'JS Journal', October 1975

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• A SECOND JS DEPOT TO HANDLE PRODUCE
  01

  A SECOND JS DEPOT TO HANDLE PRODUCE
  BASINGSTOKE depot
  is to start despatching
  produce to some of its
  branches during
  October to replace the
  contractor's depot at
  Wisbech.
  At the moment, JS's
  produce is handled...

• Cheap petrol: sales rocket
  01

  Cheap petrol: sales rocket
  MOTORISTS have been
  forming queues up to half a
  mile long outside the JS
  petrol station at Coldhams
  Lane superstore, Cambridge
  - for petrol at 63p a gallon.
  Since the price of four-star
  petrol...

• Inflation shrinks the Christmas stocking...
  01

  Inflation shrinks the Christmas stocking...
  CHRISTMAS, traditionally the busiest trading period, is expected to
  be celebrated on a smaller scale for the second year running. Last
  year inflation curbed people's Christmas...

• LONG LIVE THE MINI!
  01

  LONG LIVE THE MINI!
  SHORT SKIRTS are in for 22-year-old Marina Baker, a
  clerk at South Harrow branch. 'I don't like long skirts,'
  says this long-legged lovely. They nuke me look ail
  body.' Whereas Marina's legs account for 34...

• SEAGULLS OVER SAINSBURY'S
  02

  SEAGULLS OVER
  SAINSBURY'S JS took a trip to the seaside twice over on September 23
  with the opening of a supermarket at Great Yarmouth
  and a freezer centre at Folkestone.
  Great Yarmouth is a completely new trading area for JS...

• Stevenage staff stymie phone threats
  02

  Stevenage staff stymie phone threats A COOL reception greeted attempts by a
  mystery phone caller to demand £50,000
  from JS's Stevenage branch on September 11.
  About five past 11 in the morning a man
  rang the manager-Ronald...

• THREE NEW WAYS WITH PORK ON TRIAL
  02

  THREE NEW WAYS WITH PORK ON TRIAL THREE BRAND new JS
  pork products have gone
  on sale at selected
  branches. They are bacon
  burgers, pork burgers with
  herbs and spare rib chops.
  At present the burgers are
  being sold in 226...

• WELL DONE LADS
  02

  WELL DONE LADS
  TWO SAINSBURY lorry
  drivers from Buntingford
  depot, Des Matthews and
  Robert 'Nobby' Clark,
  competed in the finals of
  the Lorry Driver of the
  Year competition on Sunday,
  September 7.
  Des, who reached...

• Chinese puzzle
  03

  Chinese puzzle CHINESE LEAVES have been getting some inscrutable looks
  from customers since they went on sale at about 50 JS
  branches at the beginning of September.
  They resemble a cross between a cos lettuce and spring
  greens...

• GRAPE EXPECTATIONS
  03

  GRAPE EXPECTATIONS
  THE TERSE message in the produce supply forecast hinted
  at French connections and sinister goings-on. 'Not available,' it
  read, 'Waiting for new season French Akthonse which is anticipated
  to start within...

• JS DESIGN GOES TO THE TOP OF THE CLASS
  03

  JS DESIGN GOES TO THE TOP OF THE CLASS
  WHEN IS a JS corn flake
  pack like a school book?
  Answer: When it's the cover
  of an exercise book made and
  used by a school at
  Chichester.
  Diana Jenkins, a teacher at
  the school, wrote...

• KEEP OFF THE GLASS!
  03

  KEEP OFF THE GLASS!
  SHOPPING Is usually considered
  to be a fairly safe
  activity. Nevertheless, accidents
  do happen, and the
  huge plate glass windows and
  doors at JS stores can be the
  cause.
  Occasionally people just
  don't...

• Odd ad
  03

  Odd ad
  ' . . . family house within
  trolley-wheeling distance of
  Salisbury's . . . ' ran a for sale
  advertisement in a recent
  copy of the Kentish Express.
  We only hope the new
  owners, lured by this highly
  desirable mod-con,...

• Plessey shoulder branch ordering load . . .
  03

  Plessey shoulder branch ordering load . . . A NEW look for branch
  ordering equipment will
  be introduced over the
  next couple of years.
  Out will go the familiar
  Plessey trolleys, and in will
  come compact, handy,
  portable...

