'JS Journal', October 1985

Table of content

• Bags of Style
  02

  SAINSBURY'S BROWN paper
  carrier bag recently joined more
  than 360 outstanding carrier bags
  from London, Paris, New York,
  Milan and Tokyo, displayed in
  the Boilerhouse, Victoria and
  Albert Museum.
  'The Bag' exhibition was...

• Church Centre Donation
  02

  Church Centre Donation
  CALDY VALLEY Neighbourhood
  Church and Centre was
  recently given an £800 boost by
  the Sainsbury Charitable Fund.
  Michael Osborne, deputy
  manager of Chester, presented
  Barbara Thomas (chairman)...

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2-3
  News
  Page 4-7
  Openings — Lancaster, Reading Homebase
  Page 8-9
  JS on film — the making of Sainsbury's new adverts
  Page 10-11
  New products
  Page 12-13
  All at sea — the Journal goes fishing
  Page 14-15
  Business news...

• New Appointment
  02

  New Appointment
  Bill Simms, formerly manager of Catford Homebase, has
  been appointed Homebase's first regional manager. He will
  be responsible for the stores in the northern region.

• Certificate for Poole
  03

  Certificate for Poole
  THE NATIONAL Association of
  Boys Clubs have presented Poole
  with a certificate in recognition of
  the support given to a local youth
  club in 1984.
  During the companywide
  campaign to support youth...

• JS Prize Awarded at UNIST
  03

  JS Prize Awarded at UNIST
  SUSAN WHITTINGHAM has
  won the J Sainsbury prize for the
  best final year student on the
  retailing and distribution course
  at UM1ST (the University of
  Manchester Institute of Science
  and...

• Property
  03

  PROPERTY
  Romford complex — west elevation SAINSBURY'S IN CONJUNCTION
  with Trafalgar House developers,
  has won a tender submitted
  to the London Borough of
  Havering, to construct a 134,000
  sq ft complex in Romford.
  It is...

• Uxbridge Area YTS Winner
  03

  Uxbridge Area YTS Winner
  WEDNESDAY AUGUST 28 will
  always be remembered by
  Carolyn Bowsher, winner of the
  finals of the Uxbridge area YTS
  competition, as a very gruelling
  but happy day!
  Together with Carolyn...

• Branch opening—Lancaster
  04

  Opening date: September 17, 1985
  Address: 17 Cable Street, Lancaster
  Manager: David Fearon
  Staff: 142 (114 new jobs)
  Sales area: 24,050 sq ft
  Car park: 289 spaces
  1. Presenting a unique face to the world,
  Lancaster's facade...

• Homebase opening—Reading
  06

  Dazzled by the early morning sun bouncing off Reading Homebase
  and by the stunning array of merchandise, customers were
  left speechless on opening morning. Opening date: August 29.
  Address: 50 Kenvon Drive, Reading.
  Manager:...

• Getting the message across
  08

  Getting the message across
  Just launched is a series which makes compulsive viewing. Sainsbury's new TV advertising campaign has taken to the air.
  Abbott, Mead, Vickers, the agency which produced for
  JS the distinctive glossy...

• OCTOBER CHOICE
  10

  OCTOBER CHOICE
  ONCE AGAIN, the wines of the
  month offer a choice of red or
  white.
  From Germany comes Baden,
  a fruity, medium white 'qualitatswein'
  made mostly from Muller-Thurgau grapes.
  Best served slightly chilled as
  an...

• PAGES OF PLEASURE
  10

  PAGES OF PLEASURE
  AS AUTUMN CREEPS in and
  youngsters spend more time
  indoors, let their minds escape with some new additions to Sainsbury's
  book range for children.
  There are eight new titles in the'
  board book range (75p)...

• SLIMLINE SAUSAGES
  10

  SLIMLINE SAUSAGES
  THE LATEST in fresh sausages
  is JS's naturally low fat, high lean
  Turkey Sausage — tasty whether
  hot or cold.
  Low fat Turkey Sausages cost
  92p per lb (8 sausages) and are
  available from 120 branches.

• TEMPTING TWO-SOME
  10

  TEMPTING TWO-SOME
  FOR MEALS with a difference,
  Sainsbury's has two delicious new
  lines, both unique to JS.
  Alongside the pork pie range is
  Beef Pie with a Hint of Horseradish.
  Ideal to savour with a
  salad, this is also...

• WINE LIST
  10

  WINE LIST
  THERE ARE three new additions
  to Sainsbury's extensive
  wine range this month.
  Italy's most famous red wine is
  Chianti and JS have a new 1 Vi
  litre size. Made from a blend of
  grape varieties it is best opened...

