'JS Journal', September 1984

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• Another JS wins JS prize
  02

  Another JS wins JS prize
  JOHN STEWART is the second
  winner of the J Sainsbury prize
  for the best final year student on
  the retailing and distribution
  course at UMIST (The University
  of Manchester Institute of
  Science and...

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2-3
  News
  Page 4-5
  Branch opening — Blackpool
  Page 6
  Homebase opening — Penge
  Page 7-9
  New products
  Page 10-11
  Children's charities campaign—a look at what the charities do and what is being done at JS to help them...

• ENTERPRISING DONATION
  02

  ENTERPRISING DONATION
  Area director, Eddie Ricketts, above right,
  presented a cheque for £1,500 on behalf of
  the company to the Hillingdon Enterprise
  Agency (HILENTA) on July 20.
  The agency has been formed to encourage
  new...

• Search for voices begins
  02

  Search for voices begins
  THE COMPANY is sponsoring
  new and exciting nationwide
  choral event, the Sainsbury's
  Choir of the Year Competition.
  The competition, which is the
  largest national choral competition
  of its type ever...

• Kate Kennedy
  03

  THIS IS Kate Kennedy, editor of
  the Australian Hardware Journal,
  talking with Richard Olliffe,
  manager of Croydon Homebase,
  in the store's garden centre.
  Kate Kennedy was visiting the store as part of her fact finding
  tour...

• Property
  03

  PROPERTY
  JS PLANS for a supermarket and
  Homebase at Alexander Stadium,
  Perry Barr, have been finally
  turned down by Birmingham
  planning committee.
  Sainsbury's has submitted
  plans for a store to be built on the
  ABC site in...

• TROLLEY SCULPTURE
  03

  TROLLEY SCULPTURE
  Have trolley will pile up, at least that/s what a French
  artist thought when he created this 2 8 ft high sculpture.
  Exhibited at the fifth annual Chicago International Art.
  Exposition, the pile up consists of...

• WINNING WITH VISION
  03

  WINNING WITH VISION
  One of die prize winners in the architecture section of
  this year's Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy
  was a drawing of Sainsbury's Canterbury store due to
  open this autumn. The architects who produced...

• Branch opening—Blackpool
  04

  HAVING A lovely time on Tuesday, August
  7, were hundreds of customers discovering
  the delights of the new Sainsbury's store at
  Red Bank Road, Bispham, Blackpool.
  The queue stretched down the road and
  preparations were...

• Homebase opening—Penge
  06

  PROUDLY PERCHED on Oakfield Road,
  Penge Homebase House and Garden Centre
  opened its doors on Monday July 16, at
  9.00 am.
  The third store to open this year, Penge has
  a total indoor and outdoor sales area of
  41,920 sq...

• Book those Christmas presents now
  07

  Book those Christmas presents now
  A DELIGHTFUL collection of
  new books from JS are the ideal
  titles to put on Christmas present
  lists. (Yes, it's almost that time
  again!)
  Josceline Dimbleby has two
  new books. 'First...

• JINGLE BELLS ALREADY?
  07

  JINGLE BELLS ALREADY?
  high calibre magazines like Vogue and
  Good Housekeeping, attended.
  Said Cathy Forman, the PR executive
  responsible for presenting the Christmas
  products: 'Many of the journalists were
  amazed at the...

• Buttons and rolls
  08

  Buttons and rolls
  TWO SWEET bags of fun
  have recently arrived on
  Sainsbury's shelves—Mini Jelly
  Buttons and Mini Cocon'*
  Rolls.
  Pink and blue Mini Je
  Buttons are aniseed flavo
  and are covered in hundre__
  and thousands...

• Crackers
  08

  Crackers
  A CRACKING good snack is JS's
  Wheat Crackers.
  Twenty-four golden brown
  crackers to a pack, these are
  made from wholemeal flour and
  are delicious with cheese. They
  are also ideal for snacks, picnics,
  parties or...

• Mustard and more
  08

  Mustard and more
  OOH, LA LA! The French are on
  their way to the Great British
  dinner table in the guise of les
  trois moutardes.

