'JS Journal', March 1975

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• Bumper 'pay package' for branch staff
  01

  Bumper 'pay package' for branch staff
  EVERY OTHER SATURDAY OFF for most full-time
  branch staff, better working schedules and more money.
  These are the bare bones of the new 'pay package'
  recently announced for the branches....

• Danger - people at work
  01

  On April 1 some of the most important legislation ever about our health and safety comes into force
  Danger - people at work INJURIES TO STAFF AT JS topped the thousand
  mark during 1973 to 1974. These are just the...

• Times is 'ard but we're 'appy at JS
  01

  Times is 'ard but we're 'appy at JS We know there's an economic crisis, but some people seem to be
  hit more badly than others. Smiling through it all are the fattiest,
  grubbiest, shabbiest guests at the Tramps Ball held in the...

• Are we on the road to disaster?
  02

  Are we on the road to disaster? COMPANIES LIKE JS
  recognise the importance of
  a good distribution network
  as a way of keeping prices
  down; and invest heavily in
  the best and most efficient
  transport and equipment. It
  is now...

• Christina takes a flying jump
  02

  Christina takes a flying jump IF JUMPING OUT OF
  A PLANE half a mile up
  isn't your idea of fun, go and
  talk to Christina Gale. She'll
  probably manage to convince
  you that it's a good idea.
  Christina, who, it must...

• Dear JS you're overweight
  02

  Dear JS you're overweight
  YOUR PRODUCTS are
  overweight - and we don't
  want you to lose money!
  That was the gist of a letter
  from class 2A at the Whittingham
  School, London N10
  The girls had carefully
  weighed JS own label...

• Masked men raid Bretton
  02

  Masked men raid Bretton A SECURICOR GUARD
  was robbed of nearly £7000
  when he was attacked by
  armed men outside JS's Bretton
  branch on Friday March
  7, as he carried money from
  the store to his van.
  It was about eight...

• Scaffolding crashes through canteen roof at Kettering
  02

  Scaffolding crashes through canteen roof at Kettering Raindrops keep falling on my lunch. The damp scene in the Kettering canteen as firemen build
  a pool to catch the water from the damaged roof. LUMPSOF MASONRY and
  scaffolding...

• Table tennis marathon to find this year's champs
  02

  Table tennis marathon to find this year's champs Left: Jeffrey Huggins on the way to the men's singles championship. Right: Margaret Bowyer
  shows the concentration and style that brought her three titles. THREE OUT OF THREE
  was...

• Your lunch to cost more but things could be worse
  02

  Your lunch to cost more but things could be worse RESTAURANT PRICES in
  the depots and offices went
  up about 15 per cent this
  month. But before we get
  our danders up bear in mind
  that 12p for steak and kidney
  pie, and 19p for...

• A tiny tot
  03

  A tiny tot
  RUM GOINGS-ON were
  suspected when a commodity
  distribution notice announced
  that more branches would
  be stocking Lamb's Baby
  Rum.
  Was it a new alternative
  to mother's milk? Perhaps
  it came in tiny bottles?...

• Bitte sweet!
  03

  Bitte sweet!
  SUGAR will never be the
  same again since German
  tongue-twisters like, Rheinkristall
  feinkorn raffinade and
  Haushalt zucker raffinade,
  started gracing the shelves
  at the branches.
  Somehow feinkorn...

• Jill helps the disabled get about in the kitchen
  03

  Jill helps the disabled get about in the kitchen AUTHOR AND RESEARCHER
  - that's Jill
  Mara of JS's home economics
  department. She was
  one of a team of three that
  wrote 'Kitchen sense for
  disabled and elderly people',
  a book...

• JS shows a fine pair of legs
  03

  JS shows a fine pair of legs JS FINE TIGHTS are in. And
  the sheer look is out. Fine
  tights, which have a silky
  finish, are replacing the sheer
  look, which, says textile
  manager Stephen Walkley,
  was designed for the...

• Painting holiday ends up in the Royal Exchange
  03

  Painting holiday ends up in the Royal Exchange THE AMATEUR artist's
  dream of having a painting
  exhibited in London came
  true for Basingstoke's maintenance
  supervisor Charles
  Loake.
  An oil painting of his was
  exhibited in...

• Petrol - the sweet smell of success
  03

  Petrol - the sweet smell of success THE PROBLEMS OF
  SUCCESS are being encountered
  at Coldhams Lane,
  Cambridge as thousands of
  motorists clamour to fill up
  at JS's only petrol filling
  station, which opened in
  January.
  The...

