'JS Journal', October 1991

Table of content

• Contents Page
  02

  CONTENTS
  HEADLINES 2-5
  WRITELINES 6/7 & 20
  BRANCH OPENINGS 8-11
  HOW GRAFTING 12/13
  PRODUCES THE PERFECT
  APPLE
  PENSIONS FUND REPORT 14/15
  BEHIND THE LINES 15-19
  COMPETITIONS 21
  NEW LINES
  ARCHIVES

• DEPOT FIRE DISRUPTS OPERATION
  02

  DEPOT FIRE
  DISRUPTS
  OPERATION
  The cooling tower and
  its surrounding area in
  tine main refrigeration
  plant room at Basingstoke
  depot was gutted
  by a fire on August 22.
  The fire was reported
  at around 2.30 in...

• SOVIET MINISTERS LEARN ABOUT FOOD DISTRIBUTION AT JS
  02

  SOVIET MINISTERS LEARN ABOUT FOOD DISTRIBUTION AT JS
  Yuri Luzhkov, far right,
  and John Gummer, are
  introduced to the store's
  scanning system by
  Wendy McGowen on
  checkouts. A top Soviet food chief
  visited Nine Elms...

• NEW STORE HAS PLENTY OF BOTTLE
  03

  NEW STORE HAS PLENTY OF BOTTLE
  Tunbridge Wells celebrated its first birthday
  with a commendation from The British Glass
  Manufacturers Federation for collecting the
  highest volume of glass for recycling in Kent.
  Six tonnes of...

• THE KING AND JS
  03

  THE KING AND JS
  His Serene Highness Prince Bhisatej Rajani of Thailand
  visited Nine Elms store on September 12 to witness the
  launch of Sainsbury's Thailand Royal Pourri.
  The new product, cultivated in Thailand,...

• TRAINERS IN TRAINING
  03

  TRAINERS IN TRAINING
  Twenty four members of staff from training departments have
  completed and passed the third professional development
  programme set up by JS in conjunction with a training consultancy.
  The 17 week course is...

• Apologies to Alison Fox
  04

  Apologies to Alison Fox, customer liaison officer,
  customer services,
  Blackfriars. She was
  renamed Alison Sox by a
  remiss Journal. She
  would like to make it plain
  she is not about to take
  up baseball.

• BIG SHOT BAKERS
  04

  BIG SHOT BAKERS
  More JS bakers have proved themselves to be rising
  talents.
  Mark Simmonds, bakery manager, Stevenage, was a
  runner-up in the national In-store Bakery Manager of the
  Year Aw/ard competition, which attracted 350...

• CALL THAT SERVICE
  04

  CALL THAT SERVICE
  London Colney Savacentre has installed a Service Call
  facility for disabled customers at its petrol station. All
  users of the hand held Service Call transmitter will now
  be able to summon assistance from...

• CAMDEN STYLE FOR GERMANY
  04

  CAMDEN STYLE FOR GERMANY
  Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners, the British firm of
  architects which designed the high-tech JS store in
  Camden, North London, has won an international
  competition to design a new stock exchange...

• Congratulations to Richard Griffiths
  04

  Congratulations to Richard Griffiths, deputy grocery
  manager at Chiswick, he
  is the latest winner of the
  SSA's quarterly £1,000
  draw.

• DESIGNERS LIGHTEN THE ENERGY LOAD
  04

  DESIGNERS LIGHTEN THE ENERGY LOAD
  Bright ideas in lighting at the St Clares store have been
  highly commended in the Energy Management in
  Lighting Awards organised by the Lighting Industry
  Federation.
  The new lighting scheme...

• APPOINTMENTS
  05

  APPOINTMENTS
  PHIL FRANCIS has been
  appointed president of
  Shaw's, JS's subsidiary
  company in New England.
  Reporting to David Jenkins,
  chairman and chief executive,
  he will be responsible for
  retail, buying and...

• CUSTOMERS TAKE THE HINTS
  05

  CUSTOMERS TAKE THE HINTS
  JS has given away one million liquid crystal fridge
  thermometers to help customers adjust their
  refrigerators to a correct and safe temperature.
  Findings in a recent customer survey,
  commissioned by...

• GALLERY IN THE WALL
  05

  GALLERY IN THE WALL
  A window of opportunity for young artists has opened
  at Red Bank Road. Five windows providing a display
  case for work by local art students have been
  incorporated into the wall on the Red Bank Road side
  of...

• JUST THE JOB
  05

  JUST THE JOB
  The weekly current
  vacancies bulletin, which
  gives details of vacant
  positions throughout JS,
  Homebase and Savacentre,
  was given a facelift
  last month with a new cover design and page layout,
  courtesy of...

• Writelines
  06

  A DAY OF
  SPLASHING OUT A
  Andrew Sage, grocery
  section manager,
  Leatherhead
  Thank you for the excellent
  advertisement you did for
  my Paintball Games
  competition on July 28 at
  the Flying Colours site at
  Cobham in Surrey. I...

• Branch opening—Springfield
  08

  SPRINGFIELD
  Now Chelmsford has its own little and large. A store with 41,000 sq ft of sales area opened on the edge of
  town to complement the smaller store in the centre of Chelmsford. The new store has an 86 seat coffee
  shop,...

