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  • Sandy steals the show! 01

    Sandy steals the show! Front page picture:
    Sandy Meek gets a congratulatory kiss
    from boyfriend John after she was voted
    Miss J Sainsbury 1977. More about the
    Miss JS finals on pages 4,12 and 13.

  • Contents Page 02

    Pages 1-6,24
    General news
    Pages 8-15
    Features
    Page 16
    Competition
    Pages 7,17-18
    Letters
    Pages 19-23
    People

  • Two new directors join the board 02

    Two new directors join the board
    DEPARTMENTAL DIRECTORS
    Peter Davis and Bob Ingham have been
    appointed to the board as part of the
    reorganisation following Peter Snow's retirement
    last month. The changes include
    a move for...

  • £2,000 cheque for Ironbridge museum 03

    £2,000 cheque for Ironbridge museum
    TELFORD'S industrial museum is to
    receive another donation from
    Sainsbury's—this time for £2,000. The
    company previously gave £1,000 to the
    Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust in 1974
    when...

  • Making a Jubilee display of yourself 03

    Making a Jubilee display of yourself
    THERE ARE STILL three months to go
    to the big day but already some
    Sainsbury's branches are thinking about
    those Jubilee celebrations. Stores will be
    taking part mainly in window...

  • Should JS opt out of the new state scheme? 03

    Should JS opt of the new state scheme?
    NOW IS THE TIME for us to start
    thinking seriously about whether or not
    JS should contract in or out of the new
    state pensions scheme which comes into
    effect on April 1978.
    From that...

  • SSA chief to sit on government committee 03

    SSA chief to sit on government committee
    ALAN KETTLEY is a real expert on
    recreation, so much so that he has just
    been asked by Dennis Howell, minister for
    Sport and Recreation, to join a government
    committee on the...

  • Battersea to close 04

    Battersea to close
    A COMPULSORY PURCHASE
    ORDER on the site of JS's Battersea
    branch means that the store will have to
    close on May 28.
    There has been a Sainsbury's in Battersea
    for nearly 50 years and the company
    is looking...

  • Great night finals! 04

    Great night finals!
    SANDY MEEK is the winner of this
    year's Miss JS finals, held at the West
    Centre Hotel, London, on February
    26.
    'It's like a dream' she says, 'I can't
    believe that it's happening to me.'
    Sandy is 22 and...

  • Happiness in store... 04

    Happiness in store...
    LOVE BLOSSOMED amid the groceries
    for Rose Chandler and Steve Bass when
    they both worked at North Cheam
    branch.
    On February 26, 18 months later, their
    friendship became firmly cemented when
    they got...

  • Introducing journalist Jan... 04

    Introducing journalist Jan...
    JAN WALSH joins the JS Journal reporting
    team this month. Her first job after
    leaving university was as a reporter on the
    Eastern Evening News.
    Jan, who is 26 and comes from York,
    has also been...

  • Double Dutch week makes sense 05

    Double Dutch week makes sense
    SAINSBURY'S WENT DUTCH for two
    weeks, commencing February 21, when
    fresh foods from Holland were promoted
    in JS branches.
    Called 'Dutch Fresh Food at
    Sainsbury's' the promotion centred...

  • New role for star of Dad's Army 05

    New role for star of Dad's Army
    STAFF AT STAMFORD HOUSE were
    surprised one morning to see Uncle Cyril
    taking his nephew Steven on a guided tour
    around the building. Uncle Cyril, better
    known as Arthur Lowe of Dad's...

  • News from around and about 05

    News from around and about
    TRADING AND OFFICE hours for the
    Easter period have now been announced.
    All stores, with the exception of Victoria,
    will be open on Good Friday but
    will close for Tuesday April 12 giving most
    staff...

  • Pull the other leg 05

    Pull the other leg
    THE NAME JAKE was the only clue to
    the nature of a complaint from a customer
    who returned a pair of JS one-size tights.
    Those of you who are acquainted with
    Mr Jake (the peg) will be way ahead of us
    when...

  • Finals keep players on the ball 06

    Finals keep players on the ball
    IT TOOK TEN HOURS of non-stop play
    to decide this year's SSA table tennis
    finals, held in the recreation room at
    Rennie House on Sunday 20 February.
    Two ace players, Margaret Bowyer and
    Simon...

  • JS fairy cakes rise to the occasion 06

    JS fairy cakes rise to the occasion
    FACED WITH AN OVEN made out of a
    tin box resting on four bricks, with a wood
    fire underneath and hot ashes on top,
    Linda Brooks' heart fell; but not her JS
    cupcakes, which rose splendidly...

  • Rescued from chain gang 06

    Rescued from chain gang
    SOMEONE OBVIOUSLY THOUGHT a
    lot of this JS trolley to chain it to the
    railings outside a block of flats in Fulham.
    The picture was taken by a sharp-eyed
    customer who said the 'owner' had...

  • Sue's prize helps the housekeeping 06

    Sue's prize helps the housekeeping
    MEET LUCKY HOUSEWIFE Sue Willmott whose weekly shopping bill up to £5 will be
    paid for the next two years by Living magazine.
    That was the prize Sue (seen above with manager Stan Stanford),...

  • Is the Bullock report the answer...? 07

    Is the Bullock report the answer...? The response to the invitation to let
    the Journal know what you think
    about the Bullock report on worker
    participation (see February issue)
    has been so great there just isn't
    enough space...

