'JS Journal', May 1978

Table of content

• JS pushes ahead
  01

  JS pushes ahead
  Keen trading maintains profits, pushes up sales
  and greatly increases JS's market share. For the
  chairman's comments on the results see page two.

• Contents Page
  02

  Pages 1-5, 23
  General news
  Pages 6-15
  Features
  Pages 16,18
  Letters
  Pages 17,19-22
  People
  Page 24
  Archives

• JS grabs a bigger share
  02

  JS grabs a bigger share
  MORE PEOPLE are shopping at
  Sainsbury's. JS's results for 1977/78, published
  on May 3, show that sales went up
  by 22.2 per cent during the year to reach a
  total of £811.10 million (including...

• Pioneers of JS's north west frontier
  03

  Pioneers of JS's north west frontier
  AN OLD GASWORKS provided the site for JS's Newcastle-Under-Lyme store,
  which opened its doors to the eager North Staffordshire crowds on April 25. The
  1330 square metre (14,300 square feet)...

• Butter and milk make cream
  04

  Butter and milk make cream
  YOU DON'T HAVE TO KEEP A COW
  in the back garden to have a constant
  supply of freshly made cream. You can
  make it on the kitchen table in a few
  minutes using the latest kitchen gadget to
  make the...

• JS kicks off at Crystal Palace
  04

  JS kicks off at Crystal Palace
  SAINSBURY'S UNITED is to play
  Crystal Palace at home in a joint development
  scheme that will give JS its
  biggest store to date and second division
  Crystal Palace the financial support it
  needs...

• Tintactics
  05

  Tintactics
  'OUT OF THE STRONG came forth sweetness'.
  Samson's famous riddle, based around the biblical
  tale of Samson and the lion, has long adorned cans of
  Tate & Lyle's 'Golden Syrup'. Now it can be found on a
  new storage...

• Trolley deposit scheme travels further afield
  05

  Trolley deposit scheme travels further afield
  BRETTON'S TROLLEY DEPOSIT
  scheme has been extended to two other
  branches. Lewisham and Edmonton started
  their schemes on April 17 and 18, both
  on a joint basis with other...

• wash and brush up
  05

  THE WHOLE TOOTH and nothing but the tooth is the
  latest message from the health and beauty department
  with the introduction of a range of own label toothbrushes.
  They cost 16p each, come in eight colours and
  three...

• My little chickadee
  06

  THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG? The
  age-old question has an unequivocal
  answer at Sainsbury-Spillers' chicken
  hatchery at Soham, near Cambridge.
  Without a regular supply of eggs there
  would be no young chicks, and without
  young...

• Warm comfort farm
  08

  Warm comfort farm
  Seeing is believing. In the foreground lettuces who spent
  their formative weeks under plastic. In the background
  some who didn't. How JS home grown produce benefits
  from growing up on the right side of...

• Blow-up!
  10

  A TOPPLING TOWER provided Terry
  Wright with an exciting subject for his
  latest batch of photographs. Terry, who is
  deputy manager at the VValtham Cross
  store, won the Journal's November 1976
  photography competition with a...

• White on the green
  10

  White on the green
  APRIL SHOWERS turned to snow as
  the competitors in Uxbridge AGM Ken
  Wood's annual golf tourney battled their
  way round 27 holes on April 10.
  Thirty-five keen golfers from all parts
  of JS made the journey...

• Stars of the polyester screen
  12

  JS's screen printing unit produces 50 per cent of all
  the posters, channel tickets, barker cards and other point of
  sale material to be seen at the branches.
  Lured by the smell of printing ink and the eye catching work
  coming...

• Dinner-dance blues!
  14

  Dinner-dance blues!
  BEMOANING the 'miserable' shopping
  facilities in Beckenham a dismayed
  housewife wrote to her local newspaper saying: 'Why not let Sainsbury's have the
  Regal site—food is more important than
  dancing! I...

• Top politicians 'shopping' for votes
  14

  Top politicians 'shopping' for votes
  TWO JS STORES were treated to visits
  from leading politicians last month. The
  Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer
  Protection, Roy Hattersley, and
  Leader of the Opposition,...

• Twice as nice at half the price
  15

  Twice as nice at half the price
  RISE ABOVE bread queues—bake your
  own. JS is all in favour of home-made
  bread. And to prove it the company has
  recently been promoting own-label bread
  mixes and strong white bread flour in...

• Your letters
  16

  Your letters
  Letters are welcome and should be
  addressed to the editor. Artistic supersave
  From: C S Lundy, JS veteran
  My wife and I recently visited the Sainsbury
  Centre for Visual Arts at the University
  of East Anglia....

