'JS Journal', March 1999

Table of content

• Contents
  02

  Contents
  Newsround
  Company news including stories on:
  3 Answering the call for info on GM foods
  3 Piloting the big-prize SSA Lottery
  4 Launching School Rewards '99
  5 Aberdeen's Remploy award
  5 Southern stores hit on the...

• From the editor
  02

  From the editor
  Oh crikey! Sorry you've caught me
  in my vest, but I had to use my
  shirt for the cover. If you have any
  new recruits in your location,
  perhaps you'd better hide this
  issue from them in case they get
  the...

• GM hotline does brisk business
  03

  GM hotline does brisk business
  With the media spotlight
  focusing firmly on
  genetically-modified foods,
  JS has set up a special GM
  information line to deal with
  customers' questions.
  The special GM number
  - which is an...

• Save water, bath with a tomato...
  03

  Save water, bath with a tomato...
  District manager Dave
  Reynolds bathed in tomatoes
  when he visited Water Lane
  Farnham store on its launch
  of Red Nose, and helped to
  raise a honking £1,300.
  Wading in to make it a...

• SSA Lottery coming your way
  03

  SSA Lottery coming your way
  SUPERMARKETS
  [LOacy]
  To take part, SSA members need
  to fill in the SSA Lottery leaflet
  form, available soon in-store.
  Stores in Hertfordshire and
  Scotland are piloting a
  store-based lottery...

• Chief exec backs high-frying creations
  04

  Chief exec backs high-frying creations
  Group chief executive
  Dino Adriano swaps
  pinstripe suit for stripy
  pinny in the Blackfriars
  Food Centre to find out
  how easy the new Fresh
  Creations range is to cook.
  Fresh Creations...

• New School Rewards scheme on the way
  04

  New School Rewards scheme on the way
  School Rewards '99 will be
  in-store 14 March to 5 June.
  Over the last three years
  Sainsbury's has given over
  £20 million worth of school
  equipment to 20,000 schools. That's a total of...

• News in brief
  04

  Street star launches millennium project
  The first scheme to become operational in
  the Bookstart millennium project has just
  been launched in Sheffield with the help of
  Coronation Street star Ian Mercer.
  Ian, who plays Gary...

• Bank makes a show of itself
  05

  Bank makes a show of itself
  Sainsbury's Bank is exhibiting
  at the Homebuyers
  Exhibition at Olympia in
  London from Friday 12 to
  Sunday 14 March.
  Because of the home
  focus of the exhibition, the
  Bank stand is concentrating...

• Depots to have new assembly technology at their fingertips
  05

  Depots to have new assembly technology at their fingertips
  Following its successful trial
  at Hoddesdon depot, finger
  scanning is to roll out to
  Charlton in April, and to the
  ambient warehouses of all
  other distribution...

• News in brief
  05

  Award for Aberdeen
  Following its nomination by
  general assistant Fiona Stark.
  Award-winning Aberdeen - Elaine
  Aberdeen JS has been Curtis (left) and Fiona Stark receive
  presented With a Remploy the'Leading the Way'certificate...

• Burning up the sales
  06

  Burning up the sales
  In the run-up to Burns'
  Night, Mark Smith's district
  held a couple of competitions
  in an effort to
  boost like-for-like sales.
  In the first competition,
  Hanley store received a case
  of wine for having...

• Forty-year servers celebrate
  06

  Forty-year servers celebrate
  JS colleagues celebrating 40 years' service are pictured here
  with group non-executive chairman Sir George Bull and chief
  executive Dino Adriano at a luncheon held at the Savoy Hotel in
  London on 4...

• Sainsbury's Bank cuts rates
  06

  Sainsbury's Bank cuts rates Sainsbury's Bank relaunched three of its
  most competitive products on 1 March with
  rates cut to their lowest ever. Leading the way are Personal
  Loans. The rates have been
  cut to an ultra low 9.9%...

• Win a share of £7,800 for your store
  06

  Win a share of £7,800 for your store
  Over £7,000 is up for grabs in a
  special prize promotion aimed at
  boosting sales of Group gift
  vouchers in Sainsbury's and
  Savacentre stores.
  Any stores achieving a yearon-
  year...

• Group-wide
  07

  Group-wide
  Here 'sour regular round-up of what's been going on across the Group..
  SAINSBURY S
  SUPERMARKETS GOOD IDEAS GO ON SHOW
  Fourteen business-improvement
  projects were presented to
  directors and managers from
  retail...

• WIN FREE FAMILY TICKETS for Fun Days out with AIR MILES
  07

  WIN FREE FAMILY TICKETS for Fun Days out with AIR MILES You may be aware of the Instants
  promotion which enables JS customers
  to exchange Reward vouchers in-store
  for free entry tickets to a wide range of
  attractions -...

