'JS Journal', April 1985

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• Backing Britain
  02

  Backing Britain
  A TWO WEEK Quality British
  Food promotion ran from March
  18atJS.
  The promotion was run in
  association with Food From
  Britain. Its starting date also
  heralded the introduction of Food
  From Britain's own...

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2, 3, 10, 11
  News
  Page 4-5
  Queen Mother visits Cromwell Road
  Page 6-8
  Branch openings -Warrington, Watford, Walsall
  Page 9
  Business news
  Page 12-13
  Miss JS contest
  Page 14-15
  First Homebase television commercial
  Page...

• 'FARMYARD FOLLIES'
  02

  'FARMYARD FOLLIES' a
  musical comedy performed
  on Sunday February 17 in the
  presence of HRH The Princess
  Anne, has received support from
  Sainsbury's.
  Famous names such as Rowan
  Atkinson, Frankie Howerd, Peter
  Cook, Griff...

• Senior appointments
  02

  Robin Whitbread. Mike Conolly. Michael Bates.
  Eric Nicholls. Martin Sargeant. John Ramsden.
  Senior appointments CHAIRMAN, Sir John Sainsbury,
  announced a number of new
  senior appointments on March 1.
  Robin Whitbread,...

• Giving girls a hand
  03

  Giving girls a hand
  girls a
  TWO GIRLS are set to join the
  man's world of engineering
  thanks to a recent grant made
  by one of the Sainsbury Family
  Charitable Trusts.
  Janet Bishop and Susan Page
  are two of 33 pupils from...

• Play the game
  03

  Play the game
  IT'S THAT time of the year
  again. Spring madness and a
  humble buyer can find himself or
  herself chief executive of a
  multi-million pound company.
  No, this is not the launch of a
  Journal big money bingo, it's...

• Property
  03

  PROPERTY
  PLANNING permission for a
  Homebase and supermarket to
  be built on Winterstoke Road,
  Bristol, has been rejected by
  the city council.
  JS plans for a supermarket to
  be built on Victoria Road, South
  Ruislip, have been...

• Roy Griffiths
  03

  Roy Griffiths, deputy chairman and managing director,
  has been nominated for election as president of the
  Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) at the Institute's
  76th annual meeting which will take place on May 9.

• Welcome to Sainsbury's Your Majesty
  04

  Welcome to Sainsbury's Your Majesty
  Enjoying a royal shopping trip at Cromwell Road on March 5 was
  Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Having never visited
  a supermarket, Her Majesty requested to be shown round a...

• Branch opening—Warrington
  06

  WARRINGTON
  The second Sainsbury's of 1985 opened in the North West at
  Warrington in Cheshire. Said manager, Ian Parker: 'Staff have been
  exceptionally helpful.' The opening was welcomed by the Lord Mayor
  at a preview...

• Branch opening—Watford
  06

  WATFORD
  All hands were on deck for the Watford branch opening on Tuesday,
  March 5. Eager customers queued from 8.00 am in the early morning
  sun and at 9.20 am their patience was rewarded when the doors were
  opened by Peter...

• Branch opening—Walsall
  08

  WALSALL
  The store on the hill. That's the new Walsall
  branch which is flanked by a flourishing
  market.
  There's been a Sainsbury's in Walsall since
  1936 and this is the fourth in the line. But
  familiarity didn't dull the...

• Financial services invasion
  09

  Financial services invasion
  RECENTLY A number of UK
  retailers have started to make
  serious moves into the financial
  services business. The interest in
  this sector goes far beyond the
  traditional concern with improvements
  in...

• High speed service
  09

  High speed service
  STAFF AT eight Super Valu stores in Canada have been literally asked to
  get their skates on. A number of store assistants have been kitted out
  with roller skates to enable more rapid price checks and...

• More bites between meals
  09

  More bites between meals
  THE LEATHERHEAD Food Research
  Association has recently
  placed the snack food industry
  under the microscope. The
  research association, whose 670
  members include a number of
  food manufacturers,...

• M&S novelties
  09

  M&S novelties
  M&S STORES may soon be a little
  less familiar as new layouts and
  new types of store start to appear.
  New interior designs have been
  tried successfully at M&S's Yeovil
  and Lincoln branches and the rest
  of the...

• Rowntree's US sweet tooth
  09

  Rowntree's US sweet tooth
  FOLLOWING THE success of
  arch rival Cadburys in the US in
  recent years, Rowntree Mackintosh
  is building up its North
  American activities with great
  speed. Rowntree's latest acquisition
  is The...

• Bride be lucky
  10

  Bride be lucky
  WHAT A wedding present! The
  latest quarterly £1,000 SSA draw
  was won by Jackie Phillips of
  Cowley branch on the eve of her
  wedding day.
  Jackie was up to her ears in
  flowers and frilly dresses when
  branch...

