'JS Journal', May 1982

Table of content

• Profit Share Up!
  01

  PROFIT SHARE UP!
  Employee Profit Fund Calculation
  Sales
  Retail profit
  Retail profit if the net
  margin had been 2%%
  Difference
  15% of difference is available
  for profit sharing
  Qualifying pay of
  eligible employees0...

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 1
  JS's profit sharing scheme
  Page 2-3
  Year end results
  Page 4-5
  Branch opening—a new store for Welwyn Garden City
  Page 6-8
  New products
  Page 9
  Property
  Page 10-11
  1982 veterans' reunion
  Page 12, 13, 15
  News and general...

• Year end results
  02

  Year End Results YET AGAIN JS has confounded the City
  and Fleet Street pundits!
  On May 5, with the announcement of
  this year's unaudited results for the 52
  weeks to February 27 1982, the praise
  seemed never ending.
  Another...

• Branch opening—Welwyn Garden City
  04

  WELWYN GARDEN CITY has doubled
  the size of its JS branch in a single move.
  A new store, which was opened by
  director Joe Barnes on April 5, has a sales
  area of 17,438 sq ft which is about twice
  the size of the old...

• Seafood surprises
  06

  Seafood surprises
  COD AND PRAWN PIE, Curried
  Seafood Pasta and Cod in Seafood Sauce
  join Mariner's Pie in JS's new gourmet
  selection of frozen fish dishes. They offer
  all the delights of good home-made
  cooking yet take only...

• Simple elegance
  06

  Simple elegance
  elegance
  JS ARE INTRODUCING two styles of
  exclusive tableware suitable for all
  occasions. There is Sainsbury's Hornsea
  Stoneware (above) elegantly styled in brilliant
  white, trimmed with a slim brown...

• A couple of quickies
  07

  A couple of quickies
  IT'S SO SIMPLE! Just add a fresh egg
  and milk to either coffee, chocolate or
  butterscotch flavoured Iced Cup Cake
  Mix and the result is 12 delicious original
  cakes!
  JS's own-label is the first cup cake...

• East and West
  07

  East and West
  TWO INTERNATIONAL STYLES are
  now available in JS's own-label breads.
  Pittas, in packs of six and on sale in 200 branches, are made from a simple eastern
  recipe—wheat flour, water, salt and
  yeast. They can be...

• Seasonal menus
  07

  Seasonal menus
  A NEW COOKBOOK, Seasonal Menus
  by Clare Payne, will be available in all
  Sainsbury's supermarkets from the
  middle of May. It will be on sale at the
  checkout, price 75p.
  The book contains 20 complete menus
  for...

• Snap, crackle and...
  07

  Snap, crackle and...
  JS STRIKE AGAIN! This time in the
  cereals market, with a new own-label
  children's favourite.
  Rice Pops are fortified with six vitamins
  and iron, and provide the average
  child (or adult) with a quarter of...

• Attractive feet
  08

  Attractive feet
  A CHANGE OF TOOTSIES is now
  possible with JS's new range of spring
  socks and tights.
  The choice is very wide. Pretty ankle
  socks in a lacy pelerine stitch are
  available in seven pastel colours,
  including...

• Belt up
  08

  Belt up
  DESIGNED to coordinate with recently
  introduced dust bags, Vacuum Cleaner
  Belts are now on JS shelves, in two sizes,
  junior and senior.
  Both are available in 100 branches, at
  22p and 29p respectively, and...

• Filter tips
  08

  Filter tips
  COSTA RICA BLEND, Continental
  Roast and Kenya Blend now join the
  popular Original Blend to offer four
  choices of JS own-label filter coffee.
  The popularity of making coffee by the
  filter process is growing...

• Japanese choice
  08

  Japanese choice
  SKIPJACK TUNA IN BRINE is a
  welcome addition to the JS school and
  good news for diet and health conscious
  customers. It is high quality, Japanese
  light-meat tuna fish with a pale pink
  interior and it is...

• Summer promise
  08

  Summer promise
  PARTIES PROMISE TO BUBBLE along
  easily with the new Sainsbury's Sparkling
  Cider introduced in March at just 95p for
  75cl.
  The off-licence department is already
  very pleased with Sparkling Cider's
  impact on...

• Property
  09

  JS HAVE LODGED a planning application
  to develop the site of an old cattle
  market in Bridgend, South Wales. The
  plan is for a 47,000 sq ft store, half of
  which would be sales area, with car
  parking for 300...

• 1982 JS veterans' reunion
  10

  1982 JS veterans' reunion
  All the young at heart enjoyed the veterans' reunion FINE WEATHER and high spirits helped
  JS veterans to enjoy their annual reunion
  this year.
  The venue was one that many retirees
  know very well by...