• St. ALBANS HOUSEWIVES VOTE CAMBRIDGE A HIT
  03

  St. ALBANS HOUSEWIVES
  VOTE CAMBRIDGE A HIT NEARLY FIFTY women
  became the guests of JS
  for a day when they were
  taken from St Albans on a
  visit to the superstore at
  Coldhams Lane, Cambridge,
  on September 3.
  The women, all...

• WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A HOBBY?
  04

  WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A HOBBY? IT'S amazing what JS
  people get up to when
  they go home after a hard
  day's work. Not for them
  relaxing evenings or week-
  ends with their feet up in front of the telly. They're
  up and involved in...

• BOB'S LITTLE ACRE
  05

  BOB'S LITTLE ACRE 'A LIVED-IIN, worked-in kind
  of garden' was seen by
  thousands orf television viewers
  in the South..
  Bob Croudien, head clerk in the
  personnel department at Basingstoke
  depot, and his wife Julie,...

• FIRST PORT OF CALL . . .
  06

  FIRST PORT OF CALL . . .
  'I AM in St Katherine's yacht
  basin; this is my first time in
  London and where's the nearest
  Sainsbury's?' asked a Canadian
  voice at the other end of a
  telephone call to head office.
  It didn't take...

• Jim takes a shine to his work
  06

  Jim takes a shine to his work TIMES HAVE changed since Jim Campbell was one of 17 french polishers
  who kept the wood in JS shops, offices and depots gleaming.
  After working for 30 years with JS, 62-year-old Jim is now the...

• PLANNING APPLICATIONS . . . a new service
  06

  PLANNING APPLICATIONS . . . a new service TO KEEP staff
  informed about the
  company's plans for
  new branches and
  freezer centres, or
  extensions to existing
  stores, the JS
  Journal will - starting
  this issue -
  report on a...

• Slice of life
  06

  Slice of life
  DAILY BULLETIN ODD
  ODE of the month: "Withdraw
  from sale 725 and 720 Breakfast
  Slices. Sell by September 12 and
  return to Depot."
  Posters requesting customers
  to hand back breakfast slices
  after purchase, no...

• YOUR LETTERS
  06

  YOUR LETTERS OUT IN THE COLD
  I NOTED with interest the front page headline in the
  September issue of the Journal - 'Not too hot to handle'.
  Only the last little paragraph of the story made any
  reference tc branch engineers. No...

• APPOINTMENTS
  07

  APPOINTMENTS J Fulcher, formerly manager of Harlow, has been
  appointed manager of Great Yarmouth; D Baker,
  formerly manager of Stratford, has been appointed
  manager of Basildon; P Urch, formerly manager of Basildon,
  has been...

• LES IS OFF ROUND THE HORN
  07

  ALL ABOUT PEOPLE
  LES IS OFF
  ROUND THE HORN 'EXCITING' is the word that
  runs through Les Wrench's
  description of his times at JS.
  His 45-year career with the
  company ended when he retired on
  September 13, having worked his...

• LONG SERVICE
  07

  LONG SERVICE Frank Smith, internal auditor at
  Streatham, celebrated 40 years with
  the company in September.
  He started in the works department.
  A break in his career while he
  was in the Army during the war; he
  returned to JS...

• OBITUARY
  07

  OBITUARY
  Francis Powell, painter, branch engineering at Clapham, died on August 14.
  He had worked for JS for 26 years. Harold Humphrey, warehouseman at
  Churchill Square, Brighton, died on July 30. He had worked for JS for...

• RETIREMENTS
  07

  RETIREMENTS Rita Hamel, chief clerk at London
  Road, retired on July 26 after 44
  years with JS.
  She started her career at Western
  Road, Brighton, first as a despatch
  hand, then as an order clerk. Miss
  Hamel worked at Western...

• Our lady who loves to listen
  08

  Our lady who loves to listen RETIREMENT
  IN THIS, the third in our series on different aspects of
  retirement, we look at one of the many ways the
  company keeps in touch with staff"that leave JS for a
  life at home . . . Molly...