'JS Journal', August/September 1990

Table of content

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 3-6
  Headlines
  Page 7
  Chippenham store opening
  Page 8-9
  Writelines
  Page 10-12
  Computer based training
  Page 13
  Clean-up reports
  Page 14-15
  Annual General Meeting
  Page 16-17
  South Eastern Area fun day
  Page 18
  Health...

• Frontline
  02

  Many congratulations to the store managers who
  have achieved great success in Super Marketing's
  Store Managers of the Year competition, and, in
  particular, to John Hammond, Superstore
  Manager of the Year.
  This achievement...

• SUCCESS FOR SUPER MANAGERS
  03

  SUCCESS FOR SUPER
  MANAGERS
  John Hammond, manager of Badger
  Farm, Winchester, is Super Marketing
  magazine's Superstore Manager of the
  Year.
  In the magazine's Supermarket
  Manager of the Year competition,
  Broadmarsh manager,...

• WORKING TOWARDS A DEGREE
  03

  WORKING TOWARDS A DEGREE
  JS has worked with Manchester Polytechnic to
  develop a part-time BA (honours) degree in retail
  marketing which will take its first students this
  Autumn.
  Sixty JS staff will take up places on the...

• A PIONEER RETIRES
  04

  A PIONEER RETIRES
  Joe Barnes, joint managing director,
  retired from executive duties on July
  30, after 34 years' service.
  At the Annual General Meeting held
  on July 11 chairman. Lord
  Sainsbury, paid tribute to...

• APPOINTMENTS
  04

  Derek HInton, manager of Crawley, won
  £500 In last year's awards, for the 2nd
  Burgess Hill Boy's Brigade Company. Derek
  Is captain of the company and has been In
  the Boy's Brigade for 41 years. DAVID QUARMBY
  wiio lias been...

• DOUBLE FIRST FOR PERSONNEL?
  04

  DOUBLE FIRST FOR PERSONNEL?
  Tricia Fuller, BPM at Bound Lane,
  Norwich, and Tina Lowe, assistant
  BPM, have cause for a'double
  celebration.
  Both passed their Institute of
  Personnel Management Stage Two
  examinations, for which...

• SAINSBURYS COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD SCHEME
  04

  SAINSBURYS
  COMMUNITY
  SERVICE
  AWARD
  SCHEME
  Time is the greatest gift you can give to a
  charitable cause, but money helps too!
  The Sainsbury's Community Service Award
  Scheme says: 'If you put in the time, we'U put
  in the...

• PROPERTY PLANS
  05

  PROPERTY PLANS
  JS is joining forces with Marks & Spencer to build a unique shopping
  development at Hedge End, Eastleigh, Hampshire.
  JS was first to obtain planning consent and M&S later obtained planning consent
  on an...

• QUEENS ROAD AWARDED FOR CUSTOMER CARE
  05

  QUEENS ROAD AWARDED FOR CUSTOMER CARE
  Staff at Queens Road Norwich, reached the finals in cusTbmer care in the
  Eastern Daily Press Business awards recently. Judges stated: 'It was apparent
  that Queens Road staff enjoyed looking...

• MADONNA'S SHOP TACTICS
  06

  MADONNA'S SHOP TACTICS
  Pop superstar Madonna was obviously in
  need of refreshment at the end of the UK leg
  of her Blonde Ambition Tour. On the flight
  to Amsterdam for the next stage of the tour
  she took with her large...

• MEALS ON WHEELS
  06

  MEALS ON WHEELS
  During the last two months 17 stores have
  played host to Operation Raleigh's Round
  Britain Bike Ride.
  The stores provided meals, as they did last year,
  for the riders as they made their way from
  London to...

• NATIONAL PICTURE EDITOR WILL JUDGE JOURNAL COMPETITION
  06

  NATIONAL PICTURE EDITOR WILL JUDGE JOURNAL COMPETITION
  The picture editor of Today newspaper has
  agreed to judge the 1990 SSAJJS Journal
  Photographic Competition.
  Ron Morgan's Fleet Street career began with
  the picture desk...

• NYT HITS LONDON WITH BLITZ!
  06

  NYT HITS LONDON WITH BLITZI
  The National Youth Theatre, sponsored by JS since 1987, has
  launched a spectacular summer season which includes a musical by
  'Oliver' creator, Lionel Bart. The revival of his 1962 musical,...

• Branch opening—Chippenham
  07

  CHIPPENHAM
  The new supermarket at Chippenham is half as big again as the 15 year old store it
  replaces and it includes a coffee shop and petrol filling station.
  PAUL OYER, SEATED
  CENTRE, AND HIS
  MANAGEMENT TEAM...

• Writelines
  08

  WHAT'S A BOB
  WORTH . . ?
  ADRIAN CHANDLER,
  HOMEBASE HEAD OFFICE.
  I was most interested in the
  article about the demise of
  the shilling in the July
  Journal. I regret, however,
  I must take issue over the
  value of silver...

