Skip navigation Skip hierarchy
Sainsbury Archive Logo

Table of content

  • Gold-mine 01

    Gold-mine
    THE HOME OF BRITISH SALT
    struck gold on April 3 with the opening
    of a glittering JS supermarket in
    Northwich, Cheshire, a new trading area
    for the company.
    Since Roman times Northwich has
    been the centre of...

  • Closing down 02

    Closing down
    EASTER SATURDAY was the last
    day's trading for Whetstone branch. On
    April 14 the old store closed, the final
    step in a phasing out programme that
    has been going on for some time.
    After careful consideration JS...

  • Contents Page 02

    Pages 1-7
    General news
    Pages 8-15
    Feature
    Page 16
    Letters
    Pages 17-22
    People
    Page 24
    Archives
    Page 24
    Winning numbers

  • Diners club 02

    Diners club
    THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY of the
    JS 25 Club annual dinner is to be celebrated
    on October 8,1979. For the past nine
    years these dinners have been held in
    honour of staff who have completed 25 or
    more years' service,...

  • Expansion Leeds on 02

    Expansion Leeds
    THE NORTHERN EXPANSION
    gained new impetus last month with the
    announcement that Leeds City Council
    had accepted JS's tender for a
    development on an eleven acre site in
    North Leeds, in the face of...

  • Happy Hayes ahead 02

    Lull before the storm for manager Martin Miles and Carol Jarrett.
    Happy Hayes ahead SMOOTH AND CALM were the words
    used by all concerned to describe the
    successful opening of the new Hayes,
    Middlesex, branch on April 3....

  • The big freeze! 02

    The big freeze!
    THE LARGEST JS FREEZER
    CENTRE opened at 113/117 Streatham
    Hill on April 10. This independent
    centre has a sales area of 2,475 square
    feet (approximately 230 square metres)
    and is opposite the self-service...

  • A Book Full of Plums 04

    REMEMBER CHRISTMAS? Remember
    'Cooking for Christmas', the first
    Sainsbury Cookbook (see November
    Journal)? Well now the second in the
    series of cookbooks written by
    Josceline Dimbleby has reached
    the shelves. Entitled...

  • Bank rewards Chris's clever cheque-mate 04

    Bank rewards Chris's clever cheque-mate
    A STOLEN CHEQUE BOOK recently
    earned £50 for Christine Jackson of
    Holloway branch. Not because she's a
    criminal, but because she helped to catch
    the thief. A grateful Midland Bank...

  • World-wide Wandering Trolleys 04

    World-wide Wandering Trolleys
    THE WANDERLUST of JS trolleys has
    even reached the shores of frozen lamb
    country, as this cutting from The Press, a
    New Zealand newspaper that bears an
    uncanny resemblance to The...

  • Tin Tops 05

    Tin Tops
    SPRING-CLEANING kitchens is being
    made very easy this year with the help of
    the new co-ordinated series of tinware
    from JS.
    In just a short time the 'Brown Bouquet'
    range has firmly established its popularity
    and...

  • Wilkommen 05

    Wilkommen
    ANOTHER FIRST FOR JS with the introduction this month of an own-label
    German lager. Although other imported lagers have proved a big success in
    the UK, this is the first time that an own-label version has been...

  • Lordly cup winners 06

    Lordly cup winners
    CUP FEVER gripped Buntingford on
    Sunday, April 1, when the depot hosted
    the finals of this year's East Anglia
    Sunday Youth Cup Football competition.
    On the touchline was Lord Alan
    Sainsbury—presenting...

  • RADAR at JS thinks thin 07

    RADAR at JS thinks thin
    NOW SLIM FIGURES are being found
    by RADAR at JS! The charity group
    RADAR (the Royal Association for
    Disability and Rehabilitation) got in
    touch with many large organisations including
    JS because it...

  • Staff Communications 07

    A MAJOR REDRESSING programme
    got under way at Chingford branch last
    month, and was ushered in by a new
    kind of staff communications meeting.
    The brainchild of Romford AGM
    Dave Smith, the meetings were designed
    to let all the...

  • Management on the move 08

    Management on the move
    Just the job
    We take our second look
    at what it takes to be a good
    supermarket manager ON ANY SATURDAY between the
    hours of 11 am and 4 pm the, 160,000
    people who live in and around Lewisham
    can be...

  • Tending her own plot 09

    Ladies' night—Helen with Claire and Sarah (right).
    Tending her own plot GUY FAWKES hangs on Helen
    Harris's family tree. Helen's own brand
    of plotting however has proved to be
    more effective, if less explosive, than...

