'JS Journal', November 1975

Table of content

• NEVER SO MANY!
  01

  NEVER SO MANY! Staff tackle the biggest
  ever pre-Christmas
  opening programme as
  five stores start trading OVER TWO acres of
  sales area in just 22 days -
  and there's more to come.
  That's the record currently
  being set by...

• New member makes his maiden speech
  01

  New member makes his maiden speech 'THE STRENGTH of the company is not how big it is, but
  how good it is,' chairman John Sainsbury told the JS 25 Club
  at their annual dinner at the Royal Lancaster Hotel on October
  20.
  He was...

• Upstairs, Downstairs
  01

  Upstairs, Downstairs THERE is an upstairs,
  downstairs look about the
  new Barkingside branch —
  Sainsbury's largest supermarket
  in the Greater
  London area - which opened
  on Tuesday, October 21.
  It is the company's...

• A whole lotta shakin' going on
  02

  A whole lotta shakin' going on Top Teds Helen Bridle and Chris Kenyon YOU COULD rock it, you could roll it, you could bop it, you
  could stroll it at the hop . . . the SSA tarts and teds hop held at
  Stamford House on Saturday,...

• JS sows seeds for the future
  02

  JS sows seeds for the future TIMES are changing down
  on the farm, and a visit to the
  JS trials field at Cottenham,
  near Cambridge, shows just
  how much. Melons, peppers,
  cape gooseberries and
  aubergines are among the
  more...

• MANAGERS TAKE A REFRESHING LOOK AT THOSE VITAL QUESTIONS
  02

  MANAGERS TAKE A REFRESHING LOOK AT THOSE VITAL QUESTIONS YOU ARE a branch or provisions
  manager and a frozen food cabinet has
  just broken down. What should you do?
  What is the selling life of imported eggs?
  And what is the...

• SOMETHING OF INTEREST
  02

  SOMETHING OF INTEREST
  WHEN the banks put up
  their interest rates by one per
  cent a few weeks ago, it cost
  us about another £3,000 per
  week. The reason is that JS is
  running an overdraft of about
  £15 million, on which...

• WHAT WENT UP COMES DOWN
  02

  WHAT WENT UP COMES DOWN PRICES don't always go up, they come
  down as well. Granulated sugar, for instance
  - which rocketed to 30p for a two pound bag
  earlier this year - is now down to 22p.
  Compared with a year ago, dried...

• WHAT'S IT'S NAME?
  02

  WHAT'S IT'S NAME?
  ENGLISH Chinese leaves is
  a bit of a mouthful - to say,
  that is - as well as confusing.
  Director of research Dr
  Roy Spencer thought JS
  Journal readers might be able
  to think of a suitable
  alternative for...

• Cage talk
  03

  Cage talk
  A SPECIAL one-day
  conference on caging and
  cage pallets was held in London
  on October 29. Manager
  of branch merchandising
  John Fraser was among the
  eight speakers.
  His talk covered in-store
  handling, display and...

• Double trouble
  03

  Double trouble THREE branch openings in two weeks have meant a busy time
  for many JS staff - and none more so than Philip and Annette
  Leach. Because Philip, 24, is deputy manager of Chippenham,
  which opened on October 7, and...

• Mr French plays the numbers game . . .
  03

  Mr French plays the numbers game . . . AND COMES UP WITH
  A CODE WHICH COULD
  REVOLUTIONISE SHOPPING A NEW product coding
  system that could revolutionise
  the way supermarket
  goods are ordered
  and sold was discussed at...

• NEW ROLE
  03

  NEW ROLE
  THE WORK of the directors' administration committee subcommittee
  on paper flow is revealing such potential savings
  that John Lavender - already a member of the committee - is
  being asked to commit most of his time to...

• TELFORD TROUPERS SHOW A LEG
  03

  TELFORD TROUPERS SHOW A LEG THREE JS girls became fashion models
  for a day on Friday, October 3, in an
  autumn fashion parade at Telford town,
  centre, home of Salisbury's biggest
  superstore.
  Separates
  The girls, 21-year-old...

