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  • Contents 02

    NEWS
    Check out some of our highlights
    over the years and see how we
    became the business we are today!
    RECIPES
    We have a look at some recipes from
    our first and current celebrity chefs.
    WEIRD AND
    WONDERFUL
    From egg boys to...

  • Guest Editor Ernest Rabbit 03

    I'm honoured to have been invited to be
    the guest editor of this very special 140th birthday
    Journal.
    Reading about the Lloyd Maunder chickens
    on page 11 reminded me of when all our birds
    would arrive at the store still...

  • Justin talks 03

    This special edition of the Journal
    marks our 140th birthday and as we
    celebrate this fantastic milestone
    it's amazing to see how much we've
    achieved. John and Mary Sainsbury
    opened our first store on Drury
    Lane in 1869 and...

  • Sainsbury's News from 1869-1950 04

    Drury Lane opens
    1869
    Our first store
    on Drury Lane
    was opened
    in 1869 by
    John James
    Sainsbury
    and his wife
    Mary Ann.
    WOMEN!
    Your
    Sainsbury's
    store needs
    YOU
    During the First World War
    (1914-1918), we were one
    of...

  • Sainsbury's News from 1950-1977 05

    Dressing the nation
    In 1973 we started selling
    our own brand clothes at
    Telford. Our fantastic fashion
    included ladies 'skinny-rib'
    sweaters for £2.00 and
    some very hip flared jeans,
    a bargain at £3.80.
    Our own brand...

  • Sainsbury's News from 1977-2009 05

    Best of British In the 1980s we worked
    with the Ministry of
    Agriculture, Fisheries and
    Food to promote great
    British produce. Sales soared
    - we'd never eaten so well!
    Bells, Jackson's
    (and the rest!)
    join the family
    The...

  • A taste of the past... and of the present 06

    You may think that Jamie Oliver was our first celebrity chef, but think
    again! Before he joined us as our top celeb chef in 2000, Josceline
    Dimbleby, wife of BBC journalist and Question Time presenter Jonathan
    Dimbleby, cooked...

  • Weird and Wonderful: Egg boys & landladies 07

    We've always been 'A
    great place to work' and
    also an interesting one.
    Over the past 140 years
    there have been lots
    of weird and wonderful
    things that our colleagues
    have been a part of. | Carole Jones, Halifax, won...

  • Colleagues in the community: Charity begins with you 08

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    Keighley donated...

  • Tasty treats throughout the years 10

    We have always been passionate about food and giving
    our customers healthy, fresh and tasty food is really
    important to us. From stuffing the meatiest sausage
    to finding the perfect cup of tea to start the day, we've
    always...

  • Lloyd Maunder: Birds of a feather 11

    If we didn't care about where our food comes from - and who
    supplies it to us - we wouldn't be Sainsbury's! Throughout
    our 140 years we've developed great relationships with
    our suppliers so that we can provide our customers...

  • Time Capsule: A message to the future 12

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    "Having a cup of tea with f ^
    on the gossip, so we ope ^ ^ ^ Carter. "We're Cwmbran think
    -SHE SKSSSSS- =Fr i With all our items and memories chosen it was time to bury
    the time capsule - where better...

  • Your stories: Local memories 14

    We asked you to send
    in some of your
    memories from working
    at Sainsbury's. We got
    a really great response
    as the memories of the
    past came flooding in.
    Here are some of
    our favourites. We Want your memories!
    Write to us...

  • Did you know? 16

    Where there's grease, there s soa
    Maxwell Caulfield, the Lord of Home Farm in
    Emmerdale, and former star of Grease 2, used to
    work in the meat department at his local store. In the beginning we
    kept our products...