'JS Journal', September 1989

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• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2-6
  Headlines
  Page 7
  National Youth Theatre — from Russia with love of drama
  Page 8-9
  Store openings —
  Leamington Spa
  Redditch
  Page 10-11
  The company's annual general meeting
  Page 10-11
  Unit pricing has arrived
  Page...

• Enterprise in the North West
  02

  Enterprise in the North West
  JS PRESENTED AN impressive
  stand in the Enterprise In
  The North West Exhibition held
  at Manchester's G-Mex Centre
  in June.
  There are presently 18
  branches trading in the North
  West, with five...

• Frontline
  02

  FRONTLINE
  THIS JOURNAL says September
  on the cover but it also
  covers the news for August. So
  don't think your store has been
  left out, or that your delivery
  system is up the creek. (That is,
  as long as you don't...

• Offering a taste of what's in store
  02

  Offering a taste of what's in store
  NO LKSS THAN 62 stores have
  been involved in a campaign of
  demonstrations by home
  economists.
  Product areas at which customers
  have been invited to look
  more closely are coffee,...

• Honour for David Sainsbury
  03

  Honour for David Sainsbury
  AN HONORARY DEGREE has
  been conferred upon deputy chairman,
  David Sainsbury, (left) by
  the University of Salford.
  Vice chancellor, professor John
  Ashworth, honoured a number of
  eminent people...

• JS environment prize money is 'recycled'
  03

  JS environment prize money is ^recycled'
  IN JUNE, JS won the Grocer
  Green Award as the retailer
  with the greatest commitment
  to the environment.
  The award carried £1,000
  prize money which the company
  has donated to a...

• Politburo member visits Archer Road
  03

  Politburo member visits Archer Road
  GLASNOST CAME TO
  Archer Road Sheffield, on June
  29 with the visit of one of the
  six most powerful poUticians in
  Czechoslovakia.
  Madame Kabrhelova is a
  member of the Politburo...

• Sir Roy to head Age Concern
  03

  Sir Roy to head Age Concern
  NON-EXECUTIVE deputy
  chairman. Sir Roy Griffiths,
  (right) has been appointed as
  the new president of Age Concern
  England. It is one of the
  largest UK charities with a
  network in England of...

• Cyclists' tour de Sainsbury's
  04

  Cyclists' tour de Sainsbury's
  THE STAFF RESTAURANTS
  at 15 stores made sure
  that Operation Raleigh bike
  riders were really fed up during
  their tour of Britain.
  Operation Raleigh is a registered
  charity, launched by
  HRH...

• Staff are happy to be certified!
  04

  Staff are happy to be certified!
  FOOD HYGIENE CERTIFICATES
  were recently presented
  to staff at Warren
  Heath store by chairman of
  Suffolk coastal district council,
  Helen Brooks.
  The certificates were
  awarded to staff who...

• Banbury welcomes the scrutiny of schoolchildren
  05

  Banbury welcomes the scrutiny of schoolchildren
  BANBURY'S MOST discerning
  customers are standing
  right behind them. Dashwood
  County Primary School, which
  backs onto the new store, has
  carried out a project looking at
  the...

• Crown prince of catering
  05

  Crown prince of catering
  PAUL FOULGER, manager,
  e m p l o y e e s e r v i c e s at
  Blackfriars, has been elected
  vice president of his professional
  body, the Hotel,
  Catering and Institutional
  Management Association.
  Says...

• In memory of two young men
  05

  In memory of two young men
  FOLLOWING THE tragic
  deaths in 1987, in a plane crash
  of Michael Davidson, a senior
  manager in the Homebase and
  Savacentre property development
  group, and David Inman,
  a senior environmental...

• JS stocks shelves of school libraries
  05

  JS stocks shelves of school libraries
  A TOTAL OF 240 schools
  across the country have
  received books froih their local
  JS store. The company is
  stocking the shelves of school
  libraries and offering books as
  prizes for most...

• Clean Food Award
  06

  CANTERBURY STORE
  came first amongst supermarkets
  in the Clean Food
  Awards presented by Canterbury
  City Council.
  Councillor Jennifer Samper
  said of the annual competition
  for food handlers in the district: 'Handlers have...

• Development division goes before the judge
  06

  Development division goes before the judge
  Left to right: standing — Rod Sellers, Martin Robeson, Graham Wake, Robin Anderson and Clive
  Jenkins (Denton Hall). Seated — Roger Warren Evans, Ian Coull and Stuart Marsh. SELDOM...

