'JS Journal', March 1990

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• Building the brand
  02

  Building the brand
  CUSTOMERS AT eight
  Northern stores have been
  invited to try Sainsbury's own
  brand products free. The
  brand building promotion ran
  throughout February in
  Bolton, Denton, Dewsbury,
  Grimsby,...

• Contents Page
  02

  Contents
  Headlines 2-4
  Branch openings
  Whitley Bay 5
  Romford 6
  Telford 7
  Glass recycling —
  low-down on the
  big melt-down . . .
  and other 'green'
  developments 8-10
  The Food Safety
  Advisory Centre
  — one year on...

• Frontline
  02

  FRONTLINE
  HOW MANY OF US are
  pining for the sun at this
  time of year? It seems the
  winter has dragged on for
  more than a few months
  and yet spring is still out of
  arm's reach. It was a cold
  day of high winds and...

• JS is cooking with Delia
  02

  JS is cooking with Delia
  WELCOME TO DELIA
  SMITH.
  Delia has joined the company
  as a part-time consultant
  to the trading departments.
  Said assistant managing director,
  Tom Vyner: 'The object of
  employing a consultant...

• Wind lifts roof off Basingstoke depot
  02

  Wind lifts roof off Basingstoke depot
  Basingstoke
  THE STORM WINDS which
  lashed Britain on January 25,
  claiming over 40 lives, caused
  severe damage to the roof of
  Basingstoke depot.
  Winds gusting up to 90 miles
  per hour...

• Bank checks out at Fulham with celebrity ad
  03

  Bank checks out at Fulham with celebrity ad
  CHECKOUTS AT FULHAM
  were busy on a Sunday afternoon
  recently, when Lloyds
  Bank filmed their latest
  commercial at the store.
  The commercial, for the new
  Lloyds payment card,...

• BPM wins award for recruiting disabled
  03

  BPM wins award for recruiting disabled
  'YOU HAVE to concentrate
  not on what people cannot do,
  but on what they can do.'
  Chris Swerling, Altrincham's
  BPM, is talking about her
  recruitment of disabled people
  for which she has...

• Honorary degree for Sir Roy
  03

  Honorary degree for Sir Roy
  THE UNIVERSITY OF
  KENT will confer the
  honorary degree of Dr of Civil
  Law on Sir Roy Griffiths, nonexecutive
  deputy chairman, for
  'his distinguished service to the
  nation.' The ceremony...

• Student scheme expands
  03

  Student scheme expands
  TWO YEARS AGO the JS
  Student Scholarship scheme
  began life when 15 student
  employees qualified for grants
  of £1,000 a year for the three
  years of their degree courses.
  Last year 14 student...

• Bronze age remains found on store site
  04

  Bronze age remains found on store site
  ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE discovered important Bronze
  Age remains on the site of a new JS and Homebase store at
  Meole Brace, Shrewsbury.
  The excavation, which has been undertaken by...

• Good Neighbours
  04

  Good Neighbours
  THIS YEAR'S Sainsbury's
  Good Neighbour Scheme will
  give £95,000 to local community
  groups working with
  elderly people.
  Stores are asked to nominate
  local self-help groups who
  often find it difficult to...

• Parliament pops into Streatham Common
  04

  Parliament pops into Streatham Common
  STREATHAM COMMON store recently welcomed
  a visit by 13 members of the Parliamentary
  All-Party Group for the Retail Trades. The MPs and Peers visit
  three or four retailers
  annually to gain...

• SAINSBURY'S WINE TASTER OF THE YEAR
  04

  SAINSBURY'S WINE TASTER OF THE YEAR
  FEBRUARY SAW the launch
  of the 1990 Wine Taster of the
  Year competition, sponsored jointly by JS and The Daily
  Telegraph.
  The aim of the competition,
  which was publicised via...

• Success for systems man
  04

  Success for systems man
  CHAS SAMMARCO, network
  facilities manager in
  DPD technical services, was
  one of the six finalists in the
  Data Communications Manager
  1989 competition.
  Chas's entry consisted of an
  essay explaining...

