'JS Journal', September 1977

Table of content

• The one that got away!
  01

  The one that got away!
  Seconds after the final whistle blew at a
  bank holiday angling competition. Bill
  Horlock, a student at Dartford branch,
  landed the biggest fish of the day—a 121b
  mirror carp. A mere three-pound...

• Boil-in-the-bag footwear!
  02

  Boil-in-the-bag footwear!
  NECESSITY is the mother of invention
  so they say and when you are confronted
  by a sea of mud with nothing to hand but a
  pair of plastic bags —who needs wellies!
  These natty size nine bags were...

• Contents Page
  02

  Pages 1-5
  General news
  Pages 6-15
  Feature
  Pages 16-17, 20-24
  People
  Pages 18-19
  Letters

• Eltham to get freezer centre
  02

  Eltham to get freezer centre
  SOUTH-EAST LONDON is all ready to
  welcome JS's latest independent freezer
  centre. The new store will open in Eltham
  on September 27 and will sell the full range
  of JS freezer lines with some soft...

• If music be the food of love drive on...
  02

  If music be the food of love drive on...
  RADIOS are being fitted to all new JS
  lorries. So far 10 new lorries have been
  equipped with a radio. A further 30 will be
  fitted with radios once trials at Basingstoke
  depot, with two...

• Store-to-door delivery service
  02

  Store-to-door delivery service
  About to take to the roads around Washington,
  County Durham, the SavaCentre
  delivery van. STRAIGHT from the drawing board
  and ready to take to the roads is the
  livery design for the SavaCentre...

• A new slant on stoneware
  03

  A new slant on stoneware
  JS GOES EAST this month with the
  introduction of a range of Japanese stoneware
  in about 40 branches, around the
  middle of September. The range comprises
  a shaped coffee mug, a straight sided
  coffee...

• SavaCentre countdown . . .
  03

  SavaCentre countdown . . .
  SAVACENTRE is forging ahead on all
  fronts.
  The first SavaCentre store opens on
  November 15; the second is scheduled to
  open towards the end of next year; the
  third it is hoped will be open by...

• Chelmsley Wood to close
  04

  Chelmsley Wood to close
  CHELMSLEY WOOD branch is to close
  on September 24.
  'When staff are doing a good job it is
  always disappointing to have to close a
  store for reasons beyond their and the
  company's control—which is...

• Heart warming
  04

  Heart warming
  A DONATION of £250 by Sainsbury-
  Spillers has boosted a local heart fund to
  almost £3000. The Stainforth District
  Heart Appeal Fund was set up to raise
  money for two electrocardiograph machines
  for the local...

• Sainsbury's fruit and nut case
  04

  Sainsbury's fruit and nut case
  BATMAN has got nothing on a shoplifter
  at Pitsea branch on August 17 who, in a
  desperate bid for freedom, dived through
  a plate glass window and eventually escaped
  by jumping 15 feet from the...

• Summer is a-flooding in . . .
  04

  Summer is a-flooding in . . .
  MAKING a bit of a splash at JS's Bexleyheath store is warehouseman Eric Cox.
  Bexleyheath was just one of a number of branches which, at the beginning of August, found
  themselves waterlogged (or...

• Holiday tragedy turns out fine
  05

  Holiday tragedy turns out fine
  A GENEROUS WHIP-ROUND and a
  disco at JS's Farnborough store enabled
  senior store service assistant Charles Cringle
  to pay off a holiday loan.
  Charles and his wife Janet who suffers
  from...

• Kettering doubles
  05

  Kettering doubles
  ONE STORE OPENS and one closes at
  Kettering early next month. On October 4
  JS's new supermarket opens in the equally
  new Newborough Centre, Kettering. JS's
  existing branch in Gold Street closes on
  October...

• Smoothest supershave of the month
  05

  Smoothest supershave of the month
  BRISTLES BEWARE—from the middle
  of this month JS's first own-label shaving
  foam goes on sale. About 100 branches
  will stock it to start with.
  At 29p for a 200 gramme aerosol can it
  must be...

• We also heard... new neighbour
  05

  We also heard...new neighbour
  RIGHT ALONGSIDE the old JS store at
  Cowley a brand new supermarket is all
  ready to greet the public.
  The new JS store has been built on the
  site of the large car parking area which
  used to serve...

• Frozen assests
  06

  The long hot days of summer seemed the most
  appropriate time to take a long cool look at a JS
  independent freezer centre so for the next close-up in our
  series we visited Hayes End . . . The team from left to right: Pat...

• Get fresh with herbs
  08

  Get fresh with herbs Fresh herbs are becoming increasingly popular as their uses become
  more well-known and JS is keeping up with the trend by adding
  a new herb to its collection. Tarragon, ''the aristocrat of herbs',
  went into...

• Catch of the day—an action replay!
  09

  Catch of the day—an action replay!
  BILL HORLOCK landed the best catch
  of the day—a 121b l|oz mirror c a r p -
  seconds after the final whistle had been
  blown at a fishing competition, held on
  bank holiday Sunday, on a lake...

• JS supports the Tate's national supersave
  10

  JS supports the Tate's national supersave
  FACED with the dilemma of finding
  £771,000 by Christmas, or risking losing
  two masterpieces to overseas art collectors,
  the Tate Gallery is trying to raise
  the money by holding a...

• Vin Extraordinaire du depot
  11

  Vin Extraordinaire du depot
  PLONK in the heart of Buntingford depot,
  a merry band of sniffers and sippers
  are exercising their taste buds every Wednesday
  night. They belong to the new wine
  and beer making group which is...

• Look what's cooking at the old canteen
  12

  Look what's cooking at the old canteen
  NEW SOUNDS are echoing round
  the old canteen building in Colombo
  Street, but it's no longer the noise of
  people enjoying their lunch break.
  The local community is making use
  of the...

