'JS Journal', July 1994

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• Bedford Charter House
  02

  Fairfield Park's store
  manager Peter Jones
  meets residents of
  Bedford Charter
  House. They are off
  on a day trip to
  Woburn Sands
  financed by the
  store's Good
  Neighbour Scheme
  donation.

• Contents Page
  02

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• Frontline
  02

  Chelinsford regular John Boreham told the Journal, half an
  hour before the store opened, that he was looking forward
  to it 'like a dog with his tongue hanging out'!
  Thoroughly modem mini
  It's great to be at the centre of...

• More time for mime
  02

  More time for mime
  Sainsbury's has
  started a three year
  sponsorship deal with
  a spectacularly original
  touring theatre
  company known
  as Trestle.
  The actors
  combine comedy with
  mime and use dramatic
  masks to bring the...

• Clear way forward
  03

  Clear way forward
  Jayn Gilbert receives tlie award for
  outstanding contribution to recycling
  from shadow secretary of state for
  the environment Jack Straw.
  British Glass has presented
  an award to
  Sainsbury's for...

• Oz awarded for his wine A-Z
  03

  Oz awarded for his wine A-Z
  The Sainsbury's
  Encyclopaedia of Wine
  has won a Wine Guild
  award for its author, the
  exuberant Oz Clarke. Oz is widely loved by the
  wine-buying public for his
  'everyman' approach...

• Reaching for the STAR
  03

  In order to share the ideas
  coming out of Action
  Teams, a newsletter -
  Retail Quality News - is
  being published for stores.
  The newsletter, says
  senior manager of labour
  methods and systems
  Chris Baker, 'aims to
  highlight...

• Are you sitting comfortably?
  04

  Are you sitting comfortably?
  Ladbroke Grove's coffee shop was twice
  taken over by 80 toddlers on June 9 and all
  was rapt attention.
  Legendary children's author Shirley Hughes
  kept them transfixed with tales from...

• Linda's shell-shock
  04

  Linda's shell-shock
  You may have been impressed when you or a friend
  cracked open an egg containing two yolks. Imagine
  Linda Seaton's surprise when she discovered one with
  FOUR. Says Hankridge Farm's
  coffee shop...

• Ring the changes
  04

  Ring the changes
  I f i APRIL 1995
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  The National Telephone Numbering
  Scheme is running out of numbers. In
  order to expand the capacity, new area
  codes will be in use across
  the country...

• News in brief
  05

  News in brief
  Last July, the Journal
  reported a brutal assault on
  a customer in Nine Elms
  car park. On June 9, a man
  was sentenced to life
  imprisonment for the
  attack during which
  Supermarket assistant
  Sevim Isik was also...

• OBE for JS director
  05

  OBE for JS director
  Sainsbury's store format
  director Peter Ibbotson has
  been awarded an OBE in
  the Queen's Birthday
  Honours for his services to
  energy efficiency.
  Peter has taken a
  special interest in energy
  efficiency...

• Pools splash Rose is staying put
  05

  Pools splash Rose is staying put
  Poor Rose Titcombe has
  a problem - she does not
  know how to spend her
  £169,000.
  The Colchester Avenue
  dry goods deputy had
  been using the same pools
  numbers for 12 years
  when her husband,...

• Sainsbury's talks to US investors
  05

  Sainsbury's talks to US investors
  US investors
  Joint managing director
  David Quarmby, finance
  director Rosemary Thome
  and director of business
  development Richard
  Chadwick spent two days
  last month in New York
  and Boston...

• 'Secret garden' enjoyed by thousands
  05

  'Secret garden' enjoyed by thousands
  Austen believes there's no business Mice show business. Austen Myers almost upstaged BBC gardening experts
  like Geoffrey Smith on the Homebase stand at the
  Gardeners' World Live Show. The...

• Branch opening—Central Chelmsford
  06

  Opening date: 14 June 1994
  Address: Higher Clielmer Sliopping
  Centre, Chelmsford, Essex
  Opened by: Joint managing director
  David Quarmby
  Store manager: Jeff Thurlow
  Project manager: Steve Newell
  Staff: 172 (42 new...

• Homebase opening—Harrow Weald
  06

  Opening date: 27 May 1994
  Address: 354 High Road, Harrow
  Weald
  Opened by: Deputy managing
  director Ross McLaren
  Store manager: John Norris
  Project manager: Neil Hotston
  Staff: 77 (69 new staff)
  Sajes area: 35,700 sq...

