'JS Journal', December 1979

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• HITTING THE HEADLINES
  01

  INTERIM RESULTS
  HITTING THE HEADLINES
  Following in the footsteps of the record breaking
  growth last year, this year's half-year results, published
  on November 7, are particularly encouraging.
  JS's interim pre-tax profits on...

• JS awarded £1,000
  01

  JS awarded £1,000
  £1,000 WAS AWARDED to JS at the
  conclusion of a court case in
  Nottingham on November 13.
  JS was acquitted of charges which
  were brought under the Trades
  Descriptions Act. Sainsbury's topside
  cuts of beef...

• Christmas campaign
  02

  Christmas campaign
  THE STAMFORD GROUP has already
  made two separate payments
  totalling £1,250 to their current fund
  raising project. The cost of the special
  recording equipment needed in the hearing
  research department at...

• Commodity accounting
  02

  Commodity accounting
  GEORGE SWALLOW has been appointed
  manager, commodity accounting
  at Streatham, following the resignation
  of Bill Anderson.
  He has spent the past 15 years working
  as chief accountant for television
  rental...

• Contents Page
  02

  Pages 1-5
  General news
  Pages 6-13
  Features
  Pages 14-15
  Photo competition
  Pages 16-17
  Letters
  Pages 18-23
  People
  Page 24
  Archives

• Kings Reach shoot out
  02

  Kings Reach shoot out
  FOUR ARMED MEN held up a bullion
  van outside the Kings Reach branch
  of the Midland Bank, used by many
  office staff, at about 9.15am on Friday
  November 2.
  Shots were fired, though no one was
  seriously...

• Managers' conference
  02

  Managers' conference
  THE BRIGHTON METROPOLE
  Hotel has again been booked as the venue
  for the retail managers' conference
  on Sunday and Monday, January 27
  and 28, 1980, and further details will be
  announced in due...

• New payroll manager
  02

  New payroll manager
  NORMAN SMART has been appointed
  payroll manager following the resignation
  of Dorothy Paterson.
  Norman began his career at JS in
  1957 as a commercial trainee and then
  became a wages clerk until he moved...

• Six day trading launch
  02

  Six day trading launch
  SIX DAY TRADING was extended to
  the majority of the 193 JS supermarkets
  and most of the 20 self-service and service
  stores on Monday October 8.
  This development follows trials conducted
  over the past...

• The L-shaped success
  03

  The L-shaped success
  A RUSH until the eleventh hour gave
  way to a smooth and overwhelmingly
  popular opening for Kingsbury branch
  on November 13.
  Manager Michael Hall said he was
  extremely happy with the way the opening
  and...

• A sting in its tale!
  04

  A sting in its tale!
  FOR THOSE AMONGST US with a
  cultured palate a tasty little item was
  reported in a recent Daily Bulletin—
  minced bee and onion!

• Home cooking
  04

  Home cooking
  TWO TOTALLY NEW lines have emerged
  from grocery buying 2.
  Particularly appealing to those of us
  who are home-cook fanatics is the 1.5 kg
  metric pack of Sainsbury own-label
  wholemeal bread flour which is priced...

• Longlife pure goodness
  04

  Longlife pure goodness
  NO ADDITIVES are needed to enhance
  the goodness of the new JS own-label
  longlife pure grapefruit and orange
  juices.
  Helen Mills, a buyer in the dairy buying
  department with responsibilities to
  develop...

• Speaking in a European language
  04

  Speaking in a European language
  EDWARD HEATH, the former
  Conservative prime minister faced a barrage
  of questions from JS head office
  staff on October 22. Mr Heath was the
  guest speaker at the Traders Club tenth
  anniversary...

• Good food guide no 3
  05

  Good food guide no 3
  GETTING THE BEST VALUE from
  your meat buys is the theme of the most
  recent Sainsbury's Food Guide. At a
  good value price of 25p the booklet includes
  a special section on carving meat
  economically and is...

• Stocking fillers
  05

  Stocking fillers
  HI-FI ENTHUSIASTS are flocking to
  their local Sainsbury's to pick up the
  latest bargains! Four types of blank tape
  cassettes have been launched by the hardware
  buying department as a totally
  new extension to...

• Sail and save
  06

  Sail and save
  TWELVE HUNDRED members of JS
  staff, their families and friends, took advantage
  of the two SSA 'Sail and Save'
  cruises from Southampton to Cherbourg
  on October 28 and November 4.
  When the idea was first...

• Knockout weekends
  07

  Knockout weekends
  Some of the competitors in the donkey derby. OVER 9500 PEOPLE had a great time at
  the three SSA Pontin's gala weekends at
  Camber Sands, Brean Sands and
  Hemsby.
  Hemsby was the first held for Eastern
  Counties...

• 999
  08

  A 999 CALL early on Friday October
  26 alerted the police and fire brigade to
  the fact that a fire had broken out at JS's
  Letchworth branch.
  Six firemen wearing breathing apparatus
  broke in and quickly brought yyy
  the fire,...

• Anniversary air waves
  09

  Anniversary air waves
  A BIRTHDAY BROADCAST was
  made to celebrate the first anniversary of
  Hempstead SavaCentre. Radio personality
  Terry Wogan was one of the special
  guests invited along to the festivities
  in the middle of...

• What's cooking at head office
  10

  What's cooking at head office
  THE HEAD OFFICE STAFF
  RESTAURANT was recently surveyed
  very favourably by Woman magazine, so
  now the Journal takes a look at some
  of the people behind the scenes and finds
  out the views of a few...

• PUTTING THE SNAP IN CRACKERS
  12

  CHRISTMAS CRACKERS have become such an integral part
  of our Yuletide festivities that how many of us could imagine
  the celebrations without them? Though production and selling
  techniques have changed over the years, the spirit...