• Let?s go Dutch
  10

  Let?s go Dutch
  GOING DUTCH is something
  Basingstoke depot knows plenty
  about following a week (from
  February 18—22) of promotional
  activities organised by the Dutch
  Dairy Bureau.
  In connection with Ken
  Hughes, catering...

• Taking tea at number ten
  10

  Taking tea at number ten
  HAVING CHATTED with staff
  in the Nine Elms staff restaurant
  in the past, the Prime Minister
  recently turned the tables and
  played host at Number Ten to a
  student worker from Sainsbury's
  in...

• Bumper bake-in
  11

  Bumper bake-in
  A 24-HOUR sponsored mince-pie
  baking session raised £2,000
  thanks to own label mincemeat
  being supplied by Sainsbury's.
  Between 12.45 pm one Friday
  recently and 12.45 pm the following
  day, five home service...

• Cut the juice Bruce—You're burning your bonus
  11

  Cut the juice Bruce—You're burning your bonus
  INTRODUCING the new
  energy conservation campaign
  slogan as chosen by Peter
  Ibbotson, chief engineer.
  The competition to find a
  slogan was launched in the
  February Journal and...

• Personally...
  11

  Personally I prefer the old method of ringing.

• Squash triumph
  11

  Squash triumph
  SAINSBURY'S SQUASH sounds
  like a new product aimed at the
  health market. Indeed, the
  squash itself was particularly
  healthy but, as witnessed on
  February 27, it was of the sporting
  variety, played with little...

• Tune into Channel 4
  11

  Tune into Channel 4 on April 18 when there is a
  repeat of the programme 'Design Matters—When
  and Why Do You Buy'.
  Featuring the Nine Elms branch and various
  JS people, the programme goes on the air at
  10.30 pm.

• Miss JS contest
  12

  The crown goes north again! Miss JS 1985 is
  Carole Jones of Halifax branch. Celebrity
  judges chose Carole from the 13 regional
  contestants. Runner up was Carole Ogden,
  Miss SavaCentre, and third was Angela
  Davey, Miss...

• HOMEBASE REACHES HOME
  14

  HOMEBASE REACHES HOME
  Don't miss it! Tune into ITV and w a t c h t h e f i r s t ever
  Homebase commercial, n ow showing on Yorkshire
  and Thames Television.
  Baffled by t h e wonders of t h e modern media, t h e
  Journal decided...

• Golden and delicious
  16

  Golden and delicious
  JS HAS COME up with a taste of
  the 'deep south' with Sainsbury's
  new Southern Style Chicken.
  An extension to the fresh
  poultry further processed range,
  this novel idea consists of two,
  part-boned thighs...

• Mexican munches
  16

  Mexican munches
  TAKE A WALK down Mexico
  way and sample the exotic taste
  of Sainsbury's Tortilla Chips.
  Tortilla was the name given by
  the Spaniards to the flat corn
  pancakes eaten by the Indians in
  Mexico. Nowadays they are...

• Modern Mousse
  16

  Modern Mousse
  TO GIVE HAIR back its body
  and bounce Sainsbury's has
  introduced an own label Styling
  Mousse.
  Pleasant and convenient to
  use, it is specially designed to
  help style hair the modern and
  natural way....

• More tea vicar?
  16

  More tea vicar?
  JS HAS ADDED A LITTLE
  extra something to afternoon tea
  with Earl Grey Tea Bags.
  Sainsbury's Earl Grey is a
  blend of China and other fine teas, with natural oil of Bergamot,
  which produces a tea of...

• Two of a kind
  16

  Two of a kind
  DOUBLE THE delights of eating
  fresh young chicken with Sainsbury's
  new two-pack Fresh
  Poussin.
  This pair of succulent young
  birds is ideal for sampling in a
  special candle-lit dinner for two.
  Each pack gives...

• Book the children in
  17

  Book the children in
  TO ENCOURAGE the undersixes
  to discover the fascination
  of the written word, JS has
  recently launched a major range
  of hardback children's books.
  Speaking of this development,
  Michael Rosen,...

• Lost and found
  18

  Lost and found

• Shopping shuffle
  18

  Shopping shuffle
  DOT McDONALD, caterer at
  the Dulwich management training
  centre has been posing the
  Journal a few problems recently.
  The items on her shopping list
  were all spelt incorrectly and so
  she sent the list to us...

• The sword provided
  18

  The sword provided
  AIR CADET, Marcus Lee, is
  flying high after receiving the
  Sword of Honour from Norwich
  Lord Mayor, Stan Peterson.
  Marcus, a student at Magdalen
  Street branch, received the
  honour in recognition of...

