'JS Journal', December 1973

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• Contents Page
  01

  December 1973 Grocery trade weighed
  in the balance
  page 5
  Buntingford's man
  for all seasons
  page 5
  'Shop them all' says
  the Home Office
  page 6
  Trail Blazer
  page 8

• Everything goes short from packaging to staff in worst supply problems for over 20 years
  01

  Everything goes short from packaging to staff
  in worst supply problems for over 20 years JS is entering the crucial
  Christmas trading period facing
  supply shortages of a
  type not experienced since
  the end of the war.
  The...

• SAINSBURY'S Interim Report
  01

  SAINSBURY'S Interim Report
  The unaudited consolidated profits for the 28 weeks to September 22nd 1973,
  compared with the 28 weeks to September 23rd 1972, were as follows :-
  1973 1972
  28 WMICB 28 weeks
  to Sept 22 to Sept...

• Basingstoke ladies trounce the fellas
  02

  Basingstoke ladies trounce the fellas
  . <,.%,
  What man worth his salt could keep a steady dart's hand
  with such delectable opposition. Small wonder then that (from
  left to right) Beverly Smith, Maureen Tilbury, Lyn Oliver...

• Bletchley, number 3 in the size league table, opens its doors and the show goes on
  02

  Bletchley, number 3 in the size league table, opens its
  doors and the show goes on JS's 'big top' at Bletchley
  got off to a good start on
  November 27 when it opened
  its doors to the shopping
  public for the first time....

• It's late night shopping with a difference
  02

  It's late night shopping
  with a difference
  Trolleys of a different type clogged Wimbledon branch on the
  evening of Tuesday November 20, when the branch threw open
  its doors to handicapped people.
  Staff at the store worked...

• 'We're happy to be the losers' say the JS slimmers
  02

  'We're happy to be
  the losers' say the
  JS slimmers One disappointment was
  voiced by the JS ladies who
  took part in the Mars slimming
  trials at Biackfriars,
  Streatham, and Basingstoke
  - they ended too soon!
  Nearly all the...

• . . . and another contestant enters the political stakes
  03

  . . . and another contestant enters the political stakes Hot on the heels of that
  other gentleman is another
  aspirant for the House of
  Commons. He is Bob Dunn,
  a trainee bacon buyer at
  Blackfriars.
  Twenty - seven - years -...

• Hove gets a new (Sainsbury) MP . . .
  03

  Hove gets a new (Sainsbury) MP Director Timothy Sainsbury,
  elected with a 5000 vote
  majority in the recent Hove
  by-election, took his seat in
  the House of Commons on
  the afternoon of November
  13th.
  He was greeted on...

• Johnny is star of his own show
  03

  Johnny is star
  of his own show 'Johnny Keen, This is Your
  Life!' With these words, an
  evening that started out as a
  buffet dance to celebrate
  Buntingford's transport manager's
  coming retirement and
  39 years with JS became...

• News in brief
  03

  News in brief Butterfingered thieves
  dropped over 1,000 cases of
  Dutch butter when they found
  it was Sainsbury's own brand
  and hard to get rid of dishonestly
  without detection.
  That's the opinion of the
  police who found a...

• Appointments
  04

  Appointments

• Letters: Don't be shy about training
  04

  Letters: Don't be shy about training From Ken Paddock,
  operations, Buntingford
  I was very pleased to hear
  that Sainsbury's have an
  employee training scheme,
  but why the shyness in
  mentioning it to the depots?
  To actually...

• Obituary
  04

  Obituary
  W Neal, a customer service
  assistant at Central Croydon,
  who joined the company four
  years ago, died on October 17
  after a long illness.
  Walter Holder, a store
  serviceman at Bristol who
  was with the company...

• Retirements
  04

  Retirements
  The following employees
  have retired; length of service
  is shown in brackets:
  Mrs M Evans (23 years)
  T Roots (13 years)
  Miss D A Graves (12 years)
  Miss D A Winter (9 years)
  Mrs H O'Flynn (9 years) Mrs P Jones...

• Two more lovelies chosen to compete for Miss JS title
  04

  Two more lovelies chosen to compete for Miss JS title June Beazley looks a different
  person from when she
  won the Miss JS Charlton
  title on November 3. But it's
  not the title that has brought
  about the change - it's
  having...

• Buntingford's man for all seasons
  05

  Buntingford's man for all seasons Not every JS depot can
  boast a garden as rich in
  colours, scents and appearances
  as Buntingford's. That
  it does is largely due to
  gardener Vic Tott whose
  snowy head can often be
  seen...

• 'Which?' weighs the grocery trade in the balance but finds none particularly wanting
  05

  'Which?' weighs the grocery trade in the balance
  but finds none particularly wanting 1973 was the year of the
  great price rise - grocery
  prices for instance went up
  twice as fast in 1973 as they
  did in 1972 - and for...

• SHOP THEM ALL!
  06

  SHOP THEM ALL! says the Home Office report on shoplifting, criticising shops
  which let people go once they've been caught. But the problem
  of the light-fingered customer is not an easy one to cope with, as
  we found out when we...

• Trail Blazer
  08

  When JS opens up new territory in the west country
  someone from the depot has
  to get out there and chart the
  route for delivery lorries.
  Eddie Manly made the
  second trip to the new branch
  at Taunton with Basingstoke
  driver...