• A BRACE OF COOKBOOKS
  11

  A BRACE OF COOKBOOKS
  FOR ENTERTAINING, dinners
  for two or snacks 'in-between',
  JS has two new cook-books.
  'The Vegetarian Gourmet'
  (85p) by Rosamund Richardson,
  contains recipes ideal for entertaining
  and special occasions....

• CLEVER KITCHENWARE
  11

  CLEVER KITCHENWARE
  FOR BETTER BAKING use
  Sainsbury's new range of nonstick nonstick
  kitchenware available from
  69 branches.
  With an attractive charcoalcoloured
  exterior, this new
  bakeware has a Silverstone
  interior — a...

• ELEGANT SETTING
  11

  ELEGANT SETTING
  ENJOY A PARTY in classic surrounding
  with Sainsbury's Classic
  range of disposable tableware.
  This elegant range of paper
  plates and matching napkins
  comes in three colours — burgundy
  (136 branches), bright...

• THERE ARE PLENTY OF FISH IN THE SEA!
  12

  THERE ARE PLENTY OF FISH IN THE SEA!
  Avid viewers of recent nature programmes about life
  in the sea will be aware of the great wealth of fish
  swimming in our waters to say nothing of the
  challenge awaiting those who attempt to...

• ASDA has a price to pay
  14

  ASDA has a price to pay
  ASSOCIATED DAIRIES' Group,
  best known for its Asda superstores,
  has been one of the high
  flyers in the retail sector for the
  past three years. But it's recently
  announced results for the year
  ended...

• Baldness is no headache
  14

  Baldness is no headache
  STRANGE BEHAVIOUR has been
  reported among America's 50
  million baldness sufferers. Some
  have been crushing hypertension tablets into a powder, mixing it
  with water and applying this balm
  to their bald...

• Dee is hunky dory
  14

  Dee is hunky dory
  THE DEE CORPORATION which
  operates mainly through Gateway
  supermarkets, Carrefour hypermarkets
  and Linfood cash and
  carry stores, continues to be a
  darling of the Stock Market after
  its recent results...

• High street share out
  14

  High street share out
  THE MOVE TOWARDS wider
  share ownership has taken a step
  forward at the Oxford Street
  branch of Debenhams. Stockbrokers
  Quilter Goodison have
  literally set up shop there with a
  service that allows...

• Keeping up with the whose is whose
  14

  Keeping up with the whose is whose
  whose i
  AS USUAL most of the interesting
  developments in the retail
  business world lately have
  centred on contested takeover
  bids. There have been two big
  results, great speculation...

• Top of the milk
  14

  Top of the milk
  HARRODS, has.been running a
  promotion on one of Britain's fast
  growing food products — sheep's
  milk, mainly in its cheese and
  yogurt form.There are now around
  100 milking flocks in this country
  and with...

• A lot of interest in M&S credit
  15

  A lot of interest in M&S credit
  MARKS & SPENCER has come up
  with a novel way of making its
  credit card pay for itself. This
  involves charging interest on
  outstanding balances even when
  the customer pays within the
  interest...

• Store to run on coal
  15

  FINEFARE has made a big break-
  through north of the border. Its engineers have discovered coal at
  Larkhall near Hamilton. But this
  addition to the country's energy
  reserves is unlikely to be tapped
  in the immediate future....

• Hundreds of JS staff attend skating spectacular
  16

  Hundreds of JS staff attend skating spectacular
  THEY CAME. They saw. They
  cheered and nearly brought the
  house down!
  On September 1, 1200 JS staff
  together with friends and family
  were present to witness what must
  have been...

• Spirited away to Boulogne
  16

  Spirited away to Boulogne
  SUNDAY MORNING, August
  18, and a date to meet channel
  hoppers from Waltham Cross at
  Folkestone harbour.
  SSA secretary, Karen Dillon
  leads a motley crew of yawning
  volunteers who look in need...

• Big hearted and light footed
  17

  Big hearted and light footed, 19 staff from Haverhill branch
  walked 12 miles to raise money for a special wheelchair on
  Sunday July 28. Above are walkers and colleagues. Seated,
  Simone Abbott's bruises are checked by mum. It is...

• Derby in charity limelight
  17

  Derby in charity limelight
  STAFF FROM Derby have
  pooled their many and varied
  talents in recent months to raise
  over £1,200 for charity.
  Cliff Day, tradesman, collected
  £200 for his efforts in the London
  marathon, and in...

• Three wheeling around
  17

  Three wheeling around
  BOB TINGLE, manager of
  Bramingham Park, reckons the
  age of the mobile manager could
  be just around the next shopping
  centre corner.
  He recently received publicity
  material for the Sinclair C5...