  • The Streatham connection 08

    The Streatham connection
    For the second in our new series of close-up stories we take
    the minibus to Streatham to find our how JS's central
    accounting and internal auditing departments add up . ..
    The vital link—Bill...

  • The internal audit department 11

    Some of the people behind the scenes
    Names to the faces are (clockwise)—Paddy
    Griffin, Chris John, Derek Pretty (left)
    with Frank Netscher, Malcolm Watkins,
    Vera Curtis, Bill Anderson (enjoying a
    cuppa), Bernard Mark and,...

  • Take ten pretty girls ... 12

    Take ten pretty girls ...
    Beauty and the lucky beast! The beauty (from left to right): Karen Pini, runner up of Miss
    World 1977 and one of the judges; Miss JS 1977 Sandy Meek; Miss JS 1976 Wendy
    Boutwood; and Miss International...

  • The Great Race 14

    WITH MORE THAN a little help
    from BBC TV's Nationwide
    programme, Putney branch was
    transferred into 'own Brands Hatch'
    on January 14, for the staging of the
    first ever supermarket trolley Grand
    Prix, shown on...

  • A right royal competition 16

    A right royal competition
    and would jubileeVe it, a £50 hamper to the winner!
    WIN YOURSELF a hearty
    hamper with a royal flavour—
    a jubilee feast—including
    a crown of lamb, a majestic
    Stilton, smoked scotch salmon,
    a...

  • Your letters 17

    Your letters
    Letters are welcome and should be
    addressed to the editor. Don't forget
    you can use the Journal's
    ring-in service on 01-921 6221 Making allowances
    From: W J Cole, grocery manager, Trinity
    Street, Coventry
    I...

  • Homage to fromage 18

    Homage to fromage
    'ONE OF THE finest Camemberts I have
    ever tasted' wrote a customer at JS's
    Farnborough store in a letter of praise to
    manager Ray Clark, about a cheese she
    had recently bought at the store.
    Explaining that...

  • The bullock report... 18

    The bullock report... JS archivist Honor Godfrey comes up with a piece
    of surprisingly topical documentary evidence THIS SIGNIFICANT PIECE of ephemera,
    lavishly illustrated in red and gold,
    has recently been donated to the...

  • Appointments 19

    Appointments
    K Sisk, formerly chief specialist programmer,
    has been appointed deputy
    technical services manager at Blackfriars.
    R Sims, formerly manager of Feltham,
    has been appointed manager of Lords Hill
    (Southampton)...

  • Long service 19

    Long service
    Jack Graves, assistant manager, Muswell
    Hill, celebrated 40 years with the company
    on March 1.
    Mr Graves commenced with JS at Ipswich.
    After serving seven years with the
    Royal Field Artillery, he rejoined JS...

  • Glynis is a guest at the Palace 20

    Glynis is a guest at the Palace
    A VISIT TO BUCKINGHAM PALACE
    was an important part of a day that 18-
    year-old Glynis Parker spent recently in
    London.
    Glynis, a scheduling clerk and cashier at
    JS's Churchill Road, Brighton...

  • Obituary 20

    Obituary
    Wally Turner, cleaner, Buntingford depot,
    died suddenly on January 31. He had
    been with JS for six years.
    Mr Turner leaves a wife and two sons.
    Bob Jaggard, assistant meat manager,
    Wood Green, died peacefully in his...

  • Retirements 20

    Retirements
    Jim Rose, warehouse manager at Christchurch,
    retired in March, after 45 years
    with JS.
    Mr Rose commenced with the company
    in 1932 at 32 Croydon and later worked at
    146 Bournemouth. In 1940 he served with
    the RAF...

  • RetepWons sets sail for Acrojam 21

    RetepWons sets sail for Acrojam
    PETER SNOW was born above
    Sainsbury's in Crouch End where his
    father was the manager. At the age of 15,
    in 1939, he too started work at JS, as a
    junior salesman at Whetstone.
    On March 4 he...

  • Mabel sticks to it for 45 years! 22

    Mabel sticks to it for 45 years!
    'STICK IT FOR SIX MONTHS, it
    doesn't do to keep changing jobs' was the
    advice given to Mabel Aylmore when she
    started work as a junior clerk at JS's
    Bexhill branch in 1932. The job, paying...

  • Not a man for marking time. 22

    Not a man for marking time. . .
    MARK ROBINSON is a travelling man.
    Over the past 14 years he has covered
    roughly 600,000 miles (that's equivalent
    to 22 times around the world) as stores and
    materials inspector for the...

  • A life on the ocean waves was not for Cyril 23

    A life on the ocean waves was not for Cyril
    'DON'T GO TO SEA whatever you do'
    young Cyril Hart was told by his father,
    who, as captain of many a ship out of
    Folkestone harbour, knew the hardship of
    life afloat.
    Cyril heeded...

  • 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 to date
    Cannon Park
    (Coventry)
    Cowley
    (Oxford)
    Wellingborough
    Lords...

  • We also heard... just what the doctor ordered! 24

    We also heard...just what the doctor ordered!
    ARRESTED FOR SHOPLIFTING
    from JS's Walsall branch, a customer was
    told that she was never to enter the shop
    again.
    A few days later she was back there
    shopping as usual. As she...