• Writelines
  08

  Have your say
  Fishy
  business
  G Howard, veteran:
  I recently read an article in an
  Australian newspaper entitled
  'British to get a taste of our
  rejects', which referred to a
  West Australian company
  selling fish varieties...

• Selling in style
  10

  Selling in style
  Wrexham is one of three stores trialling the new-style uniform
  designed by fashion guru Paul Costelloe.
  The Journal packed its cameras and went
  to the Welsh store to snap some of the colleagues who
  now look...

• Inventions everywhere... ...and not a mad professor in sight
  12

  Inventions everywhere... ...and not a mad professor in sight
  JS's latest innovations for improving customer service include electronic shelfedge
  labelling and a traffic-light deli queuing system. You might think the
  people...

• We don't do anything about waste? Rubbish!
  14

  It's easy enough to get figures on how much a store sells. But how many people know how much a store throws away? The Journal talks
  rubbish with Sainsbury's waste management department to find out how JS is working to cut the...

• Service with a skill [k
  16

  If all goes to plan, the new NVQ in
  customer service will be helping give
  greater confidence, skills and job
  satisfaction to colleagues throughout
  JS later this year. The Journal goes
  to Farnham's Water Lane store to
  meet...

• Upper crust training
  18

  Upper crust
  training
  Abseiling and rock climbing are helping young bakers develop the teamworking
  skills needed in a busy JS bakery. But, as the Journal discovered, outward-bound
  courses are just one strand in JS's...

• Sound and Vision
  19

  Bang bang Van's your man
  Sound + Vision is back with a bang. Well, several actually, in Jackie Brown - the criticallyacclaimed
  action-thriller from Quentin Tarantino. The film finds some of the biggest
  names in Hollywood,...

• Meat the new sauces
  20

  Meat the new sauces
  Four new Fresh Sauces for Meat are now available. Bread Sauce
  and Onion Gravy cost £1.19 each, whilst Au Poivre Sauce and
  Madeira & Wild Mushroom Sauce cost £1.59 each. They are made
  to original recipes...

• Pork of the town
  20

  Lovers of pork will be drooling over the new Breaded
  Pork range. The range consists of two Breaded Pork
  Klevs - Apple, Sage & Onion and Garlic Butter, and
  three Breaded Pork Escalopes - Lemon & Pepper,
  Pork, and Garlic &...

• Sweets galore
  20

  Sweets galore This month's new products serve up a treat for the sweet toothed.
  Included in the offer are packs of Milk Shake Jellies (59p), Tom Thumb
  Drops (49p), Strawberry Marshmallows (69p), Fizzy Cherry Cola Bottles
  (49p),...

• West is best
  20

  West is best
  The latest additions to the Fresh 'n' Ready Organics range include Baby
  Leaf Spinach (£2.39), West Coast Salad (£1.59), and American Salad
  (£1.59). These are grown along the length of the USA's West Coast...

• Cake you can't forsake
  21

  Cake you can't forsake
  The best cake ideas bar none are
  here. Sainsbury's 10 Chocolate Chip
  Cakebars (99p) contains individuallywrapped
  moist cake bars with real
  milk-chocolate chips. The 10
  Assorted Cakebars (£1.59)...

• Easter egg-stasy
  21

  Easter egg-stasy
  Sainsbury's chocolate Easter Egg selection is sure to make
  this year's festivities taste better than ever The range
  includes Squeeze Me animals - Disco Hen, Pinky Pig, and
  Funky Frog (£4.99 each). They're...

• Mama mia!
  21

  Mama mia!
  Spoil your mother this Mother's Day with a specially-selected savoury
  soup. Sainsbury's Almond
  & Rose Mother's
  Day soup is a
  delicious blend of
  almond, fresh
  roast chicken
  stock, garlic, wine
  and fragrant...

• Birdies for early birds
  22

  Birdies for early birds
  Six golfers from Hedge End store
  needed luminous balls for their fundraising
  in aid of Children in Need.
  That's because they had to tee-off at
  6am in order to achieve their goal of
  completing three...

• Cooking up a cake at Harrogate
  22

  Cooking up a cake at Harrogate
  Budding cooks, aged three
  and four years old, from
  Belmont-Birklands School,
  visited Harrogate store
  recently to buy ingredients
  for a cake they wished to
  bake for Harrogate...

• David's desperately seeking sponsors
  22

  David's desperately seeking sponsors
  David Knight, senior baker at
  Lewisham store, is running
  this year's London Marathon
  on 18 April for a charity
  called PHAB, which helps
  physically disabled people.
  David has never run...

• Flying to the rescue
  22

  Flying to the rescue
  Chadwell Heath store has raised an
  impressive £5,300 for the Virgin Air
  Ambulance, which is based at the
  Royal London Hospital.
  The store wanted to help the
  charity as the Virgin helicopter
  came to the...