• THE FIVE HOLIDAYS OF CHRISTMAS
  03

  THE FIVE HOLIDAYS OF CHRISTMAS
  FOR MOST of us at JS, the Christmas break will last five
  days. However, not everybody will be having the same five
  days - otherwise there would be nowhere for us to buy our
  Christmas...

• The siege of Kidney Street?
  03

  The siege of Kidney Street?
  HOLDERS of kidney donor
  cards, we are told, were
  besieged by hordes of branch
  staff bent on carrying out an
  instruction given in a recent
  daily bulletin.
  Ruthlessly - as a PS to the
  more mundane...

• NEW BRANCH SPECIAL
  04

  NEW BRANCH SPECIAL Kingswood
  team opens
  the batting
  in Bristol's
  new centre THERE WERE two opening
  ceremonies at Kingswood, Bristol, on
  Tuesday, October 14.
  One was at 9.30 am when the doors of the
  new JS branch opened to...

• ARE WE CUTTING OUR OWN THROATS?
  06

  ARE WE CUTTING OUR OWN THROATS? FROM P D Lashmar, Midland area
  auditor: By continuing to cut branch staff
  allowances, presumably to maintain
  acceptable levels of wage costs, are we
  perhaps not cutting our own throats?
  Surely...

• BONELESS JOINT BEEF . . .
  06

  BONELESS JOINT BEEF . . .
  AN IRATE woman
  customer complained
  bitterly this month about the
  boneless fore-end joint she
  bought from Harpenden
  branch because she was
  unable to eat the netting it
  was wrapped in!
  The...

• Bringing home the bacon—for the last time
  06

  Bringing home the bacon—for the last time WHILE attention is focused on the new
  supermarket at Derby, more than a little of
  JS's history is left behind at the old service
  branch in the Cornmarket.
  The shop, which closed on...

• Pauline clicks at Clacton
  06

  Pauline clicks at Clacton FIFTEEN hundred people
  from Eastern area
  descended on Butlins at
  Clacton on September 27
  and had a whale of a time.
  With dancing, swimming,
  football and children's fancy
  dress all going on,...

• APPOINTMENTS
  07

  APPOINTMENTS
  D T Williams, formerly manager of remunerations and benefits,
  head office, has been appointed personnel manager, head office. Mr H
  S Ellis will be succeeding Mr F T Nash in the near future as retail
  personnel...

• Chris gives the orders
  07

  Chris gives the orders
  CHRIS ROMAINE-EVANS sees the results of her work
  every time she goes into a JS store. 'When I look at all the
  things like checkouts and shelves I think - gosh, I ordered
  that.'
  Blonde 18-year-old Chris...

• LONG SERVICE
  07

  LONG SERVICE Peter Litrizza, personnel officer
  at head office, celebrated 40
  years with JS on September 23.
  He started with the company
  as a learner at Muswell Hill, and
  while serving at Marble Arch he
  was called up into the...

• OBITUARY
  07

  OBITUARY
  Harold Saunders, assistant meat manager at New Maiden branch,
  died on August 28. He was aged 62 and had been with the company
  for 25 years. He started at the old 57 Kingston branch then
  transferred to Twickenham and...

• RETIREMENTS
  07

  RETIREMENTS Walter 'Wally' Turrell, district
  manager, retired on August 30
  after 43 years with JS.
  His career with the company
  started at Winchmore Hill in
  October 1932, and the following
  year he moved to Hastings when
  the...

• THE MAGNIFICENT ELEVEN BOW OUT...
  07

  ALL ABOUT PEOPLE THE MAGNIFICENT ELEVEN BOW OUT... WHEN ONE person retires from a JS
  branch it's an occasion - but when
  nearly a dozen retire it's really something
  special.
  At Islington branch staff made sure that
  when they...

• A Cook's tour round Rennie Street
  08

  A Cook's tour round Rennie Street A COUPLE of issues ago, the JS
  JOURNAL took readers on a mostly
  verbal tour of the new laboratories in
  Rennie House. The labs are probably the
  best equipped of any food retailer in the
  world,...