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  • BHS's profits shoot up 02

    BHS's profits shoot up
    THE FASTEST GROWTH RATE for
    over five years pushed BHS's pre-tax
    profit up by 24.3 per cent to reach £33.6
    million. BHS, joint owner with JS of
    SavaCentre, published its year end results
    at the...

  • Board changes 02

    Board changes
    CHANGES ON THE BOARDS of
    three of JS's associated companies were
    announced by chairman John Sainsbury
    last month. Simon Sainsbury, who will
    shortly be leaving JS, has resigned from
    the chairmanship of Haverhill...

  • Contents Page 02

    Pages 1-7
    General news
    Pages 8-13
    Feature
    Pages 16
    Letters
    Pages 14-15, 16-23
    People
    Page 24
    Archives

  • Epsom faces a set back 02

    Epsom faces a set back
    THE UNQUALIFIED SUCCESS of
    JS's exhibition of its plans for a supermarket
    on the 'Odeon site' at Epsom,
    Surrey (see Journal, Christmas '78), got
    a fillip recently when the Epsom and
    Ewell Borough...

  • New overalls go on trial 02

    New overalls go on trial
    IMPORTANT TRIALS are taking
    place this month with new styles and
    fabrics for the protective overalls worn
    by branch staff.
    Four representative branches have
    been chosen as guinea pigs to...

  • PLUS factor 02

    PLUS factor
    'PLUS' IS COMING to Broadfield
    branch on June 19. This is the date on
    which Crawley's shoppers will be able to
    try out the IBM 3660 computerised
    checkout 'Price Look-Up System'
    (PLUS) which JS is putting on trial...

  • Woolco and out 02

    Woolco and out
    WOOLWORTH has closed the food
    departments in another 250 or so of
    its 1,000 High Stores. (It closed
    down around 400 a year ago.) The
    reason is said to be because of the
    continuing fierce competition in the...

  • Basildon is right on schedule 03

    Basildon is right on schedule
    SAVACENTRE NUMBER THREE is
    full steam ahead and with the last parts
    of the roof being settled into place
    everything is moving according to
    schedule. Building work commenced at
    Basildon in...

  • Keeping cool in a tight squeeze 03

    Keeping cool in a tight squeeze
    WITH ONLY AN INCH to spare a
    new chiller unit is manoeuvred through
    the staff restaurant at Stamford House
    to its final position in the basement
    plant room.
    This tricky operation was carried...

  • Ready Teddy go... 04

    Ready Teddy go...
    . . . down to
    the woods today,
    You're in for a
    big surprise,
    For every bear
    that ever there was
    Is there today
    for certain because
    Today's the day
    the Teddy Bears
    have their picnic.
    (Well some of them...

  • Brighton think tank 06

    Brighton
    JS'S TOP TEAM went to Brighton on
    May 11 to take part in the company's
    first residential conference for senior
    management. The two-day event was
    originally planned for January at an
    hotel in Eastbourne, but it had...

  • Farnham looks to the future 08

    Farnham looks to the future
    BIGGER AND BETTER is what JS
    hopes to be in the future at Farnham,
    Surrey. A planning application has been
    submitted to Waverley District Council
    for a development in South Street comprising
    a...

  • Southport's conservation piece 08

    Southport's
    SOUTHPORT IS ALL SET to get its
    first Sainsbury store—provided that a
    recent planning application gets the
    green light from the local authority.
    Residents of the Merseyside seaside resort
    were given a chance to...

  • Hearing a call for help 09

    AN INVESTIGATION into drugs and
    deafness is to be helped on its way by
    the Stamford Group. The Group are an
    informal association of Streatham and
    Blackfriars staff who seek to help people
    less fortunate than themselves.
    The...

  • Courting success 10

    Courting
    DON'T STEP OUT OF LINE in
    Burton-on-Trent branch, because BPO
    Pat Court will have her eye on you—and
    she's a Justice of the Peace. Pat has been
    at the branch for the last four and a half
    years, but she's only been...

  • Room and half board 11

    Room and half board
    Guinea pigs are all the rage in Woolwich. No, they're not
    replacing the branch's Chinese rabbit—it's just that the
    store is being used for trials of two new systems. The
    first—using half boards...

  • A-peeling! 14

    A-peeling!
    ORANGES' AND 'LEMONS' were
    pipped at the post in this year's Woking
    Workout. Organised by the Mayor's
    office, the Workout was a multi-sport competition between teams from local
    businesses, and the fruity athletes...

  • The voice of youth speaks out 14

    The voice of youth speaks out
    'FIGHTING THE APATHY of young
    people today is our biggest battle' says
    Nalin Amerasinghe, a far from apathetic
    22-year-old who as well as working at
    JS's Romford store is a leading member
    of the...

  • Ken's best friend is his hobby! 15

    Ken's best friend is his hobby!
    A CANINE ENCOUNTER two and a
    half years ago became a turning point in
    Ken Nash's life. Ken, who works at JS's
    Sidney Street, Cambridge store, has
    found Sally, his bullmastiff bitch...

  • Your letters 16

    Your letters
    Letters are welcome and should be
    addressed to the editor. Vote of thanks
    From: George Tyers, JS veteran
    Les Smale invites comments from veterans.
    (See April letters.) Here are mine:
    I was most disturbed by his...

