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    Page 2
    Property
    Page 3
    News
    Page 4-5
    Branch opening—Chester
    Page 6-7
    Branch and Homebase opening—Cardiff
    Page 8
    Cardiff—the media story
    Page 9
    Business news
    Page 10-11
    New products— from barbecues to bathrooms
    Page...

  • Property 02

    PROPERTY
    The Sun Life band playing at Green Park station. Photo: Bath Evening Chronicle. OPENINGS to put in your diary for this
    month are:
    Kingston Homebase, Kingston Road,
    New Maiden on Monday, September 12,
    at 9.00...

  • Sainsbury's honour for university student 03

    Sainsbury's honour for university student
    BARBARA LARKIN is the winner of the
    1983 J Sainsbury prize for the best
    student on the retailing and distribution
    course at UMIST (The University of
    Manchester Institute of Science...

  • Senior appointments 03

    Senior appointments
    ON AUGUST 22 Ron Yeates succeeded
    Arthur Henn as general manager of
    SavaCentre Ltd.
    Ron Yeates was the Woking area
    general manager for seven years. COLIN HARVEY, previously manager
    of branch operations,...

  • Telling which is the best 03

    Telling which is the best
    SAINSBURY'S has once again been
    voted retailer of the month by Super
    Marketing magazine.
    This is how the magazine announced
    its decision: 'For pioneering the provision
    of automatic banking...

  • Branch opening—Chester 04

    BRANCH OPENINGS
    'NEXT STOP Sainsbury's.' That's what
    you will now hear on a number of Chester
    buses. With the opening of the new
    supermarket at Great Boughton on July
    26, bus routes have been diverted to drop
    customers right...

  • Branch and Homebase opening—Cardiff 06

    BRANCH OPENINGS
    THERE WAS a real Welsh welcome for
    Sainsbury's in Cardiff on July 26.
    That date saw JS take its second step
    into Welsh territory. In addition to its
    store in Cwmbran, Sainsbury's is now
    established in the...

  • Cardiff—The media response 08

    The media response
    Above: Linda Takata presents a bouquet of flowers to the Lady
    Mayoress of Cardiff. Right is Peter Davis. BBC Wales puts the action on film. Customers seem more
    interested in the merchandise than cameras!...

  • Meat will be deer 09

    VENISON may soon appear in supermarket
    chilled cabinets. The 113 members of the
    British Deer Producers' Society hope to be
    able to sell 100,000 carcases a year once
    the scheme is in full swing. Deer meat imported from New...

  • Pioneering partners 09

    Pioneering partners
    NO SOONER was the ink dry on the August
    Issue of the Business News which featured
    electronic funds transfer than a story Is
    published about our Hometase partners— GB-lnno-BM—pioneering an EFT system
    In...

  • Served with chips 09

    Served with chips
    MAflKS & SPENCER has ordered 267
    NCR micro-computers to equip every one
    of its UK stores. Together with several new
    large head office computers, the machines
    will speed up the processing of stock...

  • The big apple 09

    The big apple
    CIDER-MAKER HP Bulmer announced a
    healthy 77 per cent increase in pre-tax
    profits recently This was something of a
    disappointment to City folk who had allowed
    the sunny weather of July to cloud their
    vision of...

  • Tossing away a coin 09

    Tossing away a coin
    THE HALFPENCE piece might be destined
    to disappear Although an unbelievable 120
    million of the coins are minted each year,
    their value has declined so much that the
    Government is considering...

  • Pack a picnic or two 10

    Pack a picnic or two
    PICNICS come in all shapes and sizes.
    There's the sandy snack on the beach, the
    grassy guzzle on a river bank or even
    rolls on a hillside. For all these and other
    snack spots, Sainsbury's have got...

  • Bags of room 11

    Bags of room
    WHERE DO men keep all those important
    little things when they're in
    transit? You know—toothpaste, soap,
    mini computer. The essentials for a man
    on the move.
    Sainsbury's has just the answer at just
    the price...

  • Filling fruity 11

    Filling fruity
    IF YOU want your pies to be upper crust,
    you have to ensure they're superior
    through and through.
    Pack them with the pick of fruit
    fillings—Sainsbury's Apple and Raspberry
    flavour.
    This is the fifth variety...

  • Keep on the rails 11

    Keep on the rails
    BRIGHTEN your bathroom by showering
    it with Sainsbury's new matching bathroom
    accessories, now available in six
    exciting colours—grey, red, navy, truffle,
    peach, and sage.
    This range includes a hand...

  • Smashing dishes 11

    Smashing dishes
    GIVE YOUR OLD crockery a rest and
    start a collection of Sainsbury's super
    new range of informal fun crockery, now
    available in 35 branches.
    The Primula range, decorated with
    green, apricot and turquoise...

  • Sub zero reading 11

    Sub zero reading
    HOME FREEZING', the latest in
    Sainsbury's series of food guides, is
    available in all stores, priced at 30p.
    As over 50 per cent of households now
    own a freezer or fridge-freezer, there is
    bound to be a wide...

  • Calling all cats 12

    Calling all cats
    PUSSY CAT, pussy cat, where have you
    been?
    This was the question Joan Morgan,
    housekeeper at Bedminster branch, was asking when' her black Persian cat.
    Smoky, went missing one day in July.
    After a long...

  • Rounders round up 12

    Gwyn MacComiick, secretary to Keith
    Worrall, brings a touch of individuality to
    the game. Taking a run-up of two miles,
    in the style of her hero. Bob Willis, Gwyn
    was so intent on perfecting the technique
    that she ran all the...

