'JS Journal', Christmas 1974

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• Frieda bakes a mighty cake
  01

  Frieda bakes a mighty cake Taking advantage of the pre-Christmas icing sugar bonanza
  Frieda Bradbury, Hemel Hampstead's housekeeper puts the
  finishing touches to the branch's Christmas cake.
  She started making the cake back in...

• Now customers supply the heat
  01

  Now customers supply the heat
  ENERGY conservation is in.
  Hard upon the news of the
  energy-saving speed and
  heating restrictions, which
  came into effect on December
  14, comes the news that plans
  are well under way in...

• Santa gets his orders
  01

  A survival kit, bunny girls, sugar and a crystal ball: Santa gets his orders WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE FOR CHRISTMAS?
  The JS Journal has been inviting people all over JS
  to write an open letter to Father Christmas detailing
  their...

• More business but small profits thanks to Government controls
  02

  More business but small profits thanks to Government controls Chairman John Sainsbury
  again hit out at Government
  control on profit levels when
  he announced a small increase
  in profit in the interim
  results to shareholders...

• 'Sainsbury calls' and Blanche celebrates her century
  02

  Sainsbury calls' and Blanche celebrates her century CUSTOMER Blanche Edith
  Browne is 100 years old - she
  was born just five years after
  the first JS shop opened in
  Drury Lane! And she has
  been an avid customer at
  Guildford...

• Wally's claim to fame
  02

  Wally's claim to fame WALLY KEEN'S long
  search for justice ended with
  a TV appearance and a profit
  instead of a loss.
  In January last year Wally,
  who is manager of branch
  stock at JS's Streatham
  offices, ordered and paid...

• You'll never guess who we saw coming out of Boreham Wood. . .
  02

  You'll never guess who we saw coming out of Boreham Wood.
  TV cameras whirr and Cilia
  Black strolls out of Boreham
  Wood branch. It's all part of
  a new ATV series 'Cilia's
  Comedy Six' beginning on
  January 15. Watch out for...

• Deep down clean, that's the Stamford House crowd
  03

  Deep down clean, that's the Stamford House crowd An almost full muster of Stamford House clean kitcheners with catering manager Brian Reed
  (front left) and his deputy Christina Gale (front right). The plaque, being held aloft in...

• Hazel's chance to air her views
  03

  Hazel's chance to air her views
  WHAT IS IT LIKE to be a
  cashier? Hazel Lodge, chief
  cashier at Chelsea will be telling
  Radio London listeners
  in the magazine programme
  'Woman in Town'.
  For Trish Williams, a
  member of the...

• Let them eat bread
  03

  Let them eat bread
  MILLIONS bemoaned the
  lack of daily bread during the
  bakers' strike, but staff at
  least two branches were tucking
  into branch-made bread
  and rolls.
  Hot rolls and tea! That was
  the afternoon menu at...

• Life imprisonment for the gunman in Balham shooting
  03

  Life imprisonment for the gunman in Balham shooting LIFE IMPRISONMENT was the stiff sentence meted
  out to the robber who shot Securicor guard Colin Gayton,
  just after Colin and another guard had picked up about
  £5000 from JS's...

• Sugar caning
  03

  Sugar caning
  OVER £6 for a bag of sugar
  was the price paid by one
  customer at the Bedford
  branch.
  He was had up for speeding
  and told the court he was
  hurrying to get his mother to
  Sainsbury's before the sugar
  sold out....

• Twelve hundred say yes to share scheme
  03

  Twelve hundred say yes to share scheme MORE THAN twelve hundred
  JS employees took up
  the company's offer to
  acquire over one million JS
  ordinary shares under a share
  option scheme, linked with a
  'Save-As-You-Earn'...

• Cambridge riot
  04

  Cambridge riot
  WE HAD LIFT OFF at
  Cambridge on December 3,
  when JS's new edge-of-town
  supermarket at Coldhams
  Lane (about 1J miles from
  the city centre) opened to
  record crowds, who surged in
  on opening morning for one
  of...

• Display is tops
  04

  Display is tops
  COLDHAMS LANE
  LOOKED GREAT - every
  can was eyes front and every
  packet had its shoulders
  squared.
  The general behind the
  regimented order and all the
  other things that go into
  dressing a new store,...

• Opening feat!
  04

  Opening feat! Three supermarkets opened on one day.
  That was the staggering first time feat
  achieved by JS on 3 December when
  Coldhams Lane (Cambridge), Chingford and
  Woking opened to large queues, adding
  another 5426 square...

• Shadow minister opens the door
  04

  Shadow minister opens the door
  TORY MP James Prior joined chairman John Sainsbury in
  welcoming first-footers at Cambridge.
  The shadow minister for employment and his wife were the
  chairman's guests, arriving on Monday evening...

• Woking packs 'em in
  04

  Woking packs 'em in THREE WEEKS before
  Woking opened the site was a
  shambles and JS staff were
  racing against the clock to
  get the store finished in time.
  But none of the ladies in the
  200 yard queue on the opening
  morning...

• Youngest
  04

  Youngest
  MANAGER of the new
  Chingford supermarket, 26-
  year-old Stephen Woodrow,
  is one of JS's youngest
  managers.
  He joined the firm when he
  was 15 as a junior salesman,
  and nine years later became
  manager of the...