• Homebase opening—Oxford
  09

  OXFORD
  The opening of Homebase number 63 received a warm welcome from the people of Oxford
  who began queuing early in the summer sunshine to take advantage of the 10 per cent discount
  and prize draw promotions.
  Opening date:...

• Branch opening—Alperton
  10

  ALPERTON
  The new store at Alperton, just off the busy A40 Western Avenue, has everything the modern JS customer
  has come to expect, including a coffee shop, petrol filling station and 15,300 lines. It also has a creche
  where...

• Branch opening—Larkfield
  11

  LARKFIELD
  Built from Godstone light and Staffordshire blue bricks, the new store at Aylesford, which lies a stone's
  throw down the A20 from Larkfield, makes an attractive addition to the Kent countryside. Its site has...

• when it comes to the crunch
  12

  when it comes to the crunch
  As the English fruit picking season draws to a close, the Journal goes
  down on the farm in Kent to learn about grafting and the part it plays
  in God's scheme to make the little green apples. Chris...

• How does your pension grow?
  14

  How does your pension grow?
  SCHEME MEMBERSHIP
  39,805
  1991 r 1990
  Contributing Members _. , .
  Full-Tlme Part-Time Total Pensions Pensions
  J...

• CHILDREN CHECK OUT SUPERMARKETS
  15

  CHILDREN CHECK OUT SUPERMARKETS
  As a nation of shop-keepers we like to start young and
  a group of four year olds in Romford took things seriously
  when it came to playing shop.
  A group of children from St...

• PULL OF THE PERFECT PINT
  15

  PULL OF THE PERFECT PINT
  Beer-hunters from South Western Area Beer Society
  (SWABS) have been continuing their quest for the perfect
  pint this summer. Here, Steve Fryer (left),
  deputy store manager. Badger Farm, and...

• TAKING STEPS TOWARDS SAFETY
  15

  TAKING STEPS TOWARDS SAFETY
  Staff at Arnold have helped to produce an Induction Pack for employers on
  Working Women's Personal Safety. BPM, Ailiss Nind and clerk, Caroline
  Anderson, were involved in the production of the pack...

• VISIT FROM THE EAST
  15

  VISIT FROM THE EAST
  East met West at Telford in July, when the store
  played host to a group of agriculturalists from the
  eastern Soviet republic of Kazakhstan. The visitors,
  guests of nearby agriculture college, Harper...

• MORE POWER TO THEIR PADDLES
  16

  MORE POWER TO THEIR PADDLES
  Northampton Homebase have been gently rowing down the
  stream - and have raised £112 in the process. The store entered
  the local sponsored Rotary Raft Race, built their own raft and
  completed the...

• PLYMOUTH SLIPS THE SWIMMERS A DUMMY
  16

  PLYMOUTH SLIPS THE SWIMMERS A DUMMY
  Plymouth has helped local Devonport Swimmers
  acquire a new member for the club. The store presented
  the club with £250 under the Good Neighbour
  Scheme and enabled the swimmers to buy a new...

• STANWAY PUTS SCHOOL IN THE PICTURE SCHOOL IN
  16

  STANWAY PUTS SCHOOL IN THE PICTURE
  Staff at Stanway have presented a local
  primary school with framed pictures
  drawn by one of its former pupils.
  The pictures were drawn by Trevor
  King, who, despite having muscular...

• WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM HER FRIENDS
  16

  WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM HER FRIENDS
  Following complications at her birth in 1989, the
  daughter of Stratford store instructor, Jane
  Rowland, was left with cerebral palsy.
  Last year Jordan was given an assessment at a
  private...

• SPECIAL DAY FOR SURVIVOR LYNNE
  17

  SPECIAL DAY FOR SURVIVOR LYNNE
  Every bride and groom hope their wedding day will be
  special, but Lynne and Craig Walmsley had a day
  which was extra special.
  Three years ago, when Lynne, supermarket assistant
  at Halifax, was...

• STEVENAGE SALE HELPS HOSPITAL
  17

  STEVENAGE SALE HELPS HOSPITAL
  A July auction of items donated by staff at Stevenage
  raised £500 for Lister Hospital's appeal fund. The
  appeal aims to raise a total of £200,000 to introduce
  advanced surgical techniques at the...

• THE FUN WAY TO RAISE FUNDS
  17

  THE FUN WAY TO RAISE FUNDS
  They are a chirpy lot at Chester since taking part in
  the RAF Sealand's It's A Knockout in aid of the local
  Mancot Hospital. Not only did they raise £400 for the
  charity, but they also came third...

• WHERE THE FUN LEADS TO
  17

  WHERE THE FUN LEADS TO
  South Western area stores have money to give
  away! They raised a total of £14,900 for charity at the
  area's Family Fun day held on June 9 (July Journal).
  Many of the stores have chosen local children's...

• BOURNEMOUTH IS ALL HEART
  18

  BOURNEMOUTH IS ALL HEART
  Bournemouth staff know better than anybody that
  walking and swimming is good for the heart. They
  raised £1,500 for Hearthnk, a children's Heart Care
  Association, by a sponsored ten mile walk and a...