• Soft drinks win five awards
  06

  Soft drinks win five awards
  THE BRITISH BOTTLERS
  Institute Soft Drinks Competition
  for 1989 saw the company
  pick up awards in five
  different categories.
  JS Lemonade and JS Orange
  Spritzer received gold medals
  as class...

• NYT PLAYS ITS PART IN GLASNOST
  07

  NYT PLAYS ITS PART IN GLASNOST
  WHEN JS PROVIDED
  the funds
  to send 82
  members of the
  National Youth
  Theatre to Russia,
  with a 40 ton
  truck containing
  all the sets, costumes and technical equipment
  required to perform...

• Branch opening—Leamington Spa
  08

  LEAMINGTON SPA
  Customers' transport and shopping
  needs are being well taken care of at
  the new Leamington Spa supermarket.
  There's a shuttle service to and from
  the old store and bus travellers can
  stay in the dry thanks to...

• Branch opening—Redditch
  09

  REDDITCH
  There's only one word to describe the opening of the
  new Redditch store — noisy! With hundreds of children
  on holiday from school deciding to help mum with the
  shopping on opening morning, the air soon rang...

• HOW SHALL I COMPARE THEE?
  10

  BRAND X WAS THERE at
  £1.59 for 125g; Brand Y was next
  to it, priced at £1.78, but that
  pack weighed 150g. How many
  customers were able, quickly, to
  work out that they would save 11
  pence on Brand Y?
  Well, apart from a few...

• HOW'S THE BUSINESS DOING?
  10

  HOW'S THE BUSINESS DOING?
  TRADITIONALLY THE COMPANY
  has glorious weather for
  its Annual General Meetings and
  this year was no exception.
  A rail and tube strike on the
  day inevitably meant that
  numbers were down on...

• STRESS ON YOUR SYSTEM? ... TALK TO YOUR ANALYST
  12

  STRESS ON YOUR SYSTEM? ... TALK TO YOUR ANALYST
  THE BRANCH COMPUTING and scanning (BCAS)
  service desic handles 28,000 calls a month dealing w i t h
  branch computer problems. Despite the sophistication
  of the scanning system,...

• FROM LORD'S HILL TO THE MOUNTAIN PEAKS
  14

  FROM LORD'S HILL TO THE MOUNTAIN PEAKS
  IT WAS A MERCIFULLY mild spring weekend that a group set out
  from Lords Hill for an action-packed weekend in the Lake District.
  Deputy manager and qualified instructor, John Pratley, and...

• Take an empty cream carton
  16

  Take an empty cream carton
  FOUR STAFF FROM Wolverhampton,
  accompanied by
  the 'Demon Cream Machine',
  raised £150 for children's
  charities in the West Midlands
  through a sponsored raft race.
  Sue Proctor, Liz Parrott,...

• This one is still a bit green
  16

  This one is still a bit green
  WITH JS RECRUITING
  older staff, Homebase seems to
  have gone to the other
  extreme. Carl Allen is five
  months old and dad Julian
  Allen is deputy manager at
  Croydon Homebase. Mum,
  Sandra, who...

• We think you're very posh and nice!
  16

  We think you're very posh and nice!
  'WELCOME TO Moorside
  Stores' was the greeting Anne
  Phillips, store instructor at
  Lancaster, received on a visit
  to Moorside Infants School
  recently. The first year class
  had visited the...

• Dartford wins at the double
  17

  Dartford wins at the double
  THE ANiVUAL football knockout competition for the South
  Eastern area has been won by Dartford store. They came tops in
  both finals for the D J Clapham cup (beating Croydon, Purley
  Way, 3-1) and the...

• John Barnes makes friends at Birkenhead
  17

  John Barnes makes friends at Birkenhead
  JOHN BARNES of Liverpool
  Football Club was given a
  welcome that would have put
  the Kop to shame when he
  called in at Birkenhead. He is a
  regular customer at the store,
  so was more...

• Take up your beds and push!
  17

  Take up your beds and push!
  A FIVE MAN TEAM from
  Basingstoke depot entered the
  local bed race — and raised the
  highest sponsorship for the
  second time in three years.
  From their six mile circuit
  around Basingstoke's...

• Wellingborough
  17

  ON THE EVE of the closure
  of Wellingborough recently,
  cashier Alison Benham showed
  that the Friday low level printout
  was slightly longer than
  BSual! J

• Come into the garden!
  18

  Come into the garden!
  STAFF AT BEDFORD have
  found a handy spot for an
  English country garden.
  The branch has three floors,
  the top floor having patio
  doors leading out onto a paved
  roof. Staif decided to make use
  of the...

