'JS Journal', September 1978

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• Summertime news!
  01

  Summertime news!
  NO NEED TO MISS OUT on what's
  been happening at JS while you've been on
  your summer holiday—catch up with the
  news in this month's issue of the JSJ.
  We've been out and about on your behalf,
  now all you've...

• After effects of salmon poisoning
  02

  REVERBERATIONS from the canned
  salmon scare are still being felt in the food
  retail industry, several weeks after that
  fateful day at the end of July when four
  people in Birmingham contracted botulism
  from eating a 1\ ounce...

• Contents Page
  02

  Pages 1-7 and 17
  General news
  Pages 8-15
  Feature
  Page 16
  Letters
  Pages 18-23
  People
  Page 24
  Archives

• Iced coffee
  02

  Iced coffee
  A REPORTED LOSS of up to 30 per
  cent of this year's coffee crop in Brazil
  due to late frosts has led to some
  anxiety in the trade about possible
  price increases. To date the actual
  damage has not been quantified,...

• Open and shut case
  02

  Open and shut case
  AS ONE DOOR CLOSES another opens
  at Solihull this month. On September 16
  the existing JS store (opened in 1966) and
  independent freezer centre (opened in
  1975) close their doors for the last time.
  On...

• Reading matter
  02

  Reading matter
  THE TOP TWENTY book titles will be
  going on sale at six JS supermarkets this
  month. Depending on the success of this
  new venture into the world of books, 'top
  titles' could in time be on sale at nearly all
  JS...

• SavaCentre (2)
  02

  SavaCentre (2)
  SAVACENTRE number two is to open
  on October 17. Work on the site, which is
  at Hempstead, near Gillingham in Kent, 's we^ a^ea<^- Store director Bill Oakey
  has been in 'residence' since the spring.
  He reports:...

• Weather or not...
  02

  Weather or not...
  A DISMAL SUMMER has its consolations.
  Despite one of the three wettest
  and coldest summers in the last century
  there are indications that at least some
  farmers can expect to produce bumper
  crops.
  Worst hit...

• New warehouse opens at Hoddesdon
  03

  New warehouse opens at Hoddesdon
  HODDESDON DEPOT has increased
  its warehousing capacity by 9,000
  square feet with the opening of a
  new warehouse just across the road
  from the main depot. The new
  building, which JS is leasing...

• Hippo birthday!
  04

  Hippo birthday!
  FIRST BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
  at Lords Hill took the form of a magnificent
  cake, the work of bakery manager
  Geoff Permain, and an anniversary dance
  at the City Centre, attended by over 150
  staff and their...

• Historic building of the future
  04

  Historic building of the future
  A BUILDING DESTINED to become
  one of the masterpieces of the 1970's.
  That's how the president of the Royal
  Institute of British Architects Gordon
  Graham sees the Sainsbury Centre for...

• Hove to until August 29
  04

  Hove to until August 29
  QANG AFTER THE BANK
  HOLIDAY on August 29 a new JS freezer
  centre opened at George Street, Hove,
  Sussex. It has a sales area of 215 square
  metres and two mini-twin-bay checkouts.
  As well as a...

• Self-expression
  04

  Self-expression
  EXPRESS CHECKOUTS will be in
  operation at all JS supermarkets by the
  end of the year. This follows the success
  of experiments with different express
  checkout systems, carried out at selected
  branches over the...

• It's quicker (and safer) by tube
  05

  Southgate branch has been trying out a cash
  collection system that has put their takings up in the air
  It's quicker (and safer) by tube CASH HAS BEEN DISAPPEARING
  through a hole in the ceiling at Southgate
  branch and the staff...

• Chicken coup!
  06

  Chicken coup!
  A NEW LOGO for a new range of
  Sainsbury-Spillers roast chicken products
  met with success in a recent Commercial
  Motor magazine competition.
  The distinctive orange, brown and
  white 'Quinton Farms' symbol won...

• Pets corner—the market market
  06

  Pets corner—the market
  JS'S PET CARE RANGE is proving so
  successful it is to go in another nine
  branches this month and a further five in
  October. Pet care went in four branches
  this February on a trial basis. By...

• JS sews and reaps
  07

  JS sews and reaps
  CUSTOMERS are cottoning on to the
  convenience of being able to stock up
  their sewing baskets as well as their larders
  when they shop at JS.
  Haberdashery was introduced at six
  branches in February this year....

• Torchlight procession
  07

  'LET THERE BE LIGHT' said the hardware buying department,
  and lo, there were seven kinds of torches in all 102
  branches that already sell batteries. The torches, made by
  two of the country's brand leaders, cover a wide range...

