'JS Journal', February 1979

Table of content

This issue:

01
This issue:
Working for nothing: page 11
Salt of the earth: pages 8-10
Strictly for the birds: pages 14-15
Finger-chip control: page 6-7
Contents Page

02
Pages 1-5
General news
Pages 6-15
Features
Pages 16-17
Letters
Pages 18-23
People
Page 24
Archives
Final moves

02
Final moves
'OPERATION CLAPHAM' is now
complete. The last JS staff at the
Clapham office moved to Blackfriars
at the end of 1978. Now in the process
of settling in, over 160 people from
the engineers and...
Old Swan swims in view

02
Old Swan swims in view
LOOK OUT SCOUSERS, SavaCentre's
on the way! Liverpool shoppers could
soon be using a SavaCentre hypermarket
if a recent planning application by the
joint JS/BHS company gets the go ahead.
The £5...
Terry trains a winner

02
Terry trains a winner
REMEMBER COLIN POWERS, the
boxer trained by Terry Toole of Charlton
depot? We featured them in the August
issue, and we've just heard that Colin has
regained his British light welterweight
title. This...
Third time lucky

02
Third time lucky
THE DISRUPTIONS of the past few
weeks caused the senior management
conference to be called off for a second
time.
The conference was due to take place at
Eastbourne on January 14/15.1 n the light
of the...
Clubhouse realises a dream

03
Clubhouse realises a dream
THE BASINGSTOKE CLUBHOUSE is
looking good. With a possible completion
date before Easter, the depot is
looking forward to a grand official opening
soon afterwards. Work is now going
ahead on the...
News in Brief

03
News in Brief
HOME-FREEZER OWNERS living
near Burnt Oak in Edgware, Middlesex,
will soon have a JS Freezer Centre on
their doorstep. On February 27 the company
is opening a new Centre at 153
Burnt Oak Broadway.
Edwin Hughes...
Above the law

04
Above the law
THE MAGNIFICIENT EIGHT—and
Nuneaton branch is one of them.
Sainsbury's was one of eight stores in
Nuneaton and Bedworth who were judged
by the council's health inspectors to
be worthy of a special award for...
'Bigger labels' predicts Keith

04
PREDICTIONS of bigger food packaging
labels were made recently by Keith
Brackenborough, JS packaging coordinator.
Keith was invited to speak at a luncheon
organised by a firm called Dolphin
Labels on the topic of JS...
Dim the lights

04
Dim the lights
SUIT YOUR LIGHTING to your
moods with two new dimmer switches
that'll be in 54 JS stores by the end of the
month. Controlling one or two lights, the
electronic dimmers are designed to fit into
a standard light...
Run, don't ride!

04
WITH THE FALLIBILITY of public
transport proved yet again, perhaps some
of us should follow the example of David
Simpson from the discount department in
Stamford House.
David has been running the seven and a
half miles from...
Barnet scheme gets go ahead

05
Barnet scheme gets go ahead
GOOD NEWS for shoppers in New Barnet, northwest London, as outline planning
permission has been granted for a new JS supermarket on East Barnet Road. With a
sales area of 2052 square metres (22,088...
Dem bones, dem ... hot bones

05
Dem bones, dem ... hot bones
A NEW PROCESS for boning beef
carcasses has been developed by JS researchers.
Called 'hot-boning', the process
involves removing the meat from the
carcass while it is still warm, vacuum
packing...
In a Worle!

05
In a Worle!
STEPPING UP the orders for safety
shoes is Worle branch who have ordered
nearly £400 worth during the past couple
of months. 'The shoes are such good
value' says BPO Barbara Baines 'and
everyone says how...
New PA for chairman

05
New PA for chairman
STEPHEN CHAPMAN is to succeed
Martin Whitty as chairman John
Sainsbury's personal assistant. Martin
will be joining the supply control department
at Blackfriars in May, when he
completes his term of duty...
One into five 'Easy Pints'

05
One into five 'Easy Pints'
FOR THOSE AWKWARD mornings
when the milkman hasn't come and
you're dying for your cornflakes, why not
stock up with JS's new instant milk
product—'Easy Pints'. Each pack will
make five pints of...
Chip chat

06
COMPUTERS have been with us for a
long time, but for many people they still
remain slightly worrying things—
casting shadows of 'Big Brother', or
HAL' the mad computer in Stanley
Kubrick's film 2001. Yet basically
they're...
A salt-mine of information

08
A salt-mine of information
IN THE SPRING the company is to
open its first branch in Northwich,
Cheshire, on land that was once the
site of the Baron's Quay Rock Salt
Mine. When the consultant
architects began asking for...
Working for love not money

11
WORKING FOR FREE on a Saturday
night is one of the ways staff at Forest Hill
branch are raising money for charity.
They have given themselves one month
(starting January 20) to raise as much
cash as they can towards the cost...
JS kitchen tinware takes the biscuit!

