Oral history recording and transcript of David Clapham (Sainsbury's employee 1964-99, director)

Audio recording and transcript of oral history interview of David Clapham. Interviewed by Bridget Williams (Sainsbury's Archives) on 7 and 18 Oct 1999. Discusses the history of his own employment and the development of Sainsbury's (including the various changes in Sainsbury's stores) from the 1960s to 1990s. With the transcripts there is also a copy of David Clapham's CV, photographs featuring David Clapham, and emails providing a transcript of the second part of the interview.

Summary of recording:

106/110_A [starts at 02.40]:
1964: Interview for Sainsbury's. John Clough.
1962-1964 Superette in Bristol. Starting wage at Sainsbury's.
1964: Information document for new staff. Bristol store. Glyn Harrison. George Rand. First Wines and Spirits. Working hours. Training at Blackfriars. Description of working at Bristol and store layout.
c.1966: Produce [fruit and vegetables] range. Deliveries in store. Refrigerated lorries. Product lines. BWS (Beers, Wines and Spirits). Tesco.
1960s: Early self-service. Store layout Bristol. Slough. Trading patterns. Slough. Bristol. Training. Grocers' Institute. Golders Green. Brent Street. Kilburn. Living in hostels. training at Distributive Trades College. Training. Early computer. 'A' level training scheme. Bert Ellis. Kilburn manual shop layout and products. Kilburn layout and staffing.

106/110_B:
1960s: Manual service shops. Glyn Harrison. George Rand. Comparison of supermarkets to manual shops. Hampstead. Re-instatement of service counters. Joe Barnes.
1980s: Produce. Service counters. JD Sainsbury. Dennis Males.
1970s/1980s: Watford. Marylebone. Crayford. JD Sainsbury. (discussion continues on 111A).

107/111_A:
?: Peckham. Retailing general.
1960s/90s: Change from manual supermarkets. Local, Central. Bexleyheath, Peckham, Hammersmith. Checkout queues.
1970: Bedminster. Computerised ordering. Reg Curtis.

108/112_A:
1970: Managerial Skills. PA to Len Lewis.
1972: PA to JD Sainsbury.
1972/1974: Flotation. JD Sainsbury. Helicopter. Joe Barnes. Margaret Kerr. Robin Whitbread. Aylesbury.
1974: Problems at Aylesbury. Kings Heath. JD Sainsbury.
1970s: Technifill baskets. Stevenage. Dave Smith. Jubilee strike. Angus Clark, Job Improvement Programme.
1970/80s: Customers. Trading patterns. Car park. Trolleys. Store size. Productivity. Store display report. Stocking shelves. Own label. New store openings. District Manager.
109: no summary available