• . . . And on foot they came
  05

  . . . And on foot they came
  A long crocodile of shoppers waits outside Coldhams Lane.

• Chingforders go for clothes
  05

  Chingforders go for clothes HOW did the Chingford
  people take to the clothing
  department in the new store?
  Stephen Walkley, manager
  of the textile department,
  based at head office, was
  there to find out.
  'The initial...

• Engineers beat the rush
  05

  Engineers beat the rush UNDER present economic
  conditions opening just one
  branch can be a bad dream
  for the backroom boys in
  branch engineering design
  and the architects departments.
  Opening three
  branches on the same...

• No trousers at Chingford
  05

  No trousers at Chingford 9.20am TUESDAY DECEMBER
  3: and the new
  Chingford supermarket at 13
  Hall Lane opened 10 minutes
  early.
  David Sainsbury did the
  honours, and ushered the
  customers into the store.
  Once the floodgates...

• Petrol too
  05

  Petrol too TANK DIPPING is one of
  the things Robbie Robertson,
  deputy manager at the new
  Cambridge branch, has had
  to learn about as the man in
  charge of JS's very first petrol
  station.
  The station is self-service
  and...

• Superstore Superloo
  05

  Superstore Superloo
  P'S BUT NO QUEUES for
  JS's first ever customer loos.
  Opposite the main store
  and the freezer centre at
  Coldhams Lane, Cambridge,
  the small discreet brick building
  was a tranquil haven
  amidst the throngs...

• A Journal's eye view of December
  06

  A Journal's eye view of December The recent flooding in the
  Blackfriars restaurant was put
  to good use when a sudden
  cold spell just before Christmas
  caused widespread freezing.
  Assistant editor Phyllis
  Rowlands took...

• Wipe that grin off your face and smile!
  06

  Wipe that grin off your face and smile! COMPLETE with a bottle of
  headache pills and our very
  best wishes to everyone in JS
  for a very happy Christmas,
  comes the latest edition of the
  Standing Instructions, pictured
  here,...

• Appointments
  07

  Appointments
  Derek Pretty, formerly a
  financial analyst at Stamford
  House, has been appointed
  special assistant on financial
  matters to director Joe
  Barnes.
  Mrs Susan Dark, head of
  internal statistics, will be
  working...

• Frada's limerick wins wine
  07

  Frada's limerick wins wine NUMEROUS telephone calls
  about the Christmas wine
  competition told us you had
  unravelled the anagram of
  our Yorkshire brew /' St
  Emilion, bottled at Chateau
  Heathcliff. T'were just a...

• Long Service
  07

  Long Service
  We congratulate the following
  employees on receiving
  long service awards.
  40 years:
  S S Inkpen (Barkingside)
  H G Stone (Romford)
  25 years:
  M Bentley (Reading)
  R H Collinridge
  (Basingstoke)

• Obituary
  07

  Obituary
  Mrs Ethel Forecast, a parttime
  skilled supply assistant
  at the Debden branch, died
  on November 23.
  She had been ill since
  September and died during
  her third stay in hospital this
  year.
  Mrs Forecast had...

• Postbag: A bald protest
  07

  Postbag: A bald protest From D Parkin, statistical
  services department
  On behalf of those members
  of both branch and head
  office who, shall we say,
  suffer from a receding hairline,
  we really must protest in
  the strongest...

• Retirements
  07

  Retirements
  Albert Lambourne retires
  on December 21 after 45
  years with JS. He was born
  in Caulcott, a hamlet (one
  pub and 24 houses) near
  Oxford, and started at the
  Oxford branch in 1929.
  Apart from a few months
  at...

• Competition 2
  08

  Competition 2
  HERE are the winners of the slogan competition and winning
  slogans. Each winning slogan means its author is richer by £25.
  Ealing area - Mrs P Ward, clerk, Gloucester
  'A smile costs the least
  But is worth the...

• KEEP SMILING!
  08

  The campaign is over-but its message goes on
  KEEP SMILING! KEEP 'WE IN THE BRANCHES
  are in the same
  business as the stall-holder
  in Petticoat Lane - retail
  trading. The thing that is
  different is our image'...

• The customer is always right!
  08

  The customer is always right! FIVE WEEKS into the customer
  courtesy campaign,
  and branch director Peter
  Snow wrote to all branch
  staff:
  'Compared to the same period
  last year the number of
  written complaints of...

• We all love a loser..
  08

  We all love a loser..
  A few of the slogans that didn't win area prizes:
  'Roses are red,
  Violets are blue,
  Give me the money,
  And I'll smile for you'
  Martin Kay, management trainee, Drury Lane
  "There's no S-miles an hour...

• What's in a name?
  08

  What's in a name? NAME BADGES, which
  came into their own during
  the 'smiler' campaign, may be
  with us to stay. 'They are an
  attempt to humanise the
  whole business of supermarketing'
  said JS publicity
  manager Jim Woods.
  But...

• Winners Competition 1
  08

  Winners Competition 1 OVER THREE THOUSAND
  entry forms rolled in
  - a good response to the main
  courtesy competition.
  Branch staff had to choose
  six important things that they
  should do for the customer
  out of the 12 listed -...