• Nature takes a shower
  08

  Nature takes a shower
  WHY NOT be totally indulgent
  and take the nearest thing to
  asses milk into the shower—new
  JS Showergel.
  An extension to Sainsbury's
  bubble bath range, Showergel
  comes in two varieties: Marine—
  a...

• On a silver dishy
  08

  On a silver dishy
  A TASTY new product has been
  navigated onto Sainsbury's
  shelves. The Fisherman's Pie is a
  unique new line. You will wait
  with 'baited' breath as the delicate
  aroma of chunky cod,
  parsley sauce, creamy...

• Pure and simple puree
  08

  Pure and simple puree
  GIVE YOUR COOKING a new
  lease of life with Sainsbury's four
  purees in a tube —Garlic, Mixed
  Herbs, Onion and Anchovy
  Puree.
  No more weeping over chopped
  onions and now you can keep your fingers...

• Sweet wine for September
  08

  Sweet wine for September
  A NEW QUALITY wine has
  joined the existing range of
  German wines.
  Kliisserather St Michael Riesling
  Spatlese is a rich, medium
  sweet white wine produced from
  Riesling grapes grown near the
  river...

• BEAUTY'S HOLD
  09

  BEAUTY'S HOLD
  'PACK UP your troubles in your new kit bag'. There are four new
  beauty bags from JS's mix and
  match Beauty Care range.
  Ideal for lipstick and powder is
  the cosmetic ungussetted Zip
  Purse. Just the right size...

• Butter them up
  09

  Butter them up
  NEW IN the JS freezer this month
  are Vegetables in Sauce.
  Peas in Butter Sauce and
  Sweetcorn in Butter Sauce consist
  of juicy young vegetables in a
  thick, luxurious butter sauce.
  They may be part of a...

• Chicken feed
  09

  Chicken feed
  THE POULTRY buying department
  has been going to pieces
  lately! They've added two new
  lines to the Fresh Chicken Portion
  Range and launched a larger
  pack of Drumsticks in Breadcrumbs.
  JS Fresh Chicken Leg...

• Cornish pasty from Cornwall
  09

  Cornish pasty from Cornwall
  THE CORNISH tell us that a
  pasty was the first convenience
  food of the Western world with a
  history dating back many
  hundreds of years, long before
  burgers were even dreamed of!
  JS's new Premium...

• Paradise tinned
  09

  Paradise tinned
  ENJOY THE TASTE of paradise
  with JS own label South Seas
  Tuna in oil now available in 92
  branches.
  Specially selected from Pacific
  catches its light fresh colour and
  delicate taste makes it ideal for
  summer...

• Perked up coffee
  09

  Perked up coffee
  LOVERS OF percolated coffee
  can now buy own-label Vacuum
  Packed Medium Ground coffee
  especially prepared for percolators.
  Packed for freshness, Continental
  Roast, Kenya, Original,
  Coffee & Chicory, Viennese...

• Pickling perfection
  09

  Pickling perfection
  IN A PICKLE? The Sainsbury's
  Pickling Malt Vinegar is ready to
  come to the rescue.
  This new product is ready
  spiced for making pickles,
  chutneys, relishes and sauces. All
  the bottles come with...

• FOR THE SAKE OF THE CHILDREN
  10

  A Massive appeal throughout the
  branches has been launched to raise
  money for Action Research for the
  Crippled Child and the National Society
  for Prevention of Cruelty to Children
  (NSPCC) in its centenary year. All areas
  are...

• Cider - still a master's art
  12

  Cider - still a master's art
  In the heart of the apple
  orchards in the West
  Country, many different
  apples are blended
  together to produce the
  fine flavours of Sainsbury's
  own label ciders. And
  behind the modern...

• A SOLUTION TO THOSE STAINS
  15

  A SOLUTION TO THOSE STAINS
  OUT, OUT damned spot!
  How many times have we put on a clean
  pair of trousers or a skirt and a few hours later
  spilt coffee down them. How many of us have
  friends who kick glasses of red wine...

