'JS Journal', September 1994

Table of content

• Contents Page
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  CONTENTS
  HEADLINES
  WRITELINES
  AGM REPORT
  BRANCH OPENINGS:
  WOKING SUPERMARKET
  AND HOMEBASE 10/11
  PENSION FUND REPORT 13
  JUST THE JOB - THE PRODUCT
  TECHNOLOGIST 14/15
  THE LIFE OF A CHEQUE 16
  GREEN SCENE 17
  STAR CORNER...

• Food shelf to book shelf in two days
  02

  Food shelf to book
  shelf in two days
  When Anneka Rice crashed into Terry Wogan's Radio
  2 show to appeal for help in compiling a recipe book in
  48 hours, Sainsbury's rose to the challenge. Celebrities and the general
  public...

• Frontline
  02

  Constructive starts
  We don't expect you to go quite to the lengths the
  creators of our cover picture went to but we are
  looking for inventive shots. Yes, it's photo
  competition time of the year again. This year's
  competition...

• Gold watches for silver service
  02

  Gold watches for silver service
  Two hundred and fifty
  staff have reached their
  25 years' service milestone
  in the last 12
  months and 60 of them
  came to Stamford House
  on July 4 to be congratulated
  by the chairman
  David...

• First Cornish store launches school fleet
  03

  There is no Text

• Fit to work at 81
  03

  Fit to work at 81
  Jack Garner of Purley
  Way Croydon celebrated
  his 81st birthday by
  appearing on News at
  Ten. The programme was
  reporting on the issue of
  ageism among employers,
  and featured Sainsbury's
  as an employer...

• Only 85 shopping days to Christmas
  03

  Only 85 shopping days to Christmas
  Christmas came early this year for the Royal Society
  of Arts where Sainsbury's showed off their new
  Christmas lines to journalists. The 400 or so new or repackaged
  products on
  display...

• Tesco takes the Low road to Scotland
  03

  Tesco takes the Low road to Scotland
  Tesco is set to buy the
  Scottish supermarket
  group William Low for
  £247m (360p per share).
  Tesco's first offer to
  purchase the 57 supermarkets,
  made on July 14,
  was worth £154m...

• Courtney's cooks up new-look restaurant
  04

  Courtney's cooks up new-look restaurant
  Chilli may have been on
  the menu but there was no
  chilly welcome from
  Merton's new customer
  restaurant. Courtney's was
  opened on July 22 by
  Capital Radio's Kara
  Noble. The...

• Sunday shopping becomes law
  04

  Sunday shopping becomes law
  Purley Way hosted a jazz band at last year's
  National Sunday Shopping Day. The Sunday Trading Bill
  received Royal Assent in
  July and came into force
  on August 26.
  The 1994 Sunday
  Trading Act...

• We're going through changes
  04

  GENESIS COMMENT
  We're going
  through changes
  Various projects under Genesis, Sainsbury's major
  restructuring and business re-engineering
  programme, liave come to fruition over ttie last six
  montlis. Joint managing director...

• Free to work
  05

  The Sainsbury-sponsored
  guide to childcare. Free to
  Work, hit the shelves of JS
  and Savacentre on August
  22. The £1.95 book
  compiled by the lone
  parents charity Gingerbread
  provides over 2,000
  contacts, and is the...

• News in brief
  05

  News in brief
  THE BOOTS COMPANY
  The Boots Company pic
  reported at its annual
  general meeting on July 21
  an increase in first quarter
  Group sales of 4.4%
  compared to the last
  financial year. Boots own
  Halfords,...

• The graduates
  05

  The graduates
  The company's first MBA
  student to gain iiis degree
  while in the retailing
  division graduated in July.
  Chris Yates, deputy manager
  at Fulham JS, received a
  gold pen from David
  Quarmby along with the
  three...

• Writelines
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  METRICATION MADE SIMPLE
  Sheila Boyce, fresh food
  replenishment assistant,
  East Grinstead
  We are increasingly being
  asked by customers to
  convert grams to ounces,
  litres to pints and viceversa.
  Few people can do
  these...

• AGM REPORT
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  TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS
  A report from the Annual General Meeting held in London on July 6
  For the second time in six years, the day of the
  Annual General Meeting was one on which trains
  were halted by industrial action. But,...

• Branch opening—Truro
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  TRURO The company's first Cornish supermarket
  which opened at Truro on July 5
  is appropriately built of Cornish stone.
  Much of the stone came from the Truro
  Grammar School for Girls, which had
  originally stood on the...

