'JS Journal', Christmas 1975

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• Barbara limps to victory
  01

  Barbara limps to victory
  A BROKEN toe almost put
  paid to 21-year-old Barbara
  Martin's hopes of becoming
  Miss Western, with a chance of
  becoming Miss JS in February.
  The contest to find Miss
  Western was the top spot...

• DEPOTS AT THE READY
  01

  READY FOR anything -
  that's how everyone
  connected with JS distribution
  has to be at Christmas.
  Demands from the
  branches are never so
  unpredictable as in the
  Christmas trading period, and
  the present economic...

• . . or so under the mistletoe!
  01

  Barbara Martin, latest contender for
  the Miss JS title, receives
  a Christmassy
  kiss from a cuddly
  admirer.

• Staff give up free time to help old and disabled
  01

  A DIFFERENT kind of
  Christmas present — their
  valuable time — was given
  to the disabled by staff at
  Langney, Stevenage,
  Swindon and Wimbledon.
  Each branch opened for
  an extra two hours, so that
  disabled people could...

• WILL IT BE A HAPPY CHRISTMAS?
  01

  Raiders shop early at three JS stores
  A CHRISTMAS rush of a less
  welcome kind has been taking
  place, with three armed robberies
  at JS branches in the
  space of a fortnight. The total
  haul was nearly £30,000.
  MONEY
  In each...

• . . . And the Mayor came too
  02

  . . . And the Mayor came too
  IT WASN'T just the usual crowd of
  eager shoppers who poured into JS's
  new branch at Fareham, Hampshire,
  on November 25 — there were
  civic dignitaries too.
  The Mayor of Fareham, Councillor
  F A...

• SUPERLATIVES FLY AS TOP FOOD SCIENTISTS TOUR JS LABS
  02

  SUPERLATIVES
  FLY AS TOP FOOD
  SCJENTJSTS
  TOUR JS LABS 'IN A WORD - impressive.'
  This is how a top food
  scientist summed up JS's
  central laboratories at Rennie
  House, and the work being
  done there.
  Nearly 50 food...

• Tesco results - a case of swings and roundabouts
  02

  Tesco results - a case of swings and roundabouts COMING HARD on the heels of disappointing interim (ie halfyear)
  figures from JS, Tesco's recently published results look
  relatively good. Compared with the previous year,...

• The last of the great 1975 opening bonanza
  02

  The last of the great 1975 opening bonanza THE GREAT JS branch and
  freezer centre opening bonanza
  of 1975 came to an end on
  December 2 with the year's final
  opening - Walton-on-Thames
  freezer centre.
  Director Peter Snow...

• As smart as paint
  03

  As smart as paint THE NEW JS paint and
  emulsion on sale at Kempston
  and Barkingside comes in
  brilliant white, the most
  popular colour and one which
  accounts for about 70 per cent
  of all paint sales.
  The cans of paint,...

• Carry on Greenford
  03

  Carry on Greenford Martin Miles.
  ONE STORE CLOSED and another opened at Greenford,
  Middlesex, in November. On Saturday, November 22 the old
  JS manual branch - opened in 1932 - served its last customer.
  And three days later a...

• Christmas cards sales down
  03

  Christmas cards sales down CHRISTMAS wouldn't be
  Christmas without any cards.
  But due to the soaring cost of
  postage card sales are down this
  year. The reaction to-the latest increases
  in the price of stamps
  had been...

• JSJ turns up down under
  03

  JSJ turns up down under AN AUTOGRAPHED copy of
  the JS Journal is the proud possession
  of Bert Rainsley, who
  works at JS's Basingstoke depot.
  The autograph is that of film
  star and TV personality Victor
  Maddern, who featured...

• Moving house at Blackfriars
  03

  STAFF are on the move at
  Blackfriars, but they're not
  going far - just across the
  road to Rennie House or
  Stamford House.
  Some of the moves have
  taken place already — the
  laboratories and distribution
  division are now...

