'JS Journal', September 1975

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• Anti-influenza is out
  01

  Anti-influenza is out
  ANTI-FLU VACCINE is
  not being offered to staff
  this year.
  'We have just not been able
  to obtain any of the nasal
  spray vaccine, which is the
  one that most people seem to
  prefer,' says manager...

• It's all happening!
  01

  It's all happening! THE SUMMER OF '75 HAS BEEN one to
  remember for dark-haired Carole, secretary
  to departmental director Len Lewis.
  In August she married chartered accountant
  Lawrence Mendoza, took a two-week
  honeymoon in...

• NOT TOO HOT TO HANDLE
  01

  NOT TOO HOT TO HANDLE HOT BUT NOT BOTHERED that's the news
  from around JS at the tail end of a long hot
  summer that has broken most of Britain's
  warm weather records.
  Weeks (and weeks) of temperatures hovering
  around the...

• Town hall price lists
  01

  Town hall price lists
  THE GOVERNMENT'S LATEST MOVE in
  the fight against inflation — local price surveys
  — has been given a cool reception by JS and
  other food retailers.
  But although the company strongly disapproves it...

• Bomb-hoax at East Ham is no joke
  02

  Bomb-hoax at East Ham is no joke A BOMB HOAX with more than a touch of
  realism made heroes of JS staff at East Ham
  branch on August 5.
  It all started at about half past eleven when provisions
  manager Michael Markwell and...

• Hilary gets crowned again but it doesn't turn her head
  02

  Hilary gets crowned again but it doesn't turn her head SAINSBURY SUPERGIRL
  Hilary Bowden has added
  another success to the string
  of beauty titles she has been
  collecting ever since she was
  The latest title carried off
  by...

• Hot start for Hayes End
  02

  Hot start for Hayes End
  OPENING IN THE MIDDLE OF A HEAT WAVE
  got the new JS freezer centre at Hayes End, Middlesex,
  off to a good start.
  Business was brisk from the moment director Peter
  Snow opened the doors for the first...

• JS 25 Club
  02

  MEMBERS of the JS 25 Club, all 806 of them, have a
  dinner date on October 20 at the Royal Lancaster hotel,
  London.
  The occasion is the Club's sixth annual get-together
  and its members have all worked at JS for at least...

• JS urges shoppers to speak out
  02

  EVERY HOUSEHOLD in St Albans will be getting a leaflet
  through the letterbox this month, telling them about the type of
  supermarket JS wants to build on the outskirts of their town.
  The company has also invited about 40 people...

• Punishment to fit boy's crime
  02

  Punishment to fit boy's crime
  MAGISTRATES AT
  SOUTHEND juvenile court
  decided to let the punishment
  fit the crime when a 14-
  year-old boy admitted spraying
  red paint on a white wall
  at Sainsbury's Chichester
  Road...

• Take a card and save a life
  02

  Take a card and save a life
  THIS MONTH'S SPECIAL
  OFFER at the
  branches is the chance to
  save someone's life by
  becoming a kidney donor.
  When the National Kidney
  Research Fund asked the
  company to help its Silver
  Lining...

• Cheesman's dip
  03

  Cheesman's dip
  One of the highest qualifications in the world of
  wine was awarded to Allan Cheesman of JS's wine
  department, when he received the diploma of the
  Wine and Spirit Education Trust.
  After two years of study on day...

• First-aiders inspect 'remains'
  03

  First-aiders inspect 'remains' A WARNING that some of
  the exhibits were not for the
  squeamish did not deter the
  party of 10 first-aiders from
  JS's Streatham office who
  recently visited the Gordon
  Museum at Guy's...

• 'Is there anybody out there who wants to come in?'
  03

  'Is there anybody out there who wants to come in?'
  THE 'MASTIFF security system installed in the computer
  room at Blackfriars didn't quite work. In fact, it did exactly the
  opposite of what it should.
  The idea was that the two...

• Pinner makes a little energy go a long way
  03

  Pinner makes a little energy go a long way
  SAVE IT, say the posters, and that's just what they're doing
  at Pinner branch.
  The staff, led by manager John O' Gorman and grocery manager
  Douglas Wright, who is energy conservation...