• Southbourne freezer centre to close
  03

  Southbourne freezer centre to close JS IS CLOSING DOWN
  the Southbourne freezer
  centre. The closing date is
  fixed for Saturday April 5.
  Southbourne was the first
  of JS's freezer centres and it
  opened on a trial basis in
  June...

• Waste not, want not
  04

  Waste not, want not Above: Loads upon loads of cardboard boxes returned from the branches wait to be baled.
  Below: Into the Basingstoke baler they go . . . to be crushed into cardboard cubes. Above: At the other end of the baling...

• Crate expectations
  05

  Crate expectations The new plastic produce crates nest inside each other empty, and can stack with the wooden
  crates when full. P L A S T I C PRODUCE
  CRATES are following hot
  on the heels of the plastic
  beef and chicken trays,...

• Bitterne and the beanstalk
  06

  Bitterne and the beanstalk
  BITTERNE BRANCH is
  something of a hot house
  plant - it has grown and
  grown. In under a year it has
  more than quadrupled in
  size.
  Before stage one of the
  extension opened last October
  the sales...

• Eileen brings a woman's touch to Solihull freezer centre
  06

  Eileen brings a woman's touch
  to Solihull freezer centre IT'S QUITE A JUMP from
  being an assistant in a
  branch meat preparation department
  to managing JS's
  new freezer centre at Solihull.
  But Eileen Harris had done
  just...

• Golders Green takes in a movie
  06

  Golders Green takes in a movie THIS WEEKS SUPER
  SAVE - 'The Sound of
  Music'. Well, not quite, but
  the new JS store at Golders
  Green is right on top of a
  cinema.
  The new store, which
  opened on March 11, is
  built on the site...

• Lewisham takes the lead
  06

  Lewisham takes the lead TWENTY YEARS ON
  Lewisham is again JS's
  largest London store.
  On March 11 customers
  switched their allegiance
  from 405 Lewisham (which
  when it opened in 1955 was
  the biggest and most...

• Selling like hot cakes
  06

  Selling like hot cakes
  MAIDENHEAD is definitely
  a freezer area' said Michael
  Bentley, manager of JS's
  new freezer centre which
  opened at Maidenhead on
  March 4.
  There was a queue of
  customers on opening morning
  and 16...

• Appointments
  07

  Appointments
  D Ray, formerly manager
  of Muswell Hill, has been
  appointed manager of
  Kenton.
  JA Spence, formerly manager
  of Lewisham 405, has
  been appointed manager of
  the new Lewisham branch.
  Mrs E Harris, formerly
  chief...

• Fare Thee Well
  07

  It was Fare Thee Well at
  Hoddesdon depot on Saturday
  evening, February 22. For
  depot manager Derek Graham
  was leaving to start a new job
  at Blackfriars as depot manager,
  contractors and relief.
  Over 90 people from...

• Letters: Mr Who?
  07

  Letters: Mr Who? From KJ Boston, veteran
  Back in November 1974, I
  received a letter from the
  national insurance office
  saying that I was one stamp
  short on my last year's card.
  Having retired from JS
  in the previous...

• Long Service
  07

  Long Service
  Colin Boots, grocery manager
  at Paddington, celebrated
  25 years with the company
  in February. He started at
  Willesden Green branch. He
  has also worked at Kilburn,
  Golders Green, Hampstead
  and was at the Swiss...

• Obituary
  07

  Obituary
  Tom Dransfleld manager of
  Rugby died on February 17,
  after a cerebral haemorrhage
  He collapsed in his garage on
  Monday afternoon and died
  later that day, at his home at
  Barby, a village in Northants,
  near...

• Retirements
  07

  Retirements
  David Bennett retired on
  March 8, after 43 years with
  JS. He started his career as a
  salesman at Guildford branch,
  was promoted to senior salesman
  in 1936 and, after
  working at a number of
  branches in Surrey,...

• How thirty seconds lasts all day long
  08

  How thirty seconds lasts all day long SheOa Fearn makes her entrance - again. All her efforts on
  i yielded just eight seconds in the final commercial. The camera rolls. Using the smaller of their two cameras, the
  crew photograph...

• Laboratory managers conference
  08

  Laboratory managers conference A BETTER UNDERSTANDING
  of each other's
  jobs was the plea of the 50
  managers at JS's first ever
  laboratory managers conference,
  held on March 7 at
  the Tower Hotel, London.
  The conference theme...

• WITHOUT YOUR HELP
  08

  WITHOUT YOUR HELP Sainsbury's
  past might not have a future.
  The company is starting an archives
  and museum collection at Blackfriars.
  Donations would be very
  welcome, also the chance to see and
  photograph items given on a...