• Branch opening—Whitley Bay
  05

  1. Nick Allcock
  (seated, centre) and
  his management team
  are set to head in the
  right direction.
  2. Coffee shop
  manager, Rebecca
  Weedon (far right) and
  her team ready to
  serve up a cuppa.
  3. Cheryl Stevenson
  (left) and...

• Branch opening—Romford
  06

  1. Sandra Weller and Beryl Ball are ready for their first customer.
  2. The Sainsbury's corner of the Liberty II Centre.
  3. Number one checkout gets a last minute adjustment.
  4. Management team with Chris Daniels, front far...

• Branch opening—Telford
  07

  Below: Ian Evans (front, left of centre) and the
  management team.
  Left: Arched glass canopies give the store a 21 st
  century look.
  Above: Left to right: Lillian Lawrence, Alison Aplin
  and Pat IVIorris slice their way through...

• THE GLASS IS GREENER
  08

  KEEPING A
  TRULY GREEN
  complexion can be
  a problem for
  those without
  Martian blood or
  kinship to Kermit
  but JS has
  managed to stay
  green for years,
  and it looks set to
  maintain its colour
  for many more to
  come. Above:...

• MEETING The 1990's CHALLENGE
  11

  MEETING The 1990's CHALLENGE
  Every branch manager has been challenged to take JS into the 21$t century as the best 'shopkeeper' in the business.
  The challenge was issued by
  joint managing director, Joe
  Barnes, in his keynote...

• The Food Safety Advisory Centre — one year on
  12

  THE FOOD SAFETY Advisory
  Centre (FSAC), sponsored by
  JS and five other leading food
  retailers, celebrated its first
  birthday on February 20 by
  telling the story of its short,
  but eventful career to the
  Journal.
  As a...

• SAFETY BY DESIGN
  13

  RUBBISH is one thing
  Homebase can do without
  according to the two winners
  of the company's Safety Poster
  Competition.
  The competition formed part of Homebase's annual
  Safety Awareness Campaign
  and the winning posters,...

• STORES SET FOR A CLEAN SWEEP
  13

  JS, HOMEBASE AND
  SAVACENTRE are set to
  clean up across the country.
  An Operation Clean Up
  Campaign has been launched
  in which the company is supporting
  each store in leading a
  project to clean up a local...

• TRAINING IN PROGRESS
  14

  'Nothing could have prepared me for
  the demands of the job'
  So said Joanne Thompson,
  store instructor at Mosborough,
  when the Journal
  paid her a visit to find
  out how she meets the
  training needs of the
  store's 290 staff...

• ANGLO-INDIAN DISHES
  16

  ANGLO-INDIAN DISHES
  Customers are invited to take a
  culinary trip to India without
  stepping out of the kitchen.
  Chicken Tikka Masala Flan
  (£1.79) in a cumin seed pastry
  case and Bombay Potato Pasty
  (49p) are available in...

• FOR NATURAL BEAUTY
  16

  FOR NATURAL BEAUTY
  Nature's Compliments is a new range of bath, skin and hair
  care products made with extracts from flowers, plants and
  fruits. There are 36 different products, priced 65p-£4.75 and
  available in 80-100 stores....

• LET'S GET FRESH
  16

  LET'S GET FRESH
  Sainsbury's Extra Strength
  Antiseptic Moutliwash kills the
  bacteria which can cause bad
  breath and dental plaque. In 275
  stores at £1.35, it will make
  anybody kissable!

• SMOOTH AND CULTURED
  16

  SMOOTH AND CULTURED
  As an alternative to yogurt,
  buttermilk desserts are
  smooth and creamy and
  made with cultured
  buttermilk. In strawberry,
  apple and orange flavours,
  they are 29p in 194 stores.

• From mace to marjoram
  17

  From mace to marjoram, cardamom to
  cumin. Almost every herb and spice
  you can think of is included in a new
  range, available in all stores.
  The range has 69 lines, priced 34p-
  £1.29 and will flavour, season and
  enhance...

