'JS Journal', January 1978

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• Sainsbury's Discount '78—it's going great!
  01

  SAINSBURY'S stormed the High Street on
  January 10 with the launch of DISCOUNT 78, the
  name given to the company's new massive
  discounting operation.
  SDISCDUWT78I
  represents a fundamental change in the
  company's pricing...

• All the signs of a big success . . .
  02

  All the signs of a big success . . .
  Chairman John Sainsbury (pictured
  right at the Discount '78 press conference
  on January 9) sums up the
  success of the operation so far...
  It is too early to assess the success of
  DISCOUNT...

• Contents Page
  02

  Pages 1-2, 4-5
  DISCOUNT '78
  Pages 3,6-7
  General news
  Pages 8-15, 24
  Feature
  Pages 16-17,22
  Letters
  Pages 20-23
  People

• Hard work pays off handsomely
  02

  Hard work pays off handsomely
  BEHIND CLOSED DOORS JS branch
  staff worked round the clock to prepare
  the shelves for 'D-Day' on Tuesday. In
  many branches work began in earnest on
  Saturday when prices were changed on
  certain...

• Brighton 78 The Future in Store
  03

  Brighton 78 The Future in Store
  Sainsbury's Retail Managers'Conference
  IT'S BACK TO BRIGHTON for this
  year's manager's conference. Last year it
  was held at London's Intercontinental
  Hotel, this time the venue is a return...

• Christmas trading right on target
  03

  Christmas trading right on target
  CHRISTMAS TRADE was right up to
  expectations, despite the slow start at the
  beginning of the Christmas period.
  The record for a single week's trading
  was slashed twice, once in the week...

• Radio award for JS ad
  03

  Radio award for JS ad
  SOFT, ROMANTIC MUSIC is in the
  background. Two dancers are circling the
  floor. A husky male voice says: 'Darling,
  you look marvellous in black.' His partner
  replies: 'Head and Shoulders shampoo,
  large...

• The egg and I
  03

  The egg and I
  HUMPTY DUMPTY on ice was a
  sparkling success for over two thousand
  five hundred JS staff who saw the ice
  pantomime on January 9.
  The night out to Wembley's Empire
  Pool was organised by the SSA and...

• The Great Wine Quiz
  03

  THE GRAPEVINE tells us the combination of Christmas, New Year and
  Discount '78 left little time for entering our Wine Quiz. And a tendril on
  the same grapevine tells us the quiz was just a shade harder than in
  previous years. A...

• What, why, how and who?
  04

  What, why, how and who?
  An important policy change
  like DISCOUNT '78 is bound
  to raise a lot of questions in
  the minds of everyone working
  at JS. Here, with the help of
  departmental director,
  personnel, Angus Clark, the
  JS...

• You get it straight from Sainsbury's
  04

  DISCOUNT '78 represents a major departure from the
  company's previous trading policies. The scheme has its
  roots in the discount marketing trials put into operation
  at a number of branches over the past 14 months. These
  trials...

• Blanket coverage on all fronts
  05

  Blanket coverage on all fronts
  ONE of the most successful parts of the
  Discount 78 launch was undoubtedly
  the massive and favourable response
  by the press and broadcasting media.
  Hard work by the public relations...

• Doing it by numbers...
  06

  Doing it by numbers...
  AS THE RUMBLINGS of a bread strike
  troubled housewives and retailers alike
  JS branch trading department
  concocted a strategy which was
  designed to keep queues and chaos to
  a minimum in that whirlwind...

• JS shampoo goes to the head in a big way!
  06

  JS shampoo goes to the head in a big way!
  A FULL LITRE BOTTLE of Sainsbury's
  shampoo is proving a bubbling success in
  JS stores. The new size bottle comes in
  three new perfumes, and after the first
  month's special...

• Seeds are a growing trend
  06

  Seeds are a growing trend
  'GROWING YOUR OWN is on the
  crest of a wave at the moment' says nonfoods
  buyer John Powell. He is responsible
  for this year's selection of
  Carter's seeds which went into 49 stores
  on January...

• Chairman toasts JS wives
  07

  Chairman toasts JS wives
  THE CHAIRMAN made the first ever
  forty year lunch the perfect occasion to
  say thank you to the patient JS wives, and
  received tumultuous applause from the
  husbands for doing so.
  On 9 January, 72...

• Pensions-exchange of contracts
  07

  Pensions-exchange of contracts THE CONTRACTING OUT certificate
  which JS applied for in August 1977 from
  the Occupational Pensions Board has
  now been received. This will enable all
  full-time permanent employees working
  36...

• Better safe than sorry
  08

  Better safe than sorry
  A lot of accidents at work are our own fault.
  They could be prevented with just a little extra
  thought and attention to what's happening
  around us. Starting with this issue we have
  asked Stan Ramage,...

• We also heard... charitable pub crawl!
  08

  We also heard...charitable pub crawl!
  DR BARNARDO'S HOMES have
  benefitted from the charitable enterprise
  of staff at JS's Burton-on-Trent store.
  Just before Christmas 20 of the staff,
  including the deputy manager and...

• Memories of Christmas past . . .
  09

  Memories of Christmas past . . .
  on the twelve days before Christmas JS sent to me
  Twelve bottles of label-less wine,
  Eleven empty Christmas crackers,
  Ten irate Christmas shoppers,
  Nine boxes of mouldy dates,
  Eight...

