dozen other
  northern towns. That's the message of an
  advertising campaign launching JS's
  search for suitable sites and...

• Loyalty and not royalty is the toast at JS's 'mini-jubilee'
  03

  Loyalty and not royalty is the toast at JS's 'mini-jubilee'
  JUBILEE celebrations of a rather more
  personal nature than those that have been
  going on this year took place on October
  10, at the Royal Lancaster Hotel,...

• Sugar—one spoon or two but no more
  03

  Sugar—one spoon or two but no more
  PANIC BUYING of sugar forced some
  JS branches to impose rationing in mid-
  October. Rumours of a possible shortage
  caused by strikes at five British Sugar
  Corporation factories had led...

• Halo, halo, halo, Watford's on the telly!
  04

  Halo, halo, halo, Watford's on the telly!
  Saints alive! Wot's all this in Watford
  branch? The script of an episode of 'The
  Return of the Saint' demanded that a JS store be saved from destruction by a vacillating
  baddie who'd...

• JS hasn't lost out after all
  04

  JS hasn't lost out after all
  THE EFFECTS of Tesco's decision to
  drop Green Shield stamps are still
  reverberating in the High Street, five
  months later. There cannot be a food
  retailer who has not done his own...

• New own label line worth plugging
  04

  New own label line worth plugging
  THE LIVE WIRES in the hardware buying
  department at head office have switched
  on JS's first own label electrical
  accessory. A 13 amp fused plug retailing
  at 35p, it's made to British safety...

• Eltham gives the competition the cold shoulder
  05

  Eltham gives the competition the cold shoulder
  Passers-by couldn't resist taking a closer look at JS's new freezer centre in Eltham High Street. A BRIGHT START was the order of the
  day when a new JS freezer centre opened
  in...

• Kettering is the toast of the town!
  06

  Kettering is the toast of the town!
  Above: Manager Peter Lewis stands in the entrance of his new store, while last minute
  adjustments go on behind. Below: A final polish for the shiny new sign in the concourse. THE WINE FLOWED...

• JS joins CBI
  07

  JS joins CBI
  JS IS THE LATEST retailer to join the
  Confederation of British Industry. JS's
  decision to join follows several weeks of
  discussion, during which the company
  sought the CBI's assurance that it would
  not attempt...

• JS yogurt paints a pretty picture
  07

  JS yogurt paints a pretty picture
  THERE'S NOTHING LIKE a nice big bowl of fruit yogurt to give you the energy (and
  inspiration) to create a youthful masterpiece in line and colour. The plastic empties make
  jolly good paint pots...

• On the fifth day of Christmas...
  07

  On the fifth day of Christmas...
  CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR fall at
  the weekend this year but this won't
  shorten the JS holiday revels. Stores will
  close on Christmas Eve afternoon and
  reopen on Thursday December 29,...

• Sinner repents
  07

  Sinner repents
  NOT ALL BADDIES are villains. Every
  week JS receives letters from repentant
  shoplifters enclosing the value of the
  stolen goods or just asking forgiveness. A
  guilty conscience can be a powerful thing
  as this...

• Bangers and Ads
  08

  Bangers and Ads
  The advertising business is normally portrayed as a world of
  expense account lunches and impenetrable jargon, but
  when the JS Journal decided to investigate the effort behind
  the current JS TV campaign, we...

• 'You get out of a job—what you put in' says Clare
  10

  'You get out of a job—what you put in' says Clare
  PRIDE in her job makes working a
  pleasure for Sutton Coldfield cashier
  Clare Andrews. As a cashier Clare, who is
  19, knows that the enjoyment she gets out
  of her job depends...

• Jim and his giants prepare for the big tom contest
  11

  Jim and his giants prepare for the big tom contest
  JIM BARLOW has issued a challenge.
  Jim, the transport shift manager at
  Basingstoke depot, has grown a lib 5oz
  (595g) tomato and is challenging any JS
  employee to produce a...

• We also heard... the joys of being all at sea
  11

  We also heard...the joys of being all at sea
  TWO HUNDRED GUESTS boarded
  the 'Solent Scene' at Southampton on
  September 17 for an evening of drinking,
  dancing and a bracing voyage to Cowes
  on the Isle of Wight. The evening...