• Press for training
  10

  Press for training ANN GOACHER (LEFT) AND ROSE
  BROWN INVITE BRANCH STAFF TO
  SIT DOWN AND GET ACQUAINTED
  WITH CBT. ALL IT TAKES to acquire the skills necessary
  to save the world from space invading ahens or
  to escape the...

• Cleaning Up
  13

  Cleaning Up
  Even the Wombles have been
  enlisted in the company's antilitter
  crusade. Operation Clean-up
  has gone from strength to strength
  since the last Journal report and
  hundreds of JS staff have appeared
  in local papers...

• CHECKING OUT THE BUSINESS
  14

  ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
  CHECKING OUT THE BUSINESS LAST YEAR WE INTRODUCED OVER 1,000 SAINSBURY LINES This year's attendance at the company's Annual General Meeting was
  back to full strength after last year's event unhappily...

• SUNDAY FUNDAY
  16

  SUNDAY FUNDAY
  SEVEN THOUSAND STAFF, family and friends
  turned out for the South Eastern area Fun Day on
  July 22 at the South of England Show Ground at
  Ardingly in Sussex.
  SURVIVING A MUD PIE
  ONSLAUOHTINTHE IT'S A
  KNOCKOUT...

• HEALTH PROGRAMME
  18

  HEALTH PROGRAMME
  R ^ ^
  FOOD FOR THE HEART
  Continuing our series on
  stress, we are looking this
  month at how healthy eating
  choices can give us more
  energy and confidence to
  cope with stress in our lives.
  This coincides...

• Madcap events for MENCAP
  19

  Madcap events for MENCAP
  At JS this has been the summer of
  love as hundreds of staff have given
  up their time to raise money for
  MENCAR the company's adopted
  charity. MENCAP carries out a wide
  variety of work to help the...

• DISABLED GET A LIFT
  20

  DISABLED GET A LIFT
  Redditch Council for Voluntary Services is the
  lucky recipient of £9,000 for each of the next three
  years, the donation coming from Eastern Area's
  purse. The money is to assist the council in leasing
  two...

• EGG HEADS GET TOGETHER
  20

  EGG HEADS GET TOGETHER
  'Retail Revenge' was the name of the game when
  retail trainees from Richard Davies' district
  organised a quiz night.
  Teams from Beckenham, Crystal Palace
  and Forest HUl took part in the quiz, held
  at...

• GOING OVER THE TOP FOR CHARITY
  20

  GOING OVER THE TOP FOR CHARITY
  Four of the management team from Lincoln competed against other
  companies in \he area on an army assault course in Grantham. They
  came first in tiie 'Mixed Team' category, completing the course in...

• DOUBLE TOP FUNDRAISING
  21

  DOUBLE TOP FUNDRAISING
  Winchester supermarket
  assistant Muriel L is
  always looking for ways to
  raise funds for charity. Her
  latest effort was a sponsored
  12-hour darts marathon. She
  set out to raise money for the
  Friends...

• HEARTY EFFORT
  21

  HEARTY EFFORT
  South Ruislip manager Jim
  Penman is pictured
  presenting a £5,000 heart
  defibrillator to
  ambulanceman Brian
  Hawkesworth, The money
  was raised by several stores,
  with South Ruislip raising
  £2,000, the...

• BUSMAN'S HOLIDAY
  22

  BUSMAN'S HOLIDAY
  Staff at York put their Bank Holiday Monday to good use when
  they raised £600 for Martin House Hospice in Wetherby. They
  sold goods, donated by staff, on a stall in the centre of York.

• CRACKING THE KRYPTON FACTOR
  22

  CRACKING THE KRYPTON FACTOR
  Wet and weary but triumphant. That was Qeft to right) Kevin
  Moore, Joy Ruble, Sarah Day and David Parry, all of
  Doncaster, after completing the Krypton Flactor assault course on
  Holcombe Moor near...

• ELECTRICIANS IN 'BIRDS' ATTACK
  22

  ELECTRICIANS IN 'BIRDS' ATTACK
  Hitchcock's 'The Birds' could be more than a figment of the
  imagination, as two electricians discovered recently.
  They were repairing a cooling tower on the roof of London
  Road, Brighton store...

• FRUITS OF THE GARDEN
  22

  FRUITS OF THE GARDEN
  Bedford fresh foods assistant, Jean Inskip held a garden sale
  recently, with staff from the store and Jean's slimming club
  manning the stalls. A total of £725 was raised for local lad
  Andrew Barnett, who...

• HOLY FUND-RAISING BATMAN!
  22

  HOLY FUND-RAISING BATMAN!
  What were Batman and Robin doing in the centre of
  London? Here to save the city from the clutches of The
  Joker? No, they had travelled all the way from
  Blackfriars ^ to raise money for cerebral...