  • How do you plead? 17

    How do you plead?
    WE PLEAD GUILTY to a sin of
    omission in our story in the April
    issue about Kilburn's lady footballers.
    For reasons beyond our control we were
    unable to credit some of the girls who
    took part in the charity...

  • Kettering cash in on disco fever 17

    Kettering cash in on disco fever
    KETTERING BRANCHED OUT recently
    and raised a grand total of £350
    in one enjoyable evening when they held
    a disco in aid of the Six Counties Kidney
    Appeal Fund. For the branch SSA...

  • Lunch is served at four mph! 17

    Lunch is served at four mph!
    SUMMER OUTINGS got off to a good
    start at Fareham branch on May 13 with
    a trip to Stratford-upon-Avon. Nearly 50
    staff, their families and friends travelled
    to the Bard's birthplace by coach....

  • Raining champions! 17

    WOKING BATTLED it out against the
    elements last month, won and now go
    forward to represent the Woking area at
    the finals of the SSA's 'It's a Knockout'
    contest being held on June 17.
    Teams from five branches were due...

  • Dick finds retirement a walkover! 18

    Dick finds retirement a walkover!
    MOVING AND EXPLORING has
    occupied much of 'Dick' Dickson's time
    over the last year and now he has made
    it his full time employment. Dick, christened
    Harold, who for ten years was
    audit...

  • Pop's green fingers start to snap and crackle 19

    Pop's green fingers start to snap and crackle
    NEARLY HALF A CENTURY of
    experience took its leave of Sainsbury's in
    April when 'Pop' Dedman retired from
    Hook branch. Reserve meat manager at
    the branch, Pop had completed 49...

  • Appointments 20

    Appointments
    Ray Edgar has been appointed management
    accountant at Streatham. He will
    be responsible for both the management
    accounts and engineers accounts departments,
    and will report to Derek Pretty.
    S Woodrow has been...

  • Long service 20

    Long service
    Ken 'Brushy' Brushwood, support supervisor
    in the data processing department
    at Blackfriars, celebrated 40 years with
    the company on May 22.
    Ken joined the butter department at
    the old warehouse in Blackfriars...

  • Retirements 20

    Retirements
    Roy Slack, the manager of the transport
    section in the distribution division at
    Blackfriars, retired in April after 43
    years with Sainsbury's.
    Roy's first job was in the kitchens of
    the old factory at...

  • A wrong note 21

    A wrong note
    'COUNTY 'NT WESTERN' style wallpaper
    music that would go down well at
    Sainsbury's' wrote a reviewer in a recent
    edition of Superpop magazine.
    The review was spotted by Trevor
    Faull in poultry buying at...

  • Jack of all trades! 21

    Jack of all trades!
    JS MARGARINE oiled the wheels for
    customer Kathie Kay when, as she was
    motoring home after a picnic, the car
    had a puncture and she found the jack
    had rusted up. 'We didn't know what to
    do' said Kathie...

  • Money back guarantee 21

    Money back guarantee
    TAKE YOUR TROLLEY BACK
    for 95p' is the special offer youngsters
    are making to customers at JS's
    Lewisham branch, where there is a refundable
    £1 deposit on trolleys leaving
    the store.
    At Lewisham there...

  • Obituary 21

    Obituary
    Ron Adcock, a motor engineer at
    Clapham, died on May 9. He joined the
    company eight years ago and had been
    ill since Christmas. Mr Adcock leaves a
    wife.
    Wilfred Butterfield, a warehouseman
    at Basingstoke, died...

  • THE ARTICLE 21

    THE ARTICLE on Streatham Hill freezer
    centre (see May) mistakenly referred
    to John Gerrish as the branch manager
    of Streatham Hill branch. He is in fact
    the provisions manager, and Ken
    Woolnough has been the manager...

  • Top team rules the air waves 21

    Top team rules the air waves
    TOP TEAM OF RADIO FAME—and
    because they were all working so hard
    they didn't even hear their names mentioned!
    Ipswich branch cheese prep
    room workers qualified for a mention on
    David Hamilton's...

  • Up in the air! 21

    Up in the air!
    A HOLIDAY CACHE of JS cheese and
    biscuits averted a near riot aboard a
    Boeing 707 aircraft full of hungry
    passengers returning from the Canary
    Islands. The flight had already been delayed
    by four hours when...

  • Quality is right up John's street 22

    Quality is right up John's street
    'I WAS 14 YEARS OLD and working
    as a garden boy while waiting to go into
    the Air Force' says John Hales of how,
    over 46 years ago, he came to be a
    delivery boy at JS. 'I wasn't happy as...

  • Alf 'noses' out a new life without work 23

    Alf 'noses' out a new life without work
    A GOOD PALATE has been vital to the
    career of Alf Newton, who retired on
    April 6 after a career spanning nearly 42
    years. His final post, which he held
    for nine years, was dairy...

  • No time even to relax! 23

    No time even to relax!
    "WHAT HAVEN'T I DONE since
    retired!' is Bill Harker's reply to the
    question of how he has occupied his first
    few weeks of retirement. He completed
    over 42 years at JS and retired in April
    from his...

  • A reunion with the company's colourful past 24

    A reunion with the company's colourful past
    ONCE AGAIN the JS veterans' annual
    reunion provided archivist Honor
    Godfrey with a fund of anecdotes and
    memories of the company's colourful
    past. Here are just a couple from...