• Join Sutton Coldfield's silver celebration
  22

  Join Sutton Coldfield's silver celebration
  Sutton Coldfield store will
  celebrate its silver anni
  on 4 June.
  To celebrate the
  occasion, colleagues at the
  store will be holding a buffet
  dinner dance at the Botanical
  Gardens...

• Laurels for long servers
  22

  Laurels for long servers
  Three ladies from the deli at Chadwell Heath
  [•have awarded themselves flowery laurels for
  I clocking up over 50 years at Sainsbury's.
  Sheila Simmons (far left), who reaches
  30 years' service in...

• Pipes play up for Burns' Night
  22

  Pipes play up for Burns' Night
  Piping in the haggis on Burns'
  Night at Durham store is Jimmy
  Johnson, with Rod Russell bearing
  the haggis. Rod, who also
  addressed the haggis, is the
  husband of Helen Russell who
  works in...

• Cheesy day brings reward
  23

  Cheesy day brings reward
  Dome Roundabout store
  in Watford arranged a fun
  day in support of JS's
  national 'Double your
  money' Reward Card
  campaign. Mr Cheesy
  (pictured right), a
  children's entertainer,
  gave out...

• Lyons Farm raises funds for bone marrow trust
  23

  Lyons Farm raises funds for bone marrow trust
  Colleagues and customers at Lyons Farm banded together to
  raise £795 in support of five-year-old Kathryn Burnett, who is
  suffering from a rare form of leukaemia and is...

• Presentation with a difference
  23

  Presentation with a difference
  A reversal of the usual Penny
  Back presentation ceremony
  took place at Marshall Lake
  when store manager Rob
  Hillman received a plaque in
  recognition of his colleagues'
  and customers' efforts...

• Who loves ya baby
  23

  Who loves ya baby
  Going Kojakforthe Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust are (back row, I to r) Beeston store's provisions manager Nigel Bexley, produce
  manager Eddie Weston, security guard Derek Jeanne, and baker Steve Lovett. In...

• All in a good cause
  24

  All in a good cause
  The National Lottery gives a greater
  percentage of its income to approved
  causes than any other lottery in the
  world.
  You and JS's customers have helped raise
  the current sum to almost £6 billion...

• Have a drink on us
  24

  £13,000 of prize money to be won with
  Sainsbury's Gold Label
  Have a drink on us
  Gold Label tea is the biggest, most important tea launch since Sainsbury's
  launched Red Label in 1903 (the oldest existing own-label product)....

• WIN £250 for your SSA
  24

  WIN £250 for your SSA
  Following on from the
  success of the Christmas
  Oil of Ulay promotion,
  which resulted in
  Sainsbury's selling more
  Oil of Ulay than Tesco for
  the first time in four years,
  JS and Oil of Ulay...

• The £25 crossword and £10 wordsearch
  25

  CLUES
  ACROSS
  4. A good film to watch in spring? (6,6)
  7. This saint is celebrated on 23 April (6)
  8. Mountainous country north of India (5)
  10. A dose of medicine for an animal (6)
  12. John Lennon's wife (3)
  13. Jerusalem...

• Long service
  26

  Long service
  Employees who completed 25 years' service before March
  PAMELA ABLITT checkout/replenishment. Ipswich VERONICA BEECH
  BWS assistant. Redditch MICHAEL BIRD senior warehouse assistant
  King's Lynn PAM BLAND, meat...

• Obituaries
  26

  KAY CHAMBERS 30. evening display assistant at Chaddesden, died on 12 January after a short illness (lyr) SHUSHILA GANATRA. 44. checkout/
  replenishment assistant at Croydon, died on 9 February after a long illness (3yrs) ANN...

• Retirements
  26

  Retirements
  (Length of service is in brackets)
  MARY BOOTH SABRE clerk, Talbot Heath (8yrs) MAUREEN BOWKER
  floral assistant. Denton (lOyrs) MAUREEN BRAKER f-esh foods
  replenishment assistant, Croydon (29yrs) BRIAN BRANSON,...

• Tricky trivia
  26

  Tricky trivia Let's see how
  you do in this
  month's Tricky
  Trivia
  ^ ^ P WIIII h T\' prugrtimme is presented by William i
  hi ninth uiunln does thebinivp lire, nit wiling to legend?
  ^ f ^ Who won the Tour de Frame from 1991 to...

• SSA OFFERS
  27

  Embassy WORLD SNOOKER
  WIN TICKETS TO THE FINAL OF THE 1999 EMBASSY
  WORLD SNOOKER CHAMPIONSHIPS
  Go snooker loopy with the
  Name two players who have each won
  six Embassy World crowns
  HOME ADDRESS
  WIN, SAVE AND GAIN...
  3. The...

• After a fashion
  28

  After a fashion
  With the trial of the new uniform now in full swing at three stores, the Archives spares a
  thought for uniforms of the past and how starch gave way to style. The famous double-breasted coat - Mr Goshawk at...