• PASTA GETS INTO SHAPE
  17

  PASTA GETS INTO SHAPE
  Trying to spot the different shapes
  in these pacl children quiet all through
  mealtimes. The tri-coloured
  shapes, in Space Ships and
  Animals varieties, are available in
  199 stores,...

• SOFT OPTIONS FOR HANDS
  17

  For hands that do dishes . . .
  here's a soft solution.
  Conditioning hand cream
  helps to protect and
  moisturise and is good for
  chapped, rough and flal^y
  sicin. This 'handy' pot is
  available in 221 stores, priced
  £1.25.

• STAY JUST AS SWEET
  17

  STAY JUST AS SWEET
  For sweet-toothed dieters, a
  low calorie alternative. A
  spoonful of Slendasweet
  provides tlie same
  sweetness but only 10 per
  cent of the calories of
  sugar. I t is ideal for
  beverages and to sprinkle
  on...

• Talking with the turtles in a tropical paradise
  18

  Maggie Cooper, BPM of Queen's Road, has a taste for the exotic. She
  forgoes the annual IVIediterranean paclcage, and uses her profit sharing, to
  enjoy an adventure every couple of years. In 1983 she told us about her...

• AWARDS
  20

  AWARDS
  WITH THE RESULTS of last quarter's district customer service awards
  being delayed, this quarter's results follow fast on their heels. Congratulations
  to all the winners listed below: Bamwood — Sylvia...

• Correction
  20

  Correction
  In last month's issue Ramilla Mistry
  of Kingsbury was pictured receiving
  her customer service award from
  branch manager, Derek Falvey.
  Ramilla was wrongly named as
  Ramilla Patel.

• Wise up on money matters
  20

  Wise up on money matters
  HOW MANY OF US have been tempted by those huge signs atop new cars,
  washing machines, fridges and videos — 'Buy now, pay later.' Sounds too
  good to be true? Well, it usually is, and the road to credit...

• Bingo for store's local hospice
  21

  Bingo for store's local hospice CYNTHIA WIDLAKE left
  Bury St E^dmunds seven years
  ago because she was suffering
  from multiple sclerosis, but
  recently she carried out a small
  job for the store. She handed
  over a cheque for...

• CRACK-A-JOKE COMPETITION
  21

  YOU DID MAKE us laugh last
  year. Care to do it again?
  Once more we're offering pri-
  zes to the senders of the best
  jokes for the JS Christmas
  crackers. We're looking for
  jokes to keep the family in fits
  until the Queen's...

• DAVID PRIEST
  21

  DAVID PRIEST, a young
  butcher at Chapel Road,
  Worthing, is currently in
  training for the London
  Marathon on April 22.
  He is collecting sponsorship
  in aid of a local hostel and the
  children's ward of...

• Fancy a blind date?
  21

  Fancy a blind date?
  CALLING ALL LONELY HEARTS. The search is now on
  for contestants to take part in Cilia Black's Blind Date
  programme.
  Applicants should be over the age of 18 and over 50's
  and 60's are also welcome. You...

• Luton recognises excellence of customer care
  21

  Luton recognises excellence of customer care
  LUTON CENTRAL is proud
  of its two award winning
  senior supermarket assistants
  — Bernadette O'Brien and
  Gillian Bigg.
  Bemadette and Gilhan were
  both presented with Customer Care...

• Lyubov Sokirkina
  21

  BURNLEY WELCOMED a
  visitor from the USSR recently.
  Lyubov Sokirkina, an assistant
  professor at the University of
  Saratov was in Britain to see
  how we live, worlc and shop.
  Lyubov, whose visit was
  arranged by a local...

• Eastern area raises thousands for BHF
  22

  Eastern area raises thousands for BHF
  EASTERN AREA recently
  made two presentations to the
  British Heart Foundation.
  The first presentation, for the
  southern half of Eastern area,
  was made at Stratford. The
  £5,128.15 cheque...

• JS backs a goodie scheme
  22

  JS IS PROVIDING the major prizes in a competition which has
  been launched to encourage children to help the environment.
  All primary and special schools in the London Borough of
  Camden can enter, with prizes awarded to the...

