'JS Journal', August 1979

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• Across the board
  02

  Across the board
  SINCE THE RETIREMENTS of
  Simon Sainsbury and Bernard Ramm at
  last month's AGM (full report page 6),
  the chairman has announced a number
  of changes in board responsibilities.
  Deputy chairman Roy...

• Contents Page
  02

  Pages 1-7
  General news
  Pages 8-4 5
  Features
  Page 16
  Letters
  Pages 17-23
  People
  Page 24
  Archives

• Steve moves up
  02

  Steve moves up
  FOLLOWING EWAN DAVIDSON'S
  appointment as manager, corporate finance,
  Steve Bradbury has become
  manager of financial appraisal, a
  senior management post.
  Steve's career at JS dates from June
  1975 when he...

• Supply control moves
  02

  Supply control moves
  MAJOR CHANGES in the role of the
  supply control department will be taking
  place over the next few months at
  Blackfriars. Announced by the
  chairman last month, the changes will
  mean 'a much closer linkage...

• TesCart?
  02

  TesCart?
  TESCO HAVE SPENT £20 MILLION
  on a takeover of Cartiers Superfoods, the
  Kent based supermarket chain. The deal,
  agreed last month, means that Tesco will
  acquire 17 new stores with a net sales
  area of 240,000 square...

• Busy month for the retail trade
  03

  Busy month for the retail trade
  Macmerger
  PLANS FOR A MERGER between
  International Stores and MacMarkets
  were agreed last month by their parent
  companies, British American Tobaccos
  and Unilever. The new group should
  have a...

• Funny Money
  03

  Funny Money
  'FUNNY MONEY' will be appearing in
  JS stores next month. But checkout
  operators needn't worry—it won't be
  forged cheques or counterfeit banknotes.
  It's the name for a joint
  JS/Woman's Own charity...

• Go-ahead for Nine Elms site
  04

  Go-ahead for Nine Elms site
  NEW COVENT GARDEN is to be the
  site of a large JS supermarket. Planning
  permission for a store with a sales area
  of 21,600 square feet was granted by
  Lambeth Borough Council in May and
  in mid-July...

• JS pioneers concentrated butter
  04

  JS pioneers concentrated butter
  ANOTHER PIONEERING 'FIRST'
  from the dairy buying department is on
  trial at 50 branches. This new product is
  an eight ounce (or 250 grammes from
  September) tub of concentrated butter
  for...

• Dancing wedding
  05

  Dancing wedding
  MIKE DAVIES, research and
  development officer at Blackfriars, has
  recently married part of a famous
  company of legs! Pauline Peters (now
  Davies) has been a dancer for nine
  years, and a member of the TV...

• Long life melon now in store
  05

  Long life melon now in store
  A MOUTHWATERING MELON is
  making its debut in JS stores this summer.
  Supplies of a new Italian 'Rock'
  melon have recently become available,
  and it looks as though it'll soon become
  a firm...

• AGM says yes to profit sharing
  06

  AGM says yes to profit sharing
  JS'S PROFIT SHARING scheme for
  staff got the go-ahead from shareholders
  at the annual general meeting, held at
  the Connaught Rooms, London on July
  4. This means the scheme can now be
  put into...

• Minister talks shop at JS
  07

  Minister talks shop at JS
  AGRICULTURE MINISTER Peter
  Walker visited JS's Putney and
  Wandsworth stores on June 28 in order
  to see for himself how the retail link in
  the food chain operated.
  He said he thought it was...

• Derek has 'high' standards
  08

  Derek has 'high' standards
  Just the job
  This month we look at the
  work of the JS complaints
  officer at Blackfriars who
  sees the return of any
  substandard goods. 'NO SQUEAMISH PERSON could
  work here' Derek Lockwood...

• Try-out
  09

  Above: Frances Brown models one of the
  new supermarket assistant's overalls on
  trial (see June Journal J. Frances works
  at Wandsworth branch where they are
  trying out blue poly-cotton protective clothing.
  Elsewhere, other...

• DJ breaks records!
  10

  DJ breaks records!
  PLAYING RECORDS broke all records,
  with help from JS. On July 4
  London's first community radio station
  'Thamesmead Insound', run entirely by
  volunteers, broke the Guinness Book of
  Records length of time...

• We have lift-off
  10

  We have lift-off

• Karting King
  11

  Karting King
  You've seen 4go-karts' at the seaside. Forget them. To the
  enthusiast they're just motorised tea-trollies, because he's
  into a breed of machine that can hit about 130 mph flat out
  and lap at average speeds of...

