'JS Journal', May 1977

Table of content

• Efficiency pays off... investment pays off
  01

  Efficiency pays off
  Inflation ate up most of our 22 per cent growth in turnover ... but we're back to a healthier profit level. We held our prices down . Staff get lOp from every £1 in the till so customers increased, boosting...

• Contents Page
  02

  Pages 1-9
  General news
  Pages 10-17,22-23
  Features
  Pages 18-19
  Letters
  Pages 20-21
  People
  Page 24
  Jubilee

• Now we are ten
  03

  Now we are ten
  IT'S OPEN HOUSE at Buntingford depot
  on May 22 to celebrate the opening of
  the depot ten years ago to the day.
  During the morning there will be guided
  tours of the depot, a reach truck display
  and an...

• Washington's high flyers!
  03

  Washington's high flyers!
  AMERICAN PRESIDENT Jimmy Carter
  was welcomed to Washington Green,
  County Durham by a whole troop of
  SavaCentre bandsmen during his visit to
  the town on May 6.
  The bandsmen/women (whose ages
  range...

• Winning exposure!
  03

  Winning exposure!
  IT WASN'T PERFECT weather for tak-
  ing pictures but Terry Wright, winner of
  our photographic competition (see Ch-
  ristmas 1976 issue), still took his camera
  along on his mini-cruise to Denmark.
  Our winning...

• Women's rights
  03

  Women's rights
  FROM April 6 this year, new regulations
  covering the national insurance contributions
  of female employees who are
  married or widows came into effect.
  An employee in either of these two
  categories (and paying...

• Champions beat everyone under the table!
  04

  Champions beat everyone under the table!
  THE JS TABLE TENNIS team has won
  the division five championships of the
  central London Table Tennis League.
  Led by 1976 JS champion Alan Bennett
  (purchase accounts, Streatham) and...

• Elwyn is next in line for president
  04

  Elwyn is next in line for president
  ALTHOUGH ELWYN DA VIES has
  been at Cwmbran only since November
  1976, when he became manager of JS's
  first branch in Wales, he has already made
  his mark in local trading circles.
  For Elwyn...

• Freezer centre advertising hots up
  04

  Freezer centre advertising hots up
  The eye-catching posters in position at Chingford's integrated freezer centre. ALL JS freezer centres have been hooked
  on to a new style of advertising this month.
  The new theme is bolder,...

• JS's super marriage mart
  04

  JS's super marriage mart
  SPRING IS in the air and so is romance—
  especially at JS's Wandsworth branch.
  For the second time this year (the first was
  in March when Wandsworth's grocery
  manager Steve Base and North...

• Israel keeps mum about new melon
  05

  Israel keeps mum about new melon
  Left: the new Galia melon—same high
  quality but higher yield than right: the
  smaller Ogen melon.
  A NEW VARIETY of melon developed in Israel is now appearing in some JS stores. The
  Galia...

• New style concrete overcoat!
  05

  New style concrete overcoat!
  A LUCKY ESCAPE for Basingstoke
  driver Bill Collins when he was freed from
  this metallic muddle with only a few cuts
  and bruises.
  The accident occured on the Kingston bypass
  as Bill was passing a...

• Tesco gives the red light to Green Shield stamps
  05

  Tesco gives the red light to Green Shield stamps
  TESCO has finally cut off its 14 year
  link with Green Shield stamps. The
  decision, which was announced last week,
  brought a smile to the lips of many JS staff
  who have long...

• Washington SavaCentre first with in-store computer
  05

  Washington SavaCentre first with in-store computer
  SAVACENTRE will be the first British
  retail company to install the highlycomplex,
  totally in-store NCR computer
  system. It consists of 38 checkouts linked
  to a mini computer...

• Elaine's easy on the ear... and eye
  06

  Elaine's easy on the ear... and eye
  HOUSEKEEPER Elaine Davies, of JS's
  Cowley branch, was interviewed on Radio
  Oxford during a programme about local
  staff canteens.
  The programme discussed a health
  inspector's report which...