• WOKING SUPERMARKET AND HOMEBASE
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  Opening date: 14 July 1994
  Address: Bagshot Road, Knaphill,
  Wok ing, Surrey
  Opened by: Homebase chairman
  Dino Adriano
  Store manager: David Ward
  Project manager: Mike Gauld
  Staff: 86 (79 new staff)
  Sales area: 39,000 sq...

• Branch opening—Harlow
  12

  Opening date: 12 July 1994
  Address: Fifth Ave, Harlow,
  Essex
  Opened by: Chairman
  David Sainsbury
  Store manager: Geoff Cole
  Project manager: Ray Riley
  Staff: 477 (232 new staff)
  Sales area: 40,000 sq ft
  Car park: 584...

• 'Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty'
  12

  'Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty'
  Left: Ben Cohen, Jerry Green, director of the Children's
  Society Ian Sparks and JS marketing manager Faith
  Gould, with youngsters from The Children's Society. A sticker...

• PENSION FUND PROFILE
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  PENSION FUND PROFILE
  The Annual Report of the Trustees for the Sainsbury staff pension
  scheme is currently being distributed around the company. There
  have been no changes to the benefits of the scheme in the last year
  and...

• The bug stops here
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  JUST THE JOB The bug stops here
  Jane Perkins (right) oversees with the factory's quality controller,
  the first production run of a new own brand hair wax. Wandering the
  wastes of Alaska or
  being accosted by
  Piiiiippine...

• CHEQUE POINT BARCLAYS
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  Once the customers' clieques have been collected from
  the checkouts, the store's cash office staff make a
  record of each one. These records are known as 'add
  lists' and they accompany the cheques on their journey.
  The cheques...

• GREEN SCENE
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  GREEN SCENE FRESH FOIL FOR OLD
  Coldhams Lane senior
  store manager Ernest
  Ormes with Baroness
  David JP who is on the
  Select Committee for the
  Environment (far left)
  and the Mayor of
  Cambridge Cllr...

• STAR CORNER
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  STARCORNER
  Action Team ideas from the 200 STAR stores continue to improve
  customer service and save time and money. wm I
  , A marketing idea which came from
  Stafford is to be extended to other
  stores on David Ware's district...

• What would you do with £100,000?
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  What would you do with £100,000?
  What with the £169,000 Colchester Avenue's Rose Titcombe won on the pools recently (July
  Journal), our Vernons pools competition in June, and the imminent launch of the National
  Lottery in...

• Branch lines
  20

  Branch lines
  William Shakespeare was a
  Taurean; the electric suction
  vacuum cleaner was patented in
  June 1869, and rose plants love
  tea leaves. These are just a few
  of the host of factual fripperies
  to be found in the pages...

• Facelift for the old school yard
  20

  Facelift for the old school yard
  'Lots of potential' was the
  kindest way to describe the old
  courtyard at Horsendale Primary
  School in Nottingham. The school
  needed help in reclaiming the
  unattractive area for the...

• Hand in your recycling work
  20

  Hand in your recycling work
  Just when we thought we had run out of alternative uses for a JS
  carrier bag, in comes a letter from Jean Cutts, head teacher of
  Maple Infants' School in Surbiton.
  The children found the plastic...

• Red Rooster brings slugs to Enfield!
  20

  Red Rooster brings slugs to Enfield!
  'Sampson the Super Slug' has
  come to Enfield. In particular,
  the home of Steve Rigby, meat
  manager at Harringay and his
  wife Amanda, customer
  services manager at
  Winchmore Hill. Just 10...

• SSA Competition Winners
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  We are pleased to announce that
  the Pontins Competition winner
  is Veteran A W Shreeves, a
  former driver from Charlton
  depot. Congratulations and have
  a great holiday.
  The winner of the Warner's
  Sinah Warren weekend...

• Ann's birthday is no secret
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  Ann's birthday is no secret
  Ann Westwood didn't think
  twice when friends asked if she
  was going home for lunch on
  her 40th birthday - even though
  it was a week away. Nor was
  the senior checkout assistant
  at Kings Heath,...

• Battle of Hastings
  21

  Battle of Hastings
  Sedlescombe Road Hastings
  SSA celebrated its first summer
  in military style. Around 20
  combatants headed off to
  Crowborough California
  Commando Site for a day pelting
  paint pellets at one another. It
  was...

• Peter pulls off week of fund-raising
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  Peter pulls off week of fund-raising
  Clowning around with store manager David Wight and the iVIayor and iVIayoress of Exeter are Ryan Peterson
  (top left) and Peter Kettle. When Exebridge's checkout
  assistant Peter Kettle took...

