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  • Annual meeting 02

    Annual meeting
    THE ONCE A YEAR DAY for JS
    shareholders comes around again on
    July 4, the date of this year's annual
    general meeting. This is the company's
    fifty-seventh AGM and the venue is the
    Connaught Rooms, just off...

  • Contents Page 02

    Pages 1-5
    General news
    Pages 6-15 and 18
    Feature
    Pages 16-17, 19-23
    People
    Page 24
    Archives

  • Continental flavour 02

    Continental flavour
    FRENCH STYLE is something that
    cannot be denied. A new idea from the
    dairy buying department can bring that
    certain chic to your shopping basket!
    French natural yogurt is now available
    at all large...

  • Put the squeeze on summer 02

    Put the squeeze on summer
    THE GREAT SQUEEZE is on in 53 JS
    stores at the moment. But it's not a
    crisis—it's a new product. The 'juicer'
    below costs only 95p, and is the perfect tool for converting fresh oranges to
    fresh...

  • Where the action is 02

    Where the action is
    'ACTION POINTS' are part of a new
    campaign organised by branch operations.
    They are designed to remind
    managers and all their staff of their important
    role in the running of a busy JS
    store and help them...

  • Logical 'extension' 03

    Logical 'extension'
    FOLLOWING THE SUCCESS of the
    JS square tea-tray featuring the 'extension
    of premises' design (see Christmas
    1978 Journal) is a round tray.
    The chocolate brown and cream 'nostalgic'
    design was found to be...

  • Marginal notes 03

    Marginal notes
    'OPERATION CHECKOUT' is beginning
    to pay off for Tesco, according to
    the annual results published last month.
    Profits jumped by 32 per cent to £37.6
    million, and turnover increased by 26
    per cent to £1,235...

  • New TV ad 03

    New TV ad
    THE TELEVISION SPOTLIGHT
    shone on JS again during June when
    Michael Barratt appeared in a three
    week burst of advertising.
    A new advert lasting 30 seconds went
    on the air during peak viewing times in
    the trading...

  • Telly quiz-kid 03

    Telly quiz-kid
    GAME FOR ANYTHING, Karen Dance, supermarket assistant
    and in-store instructor at Bristol, has made her debut on
    television. Karen is renowned at her branch for her love of
    quizzes and was recently invited to...

  • PLUS goes live 04

    PLUS goes live
    The computer age has arrived with a
    bang at Broadfield, with the start of the
    first of two trials of in-store computer
    systems. BROADFIELD BRANCH'S NEW
    'PLUS' computer checkout system went
    'live' with...

  • All in a week's work 06

    This is a page in chairman John Sainsbury's diary which, apart
    from the deletion of two confidential appointments on
    Monday, is as it was actually written for a week near the end
    of last April. Not quite a typical week—like...

  • Tackling this and VAT 08

    Tackling
    this and
    VAT
    DRAMATIC VAT INCREASES announced
    in the June Budget have affected
    everyone's lives in Britain but none
    more so than the retailer. In order to
    find out how increases affected JS
    branches the Journal...

  • The day of days 10

    The day of days
    MONTHS OF PREPARATION went
    into the Family Day, and there was only
    one thing that could have ruined it—the
    weather. After weeks of monsoon downpours fingers were crossed all over the land to keep the rain...

  • JS fixes a Micky Finn 16

    JS fixes a Micky Finn
    A DREAM CAME TRUE for eight
    year-old Stuart Finn last month—at
    Sainsbury's Bracknell branch. Manager
    Roy Harrison and his staff played host
    to a film crew from the BBC's 'Jim'll Fix
    It' programme who...

  • Miaowl! 16

    Miaowl!
    PEA GREEN BOATS are not the only
    thing owls and pussy cats have in common,
    it seems they also share a liking for
    JS's meat and liver cat food. This piece
    of gastronomic togetherness came to
    light when Amanda Tennant...

  • South banker! 16

    South banker!
    WITH JS AND IPC as customers and
    neighbours it's not surprising that when
    the Midland Bank recently moved
    across the road into new premises in the
    King's Reach development, one of the
    results was the cartoon on...

  • Norwich raise the rafters 17

    Norwich raise the rafters
    CRAFTY RAFTS recently caused a
    great deal of fun for the two Norwich
    branches—St Stephens and Anglia
    Square. Malcolm Jones, St Stephens'
    deputy manager, says: 'The raft race on
    the River Wensum...

  • NOSTALGIC PACKAGE DEAL 18

    ANTIQUE OR ORDINARY, it does
    not seem to matter to Robert Opie, historian
    and packaging 'guru' to
    Sainsbury's. Whether it is an old packet
    of Sunlight soap, dessicated soup or the
    latest JS yogurt tub you want to...

  • Ice cream Sundays 19

    Ice cream Sundays
    A good cause that has
    two JS stores
    skating on thin ice! GETTING YOUR SKATES ON means
    quite literally that for a growing number
    of staff at JS's Kettering arid
    Wellingborough stores. .Trips to the
    Silver...

  • Appointments 20

    Appointments
    R Shepperd, formerly manager of the
    beef department at Basingstoke depot,
    has been appointed meat manager (beef
    and lamb) at the depot.
    M Whitty, formerly personal assistant
    to the chairman, has been...

  • Long service 20

    Long service
    Barney Britland, the assistant meat
    manager at Ashford branch, celebrated
    25 years with JS on May 31.
    Barney joined the firm at the shop
    in Reigate, Surrey. In 1959 he moved
    to Ashford, and has since served in...

  • Obituary 20

    Obituary
    Mrs Josie Bowden, who worked in the
    bakery department at Pitsea branch,
    died on June 16. She had worked at the
    branch for three years. Mrs Bowden
    leaves a husband and three children.

  • RADAR gains as JS loses! 20

    RADAR gains
    as JS loses!
    FOLLOWING THE TRAIL of JS
    super slimmers, the Journal has heard
    that seven strong willed ladies at Dartford
    branch raised £50 for the charity
    RADAR during just four weeks of
    sponsored...

  • Retirements 20

    Retirements
    William Staples, the senior warehouseman
    at Shirley branch, retired on
    June 9 after nearly 25 years with JS.
    William joined the company as a porter
    at Southampton branch. He transferred
    to Shirley in 1963, and...

  • STOP PRESS! 20

    STOP PRESS! Derby slimmers have
    collected £100 for RADAR. BPO at that
    branch, Peggy Hill, tells us that a total
    of 22 slimmers finished the course and
    between them lost 12 stone. 'All in all, it
    was a worthwhile attempt,...

  • Everything in the garden's lovely 21

    Everything in the garden's lovely
    WITH THE BEST GARDEN in his
    area, on more than one occasion in recent
    years Arthur Higgins has won awards in
    national newspaper competitions.
    Justifiably proud of this fact, upon...

  • Len loves life at home 22

    Len loves life at home
    'I LOVED every minute of it' says Len
    Tidd of his 43 years with JS. On May 26
    he retired as meat manager at East
    Ham branch, and he says he loves every
    minute of his new lifestyle just as much.
    However...

  • That's entertainment! 23

    That's entertainment!
    THE HIGH POINT of this year's SSA
    calendar—the Family Day—also marked
    the end of an SSA stalwart's career.
    Len Starling, 42 years with JS and involved
    with the SSA since it was set up
    in 1947,...

  • Commercial art 24

    Commercial art
    THE TWENTIES are re-born in these superb
    examples of JS advertising material of the
    time. In full colour, they evoke not only the
    styles and aspirations of the era but capture the
    essence of the grocery trade...