'JS Journal', March 1984

Table of content

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2-3
  News
  Page 4-5
  Branch managers' conference
  Page 6-9
  Branch openings -Sheffield, Kimberley
  Page 10-11
  New products
  Page 12-13
  Recruiting from the ranks—how JS students can become JS managers
  Page 14-15
  How it's made...

• Egg heads produce star packaging
  02

  Egg heads produce star packaging
  THE SILVER STAR award for 1983 (transit
  section) was presented to JS by the Institute of
  Packaging for a one-piece transit/display egg case
  developed jointly between JS and UK Corrugated
  Ltd,...

• New store openings
  02

  New store openings
  OPENINGS to put in your diary
  for the month of March are:
  Thorley supermarket, 1 Thorley
  Centre, Villiers Sur Marne
  Avenue, Bishops Stortford, Herts
  on Tuesday March 6 at 9.30 am.
  Tottenham supermarket,...

• Property
  02

  PROPERTY
  PLANNING permission has been
  granted for a 45,000 sq ft superstore
  to be built at Altrincham.
  Development will begin in June
  of this year with completion in
  July 1985. Over 200 jobs are likely
  to be created.
  The...

• Second business game announced
  02

  Second business game announced
  A CASE OF JS Champagne is
  again the prize offered in the
  Executive Club business game
  competition which will be run
  over the spring.
  Club chairman, company secretary
  Nigel Matthews said:...

• Talking business
  02

  Talking business
  SIR ADRIAN CADBURY, chairman
  of Cadbury Schweppes pic,
  was the guest speaker at the JS
  Executive Club on February 6 in
  the conference centre.
  In his capacity as chairman of
  one of Britain's leading...

• Trees for Hornsea
  02

  Trees for Hornsea
  MONEY from a Sainsbury family trust—the
  Monument trust —will soon be growing in Hornsea.
  A £150 cheque was presented to Hornsea's
  Mayor, councillor Barbara Jefferson in January.
  The money will be used...

• New titles announced
  03

  New titles announced
  THE CHAIRMAN, Sir John Sainsbury, has
  announced that, with effect from March 26,
  each area general manager will be known by
  the new title, area director, and will be
  appointed a departmental director of...

• Senior appointment
  03

  Senior appointment
  FOLLOWING the appointment of Bob
  Cooper as departmental director, bakery and
  delicatessen, John Ralston, currently deputy
  head, grocery iii, is promoted to the post of
  head of grocery iii, reporting to...

• Branch managers' conference
  04

  Building on success. This was the
  theme of the 1984 branch managers'
  conference held on January
  30 and 31 at the Metropole Hotel.
  Birmingham. The theme was
  appropriate, reflecting not only
  the success of the company but...

• Branch opening—Sheffield
  06

  DEEP AND CRISP AND EVEN. That's how
  the snow lay round about on January 24 in
  Archer Road, Sheffield, for the opening of
  Sainsbury's largest northern store.
  Not that the snow kept customers away.
  Wellington-shod shoppers...

• Branch opening—Kimberley
  08

  IT WAS A classic opening for neo-classical
  Kimberley on February 7.
  The distinctively attractive new store,
  reminiscent of a Greek temple, certainly
  attracted droves of devotees. JS architects say
  the design was inspired by...

• A whole lot of goodness
  10

  A whole lot of goodness
  A WHOLESOME product is
  Wholewheat Spaghetti in a big
  new size from JS.
  A rich source of fibre, this goes
  well with any sauce of your
  choice, such as Bolognaise or
  Neopolitan.
  Essential to any diet,...

• Cherries and berries
  10

  Cherries and berries
  TWO LITTLE gems in jars have
  found their way onto the shelves
  this month.
  Morello Cherry Conserve from
  JS, has become the sixth product
  in the range. Made from only
  pure ingredients, this contains...

• Drink yourself healthy
  10

  Drink yourself healthy
  HAS THE winter made you
  weary, the snow made you
  soporific and the frost left you
  flat? Then bounce into spring
  with Lemon and Honey Health
  Drink, new from JS. •
  Packed with vitamin C, this
  drink...

• Enhancing the hair range
  10

  Enhancing the hair range
  WASH THOSE winter blues right
  out of your hair with two new
  shampoos and conditioners, just introduced by JS.
  Containing natural products,
  Henna and Camomile Shampoos
  and Conditioners, are...

• Give it pep
  10

  Give it pep
  CAUGHT IN a can is the new
  Pepper Salad in tomato sauce,
  from JS.
  Filled with red, green and
  yellow peppers and onions, these
  tasty contents are perfectly
  complemented by a spicy tomato
  sauce.
  Use with salad,...

• Springing new sponges
  10

  Springing new sponges
  ROLL AROUND in style with
  Sainsbury's new Luxury Swiss
  Roll with hazelnut and buttercream
  filling.
  The third Swiss roll in the
  range, this costs 59p and is
  available from 147 branches.
  Strawberry Cup...

