'JS Journal', December 1983

Table of content

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2
  News/Property
  Page 3
  Chairman's message
  Page 3-5
  Branch opening— Cromwell Road
  Page 6-7
  Branch opening—Beckenham
  Page 8-9
  Homebase opening—Oldbury
  Page 10-15
  Leisure section and round up of activities companywide
  Page...

• Fund of ideas
  02

  Fund of ideas
  DONATIONS from two Sainsbury trusts
  will help make better use of derelict land.
  The Trusts, both established by the
  Sainsbury family, are putting in £250,000
  over five years to fund schemes presented
  by...

• JS marketing wins award
  02

  JS marketing
  wins award
  SAINSBURY'S have won the 1983-
  National Marketing Award, category 1
  (companies with a turnover of above
  £50m) presented by the Institute of
  Marketing.
  The purpose of the awards, now in
  their 22nd...

• Len Payne CBE
  02

  Distribution director,
  Len Payne,
  was awarded the
  honour of
  Commander of
  the British
  Empire in June
  for his services
  to transport.
  He is pictured
  here w i th his
  wife, Marjorie, on
  Tuesday, November
  8,...

• Playing the game
  02

  Playing the game
  THE NATIONAL Management Game
  (NMG) is an annual event jointly
  sponsored by the Financial Times,
  Institute of Chartered Accountants and
  International Computers Ltd (ICL). An
  interactive, computer-based...

• Property
  02

  PROPERTY
  SWANSEA'S city council planning committee
  has approved plans for a
  supermarket and Homebase to be built on
  part of the now derelict docklands. Over
  300 jobs are likely to be created and the
  branch will provide...

• A Christmas message from the Chairman
  03

  A Christmas message from the Chairman
  Once again it gives me great pleasure to send
  Christmas greetings to all the readers of the JS
  Journal, to both past and present JS staff
  and their families.
  Christmas is a time for...

• Preview Party
  03

  Preview Party
  On Monday, November 7, a
  preview reception was
  held in the Cromwell Road
  store which was to open the
  following morning.
  Chairman, Sir John
  Sainsbury, welcomed
  distinguished guests from
  all walks of...

• Branch opening—Cromwell Road
  04

  CROMWELL ROAD made a perfect
  landing on Tuesday, November 8 and
  opened its doors for the first time to West
  London customers, who just couldn't
  wait to rush in.
  The store, situated in the former British
  Airways West London...

• Branch opening—Beckenham
  06

  IT WASN'T A 21-gun salute, but an army
  of customers that heralded the opening
  of Sainsbury's Beckenham branch on
  October 25.
  The opening of the store saw the
  return of JS to Beckenham after an
  absence of over 11 years....

• Homebase opening—Oldbury
  08

  YOU COULD say Oldbury Homebase is
  an extra piece of green belt for Birmingham.
  This new house and garden centre,
  a few miles from the centre of Birmingham,
  opened on November 6 at 9.00 am.
  The impressive green...

• Arresting time at East Grinstead
  10

  Arresting time
  at East Grinstead
  'ANYTHING YOU can do I can do
  better? East Grinstead have certainly
  lived up to that saying over die last
  month. Not only have they challenged
  die new local Safeway's to a trolley race
  and...

• Never on a Friday
  10

  Never on a Friday
  FRIDAY NIGHT shopping is definitely a
  nightmare according to class three at St
  Elphege's Junior School, WaUington.
  When recently asked to write their
  impressions of shopping at the local JS
  branch, the...

• Create a JS Christmas cake
  11

  Create a JS Christmas cake
  Christmas is round the corner but panic not, there's still plenty of time to
  make this year's cake and decorate it in style!
  Using only Sainsbury 's ingredients, George Harper, deputy bakery...

• Crossword for Christmas
  11

  Crossword for Christmas
  Get that vocabulary flowing.
  Enter our crossword competition and you could win a bottle
  of the JS wine of the month for January. Toast the New Year in
  style.
  Send your completed crossword (photocopy or...

