'JS Journal', March 1974

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Biggest development yet - six acres of shopping - gets the go-ahead in Bedfordshire

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Biggest development yet - six acres of shopping -
gets the go-ahead in Bedfordshire 'You know where that big,
new Sainsbury's is to be built
- that's Kempston.' This is
how a local man directed the
JS Journal to Kempston,...
Contents Page

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Page 3
Television 'spies' on managers
Page 5
Loco fans get steamed up
Page 6
Pancakes and a crown for Wendy
Page 7
Basingstoke: a decade of change
JS profits: too much or just right?

01
JS profits: too much or just right? During the election campaign,
and since, food prices have
held the spotlight. So too
have food company profits.
Figures have been quoted
suggesting that the profits of
food companies,...
Easter eggs hatch out to big sellers

02
Easter eggs hatch out to big sellers Eggs, different sizes and
thousands of them, will be
sold in JS branches this
Easter. But these won't be of
the chicken type - they'll be
made of chocolate, especially
for the season,...
The answers to your pensions queries

02
The answers to your pensions queries By using the JS Journal's pensions phone-in service JS staff and
veterans were able to ask questions arising from the pensions
article we published in January. The pension department's...
News in brief

03
News in brief
Bread battles broke out at
JS's Leamington Spa branch
during the recent strike over
pay by bakery delivery men
in the East Midlands.
'We were one of the few
shops in the area still getting
a bread delivery'...
TV cameras move in to record every word and move at dispute confrontation!

03
TV cameras move in to record every word and move
at dispute confrontation! A tense scene. Management
faced trade union representatives
across the negotiating
table, both groups cautiously
weighing each other up, like
boxers...
Appointments

04
Appointments
The following were recently
confirmed as senior management:
RB Hill, KW Morrell,
JE Blake, FR Brown,
D J Capper, WAM Anderson,
G Lambert, D Brownhill,
JK Casey and CL John.
District managers were...
Letters: Oh crumbs!

04
Letters: Oh crumbs! From a secretary at Stamford
House who has a chip to gnaw
(or is it a bone on her
shoulder?) and signs herself as
Norah Bone.
Many of us, no doubt,
enjoyed your recent feature
'And so to bread', but I...
Long service

04
Long service
Congratulations to the following
employees on receiving long service awards: 25 years:
J Regan, S Roskilly and
G James (all of Basingstoke
depot); G Stephen (head
office); J L Harvey (Greenford).
Obituary

04
Obituary
Les Potter, who worked in
the internal audit department,
died on February 8. He had
been with the company since
1935.
Mrs Lilian Rouse, a daily
cook at Central Croydon,
died on February 11.
Rag Week students buy food (JS of course!) for old folk

04
Rag Week students
buy food (JS of course!)
for old folk
What's all this about a generation gap? During their Rag Week
Reading University students set aside £60 to buy groceries for
old people in the town then went shopping...
Retirement will be all work for the Professor, OBE

04
Retirement will be all work for
the Professor, OBE Professor 'Bill' Williams retired
last month as scientific
consultant to JS after 20 years'
service with the company.
On February 18, a few
days before his official...
Retirements

04
Retirements
K J Boston, reserve manager
at Golders Green, retired
on February 9, after 44 years'
service.
R H Tranter, warehouse
manager at Camberley, retired
on January 19, after 37
years' service.
The following...
Buntingford's families like the 'open road' life

05
Buntingford's families like the 'open road' life Getting away from the humdrum
of everyday life - that's
what Maurice Salmon and
Freddie Webb and a growing
number of their workmates
at Buntingford depot like
about caravaning...
Enthusiasts get steamed up about 'live' locos

05
Enthusiasts get steamed up
about 'live' locos Buying an old railway station
and restoring it to its former
glory is one of Alan Doy's
pipe-dreams. It's not surprising
therefore that he was
asked to speak at a meeting
of...
No catch in fishing match

05
No catch in fishing match 'I've been fishing this river
for 20 years and have never
known a year like this' commented
the Redfin Angling
Club's chairman, Stan Goodman,
after the club's end-ofseason
contest had ended
without...
Steve Cody: the would-be butcher who rose to be distribution boss

05
Steve Cody: the would-be butcher who rose to be distribution boss Steve Cody always wanted to
go to South America as a
butcher for one of the big
meat exporting companies
out there. Instead he exchanged
his dream of...
Basingstoke: a decade of change

06
In 1964 the first van left a new JS depot in Hampshire, and marked the beginning
of an era. But a depot is not just buildings and goods, it is also people.
Here three Basingstoke people tell what the depot was like ten
years...
And Rosemarie also shows her pancake paces

07
And Rosemarie also shows her pancake paces
Also having a go with the
frying pan on Shrove Tuesday
was Worcester branch
evening worker Rosemarie
Melley. She entered the pancake
race at the Perdiswell
Primary School which...
Did you win the JS Journal's food grab contest?

07
Did you win the JS Journal's food grab contest?
The JS Journal's 'spot the baby' contest had a great response
- and no wonder. The prize is a 'raid' on a JS store when the
winner can take, absolutely free, as much grocery as he...
Pancakes and a crown for Wendy - chosen to be first ever Miss Sainsbury

07
Pancakes and a crown for Wendy - chosen to be
first ever Miss Sainsbury Hardly had the crown settled
on Wendy's head before she
was off on her first official
engagement as Miss Sainsbury:
to take part in the
Grocery Trade...
The ladies at Reading don't beef about their job!

08
The ladies at Reading don't beef
about their job! Director Peter Snow couldn't
believe his eyes during one of
his customary Tuesday visits
to branches recently. For in
the meat preparation area at
JS's Reading supermarket...