• MR AND MRS SPARKS
  22

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• Are Stanway's fathers on a productivity bonus?
  23

  Are Stanway's fathers on a productivity bonus?
  THERE MUST BE SOMETHING
  in the water around
  Colchester. Six managers at
  Stanway have produced six
  bouncing babies (although
  their wives did most of the
  work!), all within four...

• King's Lynn helps to crack cancer
  23

  King's Lynn helps to crack cancer
  AN APPEAL BY THE local newspaper prompted staff at Kings
  Lynn into action. They organised a raffle and raised £250 to help
  buy a mobile breast scanning machine.
  The Lynn News hopes to reach a...

• Second historian joins the archives
  23

  Second historian joins the archives
  THE LATEST ADDITION to
  the company archives is certainly
  younger and livelier than
  the usual relics of JS's past
  acquired for storing in the
  vaults.
  Julia Toffoio, the new...

• Look after your heart
  24

  Look after your heart Coronary Heart Disease is the greatest killer
  in the country. England has one of the highest
  death rates for this disease in the world.
  Every three and a half minutes someone in this
  country dies of...

• QUIT SMOKING
  24

  QUIT SMOKING
  NATIONAL NO SMOKING DAY took place on March 14. All JS locations participated in
  the day, which this year included a Quit and Win competition offering five dream
  holidays in the Caribbean as top prizes. No Smoking...

• PUZZLE PAGE
  25

  PUZZLE PAGE GRAB A COFFEE, pick up a pen and win yourself
  £30 worth of JS vouchers with this month's prize
  crossword. ACROSS
  1 18th Century English Painter,
  famous for both portraits and
  landscapes (12)
  Tree of the willow...

• Appointments
  26

  Appointments
  Chris Davies, from manager,
  Dartford, to manager, Purley.
  Richard Eaiden, from manager,
  Farnham, to manager,
  Bracknell.
  John Hardeley, from manager,
  Walton on Thames, to
  manager, Farnham.
  Robert Hillman, from...

• Engagements
  26

  CUPID'S ARROW hit Bishop's Stortford on Valentine's Day as
  Tom Gorringe, produce manager, and Sharon King, senior
  general cash office clerk, became engaged. WILLESDEN HOMEBASE holds romantic memories for Jim
  Clarke and...

• Long Service
  26

  Long Service
  Employees who have completed
  40 years' service are:
  Ron Cox, section manager,
  grocery, Shirley.
  Stan Osborne, assistant
  manager, Tewkesbury Road.
  Employees who have completed
  25 years' service are:
  Ron Beeke,...

• Obituary
  26

  Obituary
  Arthur Ayliife, senior mechanical
  engineer, based at
  Blackfriars, died suddenly on
  January 25, aged 62 (35 years'
  service).
  Roland Pipe, section manager,
  bakery, at Northampton,
  died suddenly on March 7,
  aged 46...

• Retirements
  26

  Retirements
  (Length of service in brackets):
  Peggy Pickering, display assistant,
  Ipswich (32 years).
  Gwen Ivamy, leading supermarket
  assistant, Boscombe
  (21 years).
  Joan Lee, part-time supermarket
  assistant. West
  Wickham...

• Stanley leaves the joint after 41 years
  26

  Stanley leaves the joint after 41 years
  CHESHAM'S MEAT manager,
  Stanley Hildreth, is hanging
  up his meat hook after 41
  years with JS.
  His first 22 years were spent
  as head butcher at Amersham
  before he moved to...

• Writelines
  27

  WRITELINES
  Calling for
  strong arm
  tactics
  From: Alf Smith, budget controller,
  Hoddesdon depot.
  When using my book of
  vouchers I find that the
  cashiers in the branches are
  experiencing great difficuhy in
  tearing them out,...

• Heroism and ham sandwiches
  28

  The clue lies in the archives
  recent acquisition of a letter
  from Mrs K Fiske of
  Wymondham, Norfolk. The
  letter is addressed to Mrs K
  Brown (Mrs Fiske's mother)
  who was the Cavell family's
  housekeeper at 24 College
  Road,...