• CALLING ALL COUPLES
  18

  CALLING ALL COUPLES
  JS has proved to be such a rich vein for researchers
  seeking contestants for gameshows, amongst them
  Bruce Forsyth's Takeover Bid, that the BBC has now
  asked us to help in their search for Old...

• NEW STYLE OF DRESS BRINGS SUNSHINE
  18

  NEW STYLE OF DRESS
  BRINGS SUNSHINE
  As new uniforms go on t r i a l in various branches
  Andrew Cornell, grocery section manager at West
  Green, tries out his own ideas. Andrew was clowning
  around with children on the Variety...

• ANDI IS HANDY WITH A TROLLEY
  19

  ANDI IS HANDY WITH A TROLLEY
  Spotted any famous faces in your store recently?
  Children's BBC television presenter, Andi Peters, told
  Radio Times readers: 'On Saturday mornings, if I'm
  not working, Sainsbury's Fulham is where...

• BERYL OPENED THE BOX
  19

  BERYL OPENED THE BOX
  Cries of 'Open the box. Take the money.' will bring
  back memories to all readers aged thirty something
  and above. Now the television programme Take Your
  Pick, which was hosted by Michael Miles in the...

• LEAVING IN STYLE
  19

  LEAVING IN STYLE
  Evelyn Haycox's departure from JS was stylish to
  say the least.
  When she retired from Basingstoke after 22
  years on her 64th birthday Evelyn was collected from
  the store by a Rolls Royce.
  Colleagues gathered...

• PUPPY LOVE
  19

  PUPPY LOVE
  Eric Russell's running has led to walkies, because in
  the six years since he took up marathon running he
  has raised nearly £3,000 to train two guide dogs for
  the blind.
  Eric, bakery manager at Cannon Park,...

• Journal crossword competition
  21

  Christmas is coming and if you are saving up for a fat goose, you may
  find £25 wortli ofJS gift vouchiers will come in handy. That is the
  prize in our Journal crossword competition; so let's see you carve this
  one up....

• LAST CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
  21

  LAST CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
  Our offer of a Journal pen to everyone who enters the J S Journal
  Photographic Competition 1991 has proved a good incentive to
  amateur photographers throughout the company.
  The entries...

• APPOINTMENTS
  22

  APPOINTMENTS
  PAUL ANGER, from store manager,
  Watford, to store manager,
  Heyford Hili. DENNIS BARNES,
  from senior store manager,
  Heyford Hill, to senior store manager,
  Kidlington. DIANE CARTER,
  from store manager,...

• LONG SERVICE
  22

  LONG SERVICE
  Employees who have completed
  40 years of service are:
  BRIAN CHRISTMAS, technical executive,
  Charlton depot. RAYMOND
  DANIEL, section manager,
  Dunstable. HARRY MALONEY,
  sample rooms, Blackfriars....

• OBITUARY
  22

  OBITUARY
  Length of service is shown in
  bracifets:
  REG COLLINS, production operator,
  Haverhill Meat Products, died
  on August 4, after a long illness,
  aged 60 (20 years). JILL HOLMES,
  fresh food controller, Bedford,
  died on...

• RETIREMENTS
  22

  RETIREMENTS
  Length of service is showr) in
  brackets:
  ROY ENOCH, service controller.
  South Eastern area (38 years).
  CEDRIC EVANS, meat manager,
  Reading (38 years). JOHN
  FULCHEB, store manager. Doncaster (37 years). REG...

• AN OFFER NO-ONE COULD REFUSE
  23

  AN OFFER NO-ONE COULD
  REFUSE
  Starting a meal the Italian way is as
  easy as unscrewing a jar thanks to
  Antipasto, the latest addition to the
  JS Classic Italian range.
  Made to authentic Italian recipes,
  the five varieties of...

• . . . OR GIVE THEM THE SOFT SOAP TREATMENT
  23

  . . . OR GIVE THEM THE SOFT SOAP TREATMENT
  Some Christmas gift ideas available in 200 branches
  with Nature's Compliment's of the season are: Drawer
  Liners, £3.95 for five sheets; Soap Basket, £3.45; Skin
  Care Basket, £5.95;...

• SOCK IT TO THEM FOR CHRISTMAS . . .
  23

  SOCK IT TO THEM FOR CHRISTMAS . . .
  Keeping out the chill from children's feet this Christmas is a new range of
  brightly patterned socks featuring seasonal designs.
  Available at 185 branches, they are priced at £1.75 for sizes...

• Sweet tooth
  23

  There's a wealth of new ideas to keep the sweet
  toothed happy this Christmas with Sugared Almonds
  (£1.45 - 227 gram). Fudge Assortment (£2.95 - 575
  gram jar). Mint Assortment (£1.95 - 658 gram jar). Milk
  Chocolate Tree...

• OUR STYLISH PAST
  24

  OUR STYLISH PAST
  The forthcoming introduction of new uniforms for
  Sainsbury's staff, presents an opportune time to
  look at some former JS uniforms.
  In the early days of the company, male sales
  staff wore white single breasted...