'JS Journal', February 1981

Table of content

• Advertising awards
  02

  Advertising awards
  FOUR JS advertising campaigns won
  national awards last month.
  At the Campaign Press Awards
  Sainsbury's won first prize and a commendation
  in the Best Retail Store
  Advertisements class, and a...

• Buy British buy now
  02

  Buy British buy now
  AS A RESULT of last month's rise in the
  Government backed EEC tax on food it
  was reported that the price of bacon
  would rise by nearly 7p a pound.
  Announced on January 26, the news
  came just seven days...

• Company appointments
  02

  Company appointments
  CONGRATULATIONS on the following
  appointments.
  Owen Thomas, formerly Basingstoke
  depot manager, has been appointed to
  the post of personnel manager, retail
  division. Responsible to personnel
  director,...

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2-3
  News
  Page 4
  Mobile racking at Basingstoke
  Page 5
  Graduate recruitment
  Page 6-7
  New products
  Page 8
  Sir John calls for improved marketing
  Page 9
  Homebase
  Page 10-11, 19
  General news
  Page 11-13
  British sherry — the...

• JS remains confident
  02

  JS remains confident
  SCARE of the year award must surely go
  to the scandal story of diseased or unfit
  meat carcasses finding their way into
  processed foods for human consumption.
  Public panic has now been calmed but
  the...

• Bill amendment defeated
  03

  Bill amendment defeated
  WHEN THE SECOND reading of the
  Licensing (Amendment) Off Licences
  Bill, initiated by Licensed Victuallers was
  held last month, it was rejected.
  This proposed legislation, rejected by
  the House of...

• Councillors Impressed by Charlton depot
  03

  Councillors Impressed by Charlton depot
  THE MAYOR OF GREENWICH,
  Margaret Green JP, and nine other local
  councillors recently paid a visit to the JS
  depot at Charlton.
  The group was welcomed by depot
  manager, Derek Graham,...

• Fined the trolley!
  03

  Fined the trolley!
  IT'S HAPPENED AT LAST - a
  Redditch man has been fined for leaving
  his supermarket trolley in the street.
  Commented Redditch police chief:
  These trolleys are driving me round the
  bend. I worry that an old...

• Property
  03

  EVERYTHING IS SET for the opening
  of JS's two newest supermarkets at
  Rayleigh Weir in Essex on March 17, and
  Aylesbury on March 31.
  Planning consent has been granted on
  appeal for a Sainsbury supermarket in
  Cardiff— the...

• Race against time
  03

  Race against time
  THIS HAIR RAISING SPECTACLE
  was to be seen on two consecutive Saturday
  mornings in February outside Rennie
  House at Blackfriars. The event - the
  delivery and installation of JS's two new
  ICL 2976...

• Going mobile
  04

  Going mobile
  BASINGSTOKE DEPOT is very proud
  of its latest warehouse experiment -
  mobile racking — which is a new venture
  for JS. Installed in the northern extension
  of the depot, for non-perishables, it can
  hold 1,250...

• JS goes to college
  05

  JS goes to college
  APPLICATIONS from graduates to join
  JS are on the up and up. Last year's
  figure was an all time record but already
  this has been doubled. With around 150
  vacancies company-wide this year,
  Sainsbury's is...

• Drinka Vitapinta day
  06

  Drinka Vitapinta day
  VITAPINT is the latest addition to JS's
  already wide range of milks. It is a fresh
  milk with the round full flavour of whole
  milk, yet has less fat and fewer calories
  and unlike other low-fat milks has...

• February favourite—wine of the month
  06

  February favourite—wine of the month
  WINE OF THE MONTH for February
  is JS's own-label Claret.
  An Appellation Bordeaux Superieur
  Controlee wine, it is soft in style, medium
  bodied with a touch of tannin on the
  palate and a...

• Double flavour
  07

  DON'T WAIT for the kiddies' parties to
  try JS's latest line in own-label jelly -
  black cherry flavour.
  Launched in January it comes in a
  twin-pack priced 23p. The twin-pack will fill a two pint mould, like the racing car shown...