• Congratulations as Chris gets his poem in the paper
  18

  Congratulations as Chris gets his poem in the paper
  TO COME across such talent
  really is quite hard.
  But the Bard of Burnley surely
  isn't half ba-d!
  Well, it isn't up to Chris
  Cununing's standard, but it
  was worth a...

• Cookies help to crack cancer
  18

  Cookies help to crack cancer
  A HOME-MADE SWEETS
  and biscuits stall at a local
  market, run by YTS students,
  raised £33 for the Imperial
  Cancer Research Fund. The
  students, from Burton-on-
  Trent, Derby, Sutton Coldfield
  and...

• Malcolm is riding high
  18

  Malcolm is riding high
  FIVE YEAR OLD Malcolm
  Wesley is a JS lorries fan.
  He knows the registration
  number of every one
  around his home town of
  Corby. He has cancer and
  one of his wishes was to
  have a ride in one of...

• Newbury is like a new pin
  18

  Newbury is like a new pin
  NEWBURY CANTEEN has
  outshone other retailers in the
  area by winning a hygiene
  award from Newbury Environmental
  Health Authority. Pictured
  with their certificate are
  proud canteen ladies (back,...

• LIFE SAVERS
  19

  LIFE SAVERS
  NOW THAT fund-raising for the British Heart Foundation
  has finished, with the iast raffie being drawn and that
  exercise biice tuclted bacic into the wardrobe, the money is
  stiii roliing in. The grand totai wiii be...

• Watching the Wheels
  20

  Dedicated to everyone who
  spent frustrating hours
  waiting in traflHc queues
  during the great train
  strilce, this month the
  Archives would lilte to
  remind you how things
  used to be . . .
  Frances Dell, canteen
  supervisor at...

• Writelines
  21

  WRITELINES
  Give us uiiifonns
  with style!
  From: Beryl Henderson, parttime
  supermarket assistant,
  Boscombe.
  I would like to enquire whether
  the company has any plans to
  change the present 'uniform',
  as I feel our overalls...

• French cheeses
  22

  LAST MONTH the Journal published a feature story about
  French cheeses. Unfortunately the map explaining the origins of
  the JS cheeses was sabotaged by gremlins, and the colour code
  was wrong. Here, to set the record straight,...

• Long Service
  22

  Long Service
  Employees who have completed
  40 years' service are:
  Fred Cowey, manager, Exeter.
  Reginald Farrell, grocery
  manager, Bitteme.
  Ron Glazier, deputy manager,
  frozen foods buying,
  Blackfriars.
  Jim Hammond, senior...

• Retirements
  22

  Retirements
  (Length of service in brackets):
  Stanley Ramage, company
  safety adviser, Blackfriars (39
  years).
  Robert Gibson, retail admin
  manager, Blackfriars (36
  years).
  Bert Ellis, manager, branch
  management, Blackfriars...

• Four retire with more than 40 years each
  23

  Four retire with more than 40 years each
  'GONE FISHING' will be the
  sign on Frank Booys' front
  door now he has retired after
  40 years at JS.
  He began as a senior trainee
  butcher at Kingsbury, and was
  promoted and moved...

• Obituary
  23

  Obituary
  Harry Chandler, aged 67, a
  packer at Hampton, died
  suddenly on July 4 (ten
  months).
  Ernie Cole, aged 58, a customer
  service assistant at
  Chippenham, died on May 31
  after a long illness (two years).
  Dennis Key,...

• DIET-IN-A-CUP
  24

  DIET-IN-A-CUP
  A tasty way to shed those
  inches without shedding
  your appetite are these
  soups-in-a-cup. Each sachet
  is less than 40 calories, with
  tomato, golden vegetable,
  mushroom and chicken to
  choose from. Available...

• HERBS AT A SNIP
  24

  HERBS AT A SNIP
  JS have taken the
  fingers-crossed method
  out of growing herbs.
  Mint, chives and parsley
  are available in 76 stores,
  priced at 69p. They are
  ready grown, to pick and
  use as required, to add a
  fresh flavour...

• PROBLEMS PEELED AWAY
  24

  PROBLEMS PEELED AWAY
  No peeling, no chopping, no
  trouble. These vegetables
  may be microwaved or conventionally cooked.
  They're available.n 76
  stores, priced at 99P

• SELECT A CEREAL
  24

  In 176 stores now, this
  thrilling six-part cereal, the
  first ovtfn-label. selection
  pack available. Everybody's favourites in one pack, with
  an introductory offer of 69p.
  Also honey nut rice pops, in
  176 stores on offer at...

• SERVE CHILE
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