'JS Journal', November 1980

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• Five new stores in three weeks!
  01

  Five new stores in three weeks!
  FIVE NEW STORES were opened in three weeks—
  which must be something of a record. Four were JS
  supermarkets, the fifth a new SavaCentre.
  A remarkable feat at anytime but even more
  remarkable...

• Almost there
  02

  Almost there
  THE STAMFORD GROUP is happy
  to report that the response from SSA
  committees to their latest fund raising idea has proved to be good.
  As reported in last month's Journal
  the Stamford Group, with the help of
  the...

• Buyer's market place
  02

  Buyer's market place
  THE WALDORF HOTEL was the
  location of the JS 1980 buyers'
  conference, on October 17.
  Rotas of buyers attended either the
  morning or afternoon syndicate
  sessions, and all congregated during the
  lunchtime...

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 4, 5, 1-, 14-17
  General news-Cover story: Five new branches open
  Dover
  New Barnet
  Eastbourne, Oldbury, Dagenham
  Page 2
  Buyers' meet at the Waldorf
  Page 3
  Something fishy at Lordshill
  Page 6-7
  What's new?-Kids clothes
  Page...

• Just the ticket!
  02

  Just the ticket!
  A JOINT PLANNING application has
  been submitted by British Airways and
  Sainsbury's to develop a supermarket at
  the former West London Air Terminal,
  Cromwell Road, London SW7.
  The proposal presented to the...

• Mirror image
  02

  Mirror image
  CUSTOMER SERVICE in
  supermarkets, including that at JS, came
  under fire in a recent Sunday Mirror
  special report.
  To compile the piece .entitled 'Are you
  being served? Nightmare among the
  supermarket bargains'...

• Right on cue
  02

  Right on cue
  HUSTLERS BETTER START
  chalking their cues, for November 9 sees
  the final rounds of the pool tournament
  taking place at the Basingstoke depot
  clubhouse.
  Commencing at 11 am champion
  players from nine major...

• Tesco 'abandon' USA plans
  02

  Tesco 'abandon' USA plans
  TESCO is reported to have dropped 'for
  the time being' plans to set up shop in
  the United States. Exploratory talks
  with a number of American grocery
  chains are said to have been
  'abandoned'.

• A flash in the pan!
  03

  A flash in the pan!
  RESTAURANT STAFF at Stamford
  House thought they had had their chips
  on October 15, when a fire sprinkler in
  the ceiling suddenly burst into life and
  sent a cascade of water straight into a
  fat fryer,...

• Lordshill proves to be no red herring
  03

  Lordshill proves to be no red herring
  THE FISHY BUSINESS going on at
  Lordshill branch (announced in last
  month's Journal) is turning out to be a
  very lucrative business!
  The first fresh fish department ever to
  be launched by...

• Opera-tion Verdi
  03

  Opera-tion Verdi
  JS IS SPONSORING a new production
  of Verdi's Falstaff staged by the Kent
  Opera Company.
  The production is being directed by
  Jonathan Miller, who recently took over
  the BBC drama series of...

• Barnet fair — new, old and high!
  04

  Barnet fair — new, old and high!
  AN ARCHWAY TO SUCCESS was
  formed by the unusual facade of New
  Barnet branch on its opening day,
  September 30. The attractive colonnades
  beckoned customers into the bright
  supermarket which...

• New JS store bowls Dover over
  04

  New JS store bowls Dover over
  The chairman welcomes the first in line.
  JS'S NEW DOVER STORE, which
  opened on September 23, does not lean
  over the white cliffs, but there is a good
  view of the castle from the car park...

• Dressing up-prices down!
  06

  IMPORTANT SEASONAL SALES are
  recorded each year when the autumn
  range of textiles is introduced to JS
  stores.
  New designs and colours in the range
  of mittens and gloves, hats and scarves
  should ensure that this autumn's...

• News Extra
  08

  News Extra
  READ ALL ABOUT IT—that familiar
  newsboy call, took on an added dimension
  as far as JS was concerned on
  October 3, for the company produced a
  16 page full colour supplement to the
  usual Friday, Evening News...

• Press go for JS's Tendersweet touch
  08

  Press go for JS's Tendersweet touch
  TEMPTING TENDERSWEET typifies
  the ever expanding range of Sainsbury's
  own-label products, which are again and
  again receiving very high praise and
  good publicity.
  The Tendersweet cure was...

• Award winning safety team
  09

  Award winning safety team
  'A GENUINE SPIRIT of joint
  endeavour' has earned awards for
  Haverhill Meat Products' safety
  committee members.
  The Rt Hon Len Murray, general secretary
  of the TUC, presented the team
  of 18 men and...

• Blackfriars staff get spaced out!
  09

  Blackfriars staff get spaced out!
  SOME COMPANY TARGETS to
  improve the working environment for
  head office personnel are being achieved
  this month. The allocation of appropriate
  space for Blackfriars staff has
  necessitated...