  • Award girl at Homebase 13

    Award girl at Homebase
    DETERMINATION and singlemindedness
    has won Sarah Lacey, a junior
    secretary in the buying department at
    Croydon Homebase, the Kelly Girl award
    for 1983. Sarah, who has been with Homebase
    only a few...

  • Bath or bust! 13

    Bath or bust!
    Back row: Dougie Petrie (extreme left), Keith Payne (2nd from left} and Andy
    Petrie (2nd from right). Front row: Thomas Benson (extreme left), Alan Tosh (2nd
    from left). The rest are all members of the Corby...

  • Score on the south coast 13

    Score on the south coast
    THUNDERSTORM or no thunderstorm,
    Fortsmouth and Brighton Hill branches
    met on the football pitch for a very
    electric match on July 31.
    Players were on good form and
    performed well on the newly laid...

  • Bromley area individual darts champions 14

    Above left to right, Bromley area individual darts champions: Barry Cripps, senior supermarket assistant; Val Edney, instore
    instructor; Linda Oliver, butcher; Ernie Berriman, reception manager.

  • Potter puts it into words 14

    Potter puts it into words
    WHEN Daisy Rusted, meat assistant,
    retired in August from Cambridge,
    warehouseman Ron PotteE, composed a
    rhyming au revoir:
    DAISY!
    Our Daisy has reached a really ripe age
    She's even older than Mr...

  • Spot the winner 14

    Spot the winner
    EPSOM branch customer, Patricia
    Attwood is beaming from ear to ear in
    our photograph because she has just
    become the proud owner of the sparkling
    microwave oven before her.
    The oven w£is Patricia's prize as...

  • Over the top 15

    In the fearless fight for
    funds, traming can win or
    lose a battle. That is what
    20 bruised, scratched,
    muscle-weary but proud
    veterans of a war for the
    worthy will tell you.
    IN A MASSIVE assault on behalf of the
    Deaf...

  • A degree of success 16

    A degree of success
    MARILYN SMITH, evening shift
    supervisor at Bishop's Stortford branch
    has proved herself one of life's
    superwomen by combining her job at
    Sainsbury's with bringing up a young
    family and following a degree...

  • From JS to teaching 16

    From JS to teaching
    INITIATIVE is taking Paul MUler f a r
    all the way to Thailand, in fact. This
    Pitsea branch student will be spending
    year under the sun, thanks to his own
    efforts.
    Paul will be teaching English at
    school...

  • Haverhill's costume parties 16

    Haverhill's costume parties
    HAVERHILL branch ladies are really
    in the swim of things as they work hard to
    achieve their wings—water wings, that is!
    Assistant checkout manager, Pat Gray,
    used to teach pensioners how to...

  • Teaching from JS 16

    Teaching from JS
    DONNING a JS uniform, local school
    teacher, Margaret Taylor, spent a week in
    Ipswich branch, as part of an industrial
    scheme, getting involved with the day to
    day activities.
    Feeling satisfied that she could...

  • Call to arms for ARMS 17

    Call to arms for ARMS
    RAFFLES, sponsored walks and bring
    and buys resulted in Dartford branch
    presenting a cheque for £2,000 to Action
    for Research into Multiple Sclerosis
    (ARMS) on July 5.
    Dartford first started collecting...

  • Four times as hygienic 17

    Nicholas Tazewell.
    Four times as
    hygienic
    NUNEATON branch has won a local
    council food hygiene award for the fourth
    consecutive year.
    Twenty local companies were invited
    to enter for the hygiene certificate and of
    these...

  • Photographic Competition 17

    THE STANDARD is hotting up amongst the 1983 JS
    Journal/SSA photographic competition entries.
    With £200 in prizes there's everything to shoot for. This year's
    holiday could actually make you a bit of money if you slip a
    black...

  • LONG SERVICE 18

    LONG SERVICE
    Norman Bonnick, disco manager at
    Basingstoke depot, has completed 25
    years' service with JS.
    He joined the company at Finchley
    Road as a butcher. In 1961 he moved to
    the work study department at...

  • OBITUARY 18

    OBITUARY
    Nancy Dixon, customer service assistant
    at Walsall, died suddenly on June 6
    aged 58.
    She had been with the company for ten
    years.
    Doris Munslow, supermarket assistant
    at Southend, died on July 24, aged 58.
    She had...

  • RETIREMENTS 18

    RETIREMENTS
    Edward Herbert, meat manager at
    Feltham, has retired after 43 years'
    service with JS.
    He began his career at St Helier bf-anch
    and in 1942 joined the Royal Navy. Four
    years later he rejoined JS and worked...

  • Stan of St Stephens 18

    Stan of St Stephens
    'WE'VE got a church for every week of
    the year and a pub for every day'
    says Stan Bowman, meat manager at St
    Stephens, about the town of Norwich. He
    retires now after 46 years with JS.
    Book-keeping,...

  • Feedback 19

    Letters are welcome
    and shLOuld be
    addressed to the editor
    Hastings lielp
    From: Miss Rita Knocker, supermariiet
    assistant, Bowthorpe brancli.
    The staff at Hastings branch have been
    doing various sponsored activities to...

  • A trip down memory lane 20

    A trip down memory lane
    THE CLOSURE of Rye Lane manual
    store on November 27 1982 was heralded
    in the national press as the passing of an
    era. The end of a shop—and a slice of
    our heritage too' proclaimed the Daily
    Mail...