• Branch opening—Cwmbran
  08

  Opening date: 21 June 1994
  Address: Llywelyn Rd, Cwmbran,
  Gwent
  Opened by: Deputy chairman and
  joint managing director Tom Vyner
  Store manager: Ralph Lord
  Project manager: Ken Sinclair
  Staff: 362 (152 new staff)
  Sales...

• The fairest of them all
  08

  The fairest of them all
  Maya farmers strike gold
  Thirty year old Jnstino Peck lives with his wife
  Christina and children in the small and remote
  village of San Jose
  in Belize, Central America.
  Electricity has not...

• Writelines
  10

  A QUESTION OF CREDIT
  Graham Harding,
  Wokingham
  Following your article on
  the Company Quiz, I and
  the rest of the Wokingham
  Wizards were disappointed
  in the way our second
  place was reported.
  Oh JS Journal we're in
  such a...

• HARRY'S HOLE IN ONE
  12

  HARRY'S HOLE IN ONE Sewy Ballesteros may be taking the Ryder Cup Tournament away from The Belfry to
  Spain, but compensation came In the form of JS veteran Harry Moss's hole In one at the Sainsbury's Golf Day. May 30 went down in...

• Wild west
  12

  Mad dogs and Englishmen were out in
  the midday sun at Central and Western's
  Family Fun Day on June 19.
  One of the more bizarre highlights of the day was the
  sight of the Tricky Tykes Terrier Display Team. A few of
  the 1,500...

• It's fun up here
  13

  It's fun up nere The first Northern Area Fun Day at Rlpley Castle on Sunday June 26
  can safely be described as a knockout success. On the same weekend as the Glastonbury festival at
  the other end of the country, an estimated...

• Skin dipping
  14

  Skin dipping
  There has been a lot of attention paid
  to packaging in the past few years.
  A great deal of ingenuity has been
  shown in perfecting some of the
  classics of utilitarian design - the
  strong but simple egg box,...

• The JS Journal photographic competition
  16

  The JS Journal photographic competition
  The Wimbledon balls have been collected, curtseys
  curtseyed, shiny trophies lifted above jubilant faces and
  the nets rolled and put away; the world's great
  footballing nations (well most...

• FUN FOOD
  17

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• In your own write
  17

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  A picture may paint a thousand words but if you are
  under 26 and wouid rather express yourseif with a pen,
  then why not provide up to two thousand...

• Music to their ears
  17

  Music to their ears
  Congratulations to Bev Davis
  of Hampden Park in
  Eastbourne. She is the
  winner of our American
  Challenge competition in the
  April JS Journal. She will be
  joining the ranks of the CD
  buying public with...

• A day at the races
  18

  A day at the races
  When Anthony Harlow reached
  his 60th birthday he was granted
  VIP status for the day. After 23
  years' service, the customer
  service assistant at Beeston was
  given a special treat at Southwell
  Races,...

• In search of cod
  18

  In search of cod
  With the new Blackhall store in
  Scotland trading heavily, some of
  the lads there hit on a relaxing
  diversion and established a fishing
  section.
  On June 11, a team of seven
  visited Holy Island off the...

• Neighbourhood get together
  18

  Neighbourhood get together
  Folkestone and West Park
  Farm stores kept it in tlie family
  when tliey made tlieir Good
  Neigiibour Scheme
  presentations. Husband and
  wife Jan Snow, BPIVI at
  Folkestone, and Andrew Snow,
  manager...

• Rotary strokes
  18

  Rotary strokes
  A team of Sainsbury's
  swimmers went to great
  lengths recently to raise money
  for their local Rotary Club. The
  Potters Bar team entered the
  Charity Swim Challenge and
  came joint second by
  swimming 36 lengths....

• Salisbury's toyboy!
  18

  'With ladies like these, I feel like
  a young lad,' said Salisbury's
  store manager Mike Bocock.
  'Who's he kidding?' said BPIVI
  Coral Cortnell!
  Salisbury was celebrating two
  70th birthdays - of packers Elise
  Allen and Edie...

• Brewing up an audience stormer
  19

  Brewing up an audience stormer
  The show will go on, thanks to
  Sainsbury's. Burton upon Trent
  store has presented £1,200
  raised through the Penny Back
  Scheme to Burton's Brewhouse
  Arts Centre to be used for youth
  theatre...

