'JS Journal', November 1983

Table of content

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2-3
  Mrs Thatcher's shopping trip
  Page 4
  News/Property
  Page 5
  Branch opening—Burton
  Page 6-7
  Branch and Homebase opening- Bradford 6/7
  Page 8
  25 club dinner
  Page 9
  Heart help from HMP
  Page 10-11
  Business news
  Page...

• Prime Minister visits Nine Elms
  02

  1. Sitting down for a
  chat in the staff
  restaurant. On the left
  is Frances Martin,
  chief display
  assistant. 2. The
  Prime Minister meets
  Geneive Feasey (left),
  Brian Kelly, Denise
  Campbell and Ruth
  Hyde. In...

• Cheque for Liverpool charity
  04

  Cheque for Liverpool charity
  ON BEHALF of Sainsbury's, Paul Stefanski
  (above right), Woolton store manager,
  hands over a cheque for £4,000 to John
  Kellaway, chairman of the Liverpool
  Personal Service Society.
  The money from...

• Property
  04

  PROPERTY
  OPENINGS to put in your diary for the
  month of November are:
  Oldbury Homebase, Ringway/
  Halesowen Street, Oldbury, West
  Midlands on Monday, November 7, at
  9.00 am.
  Cromwell Road supermarket, West
  London Air...

• Senior appointments
  04

  Senior appointments
  Dennis Males
  Dave Smith David Smith
  John Phillipson Robert Parle Graham Paxton DENNIS MALES, departmental director
  branch operations, has been appointed
  director of Homebase. He replaces Joe
  Barnes,...

• Branch opening—Burton
  05

  Burton-on-Trent is a Midland town famous for its breweries and on September 27
  locals said CHEERS to the opening of Sainsbury's eighth supermarket this year.
  Customers flooded into the 27,449 sq ft store in their hundreds and...

• Branch and Homebase opening—Bradford
  06

  BRANCH OPENINGS
  FROM OCTOBER 11 Bradford was able
  to boast a Salisbury's and Homebase. On
  that day the large shopping development
  on Harrogate Road opened its doors to a
  wet and windswept public.
  Three miles from the centre...

• 25 club dinner
  08

  Long servers
  are given their
  share at dinner
  THE ANNOUNCEMENT made by the
  Chairman, Sir John Sainsbury, that staff
  with 25 years' service or more will receive
  50 Sainsbury's shares, well and truly
  raised the glasses of all...

• The heart of the matter
  09

  The heart
  of the
  matter
  Sainsbury's, and
  Haverhill Meat
  Products in
  particular, have been
  involved in a major
  medical research
  and development
  story which has been
  continuing quietly
  since the mid 1970s.
  NOW THE story...

• Focus on Shaw's-JS's investment in America
  10

  Focus on Shaw's-JS's investment in America
  DUE TO the press date of the last issue, we
  were able only to give the briefest details of
  Shaw's, JS's new investment in the USA. So
  this article goes into a little more...

• Armchair shopping under way
  11

  Armchair shopping under way
  THE BUTTON has been pressed to begin
  home food shopping.
  The development first reported in JSJ
  December 1982 is now under way in the
  Midlands.
  Jill Dunwoody of Solihull became the first
  armchair...

• Deli diets
  11

  Deli diets
  A RECENT report by market researcher,
  Mintel Publications, claims that despite the
  recession people are generally better off
  than they were ten years ago.
  And eating habits are changing—the
  quality of food and...

• Food and drink
  11

  Food and drink
  JAMES GULLIVER has reorganized his
  business interests. Argyll Foods—the Presto
  and_Liptons supermarket group—is to
  merge with Amalgamated Distilled Products.
  ADP is a spirit manufacturer and
  distributor,...

• News from the north
  11

  News from the north
  HILLARDS—the Northern chain —raised
  their turnover by 11.1 per cent to £204.2
  million. This included some improvement in
  sales in existing stores, but also benefited
  from openings at Buttershaw and...

• Pack Your Own may pack up
  11

  Pack Your Own may pack up
  FINE FARE have run into a few bureaucratic
  brick walls with their development.of bulk
  foods. Pack Your Own, as they call it, has
  proved very successful with shoppers, but
  has not scored a hit with...

• Suit yourself at high tech BHS
  11

  Suit yourself at high tech BHS
  BRITISH HOME Stores are moving into two
  new markets. Twenty-one stores now
  feature electronics departments which sell
  anything from a telephone to a home
  computer. BHS claim to have...

• On your marks...get set...go!
  12

  On your marks...get set...go!
  ALL THE FUN of the fair, all the
  excitement of the sports arena; /e^ the
  pomp and circumstance of a ceremony—
  it really was a knockout! The first ever
  Coventry area sports day.
  The eagerly...