• Finer frying
  11

  Finer frying
  POUR OIL onto a troubled
  frying pan and you could end up
  with a sensational saute. That is if
  you use one of the oils from JS in
  a new bumper three litre size—
  Blended Vegetable Oil and Corn
  Oil.
  Both are...

• Pass the pasties
  11

  Pass the pasties
  YOU WILL simply puff with
  pleasure with the two new pasties
  from JS.
  Sainsbury's Beef and Onion
  Pasty in puff pastry comes all the
  way from Cornwall. As well as
  being full of ooh and arr, they are
  packed...

• Pour Portuguese
  11

  Pour Portuguese
  WINE OF the month for March
  is the 1974 Vintage Portuguese
  Dao. A smooth red wine, this is
  perfect with meals or on its own.
  Sainsbury's Dao costs £2.29
  (70 cl) and is available from 170
  branches.

• The makings of a manager
  12

  Calling all students . . . Where are the managers of tomorrow?
  It's a question top management asks frequently. The
  opportunities at JS for finding a demanding and satisfying
  career abound. For the right people there await...

• In a tight spot!
  14

  Take a couple of ounces of
  nylon yarn, put a twist in it,
  knit the resulting springy
  thread into a large tube and
  sew it up at one end. Put the
  open ends of two tubes together,
  execute an ingenious
  snip here and a deft...

• Half year at Hillards
  16

  Half year at Hillards
  HILLARDS-the supermarket
  chain based in Cleckheaton, West
  Yorkshire—announced their halfyear
  results in late January. Sales
  for the period to November 12
  1983 moved up by 17 per cent to
  £117...

• Halfpenny dropped
  16

  Halfpenny dropped
  SO FAREWELL little halfpenny!
  The midget coin is at last to
  disappear—this move is unlikely
  to cause much grief amongst the
  populace. The coin is now worth
  less in real terms than the farthing
  and the...

• Inscrutable Schweppes
  16

  Inscrutable Schweppes
  TRYING TO get your goods into
  Japan can be almost as frustrating
  as trying to get payment for your
  sales to Nigeria.
  But at the second attempt
  Cadbury Schweppes seem to have
  cracked this particular...

• King size offer from Queensway
  16

  King size offer from Queensway
  A TAKEOVER bid for a retail
  company has brought out an
  anomaly in company law. Harris
  Queensway, the well-known
  carpet and furniture retailers, have
  launched a bid for Stylo, who are
  best...

• Pottery is all at sea
  16

  Pottery is all at sea
  THE WELL-KNOWN supplier of
  much JS tableware, Hornsea
  Potteries, went into receivership
  recently.
  The company employed 550
  people at its factories at Hornsea
  in East Yorkshire, and at Lancaster.
  These...

• The price of a drink
  16

  IN THE JANUARY issue we
  reported that International Distillers
  and Vintners were cross with
  Fine Fare for selling Smirnoff
  below cost, and Asda had incurred
  the wrath of Rowntree Mackintosh
  for the same reason. Well,...

• Beckenham floats funds
  17

  Beckenham floats funds
  MAKING WAVES recently were
  four water babes from Beckenham
  branch.
  Jenny Baughan (checkout
  supervisor), Pat Smith (deli preparation
  assistant), Wendy Streeter
  (office clerk) and Doug Bishop
  (grocery...

• Blanc de Boots
  17

  Blanc de Boots
  BOOTS is to sell wine for the first
  time.
  The company applied to Birmingham
  city's licensing bench to
  sell a range of table wines, after a
  million pound refit at its store in
  New Street.
  The licence has been...

• Food mountain
  17

  Food mountain
  MOUNTAINEERS Stephen Barry
  (centre) and Stephen Miles (right)
  were spotted at Bath branch on
  January 27. They were stacking
  up for a three month ascent of
  Cho Oyu —a mountain in Nepal
  Tibet whose peak is...

• Seals and supermarkets
  17

  Seals and supermarkets
  A SAVE THE SEALS' campaign
  has been launched nationwide by
  the International Fund for Animal
  Welfare.
  The campaign's objective is for
  the public to boycott six supermarkets,
  JS included, which...

• Small appetites at Co-op
  17

  Small appetites at Co-op
  THEPROBLEMofwhattodowith
  your small stores is one which
  faces most of the large supermarket
  operators these days. The
  Co-ops are no exception. But
  unlike JS, Tesco or Asda who can
  shut down a small...

• DIN raising
  18

  DIN raising
  IT TOOK Northampton branch
  only six months to raise £1,000
  for the Deaf in Need Appeal
  (DIN) last year.
  Women's sponsored assault
  courses, a garden party, discos
  and many other lucrative activities
  were...

• Gold keep
  18

  Gold keep
  HEAD OFFICE security is trying
  to find someone to give a wedding
  ring to. No, it's not an early outbreak
  of spring fever for leap
  year. They have an inscribed
  wedding ring found in Stamford
  House in the spring of...