• Sainsburyana goes on show
  03

  THE HISTORY of JS is
  being displayed, bit by bit, in
  the staff restaurant at Stamford
  House.
  In the place formerly occupied
  by some large pots at the
  entrance to the restaurant, JS
  archivist Honor Godfrey is
  mounting a...

• Stationery gets going
  03

  Stationery gets going Make a note of it - JS writing
  pads and envelopes are now
  on sale at Kempston and
  Barkingside. The stationery comes in two colours, white
  and blue, and the price of a 50-
  leaf pad or 25 envelopes...

• Christmas wine competition — the winners the prizes the answers
  04

  Christmas wine competition — the winners the prizes the answers WE'RE not saying that this year's
  competition was hard, but we
  heard through the grapevine that
  even the compilers, in the offlicence
  department, had to...

• I KNOW WHAT IT IS . . .
  04

  AFTER A YEAR of shrinking £££'s and shrinking
  profits, we thought
  we'd do a bit of shrinking
  ourselves.
  Suitably shrunk and
  armed with a camera
  (micro of course) we took
  a trip to a JS store and
  found the familiar...

• Jingle bells
  04

  There is no Text

• OPERATION TURKEY
  05

  OPERATION TURKEY
  or how JS gets the bird AT THIS TIME every year -
  with all the precision of a
  military exercise - Operation
  Turkey gets under way.
  Thousands of fresh and
  frozen turkeys are given their
  marching orders by...

• Branch openings & planning applications
  06

  Branch openings ft planning applications With the new year
  only a couple of
  weeks away it
  seems an appropriate
  time to up-date
  the Journal's regular
  report on JS's
  plans for future
  stores and extensions.
  OPENING...

• LETTERS FROM CUSTOMERS
  06

  LETTERS FROM CUSTOMERS SINCE COMING to London
  some four years ago I have
  always shopped in Wallis's
  supermarket in Streatham.
  But now I have discovered
  Sainsbury's.
  May I congratulate you on
  your prices which give me...

• Steam supporters wanted
  06

  Steam supporters wanted HAVE YOU EVER STOOD
  trainspotting on a station platform,
  dreamed of becoming
  an engine driver, or just
  sighed nostalgically for the
  age of steam?
  If so, the steam railway
  club at Buntingford...

• YOUR LETTERS
  06

  From: Eddie Edwards, purchases
  accounts, Streatham.
  IN VIEW of the obvious
  need (in the interests of all of
  us) to improve turnover, and
  thereby profits (including by
  the opening of hypermarkets
  which require new...

• APPOINTMENTS
  07

  APPOINTMENTS Gary Pollack has been appointed
  project manager,
  2900 conversion. He will
  be responsible to Peter
  Smith, head of the dp
  department, for the task of
  managing the conversion
  of the company's computer
  systems to...

• Compliments to the chef
  07

  Compliments to the chef AT THE AGE of 21 Brian Child is one of the
  youngest fully qualified chefs in the country.
  And he's the first chef to join JS as a schoolleaver
  and to complete the rigorous training of a
  professional...

• LONG SERVICE
  07

  LONG SERVICE Maurice Birch, assistant manager
  at Oxted, celebrated 40
  years with the company on
  November 8.
  Mr Birch joined the company
  as a trainee in 1934. He left after
  three years but rejoined JS in
  1939, to work at 128...

• RETIREMENTS
  07

  RETIREMENTS Gilbert 'Gill' Parry, reserve manager
  at Haywards Heath, retired
  on November 29 after 43 years
  with the company.
  Mr Parry started his career in
  1932 at Sutton, Surrey and
  served in several branches in
  London and...

• Kempston revisited
  08

  Kempston revisited THERE'S SO much that's new and
  interesting at Kempston — JS's largest
  ever supermarket — it's hard to take it
  all in at one go. Last issue we covered
  the opening on November 18, this time we take...