• the big build-up
  12

  the big build-up
  The largest single storey
  hypermarket in the UK is
  spreading its wings over
  Washington town centre.
  From a surrounding scene of
  mud, cement mixers, cables
  and assorted rubble,
  SavaCentre is emerging as...

• Marching on Air
  16

  Marching on Air
  BEFORE YOU CAN FLY you have to
  be able to keep your feet on the ground—
  and in step. 'Marching teaches you selfdiscipline,
  how to work as part of a team
  and keeps you alert' says Flying Officer
  Smith of...

• Your letters
  18

  Your letters
  Letters are welcome and should be
  addressed to the editor. Wrong wavelengths?
  From: R M Edgar, management accounts,
  Streatham
  I read with amusement your article on the
  new radios for JS lorries. (See...

• Appointments
  19

  Appointments
  A NUMBER of management changes in
  the trading departments have been announced
  which will take effect during the
  next few months. They are as follows:
  E A Glendinning, currently head of
  bacon department, will...

• Long service
  19

  Long service
  Bill Bailey, meat manager, Dunstable,
  celebrated 40 years with JS on August 16.
  Mr Bailey started at George Street,
  Luton,'as a butcher and four years later
  was promoted to head butcher. When the
  branch closed...

• Retirements
  20

  Retirements
  Ivy Rees retired on October 11, after 36
  years with the company. Mrs Rees has
  been a counter assistant at Ealing branch
  for the last 21 of them. Mrs Rees
  started at Greenford branch as a leading
  grocery...

• Jack's sorry to say goodbye after 43 years
  21

  Jack's sorry to say goodbye after 43 years
  RETIREMENT caught Jack Crane by
  surprise. 'I feel no different now than I did
  20 years ago' he says. 'I can't believe I
  don't have to go to work anymore.'
  On October 7 Jack retired...

• On the bottle!
  21

  On the bottle!
  ANYONE INTERESTED in swopping,
  selling, buying or just looking at old (pre-
  1920) bottles should contact Derek
  Crago, grocery manager at JS's Bognor
  branch.
  Derek is an avid collector of ancient
  pots and...

• Sittingbourne's ten mile hike pays off
  21

  Sittingbourne's ten mile hike pays off
  EVERYONE likes receiving money and
  staff sister Mary Wellard of Memorial
  hospital Sittingbourne, is no exception.
  So when Eric Thompson manager of
  Sittingbourne branch presented her...

• Stan's blooms are the pick of the bunch
  22

  Stan's blooms are the pick of the bunch
  A BLOOMING MIRACLE could be
  one way to describe Chesham branch's
  meat manager Stan Hildreth. In this
  year's National Chrysanthemum Society
  Early Show, Stan crowned a truly...

• Chingford's glamorous 'grannies' go walkabout
  23

  Chingford's glamorous 'grannies' go walkabout
  SHATTERING your illusions of what
  grannies, usually look like, are five young
  ladies from Chingford branch.
  It wasn't just work that aged them so
  quickly but black crayons,...

• Jean gets the vote at Hemsby
  23

  Jean gets the vote at Hemsby
  Three lovely lasses, Jean and her daughters Clare (right) and Nicola. WHY ME?' was Jean Howard's first
  reaction to the suggestion that she enter
  this year's Miss JS competition. She did
  and on...

• Winchester believes in being nice to customers
  23

  Winchester believes in being nice to customers
  BEING EXTRA NICE to customers is
  something of a speciality of the staff at
  Winchester branch. And being so nice
  they are always getting letters like this one
  from Mrs Minords, a...

• Gun fight at OK North Cheam!
  24

  Gun fight at OK North North Cheam!
  AMERICAN DETECTIVE FILMS
  seem like child's play to the staff at North
  Cheam after the recent armed robbery in
  their store. Four masked men, all carrying
  guns, stole more than £25,000 from...

• Head office staff put the bite on two new apples
  24

  Head office staff put the bite on two new apples
  THE EPICUREAN TENDENCIES of
  diners in the JS Blackfriars canteen were
  put to the test last month. Two new
  varieties of apple were available for trial
  as part of JS's long...

• Overall impressions of the past
  24

  Overall impressions of the past
  WHAT WE WEAR at work has got a lot
  of coverage in the Journal recently,
  mainly through the letters page. It therefore
  seemed timely to look back on what
  we used to wear at work.
  One of the...