• Liquid gold
  08

  Liquid gold
  We orbit the source
  of JS's prize-winning lager
  These pictures weren't supplied by NASA—left is a syrup tank
  and right a view down into the mash vessel.
  Right: The malt store. It doesn't take much of an expert...

• MAN & BOY at JS
  12

  Visitors to the SSA Family Day in June got the chance to put their perceptive powers to the
  test with a competition that asked them to pair off two groups of photographs.One group
  showed a number of JSdirectors and departmental...

• CRYSTAL PALACE FOOTBALL CLUB wots the score?
  14

  SUMMER FINALLY ARRIVED last month when the new
  football season got under way. In weather better suited
  to cricket than football the clubs began their long trek
  towards honours, watched by the hundreds of thousands
  of keen...

• Your letters
  16

  Your letters
  Letters are welcome and should be
  addressed to the editor. Dependant husbands
  From: Sue Hart, non-foods laboratory,
  Blackfriars
  As a married woman contributing to the
  JS pension and death benefit scheme, I
  read...

• Market site
  17

  Market site
  PLANS TO BUILD a new JS supermarket
  next door to the new Covent
  Garden Market were submitted to Lambeth
  Borough Council in July. The site
  fronts the Wandsworth Road and adjoins
  the railway line to the north. At...

• Shop 'n' swim at Purley
  17

  JS GETS IN THE SWIM of things at
  Purley with the news that the company's
  scheme to build a supermarket with adjacent
  swimming pool has been given the
  go-ahead by Croydon Borough Council.
  As well as a full-size swimming pool...

• Don's busy doing nothing
  18

  Don's busy doing nothing
  THE GUILDHALL AT LINCOLN was
  where Arthur Green first came into contact
  with the world of Sainsbury's, and
  it's something he's never regretted. That
  was back in March 1934 and at the end of
  June of...

• John strikes up a new tune
  19

  John strikes up a new tune
  'I'D NEVER heard of Sainsbury's before
  I arrived in London' says John Williams,
  manager of the pork products department.
  That was back in the summer of
  1936 and young John had come to the city
  from...

• Appointments
  20

  Appointments
  K Wood, at present area general manager
  for the Uxbridge area, has been seconded
  to SavaCentre Limited. He will be acting
  as deputy general manager.
  R Guiney, currently a district manager
  in the Bromley area,...

• Long service
  20

  Long service
  Tommy Thomas, assistant manager of the
  distribution division transport section in
  Blackfriars, celebrated 40 years with the
  company in August.
  Mr Thomas joined JS at the Union
  Street meat department as...

• Obituary
  21

  Obituary
  Gwen Angus, a part-time supermarket
  assistant at Winton branch, died in July
  after a short illness. Mrs Angus had
  joined the company in 1965.
  Jack Holt, a store serviceman at
  Broadmarsh branch, died in late July....

• Retirements
  21

  Retirements
  Ernest Kitchen, store service assistant at Bedford branch, retired in June after 20
  years service.
  Mr Kitchen started his career with JS at
  the old manual shop and his duties included
  such things as skinning...

• Snap yourself a winner
  21

  Snap yourself a winner
  THIS MONTH'S wine winner in the
  Journal's photo competition is Terry
  Wright, deputy manager of Waltham
  Cross branch. Terry's nut chewing
  squirrel is an excellent example of our
  'Eating' theme, as well...

• Bill starts life afresh
  22

  Bill starts life afresh
  'A SECOND HONEYMOON' is what
  retirement means to Bill Tucker and his
  wife Peggy. 'We have been married 38
  years and this will be the first time we
  have both had no outside committments
  and no family...

• Seven-up student!
  22

  Seven-up student!
  MARTIN EVES retired from JS on
  August 5 at the grand old age of 22. Staff
  at Kingston branch, where he has worked
  for the past seven years, noted the occasion
  with a retirement party and presented
  him with...

• Don takes the rough with the smooth
  23

  Don takes the rough with the smooth
  THE WEATHER off the coast of Iceland
  left Don Milsom cold. So he decided to
  travel south to warmer climes. Which is
  how at the age of 15 he came to swop the
  life of a Hull fisherman for...

• Windows and weddings
  24

  Windows and weddings
  MISS CHURN married Mr Nut as part of a 1913 window display at Burlington Parade,
  later 87 Ealing. This promotional marriage was known as the 'Union of the Day'. A
  double weight quality was sold—you paid a...