• Anyone for swimming?
  18

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• Framed for success
  18

  Framed for success
  IN A TENSE and exciting match,
  Gerry Callanan of BCAS
  applications department defeated
  Gary Sugden of the purchasing
  department by four frames to
  two, in the final of the head office
  pool...

• Hayes and Hoddesdon — stars of the screen
  18

  Hayes and Hoddesdon — stars of the screen
  SCHOOLDAYS — ah . . . the
  nostalgia for the happiest days of
  your life . . . or so it is said! From
  the slate to the blackboard to the
  television set and video recorder
  . . ....

• Risking life and limb
  18

  Risking life and limb
  WITH COMPLETE disregard
  for their own safety, Pat Laws
  and Steve Blockley of Winton,
  recently tackled a hooded raider.
  On August 16, clerk Pat was
  returning to the store after lunch
  when she noticed a...

• A correction in Welsh
  19

  A correction in Welsh
  IN RECENT YEARS, Sainsbury's
  has ventured into the bilingual
  world with the opening of
  four stores in Wales. The Journal
  too is following suit. The office
  recently received this letter, from
  Gwynllyw...

• Eye ball contact
  19

  Eye ball contact
  KICKING A BALL around on
  August 18 has enabled a blind
  person to have a pair of eyes.
  A team from Hoddesdon
  branch combined with the
  Thames Water Authority to play
  against a local firm in a
  sponsored...

• Keeping RNLI afloat
  19

  Keeping RNLI afloat
  THE ROYAL National Lifeboat
  Institute (RNLI) has had its funds
  boosted by over £300 thanks to
  the efforts of Dover branch.
  Staff took part in a sponsored
  swim and a marathon. Those who
  got wet were:...

• Push me, pull you on Snowdon
  19

  Push me, pull you on Snowdon
  AFTER MORE THAN four
  hours of heaving and pushing,
  four handicapped youngsters
  from Meldreth Manor School,
  Cambridgeshire, made it up 3,560
  feet above sea level to the summit
  of Mount...

• Round and round the rounders pitch
  20

  Round and round the rounders pitch
  THE EVENING of September 10
  was bright and sunny (you
  remember the one!) as the JS
  team from head office burst onto
  the field full of enthusiasm for its
  rounders match against a team
  from...

• THE DAY I MET THE QUEEN
  20

  THE DAY I MET THE QUEEN
  TEA WITH THE QUEEN. That was Mavis
  Pegram's treat on July 10. Mavis, a clerk in
  accounts at Buntingford depot, was invited
  to a Buckingham Palace Garden Party on that
  date in recognition of her many...

• The puzzle bug
  20

  STAFF FROM up and down the

• SSA/JS JOURNAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION '85
  21

  THE TRIPODS ARE COMING! Beware all
  those who have not yet entered the SSA/JS
  Journal photographic competition.
  Time is of the essence and it's slowly running
  out. . . there are only 25 photographic days till
  the closing date...

• A family manager retires
  22

  A family manager retires
  T SHALL certainly miss the
  everyday involvement of life at
  the branch, but I see the years
  ahead as the start of a new life,'
  said Cyril Curtis, manager of
  Magdalen Street, Norwich, on the
  eve of...

• Long service
  22

  Long service
  David Chapman, senior non-food
  technologist, scientific services
  division at Blackfriars, has completed
  40 years with JS.
  He began his career with the
  company as a'lab boy' and in
  1947 joined the RAF as a...

• Love at first branch
  22

  THERE WAS love in store for
  Brian Rouse, deputy reception
  manager at Watford, when he
  joined JS as a student at Hayes.
  There, he met cashier instructor
  Delvine Jackman. Romance
  blossomed in the aisles and on
  June 1, they...

• Obituary
  22

  Chris Brockwell, senior store
  serviceman at Bognor, died suddenly
  on July 12, aged 38.
  He had been with the company
  for six years.
  Jean Chummafin, supermarket
  assistant at Aylesbury, died suddenly
  on July 18, aged 59.
  She...

• Retirements
  22

  Retirements
  Tom Brewer, personnel manager,
  trading division at Blackfriars,
  has retired after 32 years with JS.
  He began his career with the
  company at the poultry packing
  station in Aberdeen, where he
  was manager, and five...

• Feedback
  23

  FEEDBACK
  Insight into
  scanning
  From: Tony Gayfer, distribution
  division, Blackfriars.
  While 1 was holidaying on the
  North Norfolk coast this summer,
  I went into a small self-service
  village store and was astonished
  to see...

• Horse power
  24

  Horse power
  'In London, we find that for journeys up to
  five miles, there is a definite saving with horse
  transport in as much as the motor depends
  upon speed to produce economical results and
  in the congested areas of...