• Perfect guests for party time
  14

  Perfect guests for party time
  GIVE ALL GHOULIES and ghosties a
  bewitching party this Hallowe'en season.
  Sainsbury's new range of drinks will
  get them into the right spirit.
  The younger ghosties will love
  Sainsbury's Orange...

• Photographic competition results
  16

  Photographic competition results
  FRIENDS
  First prize—Joyce Kiddy works engineers planning clerk,
  Buntingford depot. This picture says it all.'
  Second prize—Pam Hogben, evening assistant, Dover.
  It's all in the little...

• Boss required
  19

  Boss required
  MARGARET COOPER, BPO at Magdalen
  Street, Norwich, is in urgent need
  of a boss. No, not the type you might
  make tea for, but the type you could
  make battle with—that is, the kind of
  boss used in archery...

• Grapevine message
  19

  Grapevine message
  NEWS TRAVELS fast through the
  grapevine—even from Welwyn Garden
  City to far away Israel.
  Twelve year old Bruce Wood, a
  customer from Welwyn Garden City
  branch, recently bought a bunch of
  seedless white...

• Heads together at Homebase
  19

  Heads together at Homebase
  TRAINEE managers at Homebase head
  office, Croydon, were up to their ears in
  French furniture polish and paint pots on
  October 5 and loving every minute of it.
  This intensive practical skill...

• Scouse appeal
  19

  Scouse appeal
  AN APPEAL for help in the national
  newspapers for a little four month old
  beagle/jack russell called Scouse, ill
  treated by his previous owners, recently
  caught the attention of a number of staff
  at...

• 100th birthday
  20

  Lillian Osborne
  100th birthday
  WHAT DO W G Grace, Catherine
  Bramwell-Booth and JS veteran, Lillian
  Osborne have in common? Answer—they
  all reached 100. W G Grace was the first
  cricketer to score a century and...

• Bags abroad
  20

  Bags abroad
  Above: Slowly but surely Sainsbury's carrier
  bags advance across Europe. This one was
  spotted in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia!
  Left: A carrier of good news! Christine
  Matthews, a customer from Cheam, spreads
  the word...

• Gerry got a break
  20

  Gerry got a break
  PERFECT POTTING and planting
  enabled Gerry Kitson, general assistant,
  to become the first ever winner of Leeds
  Homebase pool competition, held on
  October 10.
  It took Gerry only 20 minutes of
  brilliant...

• Victory for sailor girl
  20

  Victory for sailor girl
  sailor girl
  PUTNEY branch may be near the
  Thames, but it still comes as a surprise to
  find that it harbours a prize-winning
  sailor.
  Janet Hill, supermarket assistant, was a
  member of the sea cadet...

• A specialist in service
  21

  Jean Lewis
  A specialist
  in service
  NATIONAL WESTMINSTER knew they
  could bank on Sainsbury's for expert help
  on customer relations when they
  launched the Nat West Bank staff ideas
  competition this summer.
  Designed to draw...

• Winter woollies
  21

  Winter woollies
  AS THE frosty season approaches, flatter
  your kids' toes with the range of
  sensational socks from Sainsbury's.
  The new socks come in a multitude of
  colours and designs.
  Bold diamonds, delicate lacy...

• The lady and the lorries
  22

  JUST THE JOB
  The lady
  and the
  lorries
  THE LORRIES hurtle along outside. In
  and around the garage some of the lorries
  are receiving a wash and brush up to
  appear on the roads in sparkling
  condition. Others are immobile...

• Feedback
  23

  Letters are welcome
  and should be
  addressed to the editor
  Prices past
  From: C W Turner, Veteran.
  Recently in your archives section you
  printed some old price lists. I am sure
  that many veterans can remember these
  prices;...

• LONG SERVICE
  23

  LONG SERVICE
  Les Sayer, assistant meat manager at
  Chippenham, has completed 25 years'
  service with JS.
  He joined the company at Wood
  Green.
  Eve Lee, skilled supermarket assistant
  at Crawley, has completed 25 years...

• OBITUARY
  23

  OBITUARY
  Jean Lockhart, evening display assistant
  at Hove, died on August 19, aged 34. She
  had been with the company for two years.
  Doris Munslow, skilled supermarket
  assistant at Southend, died on July 24,
  aged 59. She had...

• RETIREMENTS
  23

  RETIREMENTS
  Richard Jessup, manager at Oxhey, has
  retired after 43 years' service with JS.
  He managed Oxhey branch for the last
  20 years.
  Hilda Dunn, cashier at Bromley branch,
  has retired after 34 years with JS.
  She joined...

• Presents from the past
  24

  ARCHIVES
  Presents
  from the
  past
  HAT a gift! In 1913 purchases of
  tea from Sainsbury's could earn customers
  a free tea service.
  This pretty floral plate and milk jug
  were brought to the archives by Mrs
  Keenan, a customer...