• Cancer campaign tops £40,000
  12

  Cancer campaign tops £40,000
  SAINSBURY'S COMPANYWIDE campaign
  to raise money for cancer research
  has collected an amazing £43,100 in the
  first three months of its existence, and
  money is still pouring in!
  Branches have...

• Checkout '82
  12

  Checkout
  '82
  TESCO recently announced the launch
  of 'Checkout '82'—a major new price
  initiative in which they claim cuts of
  between three and 25 per cent on some
  1,500 lines, both branded and own-label.
  The greatest...

• Cutting champ
  12

  Cutting
  champ
  A TWO DAY trip to the Eurobeef
  Exhibition in Brussels, was Nigel Rolfe's
  (a student at Dunstable branch) prize for
  winning an annual beef cutting competition
  this year.
  Nigel, who is 19, and has been...

• Chess final
  13

  Chess final
  FEBRUARY 25 saw the enthralling final
  of the SSA Chess Tournament, played
  between Malcolm Harding, an associate
  member of the staff association, and
  Martin Cowley, from company systems at
  Streatham office.
  At...

• Football crazy
  13

  Football crazy
  FOOTBALL FEVER is spreading through
  branches like wildfire.
  Desborough Leisure Centre saw the
  first outbreak when five branches—
  Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough,
  Wigston and Northampton started the
  ball...

• Four of a kind
  13

  Four of a kind
  BASINGSTOKE Amateur Operatic
  Society celebrated its Diamond Jubilee
  recently with a week's performances of
  Lehar's 'Merry Widow".
  Out of the total cast of 40 people four
  work for Sainsbury's. Every evening...

• Walsall globetrotter
  13

  TO BE CHOSEN to play basketball at the
  World Students Olympic Games in 1983
  is a dream come true for 18-year-old
  Joanne Blower, a week-end student at
  Walsall branch.
  Joanne is at the moment studying three
  A levels at Queen...

• Karting crazy
  14

  Karting crazy
  A look at Poole branch's speed king—Ross Mason-Smith CHAMPION KART RACER, Ross
  Mason-Smith, has high hopes for 1982.
  The karting season has only just begun
  but Ross, a student at Poole branch, has
  ambitions to...

• 'I'll miss the cooking!'
  15

  "SAINSBURY'S TALK has always ruled
  the conversation in our house' the
  Martins agree. And it doesn't look as
  though that fact will ever change even
  though Wally Martin, meat manager at
  Southgate branch, has now retired...

• Time capsule
  15

  Time capsule
  WHEN OPENED IN 2082, the contents,
  of the time capsule, buried deep in the
  foundations of West Park hospital,
  Wolverhampton, will reveal life as it is
  now—a century ago!
  A few of the contents sealed into...

• A toast to J Sainsbury
  16

  A toast to J Sainsbury
  DESPITE THE HARSH times, December
  1935 found me with four job options'
  recalled Gordon 'Johnny' Bryant, reserve
  meat manager at Kingston, looking back
  to the start of his 46 year career with JS,
  after...

• Hectic past and future
  17

  Hectic past and future
  'A PARTY and a half on April 26 marked
  the close of Bill Godding's career spanning
  more than 40 years at JS.
  Bill, senior store serviceman at
  Winchester branch, certainly won't be
  forgotten quickly,...

• Feedback
  18

  FEEDBACK
  Letters are welcome
  and should "be
  addressed to the editor
  Chivalry lives
  From: Lorna Jenkinson, customer,
  Folkestone
  The age of chivalry is not dead!
  Today, in your new store, my
  screaming, hungry 12-week-old...

• LONG SERVICE
  18

  LONG SERVICE
  Roy Bolton, produce manager at
  Bletchley, has completed 25 years' service
  with the company.
  He joined JS at Lee Green as a junior
  salesman. In 1969 Roy moved to
  Northampton where he was made up to
  assistant...

• OBITUARY
  18

  OBITUARY
  William Gibson, meat manager at High
  Wycombe, died after a long illness on
  March 14, aged 56.
  He worked for JS for 30 years.
  Paul Grimshaw, senior stores service
  assistant at Sidcup, was tragically killed
  in a car...

• RETIREMENTS
  18

  RETIREMENTS
  Edward 'Ted' Mills, meat manager at
  Pinner, has retired after 44 years' service
  with JS.
  He joined the company in 1937 at
  Ashford and four years later enlisted in
  the RAF. Ted returned to JS in 1946 and
  worked...

• The 'new' Stamford House
  20

  The 'new' Stamford House
  THIS BEAUTIFUL postcard was
  recently sent to the archives by a
  long-standing customer of the company.
  The picture on the card is an artist's
  impression of the new Stamford House
  soon after its...