'JS Journal', March 1994

Table of content

• Contents Page
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  CONTENTS
  HEADLINES
  WRITELINES 6/7 & 23
  SABRE UPDATE
  STAR OF THE RETAIL
  QUALITY SCENE
  HENDON OPENING: ''
  RETAIL MANAGEMENT
  CONFERENCE 10-12
  COMMUNITY INVESTMENT
  SUPPLEMENT 13-20
  BOXING CLEVER - THE
  MAKING OF
  A BOXER...

• CORRECTION
  02

  CORRECTION
  Apologies to Ian
  Elkins, district
  manager on the
  South Western Area.
  He was given the
  wrong title of store
  manager In the
  caption to our story
  'Pupils assemble for
  roll call...' on page 4
  of the...

• Frontline
  02

  Getting into peak condition
  There is a great sense of change
  in the company at the moment,
  just as there are great changes in
  the food retailing business as a
  whole. Store managers everywhere
  will have returned from...

• Trading statement
  02

  The statement was
  transmitted
  electronically to the
  City. Pictured is press
  officer Jane Marshall.
  On January 28, the company
  issued a trading
  statement to the Stock
  Exchange. This was the
  first time a statement has
  been...

• Hearts in the right place - out in front
  03

  Hearts in the right place - out in front
  Cupid's arrow flew in
  Sainsbury's direction last
  month and shot straight to
  a couple of chocolate gifts
  to melt the hearts of lovers
  everywhere.
  Woman magazine
  loved Sainsbury's...

• Opportunity 2000 puts girls in hard hats
  03

  Opportunity 2000 puts girls in hard hats
  Alan Cutts, Sainsbury's contracts manager, gets carried
  away at Kidderminster. With him are students (I to r)
  Lucie Palmer, Kate Perry, Sharon Buckley, Kate Halford,
  Verity Thorpe and...

• Record number of voices in competition
  03

  A record 302 choirs have
  entered the biennial Choir
  of the Year competition.
  Each of them is hoping to
  sing their way to the
  £2,000 first prize on offer
  to the winner of the
  televised final in October
  (there is another...

• Writers given a taste of Sainsbury's
  03

  Writers given a taste of Sainsbury's
  On February 2, Sainsbury's
  played host to 65
  members of the Guild of
  Food Writers.
  Guests were invited to
  the 'Taste of Sainsbury's'
  workshop at Blackfriars, where they had the...

• All change again for 25 Club presentations
  04

  All change again for 25 Club presentations
  Long servers share their
  experiences of the last 25
  years with chairman David
  Sainsbury. More than 30 people
  gathered at Blackfriars on
  January 17 for the first of
  the year's 25...

• Clear winner
  04

  Clear winner
  Jayn Gilbert, formerly of environment affairs, accepts the
  award from the Earl of Arran, parliamentary undersecretary
  of state for business and the environment, with LBC
  presenter Donald Trelford (left) and Peter...

• Health scheme increases benefits for Group staff
  04

  Health scheme increases benefits for Group staff
  BHSF Health and
  Welfare have added four
  popular new treatments
  to their Sainsbury Group
  health plan, and
  increased the cash value
  of three benefits by up to
  £200, at no...

• No place like Homebase for saving energy
  04

  No place like Homebase for saving energy
  Terry Hartnup, manager of Kensington Homebase (left),
  shows John Gummer some of the energy-saving products
  sold at Homebase. Environment Secretary
  John Gummer launched
  Energy Advice...

• APPOINTMENTS
  05

  APPOINTMENTS
  DAVID CLARKE, formerly
  Caniey store manager, has
  been appointed district
  manager on the Midlands
  area, replacing RODNEY
  WooLLiscROFT, who has
  moved to Shaw's on
  secondment.
  ALAN MOONEY, formerly
  store...

• Branches to get PCs
  05

  Branches to get PCs
  All branches are to
  receive by the end of the
  year new hardware and
  software, which will
  replace some of their
  procedure manuals and
  provide them with word
  processing for the first
  time. The hardware...

• Margaret is our Hong Kong winner
  05

  Margaret is our Hong Kong winner
  you were one of the
  2,000 entrants in our
  Christmas competition to
  win a week in Hong
  Kong, then the waiting is
  over - the three winners
  have been drawn. Stratton
  checkout assistant...

• News in brief
  05

  News in brief
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  Marks and Spencer will,
  from next year, be selling
  pensions and life policies
  in an extension to its
  financial services operation
  launched in 1984 with
  the M&S Chargecard. The
  policies will be...

• Sunday trading bill close to becoming law
  05

  Sunday trading bill close to becoming law
  The Sunday Trading Bill
  took a major step forward
  to becoming law on
  February 23 when MPs
  supported the Third
  Reading of the Bill by a
  majority of 93 votes.
  During the...