  • Sally attains her goal 10

    Sally attains her goal
    A DAY OF A LIFETIME at
    Buckingham Palace for Sally Cook, instore
    instructor from 728 Cambridge was
    also an historic day for the whole nation. That morning of March 29 a defeated
    Jim Callaghan went to...

  • Can't see the branch for the tease! 11

    Can't see the branch for the tease!
    PONDERING how to put Woking area office on the JS Journal
    map, administration manager Derek Appleford began playing
    around with the names of all the branches in the area and came up
    with the...

  • Familiar faces 11

    Familiar faces
    SHOPPERS AT UXBRIDGE BRANCH could be forgiven for getting a little
    confused if they keep seeing the same girl popping up all over the shop. For in fact it's
    not one girl, but five. The Sleap sisters, two pairs of...

  • SOFT SELL 12

    There's one thing that no-one likes to run out of, and
    that's toilet paper. Whenever there's a wave of
    panic buying you can safely bet that soft toilet paper
    will be one of the first things to be hit. And yet. for
    all its...

  • Distinguished redcoat 15

    Left: An artillery man through and through! Above: In the dining hall.
    Distinguished redcoat THE VETERANS' REUNION on
    April 23 will be graced by the startling
    red uniform of a Chelsea Pensioner. Pat
    Nolan, ten years a security...

  • Give-away count-up 15

    Give-away count-up
    STAFF AT FOREST HILL have raised
    well over £500 towards the cost of buying
    an artificial kidney machine for a
    local hospital. On January 20 all the
    staff at the store set themselves the task
    of raising as...

  • Your letters 16

    Your letters
    Letters are welcome and should be
    addressed to the editor. Sharing authority
    From:Tony Gayfer, distribution division
    The comments on productivity within JS
    by Messrs Trussell and Payne in the
    March JS Journal...

  • Sweet story 17

    Sugar was originally sold to customers in pieces 'nipped' off the
    cone. Then came the famous blue bags made up in their thousands
    by the shop assistants in spare moments. A recent donation to the
    archives is a collection of...

  • George stays put 18

    George
    stays
    put
    'MOVING FROM NORWICH has
    never entered my head' says George
    Roper, grocery manager at St Stephens
    branch upon his retirement this month.
    Both he and his wife Pauline were 'born
    and bred' in Norwich and do...

  • Memorable moments... 19

    Memorable moments... 'MY BROTHER BILL was a butcher at
    JS' says Stan Burrage 'so I followed in
    his footsteps and signed-up as a trainee
    butcher and went to work at Surbiton
    branch.' That was in 1934, since when
    Stan has...

  • Appointments 20

    Appointments
    Paul Chambers, formerly assistant to the
    chief internal auditor of Unilever, has
    been appointed chief internal auditor.
    Ron Dooge will join the retail division and
    assume responsibility for the financial
    section...

  • Long service 20

    Long service
    George 'Bill' Allan, manager of the motor
    engineers at Charlton depot, celebrated
    40 years with JS on April 4.
    Mr Allan joined the company just before
    the war as an electrician fitter in the
    motor engineers in...

  • Say "cheese" 20

    Say "cheese"
    HOW TO RAISE £1000 before the end
    of the year was the task staff at Buntingford
    depot set themselves. They raised it
    in two months!
    In January, the girls in the cheese
    department began to think of how...

  • Obituary 21

    Obituary
    Ernie Manly, an accounts clerk at
    Buntingford depot, died on February
    17. Mr Manly had been with the company
    for nine years, originally in the
    motor engineers section at the depot,
    but transferring to the accounts...

  • Retirements 21

    Retirements
    Bert Woolard, assistant meat manager at
    Stratford branch, retired on April 7 after
    33 years with JS.
    Bert began his career at Hackney in
    1946, and since then has worked in
    branches all over...

  • A Sussex survivor 22

    'I'VE SURVIVED' says Perce Cooper,
    assistant meat manager at East
    Grinstead, looking back on over 44 years
    work in JS shops. He's seen all the
    changes, and can now sit back and enjoy
    the fruits of his labours—or perhaps...

  • Happy feet 23

    Happy feet
    'AFTER 46 YEARS I am bound to
    need time to readjust to a new lifestyle'
    says George Lilley who retired on April
    6 after a varied as well as long career,
    that came to a close in the commodity
    distribution control...

  • Snow place like home 23

    Snow place like home BY SLEEPING ON THE JOB manager
    of Dunstable branch Alex Watson and
    two of his management team made sure
    was business as usual during the 'shock,
    horror' weather of the last months.
    When the snow and ice...

  • Your Number's Up! 24

    There is no Text