'JS Journal', July 1980

Table of content

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2-5
  General news
  Page 19
  News from around and about
  Page 20
  People and letters
  Page 21-23
  Retirements
  Page 24
  Archives
  Features
  Page 6
  Packed with goodness Launch of new giveaway booklet
  Page 7, 16
  The great drain robbery...

• Higher sales lower profit for Tesco
  02

  Higher sales lower profit for Tesco
  TESCO'S PROFIT FELL from £37.7
  million to £36.5 million despite higher
  sales and a half-year profit that showed
  a healthy upturn from £13.8 million to
  £17 million. Overall sales rose by...

• JS and the price of milk
  02

  JS and the price of milk
  DOOR-STEP DELIVERY is not a
  service that JS can offer and now we can
  sell milk marginally cheaper than those
  who deliver without reducing our
  margins.
  'JS milk supplies are designed to
  complement...

• JS wins Epsom fight
  02

  JS wins Epsom fight
  AFTER TWO YEARS of argument and
  objections it took Surrey County
  Council less than seven minutes at a
  recent meeting to give JS the go-ahead
  for its supermarket plans in Epsom.
  This breakthrough follows a...

• Major refit at Wembley
  02

  Major refit at Wembley
  'IT'S FANTASTIC to see the craftsmen
  plus all the regular shop staff all working
  along together so hard' said manager
  Richard Da vies during the upheaval of a
  major refit at Wembley branch.
  Richard had...

• Safeway plan more superstores
  02

  Safeway plan more superstores
  SAFEWAY STORES are planning to
  launch their shares on the Stock
  Exchange. The American company,
  claimed to be the largest supermarket
  group and food retailer in the world,
  came to Britain in the...

• SavaCentre pulls out
  02

  SavaCentre pulls out
  SAVACENTRE HAS WITHDRAWN
  its bid for the site in Blacknell,
  Berkshire, because current space
  requirements would have precluded a
  satisfactory store development.
  It was always known that the site
  would...

• Rugby kicks-off to a good start
  03

  Rugby kicks-off to a good start
  RUGBY IS NOT JUST a ballgame, but
  also a new supermarket for JS.
  After a much delayed kick-off, due to
  problems beyond JS's control and
  mainly concerned with the opening of
  The Rugby Centre in...

• A work of art
  04

  A work of art
  WORTH HANGING ON THE
  WALL—just to look at—is JS's new
  range of own-label kitchen tools.
  Beautifully made in Melamine, the range
  comes in a cool butter-milk colour.
  Melamine has a number of
  advantages over...

• Not just a pretty face
  04

  Not just a pretty face
  BRAINS AND GOOD LOOKS do go
  together judging by Karen Fanti, a
  student who works at Cannon Park
  branch.
  A knock-out competition in three
  rounds finally isolated seventeen-yearold
  Karen to become...

• Sensible eating
  04

  Sensible eating
  'BALANCING YOUR DIET' by Jenny
  Salmon is the third and latest in
  Sainsbury's successful food guide series.
  This compact 32 page booklet
  approaches eating and nutrition in a
  way that is easy to incorporate...

• Sittingbourne's good sports
  04

  Sittingbourne's good sports
  SECOND PLACE was gained by a
  team from Sainsbury's in Sittingbourne
  in a local sports festival sponsored by
  the town's sports shop.
  The team included Michele Geduld,
  Laura Ehrlich, Yvonne Long,...

• Crawley cowboys
  05

  Crawley cowboys
  CRAWLEY SHOT DOWN the
  competition when they dressed the part
  for the town's Wild West carnival.
  It was the first time Crawley branch
  had ever entered a carnival procession
  and they were pleased and excited to...

• Kempston 'floats' into the year 2000
  05

  Kempston 'floats' into the year 2000
  KEMPSTON FLOATED THROUGH
  the competition easily again this year
  with another inspired entry in the
  Bedford carnival procession.
  The branch's previous entry in 1978
  featured the historic...

• Packed with goodness
  06

  PACKED LUNCHES should be fun as
  well as nutritious is the prominent
  message in a new booklet from JS.
  Monetary as well as nutritional value
  is considered in Packed Lunches for
  Children a free eight page booklet available
  to...

• THE GREAT DRAIN ROBBERY
  07

  THEFT FROM SHOPS
  is running, at a latest estimate,
  at a level in excess of
  £650 million. Most people
  now know the size of the
  problem and are
  appraised of the fact that
  shop theft is not just a
  crime against the...