• The purrfect diet for a well-bred cat
  09

  AT ONLY 12 years of age Sarah Meakin
  has amazed the cat world with her champion
  British short-hairs, and the secret of
  her success she says, is the special JS diet
  she feeds her cats. 'I always mix
  Sainsbury's wholemeal bread...

• Blackfriars trio squash the lot
  10

  Blackfriars trio
  squash the lot IT'S BEEN A GOOD START to the
  New Year for Chas Stevens and his JS
  squash team. Competing in the South
  Eastern eliminators of the Austin Reed
  Squash Championship, they won through
  to the area...

• Diving for the top
  11

  Diving for the top
  The Journallooks at David Pace's unusual choice of sporting pastime. CRYSTAL PALACE Sports Centre,
  South London, on a cold bleak night in
  early January. On a concrete platform ten
  metres (33 feet) above the...

• Sainsbury's Ready to Warehouse Collection
  12

  SPRING ARRIVED EARLY at Buntingford depot on a cold
  and windy January day when the latest JS fashions were
  paraded around the warehouses and offices. To the admiring
  glances of their colleagues models Shirley, Sarah,...

• The search begins for Miss Sainsbury 1978
  14

  The search begins for Miss Sainsbury 1978
  A last look at the
  eight personality-plus girls competing
  in this year's Miss JS Competition Lesley Godson
  PROMOTION is what Lesley Godson
  wants this year. Not for herself, but...

• Your letters
  16

  Your letters
  Letters are welcome and should be
  addressed to the editor. 'Gigs' and gags
  From: JW Tack, JS Veteran (and retired
  DJ)
  I had to smile when I read in the
  Christmas Journal about myself being the
  first DJ and...

• Disney mice say cheese is twice as nice at Sainsbury's
  17

  Disney mice say cheese is twice as nice at Sainsbury's
  TWO FIVE FOOT MICE were seen
  scampering around the gondolas at JS's
  Bretton store just before Christmas. The
  mice, who star in the new Disney film 'The
  Rescuers', visited...

• Going back works wonders
  18

  Going back works wonders
  A NEW IDEA for JS veterans, organised
  by Streatham office staff last month looks
  like becoming a winner. On December 9 a
  group of retired Streatham employees
  revisited their old place of work to see...

• The Rev's success is in the bag!
  18

  The Rev's success is in the bag!
  STAR of the family service every Sunday
  in Oakwood Methodist Church is a JS
  carrier bag. The Rev Elliott Davidson,
  newly arrived minister at the north London
  church, uses the bag to bring on...

• Heart and sole help Wendy raise £60
  19

  Heart and sole help Wendy raise £60
  THESE FEET were made for walking,
  and that's just what they did. Last month
  24-year-old Wendy Holloway, a senior
  programmer at Blackfriars, walked 60
  miles for charity and succeeded in...

• Trolley-shooter
  19

  Trolley-shooter
  TELFORD'S TROLLEYS have been
  leading Harry Ladds a merry trail over
  the last twelve months. Harry, a 72-yearold
  pensioner who lives on the outskirts
  of the new town, set himself the task of
  retrieving the...

• Appointments
  20

  Appointments
  D Butolph, formerly manager Blackpole,
  has been appointed manager of Cannon
  Park.
  A Snow, formerly manager of Worcester
  Central, has been appointed manager
  of Blackpole.
  B Thake, formerly manager of...

• Long service
  20

  Long service
  Brian Franklin, branch engineering
  Blackfriars, celebrated 40 years with JS
  on December 20.
  Mr Franklin started as a cost clerk in
  the engineering department. After the
  war he took up a post in the...

• Obituary
  20

  Obituary
  Derek Skinner, warehouse foreman
  Buntingford depot, died on November
  26. He had been with the company for
  over 11 years.

• Retirements
  20

  Retirements
  James Baxter, farmworker, Inverquhomery
  farm, retired on December
  30 after 31 years on Sainsbury's Scottish
  beef farm.
  Mr Baxter started with the company
  just after the war, and has worked on the
  farm ever...

• Derby help out Aussie Santa
  21

  Derby help out Aussie Santa
  CHRISTMAS HAMPERS are usually
  associated with the champagne and caviar
  style of Fortnum and Mason, but for one
  Australian thoughts of festive food
  brought to mind JS's famous delicacies.
  John...

• Successful misadventure
  21

  Successful misadventure
  AN UNFORTUNATE MISHAP ended
  up as a success story thanks to the efficient
  and courteous response of staff at
  Lordshill branch.
  When the bottom fell out of a box of
  shopping a customer was...

• Walsall steals the show!
  21

  Walsall steals the show!
  WALSALL hit the jackpot at the Midlands
  area's dinner and dance, held just
  before Christmas. Nearly 300 people
  from Walsall branch, staff, families and
  friends, attended the dance. Anyone from
  the...

• Are you being served . . .
  22

  Are you being served . . . ALL CHANGE at Hoddesdon depot for
  the canteen staff's Christmas lunch. For
  the second successful year depot manager,
  Peter Speight, and his managerial staff
  turned the dining tables on the...

• ARCHIVES QUIZ
  23

  ARCHIVES QUIZ
  Well done to the 35 entrants in December's
  Archives Quiz, and congratulations to the
  winner—Caroline Gye of site potential
  statistics at Clapham. Caroline got nine out of
  ten correct answers and so wins £5 of...

• What's in store at JS . . .
  24

  What's in store at JS . . .
  Building programme
  Cowley Supermarket with integral freezer centre and
  (Oxford) bakery. First stage opened September 1977.
  Completion scheduled for mid 1978.
  Newcastle- Supermarket with integral...