• Win a kid's ransom
  14

  Win a kid's ransom
  THE YEAR OF THE CHILD has been making
  headlines all summer, so what better theme could there be
  for this year's Journal photo competition. Once again
  we're offering JS's budding David (and Davina)...

• Enormouse stocks
  16

  Enormouse stocks
  LEATHERHEAD RODENTS are obviously
  in short supply at the moment if a
  typing error found in the daily bulletin is
  to be believed. Under the discontinued
  lines column for this branch it mentions,
  after sponge...

• Your letters
  16

  Your letters
  Letters are welcome and should be
  addressed to the editor. Not with it?
  From: C W Turner, JS veteran
  Can any readers tell me please am I
  alone in being surprised at the poor quality
  and presentation of the...

• Art with heart!
  17

  Art with heart!
  HELP FOR THE DEAF has been
  flooding in after the Stamford Group
  announced they were going to raise
  money to help Dr David Mendel's research
  into deafness (see June Journal).
  One of the nicest offers of help...

• Peas please the vicar
  17

  Peas please the vicar
  HAS JS A CURE FOR ALL EVILS
  lurking innocently in every store? A
  vicar recently had peas prescribed as
  treatment for a sprained ankle and noone
  was more surprised than him that JS
  could help him cure...

• The icing on the cake
  18

  The icing on the cake
  REMARKABLE TALENTS were discovered
  at this year's Family Day—not
  only in the sporting events but also in
  more artistic pursuits carried out by JS
  staff all over the country.
  Joan Heaford, a member of...

• From actuary to apiary
  19

  From actuary to apiary
  Two main board directors retired at this year's AGM.
  This month we're featuring Bernard Ramm, and next month
  Simon Sainsbury will be reminiscing about his years with JS. THE FACE OF BERNARD RAMM...

• Appointments
  20

  Appointments
  Changes in the grocery division at
  Blackfriars are taking place because of the
  impending retirement of Barry Matthews,
  manager of grocery buying (1). Gary
  Green, manager of canned goods buying
  (2), will be...

• Long service
  20

  Long service
  Frank Barber, the assistant meat manager
  at Colchester branch, celebrated
  40 years with the company on July 31.
  Frank joined JS at Colchester just before
  the outbreak of war. He was called
  up into the Royal Navy...

• Retirements
  20

  Retirements
  Dennis Waller, basket issuer at Purley
  branch, retired on April 30 after 22
  years with JS. He retired early due to ill
  health.
  Dennis joined the company in the old
  Coulsdon shop as a poultryman and
  warehouseman,...

• Beanz meanz goalz
  21

  Beanz meanz goalz
  WHEN 'LOONY MOONIES' asked
  Basingstoke depot to play football with
  them they felt they dare not say 'no'!
  The mixed-sex team, dressed like characters
  from the Doctor Who programme,
  were really just...

• Environmental clanger
  21

  Environmental clanger
  WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES, but Tesco
  dropped a real clanger in a recent ad in the
  Financial Times. Headed 'Checkout how
  we share your concern for the environment',
  the ad stated: 'This care with
  preserving...

• No Harrowing experience
  21

  No Harrowing experience
  Bunny girls and a school band helped South Harrow branch staff put up a good show in
  a recent carnival procession. The float was a big hit—especially when they drove past
  the store!

• Obituary
  21

  Obituary
  Jim Thompson, produce manager of
  Haywards Heath branch, died on July 2
  after 30 years with JS. Although he had
  been ill for some time his death came
  unexpectedly. Mr Thompson first joined
  the company in December...

• A thousand years isn't enough for George
  22

  A thousand years isn't enough for George
  'WE HAVE NO REGRETS about leaving
  London' George Horton and his
  wife Dorothy agree, especially as George
  has just begun his well-earned retirement.
  'On our rare visits to the City...

• Harry's on course!
  23

  Harry's on course!
  A GOLFING FUTURE made the prospect
  of retirement a happy one for
  Harry Stone, the Romford area engineer.
  On the last Friday in July he concluded
  a career at JS which has spanned
  nearly 45 years, and has...

• The customer comes first
  24

  The customer comes first
  THE 'WAR TO END ALL WARS' began in
  August 65 years ago. On August 5, Mr JB
  wrote from Blackfriars: T recommend that all
  holidays of both managers and staff be postponed.'
  The following day: T hope to...