• Little cash lots of carry
  08

  Little cash lots of carry
  "WE DON'T AIM TO MAKE A
  PROFIT from the carrier bags we sell in
  the branches' explains JS purchasing
  department senior buyer Peter Bruton.
  'Some of our competitors charge
  customers more for similar...

• Come rain or shine
  11

  Come rain or shine
  NOTHING COULD DAMPEN the
  enthusiasm of the 12,000 people at this
  year's JS Family Day on June 15—not
  even an unexpected cloudburst that all
  but washed away the opening parade.
  Just as David Sainsbury was...

• Pickles to Africa
  17

  Pickles to Africa
  Deputy John Kelly helps OM driver Trivett Duffield make everything shipshape for the
  start of a journey that will end somewhere off the coast of Nigeria. DO YOU HAVE A SHOP IN
  NIGERIA?' asked a customer at...

• Lexden's drop-outs!
  18

  Lexden's drop-outs!
  STEPPING OUT of a light plane
  2700ft, or 18 seconds, away from the
  ground may not seem the ideal pastime,
  but members of Lexden branch's
  management team tried it. On the end of
  a parachute of...

• Length of service
  19

  Length of service
  BY TAKING A DIVE staff at Arnold
  branch raised over £400 for a local
  artificial kidney unit. The dive signalled
  the start of a sponsored swim which saw about 40 members of staff and their
  families, swimming...

• Sterling work
  19

  Sterling work
  A SPONSORED SLIM at Derby
  branch has resulted in 78 pounds being
  gained. Pounds sterling that is, not
  pounds of flab. The money has been
  donated to the disabled.

• Truth is strainer than fiction
  19

  Truth is strainer than fiction
  AN UNUSUAL USAGE has been
  found for one of JS's household goods—
  the tea strainer.
  In a recent edition of Motor Cycle
  Mechanics, in one of a series of articles
  concerning the tuning of a...

• Walking in the rain!
  19

  Walking in the rain!
  KEEPING ON THE MOVE, over ten
  miles and through spasmodic heavy
  showers, Burton-on-Trent branch
  triumphed over nature on May 11 to
  raise £200 for charity.
  The sponsored 'move' attracted more
  than just...

• Water sports
  19

  Water sports
  PEAS AND RICE were among the,
  missiles staff from JS's St Stephens,
  Anglia Square and Bowthorpe branches
  had to contend with recently.
  The three stores were taking part in
  Norwich's annual raft race, and...

• Appointments
  20

  Appointments
  Mrs C C Evans, formerly technical
  information scientist in the research and
  scientific services division, has been
  appointed administration manager of
  that division.
  C R Johnson, formerly assistant buyer
  in the...

• Letters
  20

  Letters
  From: Cyril Raynor, grocery buying
  office, Blackfriars
  Tony Clarke's reply to D T Condon was
  nonsense. How can the collecting of details
  of ethnic groups demonstrate that
  JS does or does not discriminate? If
  ethnic...

• Long service
  20

  Long service
  Bill Godding, senior stores serviceman
  at Winchester, has completed 40 years'
  service with JS.
  He joined the company at Clarence
  Street, and has worked at many
  branches including Woking, Guildford,
  Weybridge,...

• Obituary
  20

  Obituary
  David (Kit) Carson, section leader in the
  stock control department at Basingstoke
  depot, died suddenly on May 21 at the
  age of 56.
  Kit began his career at JS in 1937 at
  Blackfriars as a messenger and moved...

• Retirements
  20

  Retirements
  'John' Wakeford, customer service
  assistant at Churchill Square, Brighton,
  has retired after 24 years' service with JS.
  He joined the company at St James's
  Street in the warehouse and moved to
  his present post in...

• 'Shing the offal king'
  21

  'Shing the offal king'
  'I'M JUST THE HOUSEBOY now',
  grins recently retired Percy Shingfield,
  better known in some quarters as 'Shing
  the offal king'.
  After 43 years with JS as a butcher,
  Percy has finally hung up his cleaver...

• Something to celebrate
  22

  Something to celebrate
  SPECIAL CELEBRATIONS have been
  the order of the day for John Shaw who
  retired on the last day of May after 45
  years' service. John has been office
  manager at various branches including
  East Ham where...

• Dougie covers new ground
  23

  Dougie covers new ground
  OPENING UP NEW ground in both
  his life-style and his garden has been the
  occupation of Dougie Self since his
  retirement in April after 43 years at JS.
  Widely known throughout JS and well
  liked, his...

• All the world's a stage...
  24

  Archives
  All the world's a stage... THERE HAD BEEN a half hearted
  attempt to start a dramatic group at
  head office before the second world war,
  but after only a couple of productions,
  enthusiasm waned and it had to...