• Opening but closing
  10

  Opening but closing
  One of the management who was
  absent on opening day at New Barnet
  was reception manager Bill Savager. Bill
  was still putting the final touches to the
  closing up of High Barnet manual
  store—and a sad...

• PIZZA
  11

  A MULTI MILLION POUND
  industry has built up from nothing
  over a few years. The industry is a
  new but exciting area for JS—one
  in which we are constantly
  challenging the leaders. That
  industry is pizza! DESPITE the...

• Eastbourne quadruples in size
  14

  Eastbourne quadruples in size
  WET AND WINDY WEATHER did
  nothing to deter the crowds of shoppers
  who flocked to be the first through the
  doors of JS's new supermarket at Eastbourne,
  when it opened on October 7.
  The...

• Saving the centre of Oldbury!
  15

  Saving the centre of Oldbury!
  THE FOURTH SAVACENTRE
  opened on October 14 at Oldbury, in the
  West Midlands.
  A fast building programme has
  ensured that long before Christmas 1980
  the new SavaCentre will have established
  its...

• In true tradition
  16

  In true tradition
  'TRADITIONALLY good Sainsbury
  territory' is how director Joe Barnes described
  Dagenham, when on October 14
  he did the opening honours at JS's new
  supermarket in The Mall, Heathway,
  Dagenham. And true to...

• Your letters
  17

  Your letters
  Letters are welcome and should be
  addressed to the editor. Impressed
  From: A J Fisher, JS customer
  I am a frequent visitor from Essex to
  your store in Waltham Cross.
  May I say how deeply impressed I am
  with the...

• HELPING THOSE WHO CANNOT HELP THEMSELVES
  18

  HELPING THOSE WHO CANNOT HELP THEMSELVES
  A LONGSTANDING CONCERN of
  Sainsbury's has been to provide a comfortable
  environment for all their shoppers,
  especially the disabled. A visit was
  made recently to JS's new New...

• Sidney Street adopts 18 'Dolphins'
  18

  Sidney Street adopts 18 'Dolphins'
  STAFF AT SIDNEY STREET
  Cambridge are taking positive steps to
  help the mentally handicapped—they
  have 'adopted' a ward at a local
  hospital.
  The Ida Darwin Hospital at Fulbourn
  has eight...

• Fulham gets a visit from 'Doctor'
  19

  Fulham gets a visit from 'Doctor' JS'S FULHAM BRANCH will appear
  in the public eye in the new year on an
  adult education programme.
  The series, filmed by ATV, is called
  Doctor', and each half hour programme
  is devoted to the...

• JS puts £100 in the pool
  19

  JS puts £100 in the pool
  Headmistress Anne Court receives JS's contribution from
  Wimbledon manager Nigel Bacon. £100 WAS DONATED recently by the
  company to St Annes School for the
  mentally handicapped in Merton.
  The...

• Appointments
  20

  Appointments
  A Gurr, formerly operations planner—
  distribution operations planning at
  Basingstoke, has been appointed operation
  planning manager—distribution
  operations planning at the depot.
  M Hobday, formerly deputy...

• Long service
  20

  Long service
  Les Bird, manager at Debden, completed
  25 years' service with JS in
  October.
  He joined the company at 819 Goodmayes,
  moved to Ilford and then 50
  Goodmayes where he was promoted to
  assistant manager in 1960....

• Look after me . . .
  20

  Look after me . . . Our thanks to Derrick Appleford, area
  administration manager at Woking office,
  for reminding us so poetically about
  an essential but often forgotten item of
  supermarket equipment.
  / am a shopping...

• Obituary
  20

  Obituary
  John Baigent, meat manager at Northampton
  branch, died suddenly on
  September 9.
  John started at JS in 1954 and
  worked at Nuneaton before he moved to
  Northampton five years ago when that
  branch opened.
  Paul...

• Retirements
  20

  Retirements
  Elsie Wilson, branch personnel officer at
  Kilburn, retired in October after 21
  years with JS.
  She joined the company as a cashier
  at the old Swiss Cottage self-service
  store when it opened in 1959 and...

• Birthday bonanza!
  21

  Birthday bonanza!
  'GIANT BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS'
  read the sparkling banners strung across
  the aisles at Hempstead SavaCentre—
  and they weren't kidding! During the
  two weeks of second birthday celebrations
  (the store opened...

• 25 years of success
  22

  25 years of success
  IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE that another
  year has passed by, but October 13 saw
  the eleventh annual dinner of the 25
  Club, held at that ever popular venue
  the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London.
  One hundred and sixty...

• Catering on a grand scale
  23

  Catering on a grand scale
  THIS YEAR Paul Foulger, JS's
  manager of staff catering, has been
  elected to the executive council of the
  Hotel and Catering Institutional
  Management Association (HCIMA).
  Paul became a student member...

• Salisbury's Express
  24

  Archives
  Salisbury's Express DID YOU KNOW that JS could easily
  never have built on its early foundations
  had a 19th century headhunter been successful
  and lured company founder John
  James Sainsbury into...