'JS Journal', December 1978

Table of content

• Discount '78 pays off
  01

  Discount '78 pays off
  Discount '78 has given JS its biggest-ever gain in
  volume of trade. The half-year results, published
  on November 9, also showed that, for JS,
  discount prices did not mean lower profits,
  which were up by...

• Contents Page
  02

  Pages 1-7, 10-11
  General news
  Pages 8 9,12-14
  Features
  Page 16
  Letters
  Pages 15, 17-22 and 24
  People
  Page 23
  Archives

• Every one's a winner!
  02

  Every one's a winner!
  FIVE PEOPLE are richer by £25 following the picking of the winners of the
  recent catchphrase competition. Branch staff were invited to send in their
  ideas for a catchphrase that could perhaps be used to...

• Exportation
  02

  Exportation
  TEA AND ICE CREAM are among the
  own-label lines JS, in conjunction with a
  London based agent, is currently exporting
  to Bahrain, an island in the Persian
  Gulf. Bahrain is the first of a number of
  countries around...

• JS backs GLC decision
  02

  JS backs GLC
  decision
  IMMEDIATE BACKlNGcame from JS
  for the Greater London Council's decision
  to look at the feasibility of siting superstores
  and hypermarkets in Greater
  London, with the news that thecompany is
  currently...

• Melting prices
  02

  Melting prices
  'CHRISTMAS SALE' butter is now
  available in JS stores. Thanks to an extra
  EEC subsidy, introduced on November
  1, adding six pence to the normal six and
  halfpence per pound subsidy already in
  action, this means...

• RG's a jolly good Fellow
  02

  RG's a jolly good Fellow
  ROY GRIFFITHS, joint deputy chairman
  of JS, has been made a Fellow of the
  British Institute of Management.
  The main qualification for BIM
  Fellowship, which is by invitation only, is
  eminent...

• Cat-bunglers
  03

  Cat-bunglers
  GENTLEMEN BURGLARS broke into
  Harold Hill branch last month—and failed
  to get the money. The thieves broke
  into the branch during the evening of
  Friday, November 3 and got as far as the
  manager's office before...

• Christmas rush—help is on the way
  03

  Christmas rush—help is on the way
  EVENING NATIONAL papers were
  used for the first time this year to advertise
  for temporary shop staff, full and part
  time, to help meet the demand of the
  Christmas rush.
  The simple adverts...

• ... lest we forget...
  03

  ... lest we forget...
  THE YOUNG AND THE OLD got
  together last month at St Margaret's,
  Westminster to pay tribute to the dead
  of two world wars. Perhaps the
  youngest there was 18-year-old Steven
  Townsend, a provisions...

• Menu changes on TV
  03

  Menu changes on TV
  BEEFBURGERS, PORRIDGE and
  canned fruit don't really sound like the
  perfect evening menu, but many of you
  will have seen them featured in the latest
  round of JS TV commercials. The three
  week campaign,...

• JS and Bentalls team-up at Tonbridge
  04

  BENTALLS LIMITED was
  founded in 1867 when Frank
  Bentall bought a small drapery
  shop in Kingston-upon-Thames.
  It became a public company in
  1946 and is now the fourth
  largest departmental store
  operator in the country....

• Many a new sip twixt . . .
  05

  Many a new sip twixt . . .
  TWO NEW BOTTLES and three new
  mixers are on the bill for the build-up to
  Christmas. Back left is the new carbonated
  JS spring water, identical with its
  still counterpart, but with a...

• Mug shots
  05

  Mug shots
  ANIMAL'S ON THE LOOSE in 63 stores at the moment, along with Gonzo, Rowlf
  and other Muppet stars. You needn't worry about it too much though because
  they're safely trapped on a colourful new set of mugs. In all, six...

• Dunstable perfects its four times table
  06

  Dunstable perfects its four times table
  The new Dunstable JS building looks at one with the surrounding architecture. THE AROMA of fresh baked bread from
  the in-store bakery welcomed the queue
  of customers at the opening of the...

• A three course winner!
  07

  A three course winner!
  NOW THE GOOD NEWS for the entrants
  in this year's Photo Competition. Our
  judges deliberated long and hard, but
  finally managed to pick the three
  winners from our bulging pile of
  entries. This month...

• How to cut prices AND make more profits
  08

  How to cut prices AND make more profits
  Our pictures show three of
  the biggest contributors to
  JS's record increase in the
  volume of trade. From the top
  they are: Produce, non-foods
  and frozen foods. AFTER the first full...

• Nouveau riche rouge
  09

  Nouveau riche rouge
  BEAUJOLAIS NOUVEAU, the young
  red wine from this year's crop of the
  vineyards of Southern Burgundy, was on
  sale in 32 stores only two or three days
  after its official release last month.
  Each year the...

• PIC's new chief
  09

  PIC's new chief
  'PRODUCE what the industry can sell,
  not what the industry can produce' was
  the advice JS chairman John Sainsbury
  gave British egg producers at the annual
  Poultry Industry Conference, held in
  Birmingham at...

• Earlybird Ashford
  10

  BPO Rita Culley and some of her girls line up for the camera just
  before the doors opened.
  Earlybird Ashford PREPARATIONS ran so smoothly for
  the opening of the new JS supermarket at
  Ashford in Kent that some senior...