• Wholesome wholewheat
  07

  Wholesome wholewheat
  WHOLEWHEAT SPAGHETTI is a
  new addition to the JS own-label range of
  pasta products.
  Made 100 per cent from Durum
  wheatgrain the spaghetti is a natural
  product with no added or...

• IMPROVE MARKETING
  08

  IMPROVE MARKETING
  Company Chairman Sir John Sainsbury
  recently made a call for improved
  marketing for British agriculture during
  a speech given at the Hampshire
  Farmers' Union Annual General
  Meeting at Sparsholt near...

• HOMEBASE
  09

  SAINSBURY'S HOMEBASE
  HOUSE AND GARDEN CENTRE MARCH 3 is a significant day both for
  Sainsbury's and the world of DIY —for it
  marks the opening of the first JS-GB
  house and garden centre, Homebase,
  in Purley Way,...

• Flying start for JS gym
  10

  Flying start for JS gym
  FEBRUARY 9 HERALDED the official
  opening of the Blackfriars gymnasium
  club.
  Applications to join have been flooding
  in, but membership is being held to
  around 20 a week at present in order to
  achieve...

• GOING TO THE TOP
  10

  GOING TO THE TOP
  TO THE
  A MOUNTAINEER'S reconnaissance
  mission to his local branch of Sainsbury's
  has proved worthwhile! The British
  Mount Kongur Expedition to China is to
  take place in June - and the explorers
  decided that...

• British sherry — the production story
  11

  EVERY BRITISH
  WINE variety that JS
  stocks is under ownlabel
  and even in these
  days of 'recession' that
  market is still growing.
  While depression was
  all around us sales of
  Sainsbury's British
  wines still managed...

• Think British before you buy
  14

  Think British
  Marketing is a word that has been
  found increasingly on people's lips
  over past years. The fact that JS
  marketing attitudes are sound and
  professional is reflected by the
  company's trading results,...

• Senior management conference
  15

  Senior management conference
  JS'S TOP EXECUTIVES met at
  Eastbourne on January 18 to take part in
  the company's second two-day residential
  conference for senior management.
  In his opening address the chairman
  reminded the 126...

• Valentine victory for the Midlands
  16

  Valentine victory
  MISS JS EASTERN
  Denise Arran
  MISS JS OFFICE (STREATHAM) MISS JS OFFICE (BLACKFRIARS)
  Barbara Banford-Baker Janet Beaumont
  for the Midlands
  MISS JS WESTERN
  Elaine Benad
  MISS JS SOUTH EAST
  Christine...

• Extraordinary persistence
  18

  Extraordinary persistence
  June Childs and Gwen Ivamy presented the cheque to Elizabeth Winder during their
  visit to Guy's Hospital in London. TWO YEARS AGO supermarket
  assistant June Childs began fund raising
  for Guy's...

• Festivities, fun and fancy dress
  18

  Festivities, fun and fancy dress
  CORBY BRANCH recently found out
  how much fun fancy dress can be! Out of
  70 people who attended their party about
  half wore fancy dress costumes — all
  home made!
  BPO Heather White told the...

• Win and lose
  18

  Win and lose
  LOSE SOME and win some! That is the
  message from the charity organisation
  RADAR again this year as they launch
  another sponsored slim.
  RADAR (the Royal Association for
  Disability and Rehabilitation) offer...

• Dream holiday
  19

  Dream holiday
  MILLIE HOOKER, a supermarket
  assistant who recently retired from
  Kentish Town branch after more than 18
  years with JS, certainly started her retirement
  in style - by winning an all expenses
  paid trip for two to...

• Rabbit news
  19

  Rabbit news
  FOLLOWING ON FROM the reference
  to JS in the recent hit record by Chas and
  Dave, an interesting piece of graffiti was
  spotted at Smithfield market: 'China
  National has more rabbit than
  Sainsbury's!'