• Writelines
  06

  WRITELINES
  BLOWING HOT
  AND COLD
  Neil Collins,
  checkout assistant,
  East Prescot Road
  Is it possible to relax the
  rules regarding personal
  appearance, particularly in
  the summer months?
  Marks & Spencer trust
  their staff...

• QUALITY AND THE CUSTOMER
  08

  QUALITY AND THE CUSTOMER
  Four development and training
  initiatives were brought together
  in Autumn 1992 and now form
  'Quality and the Customer' which
  is the cornerstone of the current
  drive to improve customer service
  - the...

• SABRE makes space and improves availability
  08

  SABRE makes space and improves availability
  Twelve branches received a very useful Christmas present
  this year - a new system for ordering perishables. During November, SABRE
  launched the latest part of their
  system, doing...

• Branch opening—Hendon
  09

  HENDON
  On the day of the new
  Hendon store opening, most
  of London was covered with a
  blanl heaviest fall of the year.
  Resourceful staff picked their
  way to the nearby Homebase
  store in Mill Hill and...

• Conference outlines key tasks for retailing
  10

  Conference outlines key tasks for retailing
  'This Retail Management Conference is one of
  the most important in the history of the
  company,' explained the chairman in his
  opening address at Birmingham's Metropole
  Hotel on...

• COMMUNITY INVESTMENT SUPPLEMENT
  13

  THE YEAR OF giving GENEROUSLY
  Sainsbury's takes its responsibilities
  seriously and that includes supporting
  the community about us. Being a
  national company, that support must
  reflect where we trade, and it must offer
  all...

• BOXING CLEVER
  21

  The Sainsbury's Lifestyle range of clothing, sold in all Savacentre
  stares, has a growing reputation for quality and value. Now, Lifestyle
  is appearing in JS supermarkets. Underwear, hosiery, and
  casualwear have been sold as...

• Checkout the Future
  24

  This year is the tenth anniversary of scanning in JS. At first there was
  some public resistance to the idea - it was rumoured the lasers caused
  impotence or interfered with pacemakers! Now it is hard to imagine
  branch life...

• A sandpit to be taken seriously
  26

  A sandpit to be taken seriously
  Joshua Davidson and Emily
  Dawson, both aged 3,
  try out a wheeibarrow
  for size, under the
  watchful eye of
  Alan Cole. As the new store at Swadlincote
  was being built, so were
  relationships...

• Cliffettes on tour
  26

  Cliffettes on tour
  When eight staff from Worle went
  to Paris for a weekend it wasn't to improve their French, sample the wine, or
  visit the sights, although they did all of this
  and more. It was in fact in search of...

• King's Lynn raises king's ransom
  26

  King's Lynn raises king's ransom
  staff at King's Lynn have
  raised a cash bonanza of
  £1,000. A cheque for £700
  was presented to the
  IVIacMillan Nurses, and £300
  was given to the NSPCC. The money for the MacMillan
  Nurses...

• Kneading advice
  26

  Kneading advice
  Barry Todd, South Western area
  bakery specialist, is becoming a
  regular visitor to Broadcut
  He recently played host to
  two Russian visitors. Irena and
  Svetlana visited the store to see
  how an English bakery...

• Lisa's fast food flight
  26

  Lisa's fast food flight
  Beckton Savacentre was a flurry
  of promotional activity when it
  opened and one of the weekly
  prizes was a Champagne
  Christmas lunch on Concorde,
  won by Lisa Ashley.
  She wrote to Simon Galkoff
  the...

• Burpham's prize gesture
  27

  Burpham's prize gesture
  L to R: Sharon O'Connor, health and beauty assistant; Mike Salmon, store
  manager; Christine Douglas from the competition sponsors; Pat Riley and
  Jaclcie Atkinson from the MS Society and Robbie Phillips....

• Emergency fundraising!
  27

  Emergency fundraising!
  Thanet branch is supporting
  a local organisation to set
  up a 24 hour accident and
  emergency unit in the area.
  A cheque for £1,600
  was presented to the Thanet
  Tear Appeal towards the
  unit, and it is...

• Friends bring family together
  27

  Friends bring family togetlier
  Margaret with her colleagues from the store. Colleagues of IVIargaret Valsler
  organised a very special reunion
  in very special circumstances.
  Margaret, a checkout
  operator at...

• Manager checks out a different job
  27

  Manager checks out a different job
  Stewart looks as though he thinks the cash desk just might bite. The sports and social club of
  Oldbui^ Savacentre set a
  challenge for 12 managers, but
  only one had to complete it.
  Steve...

