"JSTV 1" video

Recording of the first episode of "JSTV", a video magazine programme for Sainsbury’s staff featuring stories from around the company.

The video sleeve states that it was intended "to be shown in the staff canteen on the first available Monday over the lunch and supper break, then left in the video for other staff to watch if they are interested". Reply cards were supplied for feedback.

It is a light-hearted programme which mainly seems to be intended to entertain and motivate staff (similar to 'JS Journal'), rather than for any formal training or communication purpose. It was presented by actors Mark Powley and Sian Martin.

Contents:
1. Introduction.
2. Feature on the production of Sainsbury’s Wally Whale Easter eggs. Includes footage showing how they are made at the (Gilchris?) factory in Norfolk.
3. Interview with Janet Foster (Product Development Manager, Confectionery) about how they come up with ideas for new confectionery products, testing products. Footage showing an Easter egg display is also included.
4. "Strange But True" facts – interesting facts illustrated by cartoons – Sainsbury’s lorry fleet covered 12.5 million miles in a year, there are 3500 types of mangoes, largest ever transaction in a Sainsbury’s store (£12,242), and Sainsbury’s first food retailer to use computers in 1961.
5. Feature on how the Retail Service Desk helps deal with IT problems at Sainsbury’s stores, including a time they flew by helicopter to a store to fix a checkout system failure. Includes footage showing service desk staff at work and interviews with Gill Seymour (Retail Service Desk Manager), Mark Sykes, and Sandra Seruwagi.
6. Feature on how the Penny Back scheme [in which 1p was refunded when customers reused a carrier bag, which could be donated to charity] at Peterborough store was helping children with cerebral palsy, with specially adapted computers.
7. Feature on "JS Superstars" with special talents. Eve Arkwell from Hull store and her children perform a musical excerpt from 'Oliver'. Also shows her helping customers in store.
8. "Noticeboard" feature on current SSA [Sainsbury’s Staff Association] discounts such as concert tickets.
9. Feature on Mother’s Day - vox-pops with customers and staff on what they buy their mothers.
10. Concluding remarks.

Duration: 16 minutes for the programme; 43 minutes total (repeated twice on the tape, there is a gap in the middle with a caption indicating the time of the next showing). Taplow and Haywards Heath District Action Team, and Harringay, Kidlington, and Peterborough stores are thanked at the end. Produced by Sainsbury’s Visual Communications.