12
DULL KITCHENS ARE OUT and JS kitchen tinware is
definitely in! The company has established a very high
respect in the world of supermarkets and multiple stores
for its originality and initiative in the domestic hardware
field....
Flights of fancy

14
'IT USED TO BE a real cloth-cap and muffler sport, but now there's a lot of money
floating around' says Barry Odom about his favourite sport—pigeon racing. Barry's the
meat manager at Burton-on-Trent and he's got well over a...
Your letters

16
Your letters
Letters are welcome and should be
addressed to the editor. Token of disrespect
From: R E Shrubsole, supply control,
Blackfriars
As an employee, customer and shareholder
of the company, may I register...
Taking the roughage with the smooth

17
Taking the roughage with the smooth
'I EAT your Swiss style every day' wrote a
customer 'because it is interesting, palatable
and scarifies the bowels. But last
Wednesday I almost wrecked my crumbling
tooth on the attached...
One-man show

18
One-man show
Talented artist Jim Woods, a JS veteran,
is this month displaying a selection of his recent
paintings during a one-man exhibition
at Sutton library. AN EXHIBITION of a variety of Jim's
paintings, mostly...
Bill celebrates forty-four years

19
Bill celebrates
forty-four years
QUITTING THE RAG TRADE some
44 years ago Bill Heron joined the staff at
his local Sainsbury's store in Folkestone.
T saw an advertisement outside the shop
and decided that to join JS would...
Joyce turns winter into spring!

19
THE HOLIDAY OF A LIFETIME has
been won by Joyce Day, chief cashier at
Basildon branch. She has only ever travelled
as far as Jersey before but this trip
will take her and her husband, James, up,
up, and away to Australia and...
A 'walk' before lunch...

20
A 'walk' before lunch...
HRH THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH is
the guest of honour at a lunch that sixteen
lucky people from JS will be
attending.
The lunch, which is being held at
London's Grosvenor House Hotel on
April 25, is the...
Appointments

20
Appointments
E Davies, formerly manager of Cwmbran
branch, has been appointed manager of
Barkingside.
P Cox, formerly deputy manager of
Woking branch, has been appointed
manager of Cwmbran.
J Jennings, formerly manager of...
Long service

20
Long service
James Gardner, meat manager al
Churchill Square, Brighton, celebrated
25 years with the company on January 25.
James—better known to his friends as
Old Jim—started at JS's Eastbourne
branch when meat was...
Retirements

20
Retirements
Kit Francis, chief clerk at Romford
branch, retired on January 6 after 22
years with the company.
Mrs Francis joined the firm at the
Colliers Row shop as a packer-weigher in
the bacon department. She became...
Camberley backs a winner

21
Camberley backs a winner
GAY MACDONALD'S
WAGES hung in the
balance until she agreed to
become a contender for the
Miss JS Southern title.
'When I went to collect my
money' says Gay, who is a
student worker at
Camberley...
Home sweet home!

21
Home sweet home!
'I WAS IN AND OUT of various 'omes,
went into Stamford House, a big remand
'ome down our way in London, escaped
from there a couple of times . . .'
'Does this make us all delinquents?'
asks Trevor Faull, who...
IRIS blossoms

21
IRIS blossoms
IRIS's best friends, Roger Darby, Chris Hobbs, John Evans and Lesley Klecha. THE MOST MODERN computer system
at JS will very shortly allow easy
access to an enormous bank of data
regarding all goods issued to...
Map reference

21
Map reference
'PORING over an atlas with my two
favourite small boys' recounted journalist
Veronica Papworth in a recent copy
of the Sunday Express 'I embarked on a
geography lesson.'
She continued by explaining how she
had...
Mademoiselle Monique

22
Mademoiselle Monique
CHIC, petite 17-year-old Monique Farrugia is to represent the office section at this
year's Miss JS finals.
Born in Nice of French parents., dark-haired, dark-eyed Monique was about twoand-
a-half when...
Pastures new...

22
'IT'S A CHALLENGE!' That's how
Doug Bramham feels about retirement
after nearly 43 years with JS. 'There are so
many things I want to do, and so much I
haven't had time to become involved with
before, that I am looking...
Depot's special delivery

23
Depot's special delivery
FOND MEMORIES of a JS depot have
been discovered in a boys' school that is
now to be found on Hayling Island. Run
by a team of nuns, the boarding school
houses 50 mentally handicapped children
and...
Folkestone first and last

23
After 42 years Ted Smith sees the end of an era
Folkestone first and last 'ON MY FIRST DAY I thought I was
going to get the sack!' Ted Smith did not
get fired from JS though and is celebrating
his retirement next month after...
A spanner in the works!

24
IN 1940 the 'garage staff crazy gang'
produced a two-hour show in answer to
the first efforts of the newly-formed JS
Amateur Dramatic Society—a little
friendly rivalry between office and
garage staffs! There were three...
Children's favourites

24
Children's favourites
SIXTY CHILDREN invaded Sutton Coldfield branch and
after the invasion two of them sat still long enough to compose
the following poem:
Thankyoujor our party on Sunday
It really was a fun day.
The music...
England expects...

24
'SOMETHING very strange is happening
in our shop' says Rosaleen Palmer.
'Everyone seems to be pregnant.'
Rosaleen works at Islington branch
and she tells us: 'Two girls have just left to
have babies, three more are expecting...
The big ones'

24
The big ones'
IT WASN'T A LADDER it was 'the big
ones' outside Stockwell branch with its
show of turkeys, photographed in 1937
and featured in the Christmas issue.
JS veteran Leslie Price, kindly put the
archives straight...