• ROY CUTHBERT
  03

  ROY CUTHBERT was
  unlucky enough to get his
  foot trapped between the
  moving tailboard and the
  floor of his lorry. But wisely
  Roy was wearing safety shoes
  and he was able to drive back
  to Basingstoke depot
  unharmed.
  In...

• We also heard...
  03

  We also heard... IN THE HOUSEHOLD
  NAME business one would
  think Sainsbury's is pretty
  high on the list. But not in
  Sheffield it seems, where JS is
  to open a new supermarket
  later this year.
  Senior area productivity
  officer...

• TWO MEASURES IN THE UK
  04

  TWO MEASURES IN THE UK that will further at least
  t h e first aims o f lnernational W o m e n ' s Year are t h e Equal
  Pay Act and the S x Discrimination bill.
  J S already has qual pay for both sexes for all g r a d e s
  The...

• Women at work
  04

  Women at work In recognition of International Women's year, the
  JS Journal interviewed six women at JS who,
  although not woman's libbers, have firm views on
  their own jobs and development, in what up to now
  has been a man's...

• 'You may have fitted dozens of JS branch managers in the past but . . .'
  05

  'You may have fitted dozens of JS branch managers in the past but . . .'

• '100 per cent reliable' that's George
  06

  '100 per cent reliable' that's George 'SMART LAD WANTED
  for delivery' read the advertisement
  George Ince
  answered 47 years ago.
  George was given the job
  and started work on the day
  the founder of JS, Mr J J
  Sainsbury, was...

• Butter fingers...
  06

  Butter fingers...
  JIM WOODS, when confronted with a two-pound
  block of butter, a board and two slicers, did the only
  thing he could in the circumstances — he
  knocked-up a couple of half-pounds!
  Thus proving his claim,...

• Dear Editor...
  06

  Dear Editor... From D Day, G Tray nor, F Brown, K Dalton,
  R Beckwith, G Baker, non-perishable warehouse,
  Basingstoke depot.
  We know head office and the branches are well off
  for women, but we think it's a bit much to brag...

• Lovers' meating ends in marriage
  06

  Lovers' meating ends in marriage ONE MAN WITH ONLY
  nice things to say about JS
  ' butcherettes', as female fresh
  meat assistants are known, is
  assistant meat manager Dave
  Grant — he's just married
  one.
  Romance flourished...

• Pioneer retires
  06

  Pioneer retires
  Alan Rickman says goodbye
  after 43 years ONE OF THE JS
  PIONEERS', depot
  engineering manager Alan
  Rickman, retired on August
  29 — his 60th birthday — after 43 years with the company.
  Mr Rickman joined...

• Appointments
  07

  Appointments
  Jim McAtamney has been
  appointed head of the new
  spirits, beer and tobacco
  department.
  His appointment follows
  the decision to split the off
  licence department into
  two new departments —
  one to cover...

• Long Service
  07

  Long Service
  Bill 'Paddy' Walsh, transport
  shift manager at Basingstoke
  depot, celebrated 25
  years with JS in August. He
  joined the company in 1950
  as a meat porter at Union
  Street, Blackfriars, and was
  promoted to lorry...

• Obituary
  07

  Obituary
  Ian Hunt, senior provisions
  tradesman at Purley branch,
  died on July 4.
  Ronald Timms, motor vehicle
  technician at Basingstoke
  depot, died on July 15.
  He had been with JS for nine
  years. He leaves a wife and
  three...

• Retirements
  07

  Retirements
  Cecil 'Bill' Watkins,
  warehouse manager of Poole,
  retired on August 2 after 44
  years with JS.
  He started at 42/44 Walthamstow,
  and worked at
  Wealdstone, Eastcote,
  Wembley and Kingsbury. He
  became manager at...

• Those were the days
  07

  Those were the days MEMORIES came flooding
  back to Keith Stratford,
  deputy manager at Wembley,
  when he found this advertisement,
  torn from a 1957
  copy of Blighty, among some
  old papers he was sorting
  through.
  It was an...

• NEW LABS FOR OLD
  08

  NEW LABS FOR OLD JS was one of the first food retailers to
  have its own laboratory. Today the
  company's labs still lead the field and
  with the move to Rennie House they
  can now boast some of the most
  advanced facilities in...