• Bell, cook and icing sugar...
  14

  Bell, cook and icing sugar...
  TUCKED AWAY in a picturesque village
  in the heart of the Kent countryside is
  a JS counsellor with a difference.
  Jennifer Marshall has not only been
  ringing out the good news about
  Sainsbury's...

• ... and her cooker came too
  15

  ... and her cooker came too
  JANE BABBAGE was one of the original
  Batchelor Girls of the sixties. From
  Land's End to John o' Groat's she travelled
  with a collapsible cooker cum table
  and various pots and pans, visiting...

• A perfect love match
  16

  A perfect love match
  LOVE was the name of the game won by
  18-year-old Kim Keys and 21-year-old
  Peter King when they first met at an SSA
  darts match, while they were both working
  at JS's Tottenham branch.
  That was in December...

• In-jean-ious win
  16

  In-jean-ious win
  CHATHAM CASHIER Judith Smith
  will soon have the best dressed boyfriend
  in the neighbourhood. Twenty-year-old
  Judith entered a local competition and
  won the first prize, £150 worth of clothes
  and a year's...

• Jane rounds off her education
  16

  Jane rounds off her education
  THE PRETTY NEW FACE in Stamford
  Street belongs to Jane Sidney, a home
  economics student from Guildford university.
  Jane who comes from Yorkshire
  has just joined the public relations...

• Love at first sight
  16

  Love at first sight
  MICHAEL GARDENER first saw
  Diane Kinmont when she came for an
  interview at Bexleyheath branch. It was
  love at first sight but it took him over two
  months before he plucked up enough
  courage to ask her...

• Fit for a Queen
  17

  Fit for a Queen
  THE QUEEN'S JUBILEE TOUR of the
  country recently took her to Walsall
  where she attended an official reception at
  the Town Hall just four hundred yards
  away from the JS store.
  As the crowds began to gather...

• Jackie's smile dries toddler's tears
  17

  Jackie's smile dries toddler's tears
  THE SUNSHINE SMILE of chief cashier
  Jackie Ellis helped dry the tears of a
  little boy and calm his distraught mother
  after an accident with a trolley at Bexleyheath
  branch.
  'The shop was...

• Pat's transport of delight
  17

  Pat's transport of delight
  HIRING A ROLLS RO YCE at short notice can present problems but staff at Letchworth
  were not deterred. When Pat Kirby, a cashier at the store left on the eve of her wedding,
  Friday July 22, they made...

• Pinnacles of success
  17

  Pinnacles of success
  THE SAINSBURY TROPHY is this year's gift from Buntingford depot to the local Ward
  Freman school. It will be presented every year to the top 'house' in the school.
  The design in perspex and silver is...

• Your letters
  18

  Your letters
  Letters are welcome and should be
  addressed to the editor. Beef about pay
  From: M Moloney, Northampton branch
  On a recent visit to the London area, I was
  angered to see vacancies for butchers in
  Croydon Central...

• Dressed overall . . .
  19

  Dressed overall
  HERE IS OUR SECOND BATCH of designs for updating the protective
  clothing worn by branch staff. The next issue is your last chance to win the £1
  JS gift token we are offering for every design we publish.

• Appointments
  20

  Appointments

• Long service
  20

  Long service
  Ron Perry, senior manager of the wines
  and spirits department at Blackfriars,
  celebrated 40 years with JS on August 31.
  Mr Perry started at JS as a cost clerk in
  the motor engineers department.
  Following...

• Retirements
  20

  Retirements
  George Hunt retired on August 20 after 40
  years with the company. At the time of his
  retirement he was warehouse manager at
  Wood Green and acting reserve manager.
  Mr Hunt's first job at JS was as a...

• A foretaste of winter
  21

  A foretaste of winter
  / love the winter evenings
  They are as cosy as can be,
  A lovely fire, a book to read
  And Sainsbury 's muffins for tea.
  CONJURING UP one of the nicest winter
  pastimes is this little poem written by...

• Doug's latest trophy caps the lot!
  21

  Doug's latest trophy caps the lot!
  A NEW HAT will be seen around Buntingford
  depot this month, but it has nothing
  to do with hygiene. Groundsman Doug
  Collard will be showing off his latest
  cricketing trophy—a...

• Obituary
  21

  Obituary
  Richard Brown, reserve meat manager,
  Surbiton died in hospital on July 12. He
  had been with JS for 41 years.
  Mr Brown started with the company in
  1936 as a tfainee butcher, at Hythe. After
  national service with the...

• Woman in a man's world
  22

  Woman in a man's world
  'FOOD RETAILING is definitely not
  woman's world'. That's the opinion of one
  woman who certainly ought to know. At
  the tender age of 23 Marie Shute was
  appointed manager of Goring Road,
  Worthing, and...

• It's back to the land- over forty years on
  23

  It's back to the land-over forty years on
  TO BE A FARMER'S BOY on his
  father's farm in Suffolk was Alan Oakes'
  only desire as a lad of 16 in the 1930's. 'But
  I was the third son with little chance of
  inheriting the farm and...

• History in a teacup
  24

  History in a teacup
  When's the teabreak? Girls packing tea at Paynes in the early 1900's. THE FOUNDER'S fifth son, Alfred
  Sainsbury, trained as a tea dealer and
  blender with George Payne & Co Ltd
  shortly after the turn of the...

• Thrifty welsh dresser
  24

  Thrifty welsh dresser
  JS STOCKING SALES got a leg up
  recently when Vivian Woodger, BPO at
  Rugby branch, sent 15 pairs to a lady in
  Cardiff.
  The lady had written to the store (enclosing
  a cheque for £3) explaining how
  she...