• Trainee baker best in year
  27

  Trainee baker best in year
  Tony IVIiller from St Albans has
  been presented with the First
  Year Breadmaking Prize Award at
  Cassio College.
  Tony joined Sainsbury's in
  February 1989 in the grocery and
  produce departments and...

• CAKES ARE BETTER BY THE FOOT
  28

  CAKES ARE BETTER BY THE FOOT
  JS has Introduced two new
  chocolate cakes. Chocolate
  Layer Cake and Chocolate and
  Orange Marble Cake are both cut
  cakes, made In baking trays up to
  a foot long then cut into
  individual cakes and...

• CANTONESE CABBAGE
  28

  CANTONESE CABBAGE
  Sainsbury's has launched a
  new line in the Chinese range
  of products - Crispy Seaweed.
  Crispy Seaweed is in fact
  made of fried spring cabbage,
  and Is sprinkled with toasted
  flaked almonds. It is made to
  a...

• CUSTARD'S LATEST STAND
  28

  CUSTARD'S LATEST STAND
  Two new Sainsbury's desserts
  have the flavour of traditional
  England: Strawberries and
  Custard, and Blackberry, Apple
  and Custard in 140g pots. They
  can be microwaved, and are
  delicious hot or cold....

• Nicky snapped up by Sun for Knickerbox nighties
  28

  Nicky snapped up by Sun for Knickerbox nighties
  When Nicky Sayer from
  Tottenham entered a model
  competition in The Sun
  newspaper, tlie last thing she
  expected was to have her face in
  shop windows countrywide.
  Checkout...

• Scanning lines win skiing holiday for Louise
  28

  Snow-bound winner Louise Hill Is pictured centre
  with the SSA's Clare Barlow and Steve Torn of
  tour operator Equity. This was the winning entry from
  Louise Hill of branch services,
  Blackfriars, In the Equity Total
  Ski Holiday...

• COMPLIMENTS OF THE SPRING SEASON
  29

  COMPLIMENTS OF THE SPRING SEASON
  JS has launched a selection of
  Spring Gifts in the Nature's
  Compliments range.
  A fragranced dried flower
  arrangement is presented in a
  duck made from bamboo, and is
  available in pink and...

• HEALTHY GROWTH THE NATURAL WAY
  29

  HEALTHY GROWTH THE NATURAL WAY
  Homebase has introduced a new
  fertilizer offish, blood and bone.
  Originally used in Victorian cottage gardens, this product
  was one of the first balanced
  fertilizers. It provides plants
  with...

• HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR EGGS?
  29

  HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR EGGS?
  As part of this year's range of
  Easter products, JS has
  introduced many new children's
  varieties, several of which are
  under £ 1 .
  There are two new novelty eggs
  - a decorated hippo and...

• SSA OFFERS
  30

  SAINSBURY'S STAFF ASSOCIATION
  Tel: 0719217227
  SCANDrNAVIAN SEAWAYS
  UISE
  This Scandinavian cruise is 3 Mfde flay Friday to Sun
  Gotiienburg in Sweden with two nights on board one of the
  Scandinavian Seaways luxury vessels.
  '...

• BACK IN THE SADDLE
  31

  BACK IN THE SADDLE The WCTTC is a true test of
  I cycling ability over four
  events: 25, 50 and 100 mile rides on
  local roads, culminating in a thighaching
  12 hour endurance: a
  gruelling trial for a 20 year old, let
  alone,...

• LONG SERVICE
  31

  LONG SERVICE
  Employees who have completed
  25 years' service are:
  JEAN BOWN, clerk, Buntingford
  depot. SHEILA BUCKLEY,
  newspapers assistant,
  Nuneaton. RUDI CEFAI, store
  manager, Nuneaton. JOHN
  CHALLIS, driver,...

• OBITUARY
  31

  OBITUARY
  Length of service in brackets
  MARK BROWN, student,
  Haywards Heath, died
  suddenly on January 20,
  aged 18 (18 months).
  MAUREEN DAVIES, checkout
  assistant. Merry Hill, died on January 14 after a long
  illness, aged 54...

• RETIREMENTS
  31

  RETIREMENTS
  Length of service in brackets
  DEREK FILLERY, meat
  manager, Langney (39 years). PETER ARMINGER,
  section manager, Langney
  (38 years). ROBERT PYZER,
  meat manager. Great
  Yarmouth (37 years).
  MICHAEL TORRANCE,...

• THAT'S A SAINSBURY SHIRT SHE'S WEARING!
  32

  ARCHIVES
  THAT'S A
  SAINSBURY SHIRT
  SHE'S WEARING!
  Sainsbury's Lifestyle range
  is not the company's first foray
  into the rag trade.
  SAINSBURY'SNYLONS
  Early hosiery packaging. ^ ^ J ^ osiery first stretched out on
  ^ ^ ^ ^ ^...