• Tribute to tunnel walkers
  21

  Tribute to tunnel walkers
  Two Sainsbury's managers will have
  their names forever linked to the
  Channel Tunnel thanks to a new
  plaque commemorating their
  charitable efforts.
  South East area director Colin
  Etheridge and West...

• Caroline Slimm
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  Caroline Slimm has become
  something of a celebrity at
  Merry Hill. The senior
  checkout assistant was
  featured in Woman's Realm's
  Women at Work series in July.

• Footballers go for the burn
  22

  'Fast and furious' is how Gary
  Dunne, grocery manager at
  Kingsway, described the district's second annual five-a-side football
  tournament. The hot weather and
  'living room carpet' astro turf did not deter the players from...

• Ladies enjoying a flutter
  22

  Ladies enjoying a flutter
  The day began with Bucks Fizz
  and croissants and ended with a
  hotel meal. In between was 'great
  weather and company - all girls
  together - and a chance to get
  dressed up and have a really
  good...

• Meet the neighbours
  22

  Meet the neighbours
  We have more news of how stores
  are allocating the total £150,000 this
  year made available for older people
  through the Good Neighbour
  Scheme. Here is a selection:
  • Sunderland presented £250 to...

• A modern masterpiece
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  A modern masterpiece
  A teacher's pack provided with each set of
  pictures contains information about the paintings
  and the artists as well as suggestions about how
  the pictures can be used in lessons, projects...

• SSA OFFERS
  24

  SAINSBURY'S STAFF ASSOCIATION
  Tel: 0719217227
  AUTUMN COLOURS
  OF THE HIGHLANDS
  Tourplan (Scotland) Ltd are offering another fantastic
  break at a special discounted price to Sainsbury's staff
  and friends. Accommodation is...

• ENGLAND MIA ENGLAND
  25

  Fresh pasta and pasta sauces made in England created huge
  interest when they were introduced two years ago. Now the
  range which offers products made to authentic Italian recipes
  has been extended. Fusili Pomodoro or,...

• GAME ON
  25

  Customers in 40 selected stores have the opportunity to
  bag something special for a treat or dinner party. The
  Sainsbury's Frozen Game range has been relaunched and
  extended. Hen Pheasant, Cock Pheasant, Wood Pigeon
  and now...

• LITTLE BLACK NUMBER
  25

  LITTLE BLACK NUMBER
  MOST STORES
  Sainsbury's first own brand Cheese Truckle has rolled into
  233 stores. Covered in black wax, the truckle's stylish
  exterior protects a flavoursome interior. The barrel-shaped
  260g truckle Is...

• RARE PIECES
  25

  Our more avant garde art
  galleries have featured a
  number of art pieces
  made of chocolate in
  recent months. Now
  Sainsbury's introduces
  limited edition chocolate
  bars which will not sit
  around being looked at
  for very...

• YOU CAN'T TOP THESE
  25

  There is no Text

• A HEDGEHOG CHANGED MY LIFE
  26

  It is not the average lounge.
  Nor is it the average
  intensive care unit. Or the
  average office when you
  think of it. Kevin and Maria
  Ahronson 's lounge was
  transformed into an animal
  sanctuary three years ago
  after Kevin...

• Give it your best shot
  26

  Quite a number of you have put yourselves
  in the frame already to win a camera worth
  £100 in the JS Journal Photographic
  Competition 1994. But just who will be the
  winner? Well, Jo Laycock is picture editor
  of the TV Times...

• LONG SERVICE
  27

  LONG SERVICE
  Employees who have
  completed 40years' service
  are:
  MICHAEL BATES, senior mgr,
  buying, Blackfriars.
  KENNETH CAMPBELL, section
  mgr, meat, Taplow.
  TONY LANAWAY, reception,
  Woking. RICHARD STOVELL,
  butcher. East...

• OBITUARY
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  OBITUARY
  Length of service in brackets
  CAROL ALDEN, checkout/
  replenishment assistant.
  Coldhams Lane, died after a
  short illness on July 27 aged
  45 (2 years). LINDSEY DA VIES,
  staff restaurant assistant,
  Talbot Heath, died...

• RETIREMENTS
  27

  RETIREMENTS
  D FUHEY, additional
  departmental mgr. Hedge End
  (39 years). JC ANDREWS, snr
  customer liaison officer,
  customer services (38 years).
  MT RENN, senior deputy, dry
  goods. Wood Green (37
  years). J WILLIAMS, meat...

• ANNIVERSARY ADVERTISING
  28

  ARCHIVES
  ANNIVERSARY
  ADVERTISING
  This year, Sainsbury 's celebrates its
  125th anniversary. The milestone is
  being marked with the publication on
  October 18 of a new book on the history
  of the company (details will appear in...