• BRANCH OUT!
  12

  BEAT YOUR FRIENDS TO THE CHECKOUT
  ALL YOUNEEDISADICE,0RMAKEY0URi
  OWN SPINNER BYTRACING OUR SHAPE.
  7DSSA COIN TO DETERMINE WHO
  WILL GO FIRST.
  YOU MUST THROW A SIX TO START.
  ^ THEN'WITHYOUR
  COUNTER ON THE
  • FIRST...

• Calling all kids
  14

  Sons, daughters, nieces, nephews, grandchildren
  and godchildren. It's lovely to see
  them all on Family Day and this year we want
  to bring them out of winter hibernation to
  take part in the first ever SSA/JS Journal
  Children's...

• 10 year lunch
  15

  10 year lunch
  'HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you' resounded
  loud and clear all round Stratford branch
  on Friday October 7 as staff celebrated
  the store's tenth birthday in style.
  A special lunch menu was prepared
  and prawn cocktail,...

• A gift with vision
  15

  L to r: Sheila Grindlay (supermarket assistant), Bob Mears (customer service assistant),
  Margaret Ward (supermarket assistant), Penny Plunkett (ward sister) and Joan Finney
  (nurse).
  A gift with vision YOUNG PATIENTS in the...

• Baby walk
  15

  Baby walk
  OBVIOUSLY fighting fit after the recent
  area sports day, (JSJ Nov 83) Wolverhampton
  branch took to the streets to
  raise money for the special care baby unit
  at New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton.
  One hundred feet...

• Cures daily
  15

  Cures daily
  JS EFFORTS to improve the lot of the
  disabled customer have not gone
  unnoticed by one resident of Cheltenham
  who takes a light-hearted look in this
  letter which appeared in the Gloucestershire
  Echo:
  Apropos of...

• David Jones
  15

  David Jones will be sharing birthdays with
  Burton-on-Trent branch. Supermarket
  assistant, Dot Jones gave birth to her son
  on September 27—the day the new store
  opened.

• Feat of feet
  15

  Feat of feet
  'THEY SAY life begins at 40' says Eric
  Russell, bakery manager at Cannon Park,
  who, on October 2, set out to prove just
  that by running in his first ever marathon.
  All 26 miles of the Coventry people's
  marathon...

• Not just fun run
  15

  Not just fun run
  ON A COLD, wet and windy October 9,
  Helen Ewart, (domestic assistant,
  Eastbourne branch) and another 1499
  brave competitors, set off on Eastbourne's
  10 mile fun run.
  Helen was competing not only for...

• Record break
  15

  Record break
  AN OFFER you can't refuse!
  Medway Records, owned by Terry
  Pratt, egg controller, Blackfriars, (see
  JSJ Oct 1982), is now giving a ten per
  cent discount to all JS staff.
  Interested? Go along to the shop at...

• Stamping out disease
  15

  Stamping out disease
  REMEMBER green shield stamps? Have
  you got any lying around at home, hidden
  in a long lost drawer? Go and look now!
  Over recent months, Magdalen Street
  branch have been collecting them for the
  Anthony...

• ASDA buttons up
  16

  ASDA buttons up
  ASDA HAS entered the highly competitive
  home computer market. At all 76
  superstores the range will comprise four
  products—from the Mattel Aquarius at
  under £50 to the two versions of the Sinclair
  Spectrum...

• Father Christmas counts his costs
  16

  Father Christmas counts his costs
  SANTA has recently announced his results
  for Christmas 1982. (The bitter cold at the
  North Pole makes his calculators work at a
  very slow speed.) Overall volume of toys
  delivered was up by 11...

• JS interim results
  16

  JS interim results
  SAINSBURY'S announced another set of
  bumper results on November 9. Sales for
  the 28 weeks to October 8, 1983 were up
  by 15 per cent to £1,360 million. Price
  inflation was much as expected at 4.5 per
  cent...