• Buck is on the right track !
  17

  'ON MONDAYS we cleaned our bikes'
  recalls Cyril Buckingham of his days as a
  JS delivery boy back in the 1930s. 'For the
  rest of the week we were out and about
  getting and delivering customers' orders.
  It was a twelve-, or...

• lost trolley
  17

  The following letter (complete with illustration)
  was found in a trolley left outside
  Broadmarsh, Nottingham branch,
  signed: John, Bill and Steve
  Dear Mr Sainsbury
  I presume you are wondering why this
  trolley is outside your...

• Doric's bumper fun book
  18

  Doric's bumper fun book
  'I COULD WRITE A BOOK about my
  time with JS' says Doric Priestley 'but no
  one would ever publish it—some of the
  stories are very funny, but quite unprintable
  !' Doric, who was produce manager
  at...

• Game, set and match
  19

  Game, set and match
  THE END OF APRIL was also the end
  of an era for the SSA when Alan Kettley,
  the secretary, retired. Alan, who'd been
  with the company for 44 years, had held
  the post of SSA secretary for the last 23
  years....

• Appointments
  20

  Appointments
  A Spence, formerly manager of Kenton
  branch, has been appointed manager of
  Chesham branch.
  K Goodbun, formerly deputy manager
  at 1-4 Ealing, has been appointed manager
  of Kenton branch.
  M Hall, formerly manager...

• Long service
  20

  Long service
  Des Butcher, a warehouse foreman at
  Charlton depot, celebrated 25 years with
  JS on May 6.
  Mr Butcher joined the company at the
  old Union St warehouse, before moving
  to Charlton depot when it opened. His
  first...

• Obituary
  20

  Obituary
  Jim Uridge, a plumber in the branch
  engineering department at Woking area
  office, died on April 8 after a long illness.
  Mr. Uridge was 56, and had been with
  the company for 14 years. He will be
  much missed by his...

• Retirements
  20

  Retirements
  Les Henwood, warehouse manager at
  Barkingside branch, retired on March 18
  after 43 years with the company.
  Mr Henwood joined JS in 1935 at
  Barking. With the outbreak of the war he
  joined the forces, and spent six...

• Customer expresses her pleasure
  21

  Customer expresses her pleasure
  MORE HASTE LESS PEEVE for a
  customer at West Wickham branch who
  is so pleased with the express checkout
  recently introduced at the store she wrote
  to the manager saying so.
  She said it now...

• Roll pallets lib!
  21

  Roll pallets lib!
  Roll pallets come in for a lot of rough treatment
  at the depots and branches. They suffer the
  abuse of overloading, mishandling and are often
  used until they literally fall apart, instead of
  being sent for...

• Those were the days . . .
  22

  Those were the days...
  THE MANUAL SHOPS were the best'
  says Gwen Potter looking back over her
  43 years with JS. 'We were like a family
  and serving over a counter you really got
  to know and make friends with...

• '... when pansies were flowers'
  22

  '... when pansies were flowers'
  SPRYER THAN EVER, over 1400 JS
  veterans accompanied by their spouses
  or friends, met at London's Royal Lancaster
  Hotel on April 24, to attend the JS
  Veterans Group's thirtieth...

• Alison is new number two
  23

  Alison is new number two
  THE NEW FACE in the public relations
  department at Blackfriars is Alison
  Wearne, who joined JS last month as
  deputy manager of the department.
  Alison spent four years with Key Markets
  as their public...

• Golden arrows
  23

  Golden arrows
  THE SSA DARTS FINALS for 1978
  were held in the recreation room of Rennie
  House on April 9. The competitions
  drew a record entry and play went on
  from ten in the morning until eight at
  night.
  The Arcady trophy...

• Harry Stringer
  23

  Harry Stringer is not only a hot
  contender for the title of the
  youngest JS depot manager he is
  also the outright winner of the
  Journal's spot the deliberate
  mistake contest.
  First we referred to him as relief
  manager and...

• New range is child's pay!
  23

  New range is child's pay!
  POCKET-MONEY TOYS are making
  an appearance in five JS stores at the
  moment. The range of 61 basic items all
  sell at less than £1.25p, and are designed
  to appeal to children accompanying...

• Egg on our faces
  24

  Egg on our faces
  A short time ago, the archives
  were unable to help a JS
  customer who wanted to know
  when egg rationing ceased after
  the Second World War. Since
  discovering the facts, the name of
  branch and customer have...

• Getting the message
  24

  Getting the message
  ONCE UPON A TIME in the branches bacon was not bacon but 'peat smoked'
  and 'mild cured'. 'Genuine old' was York hams, 'perfection' meant pies, 'my
  own make' was pork sausages and 'delicious on toast' could...