• Landlord's round
  18

  Landlord's round
  LOCAL Farnham charities did
  rather well out of a three minute
  grub grab round Sainsbury's on
  January 24.
  The dash was the prize
  awarded to a local elderly
  resident after entering the
  Farnham Lions...

• The Griffin Caravan and Camping club
  18

  The Griffin Caravan and Camping club, Basingstoke depot, also
  did their bit for charity in January. During the annual dinner
  and dance, on January 21, a raffle was held in aid of the
  Patients Fund of the fork Prewirt hospital,...

• Leading Light in design
  19

  Leading Light in design
  GRAHAM LIGHT, weekend
  student at Lexden branch, has a
  new vice. And instead of setting
  him on the path to ruin. Graham's
  vice has made him a winner in the
  annual Schools Design Prize competition
  for...

• Peter's pounds
  19

  Peter's pounds
  A TOTAL of £1,069.91
  (just to prove that every
  penny counts) was
  raised during 1983 by
  Peter Ball, meat manager
  at Bognor branch,
  for the Guide Dogs for
  the Blind Association.
  On December 14, a
  cheque for...

• Calling all kids
  20

  THE CHILDREN below aren't
  the only ones with wild imaginations
  and artistic talents. We know
  one or two bright young thingsentrants
  in the SSA/IS lournal
  Children's Competition. And this
  is the last month in which a child...

• Dramatic Leeds
  20

  Dramatic Leeds
  LEEDS LEADS in the pantomime
  world since their performance of
  Cinderella on January 30/31.
  Children from neighbouring
  estates were entertained by
  branch staff and obviously
  enjoyed it—the local school...

• High flying recipes for pancakes
  20

  High flying recipes for pancakes
  GIVE YOUR pancakes a new
  lease of life this Shrove Tuesday
  and experiment with a few
  exciting recipes created exclusively
  for JS Journal readers by
  Wendy Godfrey, JS senior...

• The subject is Sainsbury's
  20

  The subject is Sainsbury's
  THE LATEST craze in schools is
  not marbles, skipping or even
  scented rubbers. It's Sainsbury's!
  JS mania is sweeping the
  country with both the company's
  shops and carrier bags...

• Caption Competition
  21

  Caption Competition
  Now it's your turn to guess what is going on here. Caption the
  photo by putting words into the characters' mouths. Send your entry to
  the JS Journal, ground floor, Stamford House, Stamford Street.
  London...

• THE CAMERA NEVER LIES
  21

  THE CAMERA NEVER LIES
  Our roving Journal reporter has been busy lately
  speeding around the photograph cupboard—therein
  lies a tale or two. A few unmarked pictures came
  to hand and the team sat around straining all powers
  of...

• An identity crisis for some?
  22

  An identity crisis for some? These three long servers were photographed at
  the 40 year luncheon and they were wrongly captioned. They are, in fact,
  L to R: William Langridge, provisions manager, East Grinstead;...

• Appointments
  22

  Appointments
  John Brackett, formerly deputy
  manager of Walthamstow, has
  been appointed manager of
  Kingsland Road.
  Zigurds Busevics, formerly
  deputy manager of Telford, has
  been appointed manager of
  Dudley.
  Gordon...

• Feedback
  22

  FEEDBACK
  [Letters are welcome
  and should be
  addressed to the
  editor
  Store of
  suggestions
  From: Ivor Marcus, customer
  service assistant, Woodhall Farm.
  In November 1982 I wrote to
  'Feedback' on the subject of
  broken...

• Love message
  22

  Last month saw many a heart a
  fluttering as Valentine's Day spread
  its magic spell.
  And love was obviously blooming
  at JS too. One keen eyed reader
  spotted this love message in the
  Daily Express.
  Now who do we know with...

• Obituary
  22

  Obituary
  Fred Bullen, driver at Buntingford
  depot, died suddenly on
  December 30, aged 59.
  He had been with the company
  for 22 years.
  Janet Couzens, skilled evening
  display assistant at Chippenham,
  died after a long illness...

• Retirements
  22

  Retirements
  William Lucas, deputy meat
  manager at Harold Hill, has
  retired after 28 years' service with
  JS.
  He has worked in several
  branches including Swiss Cottage,
  Romford and Brentwood.
  Alf Miles, truck shop...

• Spot the driver
  23

  "I've seen that face somewhere before!"
  Spot the driver Letter from: Edward Sprigg,
  veteran.
  I submit my entry for the spot
  the difference competition, I also enclose a cutting from a
  1976 JS Journal which shows I
  can claim...

• Pie-cing it together
  24

  ARCHIVES
  Pie-cing
  it together
  ONE OF the most exciting aspects of history
  is the potential for discovering a detective
  story.
  The pie box lid, featured in the centre pic,
  was found on a market stall and sent to...