'JS Journal', November 1973

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• Contents Page
  01

  November 1973 Stan the safety man
  gets top award
  page 2
  The flag's up at Telford
  page 6
  Midlanders invade Barry
  Island
  page 2
  JS Journal wine
  competition
  page 8

• It's those abandoned trolleys again—and this time the solution to the problem costs £70,000
  01

  It's those abandoned trolleys again—and this time
  the solution to the problem costs £70,000 Equipment costing over
  £70,000 will be the latest
  weapon in the fight against
  abandoned trolleys. JS are to
  buy 20 customer...

• Majorca trip is off for unlucky SSA members
  01

  Majorca trip is off for unlucky SSA members Staff and relatives who were
  looking forward to a four-day
  break in Majorca later this
  month have been told that the
  trip's off. The Sainsbury Staff
  Association dropped...

• Swiss Cottage is now a gourmet's paradise
  01

  Swiss Cottage is now a gourmet's paradise
  A contrast of reactions from
  two checkout girls and first
  customers as the doors are
  opened at the new Swiss
  Cottage branch on October 23.
  Just along the road from
  the old branch in...

• A sniff in time to keep the flu at bay
  02

  A sniff in time to
  keep the flu at bay Protection against influenza
  is being offered to
  JS staff in response to requests
  for the 'sniff in time'
  vaccine. This year is the
  first time that all areas of
  JS have been offered...

• Midlanders invade Barry Island for an SSA beano
  02

  Midlanders invade Barry Island for an SSA beano Well over 1500 JS folk
  from the Midlands made a
  brave attempt to try and fill
  the vast Butlins Holiday
  camp at Barry Island, South
  Wales for a weekend at the
  end of September -...

• Stan the safety man gets top award
  02

  Stan the safety
  man gets top award Stan Ramage, depot division
  safety manager, has
  received an award from the
  Association of Supervisory
  and Executive Engineers that
  has only been won seven
  times in over 20 years.
  Every...

• Wedding belle Brenda
  02

  Wedding belle Brenda
  We don't normally publish wedding pictures, but this one is
  different. The bride is 23-year-old Brenda Culver (Brenda
  Knight up to her marriage on September 29).
  Brenda, a typist in the dairy department,...

• Hoddesdon starts the long hard slog to fill JS's biggest ever Christmas stocking
  03

  Hoddesdon starts the long hard slog to fill JS's
  biggest ever Christmas stocking Right: Supervisor Bill Davis
  telephones Hoddesdon from
  the temporary warehouse at
  Harlow. In the background
  is clerk Gus Gospel.
  Above: It may...

• Stratford - a new JS store with a theatre on its doorstep
  03

  Stratford - a new JS store with a theatre
  on its doorstep East-Enders crowded the
  doors of 38/40 The Mall,
  Stratford on October 9 eager
  to be the first to shop at JS's
  newest supermarket in East
  London.
  Manager Harold...

• Appointments
  04

  Appointments
  Alan Doy has been
  appointed traffic manager at
  Buntingford depot. In 1968
  he joined Buntingford as a
  warehouse supervisor. He
  became night manager at
  Charlton in 1969 and in
  June 1973 was...

• Letters: some like it. some don't
  04

  Letters: some like it. some don't From M J Handscomb
  Grocery Division
  I really must take issue
  with the correspondent
  who finds the new JS Journal
  no match for its predecessor.
  The old publication may
  have had its adherents...

• Long service
  04

  Long service
  Congratulations to the
  following employees on
  receiving long service awards:
  40 years service: D Knight
  (Walton); F Speller (Whetstone)
  ; D A Dyke (Norbury);
  L A Webb (Basingstoke
  depot); Mrs E M...

• Obituary
  04

  Obituary
  Mrs W Shephard, a
  cleaner in the laboratory at
  Blackfriars since March 1967,
  died on October 6.
  Miss Francis Brown, a
  part-time sales assistant at
  South Harrow who joined
  the company 17 years ago,
  died on October...

• Prizes for the top JS slimmers
  04

  Prizes for the top JS slimmers Choc bar slimmers, JS
  ladies taking part in slimming
  trials being run by the Mars
  Bar people, are doing well in
  the losing weight stakes.
  And three ladies who have
  done especially well...

• Retirements
  04

  Retirements
  J E Forsdike, meat
  manager at Kilburn, retired
  on October 20 after 43 years
  service.
  The following employees
  have also retired; length of
  service is shown in brackets:
  Miss V Street (20 years)
  Mrs G Nixon (12...

• News in brief
  05

  News in brief Staff at Blackfriars, Clapham
  and Streatham should
  now have received a copy of
  the head office opinion survey
  questionnaire together with
  a stamped addressed envelope.
  If you have not
  already done so, could...

• Now there are two contenders for a seat at Westminster
  05

  Now there are two
  contenders for a
  seat at Westminster Want to know the date of
  the next general election?
  Then ask Charlton depot's
  personnel manager Peter
  Jones - he's got the date
  marked in his diary! For
  Peter it will...

• The search is on for a tree for '73
  05

  The search is on for a tree for '73 One Friday in October I
  tramped across two miles of
  damp Hampshire earth for
  Britain; the cause - A Tree
  for '73, for which project JS
  are more than doing their bit
  to help combat Dutch...

• The flag's up at Telford!
  06

  The flag's up at Telford! The new Telford superstore, now entering
  its fifth week of trading, is beginning to
  settle into its own routine after the initial
  rush to open on time.
  These pictures, taken shortly before,...

• Only 61 hygienic days to a germ-free January for the JS health inspectors
  08

  Only 61 hygienic days to a germ-free January
  for the JS health inspectors With over 150 supermarkets
  to visit before the
  end of the year the
  senior hygiene officer, John
  Dripps and his colleagues
  Don Boon and Wendy...

• Wine Competition
  08

  Wine Competition This is it! Your chance to win a virtual cellarful of
  eminently drinkable goodies in the JS Journal's first ever
  wine competition.
  All you have to do is test your knowledge of wine by
  answering the questions...