• Pick of the kids
  14

  Pick of the kids
  1st
  Sue Purcell-Manser wins
  our top prize of
  £50 with this picture. THE YEAR OF THE CHILD' has proved a popular theme.
  for this year's Journal photographic competition. Judges
  Sidney Harding, validation...

• Depot gives more to Oliver!
  15

  Depot gives more to Oliver!
  ONCE AGAIN BUNTINGFORD
  STAFF have proved what a talented lot
  they are.
  When work is over, some depot members
  occupy their leisure hours with the
  local Buntingford Dramatic Society, and
  in...

• Your letters
  16

  Your letters
  Letters are welcome and should be
  addressed to the editor. Cheque it quickly!
  From: S R Henderson, clerical instructor
  Charlton depot
  You may, or may not agree that the time
  spent in JS branches is just...

• Caught short
  17

  Caught short
  AN URGENT REQUEST for a delivery
  of toilet rolls sent by Kettering
  branch to a contract depot inspired the
  following reply, which arrived with tHe
  said goods at the earliest convenience!
  In answer to your urgent...

• Choice cuts
  17

  Choice cuts
  IT IS NOT UNUSUAL for the chef to
  be complimented after a particularly
  good meal, but it is for the guests to also
  give equal praise to the butcher who
  supplied the meat for the main course.
  But this is exactly...

• Dream machine
  17

  Dream machine
  LET'S HOPE that the events of this
  poem, written anonymously, do not
  come true for Gladys Routleff, company
  car centre clerk, whose voice is familiar
  to so many of us.
  Hallo Gladys, is that you
  I want to hire...

• Lack of volume
  17

  Lack of volume
  WOOLWORTH'S ARE CLOSING the
  food departments in another 100 of its
  stores. This means that in the past 18
  months or so the number of Woolworth
  stores selling food has been cut from
  well over 700 to around the...

• Shut cut
  17

  Shut cut
  THE CLOSURE of a Fine Fare (known
  locally as Hodgson & Hepworth's) in
  the Ardale Centre at Doncaster upset at
  least one Sainsbury's fan.
  'I'm sorry to see that Hodgson &
  Hepworth have closed' she told a member
  of...

• Zippered
  17

  Zippered
  THE PROBLEM of keeping an inquisitive,
  lively fingered child under control
  when shopping in a supermarket has been solved by one young mum at
  Basingstoke, She just zips her son's arms
  inside his anorak, leaving the...

• A 'Grand' wedding
  18

  A 'Grand' wedding
  LUCKY COUPLE Sarah MacDonald
  and Steve Potts will certainly be celebrating
  their wedding, in June next year,
  in style.
  For Steve, reception manager at
  North Cheam branch, and Sarah, who
  he met when she was...

• Pop quiz success
  18

  Pop quiz success
  Left to right: Mike Bocock, Chris Barnes and Dave Thomas. THREE LIKELY LADS from the
  south coast are steaming their way, on
  behalf of JS, through a pop quiz organised
  by the Hospital...

• Buntingford pavilion tingford
  19

  Buntingford pavilion
  tingford The luxurious new bar inside the pavillion. A NIGHT CLUB AT A DEPOT? Well
  not quite, but the redecorated and extended
  pavilion at Buntingford is certainly
  just as good.
  The extensive...

• What a gas!
  19

  What a gas!
  A GOOD TURN OUT greeted the first
  cookery demonstration in a series of
  joint projects between JS and North
  Thames Gas.
  On October 25 at Chingford the weather
  was wet and miserable but this did
  not stop over 300...

• Appointments
  20

  Appointments
  M Handscombe, formerly marketing information
  manager and DMC secretary
  in the market research and information
  department, has been appointed head of
  marketing co-ordination in the market
  research and information...

• Long service
  20

  Long service
  John Bishop, senior tradesman at New
  Maiden branch, is celebrating 40 years
  atJS.
  John began his service as an egg boy
  and after the war returned to the company
  at 168 Streatham. Since then he
  has worked at...

• Retirements
  20

  Retirements
  Jim Soper from the branch trading department
  at Blackfriars has retired after
  44 years at JS.
  Jim began his career at 97 London
  Road, Kingston and went to many
  branches before his first management
  position at...

• Caring for KARES
  21

  Caring for KARES
  A HARVEST SUPPER and country
  dance ended the first day of a very successful
  weekend for the East Kent caravan
  club rally in September.
  Roger Howell, a works engineers foreman
  at Charlton depot, has been...

• Home hopes
  21

  Home hopes
  A GREAT BOOST was given to
  young spastic boy at the Norwich area
  district buffet dance, held at the
  Sainsbury Centre, University of East
  Anglia, on October 27.
  John Davey is a local lad and is paralised
  from the...

• Obituary
  21

  Obituary
  Raymond Burniston, a chargehand at
  Basingstoke depot, died on August 21.
  Raymond, who leaves a wife and two
  sons, was 45 years old. He joined JS nine
  years ago.
  George Gatting, meat manager at
  Corby branch, died...

• Facility for fitness
  22

  Facility for fitness
  BEAT AND FEET are working together
  at the Streatham office as the ladies
  are keeping fit to the sound of music
  with the help of their colleague Denise
  Palmer.
  When the joint consultative...

• Retirement honeymoon!
  23

  Retirement honeymoon!
  'WORK HARD and play hard' has
  been the motto that has carried 'Henry'
  Hall through a career at JS lasting over
  46 years. He concluded that career as
  assistant warehouse manager at
  Hoddesdon depot, an...

• This little turkey went to market...
  24

  Archives
  This little turkey went to market... Mr B. E. S. Turkey and his family (above)
  are on their way to Sainsbury's in two
  shades of brown on a paper bag of the
  1930s. In those days, they would have
  joined hundreds of...