'JS Journal', March 1974

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• Biggest development yet - six acres of shopping - gets the go-ahead in Bedfordshire
  01

  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
  01

  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...