• Record breakers?
  19

  Record breakers?
  COLDHAM'S LANE branch wonder if
  they broke any records last year - nine of
  the female staff (three from the office) got
  married!
  Not one of the nine married anyone
  working for JS and in fact one...

• SSA holidays
  19

  SSA holidays
  THIS IS THE TIME of year when
  everybody is thinking about their
  holidays - and it's definitely worth taking
  a close look at what the SSA has to offer.
  For value and economy it would be
  difficult to find anything...

• Supermarket with style
  19

  Supermarket with style
  JS has hotly disputed the rumour that all the flavour has gone out of food in recent
  years. Journalist Lynn Faulds-Wood, as a proposer of that theory and writer for the
  Daily Mail and Cosmopolitan, was...

• TV guide
  19

  TV guide
  THAMES TELEVISION spent a day
  filming at Broadfield last month.
  Trials are currently being carried out at
  the branch of laser scan checkouts, which
  the TV company wished to show in a
  programme for schools entitled...

• Happy and home!
  20

  Happy and home!
  HAPPY VALLEY is a familiar sight and
  hopefully an aptly named area for newly
  retired Jim Martin. The valley is opposite
  his home in Old Coulsdon, Surrey, where
  he has lived all his life and also in the...

• On the move?
  20

  On the move?
  TO MOVE HOUSE further south is one
  future plan of 'Jeff Jeffries now he has
  retired from Guildford branch.
  Jeff, who was even born in Guildford,
  began his career as an eggboy at the very
  same branch that he...

• It's been a pleasure
  21

  It's been a pleasure
  GORDON COX, manager of JS's
  Farnham store, has retired after 43 years
  with the company. 'I've been lucky at
  Farnham' smiles Gordon, 'I've worked all
  over the place for Sainsbury's but the
  public are a...

• Feedback
  22

  Letters are welcome
  and should be
  addressed to the editor Hogget replies
  From: Eileen Lambert, Emsworth,
  Hampshire
  With reference to your item headed
  'Shrewd Aussies' on page 12 of the
  January issue of the Journal,...

• Appointments
  23

  Appointments
  K Bar den, formerly manager of North
  Cheam, has been appointed Romford
  area district manager.
  J Clark, formerly senior analyst in
  company systems at Blackfriars, has been
  appointed systems team leader in...

• Insurance premiums cost less at Sainsbury's
  23

  Insurance premiums cost less at Sainsbury's
  DID YOU KNOW that if you work at JS you can obtain discounts from insurance premiums
  under two staff insurance schemes operated by the company?
  The first scheme is run by the Royal...

• Long service
  23

  Long service
  Dennis 'Gus' Abethell, non-perishables
  warehouseman at Basingstoke depot, celebrated
  25 years' service on February 6.
  Gus transferred to Basingstoke depot
  in 1964 and six years later was appointed
  an instructor...

• Obituary
  23

  Obituary
  Ethel Askey, part-time senior clerk at
  Wembley, died in hospital on January 10.
  Ethel began her career at JS in 1946 as
  a warehousewoman at Paddington
  branch before transferring to Marylebone
  to become a part-time...

• Retirements
  23

  Retirements
  Richard 'Ray' Evans, warehouseman at
  Clifton Down, retired recently after 19
  years with JS.
  'Peg' Eustace, supply assistant at
  Heme! Hempstead, has retired after 18
  years with JS.
  Maria-Louise Finkel, assistant...

• Bone shaker to cocktail shaker
  24

  Bone shaker to cocktail shaker
  A LETTER OF APPRECIATION to Sir
  John prompted archivist Harriet Geddes
  to visit George Nolte, one time JS
  employee, in Chester.
  George joined Sainsbury's as a bicycle
  delivery boy at the tender...

• How JS beat the boat race blues
  24

  How JS beat the boat race blues
  HOW DID THE PUBLIC get to know
  of exciting current events before the days
  of television or radio? John James
  Sainsbury, the founder of the company,
  thought up a novel device to overcome
  the...