• TROLLEYS HELP TO PUSH FUNDS
  22

  TROLLEYS HELP TO PUSH FUNDS
  Abandoned, trolleys led to Castle Boxilevaid staff buying a
  microwave for an Alzheimers Disease Support Group in
  Nottingham.
  Vera Tbpley, whose husband, Arthur, suffers from the disease,
  rang the...

• YTS trainees from Banbury
  22

  YTS trainees from Banbury raised £178 with a collection
  outside the store. The money was donated to a local
  psychiatric clinic.

• CATS CREPT IN
  23

  CATS CREPT IN
  A soft mewing attracted the attention of
  cleaner, Betty Kitteridge, while she
  was cleaning around the automatic
  teller machines at Mosborough. On
  investigation she discovered five
  kittens huddled in a small...

• CLEAN WIN
  23

  CLEAN WIN
  Hove has been presented with a
  Clean Food Award after staff
  restaurant supervisor, Maureen
  Fraser, and instore instructor,
  Kerry «'»""-" both passed food
  hygiene examinations at Hove
  Town Hall. Deputy...

• GOING SOFT
  24

  GOING SOFT
  Extra fruity and extra soft.
  That's the latest arrival from
  France. Sainsbury's French
  Conserves are made in the
  Perigord region of France to
  a traditional continental soft
  set recipe with a high 50 per
  cent...

• HAVE A DOUBLE
  24

  HAVE A DOUBLE
  More traditionally there's a
  new chocolate milk drink.
  Double Take is based on the
  Sainsbury's Double Take
  Chocolate Bar. On
  introductory offer at 29p in
  most stores.

• PRINCELY DANISH PASTRIES
  24

  PRINCELY DANISH PASTRIES
  Customers won't have to travel all the way to
  Denmark for authentic Danish pastries any
  more. JS now sells pastries made in Denmark but
  baked in-store, to give them a fresh-from-theoven
  taste. Raisin...

• THE MILK THAT GROWS ON TREES
  24

  THE MILK THAT GROWS ON TREES
  After putting the fruit in cheese,
  JS has now put the juice in milk.
  Juicy Milk Drinks are a
  refreshing blend of fruit juice
  and milk, specially formulated to
  prevent curdling. And it's...

• AS EATEN BY CHARLIE BROWN
  25

  AS EATEN BY CHARLIE BROWN
  At last, summer has arrived. And so
  has American-style rich dairy ice
  cream to accompany those long, hot
  days. Available in vanilla, blueberry
  cheesecake and crunchy peanut
  butter flavours, they're...

• COMPLETELY FRUIT AND NUTS
  25

  COMPLETELY FRUIT AND NUTS
  There's Muesli and there's Muesli and this is the luxury
  variety. Sainsbury's Luxury Muesli has a high fruit and nut
  content and a light texture. Available in 500g boxes at £1.15
  in selected stores.

• FOR PERFECT PARTIES
  25

  FOR PERFECT PARTIES
  For those planning a party with all
  the frills. A new range of cake frills
  under the JS 'Partytime' label
  includes a children's and adults'
  variety, which are both available in
  pink and blue. In most...

• APPOINTMENTS
  26

  APPOINTMENTS
  BILL BALDWIN, from deputy manager,
  Stratton, to manager, Swindon.
  NICHOLAS BARKER, from deputy
  manager, Bamber Bridge, to
  manager, Preston. JOHN BRACKETT,
  from manager, Rayleigh Weir, to
  manager, Walthamstow....

• LONG SERVICE
  26

  LONG SERVICE
  Employees who have completed
  40 years' service are:
  MAUREENQRACE,BPM, Orpington.
  LEONARD SKEUON, manager,
  Christchurch. ERNIE WILLS, building
  supervisor. Eastern area.
  Employees who have completed
  25 years'...

• OBITUARIES
  26

  OBITUARIES
  ANN COX, delicatessen assistant at
  East Grinstead, aged 59, died on
  March 31, after a long illness. She
  had completed 35 years' service.
  IRIS TURNER, aged 58, died on June
  10 after a long illness. She...

• RETIREMENTS
  26

  RETIREMENTS
  (length of service in brackets):
  BILLANGELL, senior branch auditor,
  Biackfriars (24 years service). KEN
  FITZGERALD, customer service
  assistant. Central Croydon (21
  years). MARY DUDLEY, general office
  clerk,...

• SUMMER SPORT
  27

  SUMMER SPORT
  Three major sports days have
  been held this summer with
  branches from different parts
  of the country coming
  together in competition. PRESTWICH PULLS IT OFF
  A gala sports day held by Prestwich, and
  supported by...

• MANY ROYAL RETURNS
  28

  MANY ROYAL RETURNS FOREST HILL CELEBRATES
  GEORGE V's CORONATION IN 1 9 1 1 .
  HRH THE QUEEN MOTHER, WITH CHAIRMAN, LORD SAINSBURY, AT
  CROMWELL ROAD IN 1985. The recent 90th birthday celebrations
  for Her Majesty The Queen...