• How much is . . .
  19

  How much is . . .
  Standing on left is Thomas Parkins and kneeling with Harry is
  John Bailey and Rita Knocker. SUPREME EFFORT by over
  50 staff at Bowthorpe have
  made Harry the guide dog very
  happy. Led by cleaner...

• Swimathon
  19

  Swimathon
  THERE WAS water, water
  everywhere for 13 YTS students
  from Bitteme on December 4,
  1984, when they took part in a
  sponsored swimathon in aid of
  the Ethiopia Famine Appeal.
  A total of 444 lengths was
  swum in one...

• . . . that doggy
  19

  . . . that doggy
  ALSO MAKING friends in
  the dog world were staff from
  Hit chin branch.
  On January 16, branch
  manager Mark Coffins presented
  Mrs Wearmouth (chairman
  of Hitchin Guide Dogs
  for the Blind Association)
  with a...

• Twenty five members of Huddersfield branch
  19

  Twenty five
  members of
  Huddersfield
  branch
  including
  manager, David
  Parker, took
  very tentative
  steps onto the
  dance floor at
  their Christmas
  dance held in
  January. The
  reason was
  that their poor
  feet were...

• Weighty charity haul
  19

  Weighty charity haul
  IT HAD TO be an enormous
  cheque to fit the enormous figure
  on it. And in raising £1780.29 for
  the NSPCC Hull branch and
  Homebase got rid of any enormous
  figures around. That's
  because the money was...

• A quickie
  20

  A quickie
  BOB MONKHOUSE wondered
  on his show recently: 'If Sainsbury's
  opened a church would
  they put in an express confessional
  for eight sins or less?'

• Cruel sea
  20

  Cruel sea
  HAVE YOURSELF a chilly little
  Christmas! It's late in the day to
  be reporting Christmas activities
  but we've only just heard that
  Halesowen branch manager,
  Roger Dougan and his wife Pippa,
  went for an early swim...

• It's a fairy cop
  20

  It's a fairy cop
  Two fairies from Fareham had an arresting time of it
  recently when they embarked on a 'mini marathon' walk
  from the branch to the local police station.
  Although only strolling for five minutes, Sandy...

• Night hero
  20

  Night hero
  PROMPT ACTION by Steve
  Bradbury, produce manager at
  Amblecote branch, prevented a
  fire getting out of control on
  Sunday, January 20.
  In the dead of night Steve
  spotted smoke billowing out from
  the upstairs...

• Sittingbourne
  20

  Paul Sandmeier, trainee manager, with colleagues at Sittingbourne. Looking sweet upon the seat of a bicycle made for one, staff
  from Sittingbourne pushed pedals to raise more than £300
  for the children's charities.
  Members of...

• Leading to greater heights
  21

  Leading to greater heights
  Climb every mountain ...' that at any rate
  is what John Pratley, deputy manager at
  Chippenham branch has been doing for
  the last 15 years.
  His enthusiasm is so catching that in
  recent months John...

• The ball's in your korf!
  21

  The ball's in your korf!
  WHAT IS LIKE netball but isn't netball?
  What is like basketball but isn't basketball?
  What is both a girl's game and a boy's game?
  The answer is korfball. And just what,
  exactly, is that?
  With the...

• Long service
  22

  Long service
  Les Hope, building supervisor at
  Bromley area office, has completed
  40 years with the company.
  He joined JS as an electrician's
  mate in the engineers office at
  Blackfriars. In 1948, Les began
  his National...

• Obituary
  22

  Obituary
  Maureen Cunnington, supermarket
  assistant at Bretton, died
  suddenly on February 3, aged 24.
  She had been with the
  company for six years.
  Peter Moad, analyst/
  programmer in company systems
  at Streatham office, died...

• Retirements
  22

  Retirements
  Henry Boakes, manager of
  Leatherhead freezer centre, has
  retired after 36 years with JS.
  He began his career with the
  company as a salesman at
  Amersham. Henry soon became
  leading salesman and in 1951, on
  his...

• War service to self-service
  22

  War service to self-service
  'I CAN'T believe I've been around for 42 years,'
  says Kay Wesson who retires this month from
  Norbury branch.
  'I started work at the old Bournemouth branch
  during the war because I didn't fancy...

• Feedback
  23

  FEEDBACK
  Holiday time From: Frank Hounsell, returns
  department, Basingstoke depot.
  Can someone please clarify the
  new holiday arrangements for
  1985/6. We are told the following:
  one to five years' service: 20 days
  five...

• Memories on the Town
  24

  Memories on the Town
  THIS MONTH the Archives is celebrating a
  double anniversary on behalf of Kentish
  Town. It is just 100 years since JS opened its
  third Kentish Town branch at 98 Queens
  Crescent and 30 years since the...