• Bringing colour to the cheeks
  16

  Bringing colour to the cheeks
  ASHTON BROTHERS, the market
  leader in terry towelling nappies,
  has announced that it will be
  starting to sell coloured nappies
  in the autumn. Thus, the clothesline
  traditionally adorned with...

• Delightful year lor Dee
  16

  Delightful year lor Dee
  DEE CORPORATION continued its recent
  occupation of the limelight with the
  announcement of its results for the year to
  April 28. The figures contained some very
  impressive-looking percentage...

• In search of the Bath Oliver
  16

  In search of the Bath Oliver
  BATH OLIVER biscuits, the
  invention of a West Country gout
  doctor in the eighteenth century,
  have become rather scarce
  recently. Indeed, regular consumers
  have been driven crackers
  trying to...

• Super Co-op on the way?
  16

  Super Co-op on the way?
  MERGER FEVER is at large as
  Co-operative Societies join together
  to solve financial problems
  and try to compete more effectively
  with the big multiples.
  The South Suburban Cooperative
  Society based...

• Argyll takes over Amos Hinton
  17

  Argyll takes over Amos Hinton
  Amos
  AMOS HINTON, the North East
  supermarket chain, has accepted
  a £25 million takeover bid from
  Argyll. The announcement follows
  weeks of mounting speculation
  after Hinton's disclosed that...

• John has pedal power
  17

  John has pedal power
  ONE FIGURE on wheels which
  almost whizzed by on our TV
  screens during the Olympics was
  that of John Oakes, part-time
  assistant at Beckenham. John is a
  champion cyclist who made it
  onto the shortlist for...

• JS wine outshines the rest
  17

  JS wine outshines the rest
  THE CONSUMERS' Association
  has recently published a report on
  supermarket wine in Which? Wine
  Monthly that slams most of the
  wine sold in British supermarkets.
  Blind tastings were conducted on
  up...

• THE PLOT STRANGER THAN FICTION
  17

  THE PLOT STRANGER THAN FICTION
  A CRIMINAL plan by evil genius Nathan Noskeau
  was foiled immediately it was put into action.
  In an attempt to start a poison scare he wrote to
  Salisbury's saying he had the draft of a...

• Re-burial ceremony at York
  18

  Re-burial ceremony at York
  EDIEVAL cemetery dis- A MEDIEVAL dis
  covered during the construction
  of York supermarket and Homebase
  has recently been re-sited
  adjacent to the store's car park.
  The graveyard, believed to
  have dated...

• Tanks for a dream come true
  18

  Tanks for a dream come true
  FULFILLING a lifetime ambition,
  Maureen Brighton, supermarket
  assistant at Chippenham,
  recently climbed into the cockpit
  of a Chieftain tank and manoeuvred
  it over Salisbury Plain.
  Maureen's...

• A special day from the drivers
  19

  A special day from the drivers
  IN WHAT seems determined to
  become an annual event handicapped
  children in Basingstoke
  were taken for a ride on July 29.
  For the third year running
  Basingstoke depot's drivers
  arranged a...

• Photographic Competition '84
  19

  SSA/JS JOURNAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION '84
  A NOT TO BE SNIFFED at
  first prize of £100 could be
  yours if you enter the SSA/JS
  Journal Photographic Competition
  and just think what you
  could do with the money!
  On September...

• Pushing up the children's fund
  19

  Pushing up the children's fund
  HAVE SOUTHPORT branch
  staff gone off their trolleys? On
  Sunday July 1 manager, David
  Mellows-Facer and eight branch
  members walked 18 miles from
  Sainsbury's Preston to Sainsbury's
  Southport,...

• Basingstoke bowls
  20

  Basingstoke bowls
  BOWLS ARE GATHERING
  momentum at Basingstoke depot
  since the Griffin Bowls Club was
  formed in October of last year.
  So far the Club has 100 founder
  members and all are doing great
  things.
  Ken Jenkins,...