• Fire hero saves four from flames
  19

  Fire hero saves four
  from flames
  A set of two-year-old quads are
  alive and well with help from a
  brave member of staff from
  Chrlstchurch.
  Gareth Burgess, warehouse
  assistant, had not long returned
  from an evening shift in...

• Give us a break
  19

  Northern highlights
  BlackhaU's fresh foods deputy Glen Knox has been busy lately organising social
  events, not only for his branch but for the whole of the Northern area. He features in
  both these Northern area stories: Give us...

• BABY DIRT BUSTER
  20

  BABY DIRT BUSTER
  Take two bottles into the
  bathroom when you are doing
  the spring cleaning? Not now.
  JS has just launched a
  Concentrated Multisurface
  Liquid Cleaner that tackles
  tough stains neat or can be
  diluted to scrub...

• BLUE RIBAND BREWS
  20

  BLUE RIBAND BREWS July sees the replacement of the familiar own brand
  cans of bitter and lager with five new beers. Lager
  drinkers can now choose between the Green Riband
  Lager at 3% alcohol by volume (ABV) and the stronger
  4%...

• NO BONES ABOUT IT
  20

  Throw convention to
  the wind and tuck into
  turkey with 150 odd
  days still to go to
  Christmas. Two new
  Boneless Butter
  Basted Joints (the
  taste is easier on the
  tongue than the name)
  are excellent cold in
  either a...

• SHOOT TO KILL
  20

  SHOOT TO KILL
  No sooner does your garden
  start blooming with carefully
  nurtured flora than the
  unwanted insect fauna get
  stuck in. Fight back this year
  with the new Homebase Pest
  Gun. The ready to use
  insecticide will kill...

• TAKE STOCK FOR A SQUARE MEAL
  20

  TAKE STOCK FOR A SQUARE MEAL
  Sainsbury's has launched the first
  own-brand version of dry crumbly
  stock cubes as opposed to the
  gooey type, technically known as
  bouillon cubes. There are three
  flavours: beef, chicken plus...

• Solutions to crossword on page 17
  21

  Solutions to crossword
  on page 17.
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  8. Rebut,
  10. Lunch, 12. Ham,
  13. Messy, 14. Odour,
  15. Loaves, 16. Celery,
  18. Donut, 19. Attar,
  20.Eel 21. Gray's,
  24. Edwin,
  26. Greengrocery.
  DOWN
  1....

• TRAVELLING HOPEFULLY
  21

  TRAVELLING HOPEFULLY
  David Paterson has visited
  no less than 100 JS supermarkets
  and Homebase
  stores since 1987, but rarely
  does he go inside.
  David is an award
  winning professional
  fundraiser who has spent a
  total of...

• SSA OFFERS
  22

  SAINSBURY'S STAFF ASSOCIATION
  Tel: 0719217227
  WIN A HILTON HOTEL
  WEEKEND
  4i:
  Hilton Hotels are offering a JS Journal reader the
  opportunity to win a luxury weekend break for two at The
  Langham Hilton in London, pictured...

• LONG SERVICE
  23

  LONG SERVICE
  Employees who have recently
  completed 25years' service
  are:
  MICHAEL ANGSELL, car parl<
  attendant, Bath. STEPHEN
  ELTRIDGE, senior printer,
  Biackfriars. BETTY HAYWARD,
  bread and cake assistant,
  Edgware. MARIE...

• OBITUARY
  23

  OBITUARY
  Length of service in brackets
  PAUUNE D'ARCY, health and
  beauty assistant, Nuneaton,
  died suddenly on June 2
  aged 50 (7 years). JOAN
  HUTTON, fresh foods
  replenishment, Dagenham,
  died suddenly on June 10
  aged 50...

• RETIREMENTS
  23

  RETIREMENTS
  Our list of retirements is once
  again longer than usual as it
  includes employees who have
  accepted the company's early
  retirement package.
  Length of service In brackets.
  • G AuEN, checkout/
  replenishment,...

• WEDDING
  23

  Jo and Rachel.
  WEDDING
  Congratulations to
  Leamington's senior
  wareliouse assistant Jo TIGHE
  and meat assistant RACHEL
  PiRTNiEKS, who tied tine knot
  on May 14. Tlney spent their
  honeymoon in the steamy
  and romantic...

• PLENTY FOR ALL
  24

  ARCHIVES
  Eastbourne rationed goods department 1952.
  PLENTY FOR ALL
  'Goodbye to permits'.
  Forty years ago this month,
  this is how the JS Journal announced
  the end of war-time rationing and
  controls, more than 14 years after...