• White meat triumphs
  16

  White meat triumphs
  CHICKEN will become Britain's top-selling
  meat within the next 12 months' clucked the
  British Chicken Information Service
  recently. And indeed it has: in the first nine
  months of the year 264,000 tonnes...

• Centenary year for M&S
  17

  Centenary year for M&S
  MARKS AND SPENCER produced
  another set of solid if unexciting results for
  the six months to the end of September.
  Total sales rose 15 per cent to £1,285
  million. UK clothing sales increased by
  nearly...

• In Financial Terms
  17

  In Financial Terms
  TO CLARIFY the report on JS results for
  first half of 1983/84 we thought readers
  might find it useful to have a glossary of
  some of the terms used in the financial
  world:
  AUDITORS—accountants who work...

• Key purchases
  17

  Key purchases
  ARGYLL FOODS have purchased another
  five Key Markets stores from the Dee
  Corporation—what we used to know as
  Linfood. They have already purchased one
  Key Market in October, and have now paid
  £9 million over...

• Tea and timber
  17

  Tea and timber
  THE BROOKE Bond Group, once upon a
  time known mainly for its chimps, but now
  interested in timber, produced a thumping
  37 per cent rise in its pre-tax profits for the
  year to June 1983. Although both tea...

• NOSING AROUND THE PERFUMERS
  18

  It's Christmas time and, therefore, present time. The great
  countdown to Christmas shopping mania is on. To many
  people presents mean smellies. Millions of customers head
  for talcs, body creams, sprays and luxury soaps to...

• The spirit of Christmas, repasts and presents
  20

  NEW PRODUCTS
  If you think that Sainsbury's is simply a supermarket, then think
  again. As the season of snowmen and sleighs approaches, JS has
  donned a red gown and black wellies, and comes to you in the guise
  of Father...

• What's in store for Lynette?
  22

  JUST THE JOB
  What's in store for Lynette?
  The appointment of
  JS's first female
  deputy manager
  presented a good
  opportunity to take a
  closer look at the
  deputy manager's
  role in a modern store.
  Lynette O'Neill arrived in...

• APPOINTMENTS
  23

  APPOINTMENTS
  B Gowers, formerly manager of West
  Bromwich, has been appointed manager
  of Sheffield.
  D Parker, formerly deputy manager of
  Huddersfield, has been appointed
  manager of Huddersfield.
  R Scholes, formerly manager...

• Feedback
  23

  Letters are welcome
  and should be
  addressed to the editor
  Tribute
  From: Mr H G Willard, veteran.
  I, amongst others, was sorry to read in the
  JS Journal of the passing away of the one
  and only Bob Wallis. He did so much...

• LONG SERVICE
  23

  LONG SERVICE
  Ken Gaved, buyer at Homebase, has
  completed 25 years' service with JS.
  He began his career with the company
  in the branch stock office at Blackfriars
  and a year later moved to the depot stock
  office where he...

• OBITUARY
  23

  OBITUARY
  Etienne Alexander, customer service
  assistant, Paddington, died suddenly on
  September 24, aged 64.
  He joined the company in 1968.
  Robert Auckland, assistant manager at
  Leamington, died suddenly on September
  6, aged...

• RETIREMENTS
  23

  RETIREMENTS
  James Parkinson, a driver at Charlton
  depot, has retired after 34 years with JS.
  , He joined the company as a warehouseman
  and became a driver in 1950.
  Ken Wiltshire, deputy meat manager
  at Southampton, has...

• Festive fayre
  24

  ARCHIVES
  Festive fayre T'HEN JOHN James Sains-
  I ^ B / bury and his wife, Mary Ann,
  1 / 1 / set up shop in 1869 Christmas
  celebrations were at
  their most lavish. This menu from a
  Victorian magazine gives some idea of...