• News of pay and players
  06

  News of pay and players
  THE SALARIES OFFICE has moved
  from Streatham to Blackfriars. Staff who
  are paid four-weekly will now receive their
  payslips from the second floor of Rennie
  House. Any queries about pay should...

• Survival of the fittest at HO!
  06

  Survival of the fittest at HO!
  THE RECREATION ROOM at Rennie
  House, Blackfriars, buzzes with keep-fit
  activity every Monday evening.
  For, under the guidance of Hatha Yoga
  expert Lester Springer (a food analyst in
  the JS...

• We've got a holiday for guess what day!
  06

  We've got a holiday for guess what day!
  THE SPRING BANK HOLIDAY on
  Monday, June 6 and the holiday declared
  for the Queen's silver jubilee on Tuesday,
  June 7, means a long weekend lies ahead
  for all JS staff.
  Branches, depots...

• Window dressing with a royal touch
  06

  Window dressing with a royal touch
  JS WINDOWS will go red, blue, silver and purple to celebrate the Queen's silver jubilee in
  June. The posters are the work of Peter Dixon, head of the JS design studio—apart from
  the union...

• Free-flow produce is a hand-picked winner
  07

  Free-flow produce is a hand-picked winner
  SINCE THE TRIAL PERIOD one year
  ago free-flow produce has proved a tremendous
  success in JS stores. By the end of
  May almost 30 branches will have 'gone
  loose'.
  Every branch to have...

• JS counsellors have their once a year day
  08

  JS counsellors have their once a year day
  JS COUNCILLORS went willingly to
  the Tower on April 5, not to lose their
  heads but to attend their agm. The tower
  was the conference suite of the swish
  Tower hotel just across the...

• News from around and about... comfy cabs on trial
  08

  News from around and about... comfy cabs on trial
  TWO NEW MAKES of JS lorries will be
  seen on the roads this month. Buntingford
  depot is trying out Mercedes and Daf and
  hopes to have five of each by the end of
  July.
  The new...

• C'est magnifique—and scrumptious
  09

  C'est magnifique—and scrumptious
  CROISSANTS AND COFFEE are to the
  French what bacon and eggs are (or were)
  to the British—the perfect way to start
  the day. It is therefore not surprising that
  the French know their...

• Royal feast
  09

  Royal feast
  FIT FOR A QUEEN—that's how staff at
  JS's High Street, Walthamstow branch
  described the sumptuous buffet prepared
  for them by housekeeper Flo Gooden for
  their jubilee party, held on March 29.
  The canteen was...

• The driving force behind the wheel
  10

  The driving force behind the wheel Just the job
  The first in a new series of
  articles that will take an indepth
  look at a JS job, and the
  person behind it. This month
  we visit Rennie House to meet
  Ralph Henderson... FOR...

• A labour of love
  11

  A labour of love
  HUNDREDS of letters pour into JS's
  public relations department every week.
  Many of them are from teachers and
  students asking for posters they can use to
  illustrate a project they are working on.
  One letter...

• Living memories of those good old/bad old days
  11

  Living memories of those good old/bad old days
  AT THE VETERANS REUNION on
  April 18, living, walking, talking history
  revealed itself in a field-day for the JS
  archives. Here are some of my favourite
  quotes:
  'I answered an ad...

• Something to celebrate
  11

  Something to celebrate
  EVERYBODY'S jumping on the jubilee
  souvenir-hunters' bandwagon. Everybody
  except, perhaps, James Fairman,
  deputy manager, at JS's Dorking
  branch. He has been an avid collector of
  royal commemorative...

• JS converts take a trip to their local
  12

  JS converts take a trip to their local
  Continuing our series of close-up studies in different
  areas of JS we visit scrumpy country to meet a couple
  who take their own customer-eye view of a JS store . . . The
  ANN AND BRIAN...

• A-golfing we will go...
  16

  A-golfing we will go...
  OVER THIRTY GOLFERS took to the
  hills of Berkshire on April 25 to take part
  in Ealing area office's annual golf tournament.
  The hills were those that go to make up
  the 18 holes of the Goring and...