• CARRYING IT FURTHER
  20

  CARRYING IT FURTHER
  A Sainsbury's carrier bag
  was recently spatted
  wending its weary way
  round the Great Wall of
  China. In hot pursuit Is
  Jeannette Romeril,
  secretary to Cecil Roberts,
  buying director.

• 'Please Sir can we have some more?'
  20

  'Please Sir can we have some more?' Wellingborough
  branch were out to get the most from
  the public on July 7 when they joined in the
  Wellingborough carnival to raise money for a
  number of charities. The theme of their...

• SUPREME CRIME!
  20

  SUPREME CRIME!
  Some pets will do anything to get hold of JS Supreme
  pet food! In West Wickham the offenders left a trail of
  empty cans behind them. It is feared they are cats and
  dogs not fed on JS Supreme.

• What a star!
  20

  What a star!
  GRAHAM CRANGLE is a nice
  person. _ That's what the Daily
  Star has' confirmed. A customer
  of Sainsbury's East Ham branch,
  Eric Beckton, wrote to the Daily
  Star's regular 'Nice People'
  column saying:
  A young...

• Mountain Gorillas
  21

  Over the last five
  months Woking area
  branches have taken
  Mountain Gorillas
  under their wings
  (JSJ February 1984)
  and raised £3,659 in
  sponsorship money.
  David Attenborough,
  a keen supporter of
  the Mountain...

• Snakes alive!
  21

  Snakes alive!
  A REAL FAST mover with a wonderful
  wriggle shares the home of lean Griffiths,
  part-time supermarket assistant at Churchill
  Square.
  He is five-year-old Percy, a 15 ft reticulated
  python, who, since joining the...

• Ann says Tom is top of the trolleys
  22

  Ann says Tom is top of the trolleys
  From: Ann Macfarlane,
  customer at Kingston.
  After being out of circulation for
  three months following major
  surgery, it was good to see Tom
  on my first shopping expedition
  to the Kingston...

• Appointments
  22

  Appointments
  Michael Barrett, formerly deputy
  manager at Cardiff, has been
  appointed manager of Cwmbran.
  Peter Coles, formerly manager
  at Chelmsford, has been appointed
  manager of Great
  Yarmouth.
  Paul Cox, formerly manager...

• Feedback
  22

  FEEDBACK
  Letters are welcome
  and should be
  addressed to the
  editor
  JSin
  paradise!
  From: Grace Springthorpe,
  veteran, Basingstoke.
  I recently went on a cruise on the
  Canberra to Gibraltar, where I
  took this photograph of...

• Long service
  22

  Long service
  Brian Cooley, warehouse reception
  manager at South Harrow,
  has completed 25 years with JS.
  He joined the company at
  Burnt Oak where he remained
  for four years. After a short break
  from JS, Brian rejoined...

• Obituary
  22

  Obituary
  Maria Ishak, supermarket assistant
  at Paddington, died on July 7
  after a long illness. She was 53.
  Darren Norman, trades assistant
  at Woodhall Farm, died
  suddenly on June 16 aged 20.
  He had been with the...

• Pairing up in Pinner
  22

  Pairing up in Pinner
  THE BELLS were ringing
  for yet another IS couple
  on July 14.
  Wealdstone and South
  Harrow branches
  were the latest stores
  to be united in
  matrimony.
  Gillian Cooley, senior
  supermarket assistant...

• Retirements
  22

  Retirements
  Bill Beattie, senior despatch clerk
  at Charlton depot, has retired
  after 20 years' service with JS.
  He joined the company as a
  labourer at Blackfriars before
  moving to Charlton.
  Ron Childs, chargehand...

• Finding the right words
  23

  Finding the right words
  NO-ONE OUT there can be
  suffering from word blindness
  as we had a huge response to
  our Word Search competition.
  The hidden phrase was, of
  course, 'Good Food Costs Less
  At Sainsbury's.' And no-one...

• Scribbles of history in the Holybook
  24

  ARCHIVES
  Scribbles
  of history
  in the
  Holybook A
  LUCKY FIND for anyone trying to
  trace their family history is a family
  bible. The custom of recording the
  births, marriages and deaths in the
  family's most important—and...