• MORAL FIBRE
  12

  THE LATEST FASHION in food is undoubtedly the rapid growth
  of interest in 'high fibre diets'. What doctors used to call simply
  'roughage' has now become the latest in a long line of wonder
  foods. After years of languishing as a...

• Going Dutch!
  14

  Going Dutch!
  THEY SELL 'EM BIG in Bletchley—or
  at least they give them away. Last month
  the store's staff and shoppers couldn't
  believe their eyes when an enormous
  'Dutch Crisbake', one metre in diameter,
  was presented to...

• Tastefully yours
  15

  LICKING TASTE-BUDS into shape
  was the object of a three-day course held
  recently at Blackfriars. Thirty JS buyers
  were given the opportunity to sample the
  benefits of an American technique known
  as the 'flavour...

• There's money in them thar heels!
  15

  There's money in them thar heels!
  SUPER GRANDMOTHER Vi Schilling
  has raised £380 for charity over the last
  three years. Vi, who says she is 50 years
  young, is a senior supermarket assistant
  at Orpington branch and she raised...

• Tasty investment
  16

  Tasty investment
  ON OPENING an old cake tin a customer
  was surprised to find a JS
  Christmas cake that she had 'put by'
  many Christmas's ago. Just how many
  can be judged by the price on the wrapper
  which was 33p for a lflb...

• WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT...
  16

  'WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT our supermarket trolleys, one of the great
  inventions of the century?' wrote a resident of Slough to his local newspaper,
  after he had seen a man staggering along the High Street with a very...

• Your letters
  16

  Your letters
  Letters are welcome and should be
  addressed to the editor. In the swim
  From: Stan Pitt, JS veteran
  After having enjoyed with many others, a
  most enjoyable and successful Family
  Day at Dulwich, I cast my mind...

• An enlightening conductor
  17

  WHEN EWAN DAVIDSON is not conducting
  financial affairs at JS as manager
  of financial appraisal at Blackfriars, he
  relaxes by conducting the Thames
  Voyces, the choir he founded ten years
  ago last month.
  A concert to...

• Ann and David 'pop' over to the States
  18

  Ann and David
  'pop' over
  to the States
  CONGRATULATIONS were recently
  ringing out at Ruislip branch for supermarket
  assistant Ann Cowling who, on
  December 1, sets off on a two-week all
  expenses paid, luxury holiday...

• George shivered and delivered!
  18

  George shivered and delivered!
  TT WAS SO COLD we used to shove
  newspapers inside our jackets as insulation'
  recalls George Pearce of his days
  working as an egg boy outside Hendon
  branch nearly half a century ago. On
  October...

• A job well done
  19

  A job well done
  'A BIT OF A PERFECTIONIST' is how
  Cyril Goodman describes himself, which
  is why he has enjoyed working for JS for
  the past 41 years. His liking for order and
  doing things properly complementing the
  company's...

• Top level pass
  19

  Top level pass
  WHICH DEPOT'S got an O' Level? The
  answer's Buntingford, thanks to pretty
  17-year-old Jacqueline Hogman. As part
  of her 'O' Level geography examination
  Jacqueline had to produce an extensive
  thesis—and the...

• Ann makes it to the top
  20

  Ann makes it to the top
  THE FIRST WOMAN to be promoted
  internally to JS senior management was
  appointed trading financial controller in
  October. Ann Everett has been assigned
  to this new post which has been created...

• Appointments
  20

  Appointments
  C Smith, formerly deputy manager in
  canned goods buying 1 at Blackfriars, has
  been appointed buyer in the poultry buying
  department.
  A Clark, formerly a buyer in grocery
  buying 1, has been appointed...

• Chateau Dracula
  20

  Chateau Dracula
  VAMPIRES will find something to their
  taste at JS this Christmas according to a
  recent distribution list. Slotted in between
  Hermitage 1973 and Cinzano Bianco was
  commodity number 43/747/12/11937 described
  as...

• Long service
  20

  Long service
  Bob Stainton, manager of the plant engineers
  at Basingstoke depot, celebrated 40
  years with Sainsbury's on October 31.
  Mr Stainton joined the company at
  Blackfriars in 1938 in the engineering
  department. After...

• Retirements
  20

  Retirements
  Margaret 'Marge' Boomer, a supermarket
  assistant at Leytonstone branch, retired
  on November 18 after 12 years' service.
  Mrs Boomer joined the company in
  1966 at the old Leyton branch and transferred
  to the then...

• Succession of Kings
  21

  STEAM WAS KING when Jim King
  joined Sainsbury's back before the war. 'I
  can just about recall some steam vehicles
  in the Sail Street engineering shop when I
  started in 1936, but they disappeared
  quickly' he says. Jim has seen...

• Have retired—will travel
  22

  Have retired—will travel
  NORMAN HARDING used to be a
  district manager in the Coventry area.
  Now he's in full time retirement. Full
  time? 'The only reason we ever argue'
  says his wife Doris 'is because he's...

• Christmas ham-per
  23

  MORE YORK HAMS were sold at Christmas than any other
  time of the year. Decorated with silver skewers and fresh
  parsley, they stood at intervals along the counter on distinctive
  china hamstands tike the one pictured right,...

• Package holidays!
  24

  These sunny snaps recently found their way to the
  Journal's in-tray and apart from reminding us of
  warmer days they throw a new light on . . .
  Package holidays! COMPLIMENTS flood in constantly regarding the quality of...