• Bristow: Frank Dickens
  17

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• Shirin's happy giving away money!
  17

  Shirin's happy giving away money!
  SHIRIN KESHAVJEE can be forgiven if
  in the cause of duty she allows her heart to
  rule her head. For she is JS's charities
  clerk, responsible for dealing with the
  many requests for help that...

• Your letters
  18

  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 Money's worth!
  From: C S Lundy, JS veteran
  I have a good deal of sympathy with...

• Bracknell gets its name in the paper
  19

  Bracknell gets its name in the paper
  STAFF AT BRACKNELL branch are
  well known locally for being extra helpful
  and considerate to their customers. So
  much so that one of their 'regulars' decided
  to say 'thank you' through...

• Dream holiday knocks Roy and Margaret for six!
  19

  Dream holiday knocks Roy and Margaret for six!
  'IT'S LIKE A DREAM come true' says
  Roy Quelch, winner of the £400 Greek
  holiday for two that was the top raffle
  prize at this year's Miss JS finals.
  Basingstoke depot drew the...

• Appointments
  20

  Appointments
  Derek Graham (pictured above) has been
  appointed depot manager at Charlton
  depot. He was formerly depot manager,
  contracts, based at the distribution
  division's central offices at Blackfriars.
  Mr Graham, who is...

• Long Service
  21

  Long Service
  Fred Coombs, post messenger, Rennie
  House, Blackfriars, celebrated 40 years'
  service with JS on May 3.
  Mr Coombs started with the company
  in 1937 as foreman in the bakery at the
  now closed Blackfriars factory....

• Obituary
  21

  Obituary
  Frederick Tilley, driver, Charlton depot,
  died suddenly on April 1. He had been
  with the company for nearly 40 years.
  Mr Tilley started with JS in 1938 as a
  porter in Marylebone branch. In 1947 he
  was transferred to...

• Pontin's weekend gets everybody in the holiday mood
  21

  Pontin's weekend gets
  everybody
  in the holiday mood
  JS staff and their families from places as far
  afield as Cwmbran and Cambridge descended
  on Pontin's holiday camp at Camber
  Sands, Sussex, on April 15 for a SSA
  weekend of...

• Retirements
  21

  Retirements
  John Rappard, warehouseman, Shirley,
  retired on April 30 after 22 years' service
  with the company.
  Mr Rappard joined JS in 1955 as a
  porter at Above Bar branch in Southampton.
  It was in 1971 that he took up his...

• Veterans' get-together grows . . . and grows!
  22

  Veterans' get-together grows . . . and grows!
  THIS YEAR more than 1400 JS veterans
  gathered at the Royal Lancaster Hotel on
  April 18 for their 29th annual reunion.
  Despite the increase in numbers, the organisation
  of the...

• Mike makes mincemeat of his opponents
  23

  Mike makes mincemeat of his opponents
  WHEN JS BUTCHER Mike Whelan, of
  Golders Green branch, flexes his muscles
  over a baron of beef he is not just doing his
  job but getting useful preparation for a
  sporting pastime that takes...

• We also heard... a view with a room (or two)
  23

  We also heard...a view with a room (or two)
  GRACIOUS LIVING is incomplete
  without a JS store less than a Rolls-Royce
  ride away. Or so it would seem from an
  advertisement in a recent copy of the
  Sunday Observer which, after an...

• Everybody's doing it...
  24

  Everybody's doing it...
  WE'VE BEEN INUNDATED with news
  of jubilee celebrations being planned
  around JS. Everybody's doing it. Branches
  are throwing parties, central offices
  are going the whole hog and having a
  jubilee ball,...

• There's still time to win £50
  24

  There's still time to win £50
  The The JS Journal offices have been
  flooded with entries for our jubilee competition.
  Ideas have arrived from as far
  afield as Brighton and Bridgwater, Doncaster
  and Dorking. But it's the...