'JS Journal', November 1974

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• IGD Chief warns of dangers facing 'bankrupt' food industry
  01

  IGD Chief warns of dangers facing
  'bankrupt' food industry Food prices mil go up even more unless the food
  industry - currently threatened with bankruptcy
  - is given the chance to develop sound long term
  policies with major...

• It's fivers galore at the branches and Swiss Cottage is among the first to hand over the lolly
  01

  It's fivers galore at the branches and Swiss Cottage
  is among the first to hand over the lolly Money - they're giving it
  away at JS branches! All over
  the company one person in
  each branch has been lucky
  enough to win a fiver...

• Cards for the blind
  02

  Cards for the blind By now most people at
  Blackfriars will have seen
  the colourful display of
  Christmas cards on some of
  the notice boards.
  These are being sold on
  behalf of the Croydon Voluntary
  Association for the
  Blind,...

• Dirt and vandalism mar a weekend 'away from it all'
  02

  Dirt and vandalism mar a weekend 'away from it all' Over 6,200 JS staff and friends
  had a taste of Butlin's holiday
  camp life when they went on
  SSA sponsored weekends to
  Barry Island, Clacton and
  Bognor Regis, in...

• Ken's the face in the crowd that never was
  02

  Ken's the face in the
  crowd that never was Ken Ayling, modest man
  that he is, thought he was
  just a face in the crowd to
  most people at JS, until his
  name didn't appear in the
  JS Journal.
  In the October issue Ken
  was...

• New 'fill you up' service for Cambridge
  02

  New 'fill you up' service for Cambridge JS is going into the petrol
  business.
  Shortly after Coldhams Lane
  branch, Cambridge, opens
  on December 3, six new petrol
  pumps will be dispensing selfservice
  two-, three- and...

• Get your facts straight on retailing says the Consortium
  03

  Get your facts straight on retailing says the Consortium The Retail Consortium, a
  body that looks after the
  current interests of British
  retailers, now employing
  some 2\ million people and
  selling around £20,000...

• Streatham nears the save-a-life goal
  03

  Streatham nears the save-a-life goal Streatham head-office staff
  are busily raising money to
  swell the Stamford Group's
  'Save-a-Life-Fund'. Nearly
  £300 towards the cost of a
  kidney-machine has been collected
  by Streatham...

• Up among the chitterlings, Doncaster opens in fine style
  03

  Up among the chitterlings, Doncaster
  opens in fine style 'We've 'ad nowt like it before
  in Doncaster. It's gorgeous.'
  That's what staff and customers
  are saying about JS's
  newest supermarket, which
  opened at Doncaster...

• Everybody's doing it...
  04

  Everybody's doing it...
  ^ggri Go behind
  the scenes in any JS branch
  and you will see posters everywhere
  exhorting you to 'be a smiler.' And from
  the stories on this page and the smiling faces which
  can be seen at check-outs...

• How to have your smile and eat it
  04

  How to have your smile and eat it
  Teatime at Dunstable as some of the staff get ready to tuck into one of the 'smiler' cakes
  made by the canteen staff.
  From the left they are Elsie Couchman, Edna Malloy and Irene Cross.
  It is...

• Smiler postbag
  04

  Smiler postbag
  What do yon think? We asked in the last Journal. The answer is quite
  a lot, judging by the avalanche of letters we received. Some of the
  best ones are published here and we'll be printing some more
  next...

• SMILER NOTE:
  05

  SMILER NOTE: Do you know what a smiler really
  is? According to Peter Budgen, assistant meat manager
  at Crawley, a smiler is a mixture of best bitter and
  lemonade - a shandy in fact. He looked this curious
  fact up in a book...

• Smilers in their own write!
  05

  Smilers in their own write!
  Chesham is one branch where the 'smiler' campaign has really got off to a bang - and
  staff have even contributed to its success - at 5p a time!
  Manager Fred Cowey spotted some ballpoint pens with...

• Win wows them with her undercover grin
  05

  Win wows them with her undercover grin
  Win Rutherford, chief clerk at Feltham, with the
  cheeky bra that might have won her a prize in the
  smiler competition - had human entries been allowed.
  Raymond Sims, manager at Feltham,...

• FOCUS ON SAINSBURY'S
  06

  FOCUS ON SAINSBURY'S
  We ask branch staff: "Imagine
  you're a customer. What qualities would
  you like to see in branch staff ?" "Staff should be sociable, bright, and be able to assist the
  customers. One should have tact - if...

• Appointments
  07

  Appointments
  S A Canham has been appointed
  abattoir liaison officer
  at Haverhill. He was
  formerly assistant meat
  manager.
  T M Robins, formerly
  assistant fresh pork technologist
  at Blackfriars, has been
  appointed fresh...

• Letters: Smokers again
  07

  Letters: Smokers again
  From M R Taylor and T B
  Borley, PSD, Basingstoke
  As two inveterate smokers of
  strong cigarettes, we would
  like to make some points
  which we feel are relevant to
  the subject raised by Mrs
  Thresher in...

• Long service
  07

  Long service
  We congratulate the following
  employees on receiving
  long service awards.
  40 years:
  H A Kendall (Ashford)
  O J Phillips (Oxted)
  W Heron (Folkestone)
  J H Smith (Fulham)
  H P Cooper (East Grinstead)
  J W Bush...

• News in brief
  07

  News in brief
  Freezer facts for October:
  three new JS Freezer Centres
  opened last month.
  On October 8 it was Sutton
  Coldfield with a sales area of
  300 square metres (3,229
  square feet). It's the first
  Centre to sell...

• Obituary
  07

  Obituary
  Colin Smith, a paint sprayer
  in motor engineers at Buntingford
  depot, was killed in
  a car crash on September 15.
  He was aged 24 and had been
  with the company just over
  two years.
  Colin's father, Harold
  Smith,...

• Retirements
  07

  Retirements
  Bob Sutton retired on September
  7 after 47 years with
  JS. At the time of his retirement
  he was an assistant
  manager at Rye Lane, Peckham.
  Bob worked at numerous
  branches during his long
  career, including Forest...

• Mighty Mitzi gives Buntingford a night to remember
  08

  Mighty Mitzi gives Buntingford
  a night to remember Mitzi, shy, homeloving girl
  that she is, gently cradles the
  reFs head in her arms—before
  i l l aim, him to the floor.
  '. . . naughty man, Mitzi
  didn't really step on...