'JS Journal', February 1976

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• CLAPHAM FOR SALE
  01

  Staff to move to Blackfriars
  CLAPHAM
  FOR SALE STAFF AT JS'S CLAPHAM OFFICES are to move to new
  locations and the Clapham offices put up for sale or rent
  Nearly all the departments now at Clapham will be rehoused...

• JS goes for £6 maximum pay rise all round
  01

  JS goes for £6 maximum pay rise all round JS IS TO PAY the maximum
  £6 a week pay rise allowable
  under the Government pay
  policy to all full-time staff
  aged 18 and over. Part-time
  staff and staff under 18 will
  get pro-rata...

• LAST BUT NOT LEAST
  01

  LAST BUT NOT LEAST
  THE BIG NIGHT for ten
  lovelies from all over JS will
  be February 28. That's the
  night of the finals of the Miss
  JS 1976 contest
  Among the guests at the
  sell-out function at the West
  Centre Hotel, London,...

• Man fined at Crawley
  01

  Man fined at Crawley
  ABANDONING a supermarket
  trolley landed Marem Cavanar
  in court and cost him a £15
  fine.
  At Crawley Court last
  month, Mr Cavanar, a wine
  waiter, pleaded guilty to
  obstructing a highway, by
  leaving a...

• Yes to restraints with reservations
  01

  Yes to restraints with reservations
  WITH SOME MISGIVINGS and reservations, JS, along with
  other retailers, has accepted the voluntary price restraint
  scheme proposed by the Government The scheme came into
  effect in the shops...

• CORBY'S HIGHLAND FLING
  02

  CORBY'S HIGHLAND FLING
  CORBY branch may be nearly 250
  miles from Scotland, but from Hogmanay
  until Burns Night you would
  think you were up there in the
  heather.
  About three-quarters of the townspeople
  are Scots, a result of...

• Fashion steaks
  02

  Fashion steaks
  SKIRTS will be an inch longer
  this year, read a message to the
  branches recentiy.
  Not a directive to preserve the
  modesty of cashiers but information
  on butchery techniques!
  The skirt in question being
  that...

• 'Its like heaven with the gate shut' says Kathy
  02

  Its like heaven
  with the gate shut'
  says Kathy ARE YOU ON YOUR FEET
  from damaged or in-growing toedespair
  if you work at one of the
  staff chiropody service.
  ALL DAY? Do you suffer
  nails? Well there's no need to
  16 JS...

• JS director takes a look at the Post Office
  02

  JS director takes a look at the Post Office DAVID SAINSBURY, the company's
  financial director, has
  been chosen to sit on the committee
  set up last year to review
  the operations of the Post Office.
  'I was chosen because...

• PEOPLE-EATERS
  02

  PEOPLE-EATERS
  'NATURE of complaint: Funny
  taste and upset stomach about
  two hours after eating two
  people, eaten after chicken.'
  This cannibalistic
  explanation accompanied a
  recent customer complaint
  about a JS fresh cream...

• PERSONAL TOUCH WINS HANDS DOWN
  02

  PERSONAL TOUCH WINS
  HANDS DOWN CASH DISPENSERS will not be installed in new JS branches
  - that's the new general policy after the discovery that customers
  don't like them. A survey, made for a completely
  different...

• Safety in (great) numbers
  02

  Safety in (great) numbers
  CONGRATULATIONS to all the hundreds of JS drivers who
  received safety awards at the end of last year. As there are so many
  awards we couldn't possibly name them all. Nineteen of the awards
  are of...

• Squeezing rubbish down to size saves space and money
  02

  Squeezing rubbish down to size saves space and money A NEW REFUSE COMPACTOR is bringing the problem
  of refuse disposal down to size at four branches and
  saving JS money.
  A medium-sized branch has about 35 to 40 cubic yards
  (25...

• a la card recipes or—how to dine friends and influence people
  03

  a la card recipes or—how to dine friends and influence people JS HOSTESS MENU CARDS, the third set of cookery cards
  produced by the company, are now on sale in selected
  branches.
  The 12 cards are a new departure in two ways....

• . . . and hypermarket withdrawn
  03

  . . . and hypermarket withdrawn
  THE APPLICATION to build
  a JS/BHS hypermarket at Colchester
  has been withdrawn, as
  it is felt that two alternative
  schemes, submitted at the same
  time (for conventional-sized,
  edge-of-town...

• CLOCKING IN IS OUT
  03

  CLOCKING IN IS OUT
  ITS THE END of clocking in at the branches. Last summer
  clock cards were experimentally dropped at five branches and
  now they're being abandoned at all branches. During the
  experiment (reported in last...

• Housewife's dream come true
  03

  Housewife's dream come true
  DONT SPEND h all in one
  shop might be good advice for
  some if they suddenly found
  they had a handful of prize
  money to spend. But h was
  advice Susan Dredge ignored
  when she won £40 to spend...

• PENNY IN THE POUND PROFITS
  03

  PENNY IN THE POUND PROFITS
  THE PROFITS of food and
  drink retailers reporting to the
  Price Commission in the period
  September 1 to November 30
  last year were on average only
  lp in every £1 of sales. After
  tax, slightly more...

• St Albans appeal turned down . . .
  03

  St Albans appeal turned down . . . JS'S APPEAL to build a supermarket
  on the outskirts of St
  Albans has been turned down.
  The inspector presiding over
  the public enquiry, held on
  September 30 last year, gave
  three main...

• Worthy setting for Chatham
  03

  Worthy setting for Chatham THE SPECTACULAR multi
  million pound, marble paved
  Pentagon shopping centre at
  Chatham is a worthy setting
  for JS's newest store;
  opened on February 10 by
  director Peter Snow.
  It has a sales area...

• A HARD DAY'S NIGHT
  04

  Meet the men who make Basingstoke depot tick during the silent hours . .. . and a man who knows ali the champions1. To find out what it's like on the night shift
  at a JS depot Antony Moore roused photographer
  Brian Shuel and...

• Charlton's champ has it all boxes up
  05

  WHEN CHARLTON WAREHOUSEMAN and boxing
  fanatic John Muggeridge meets someone, the first |
  question he asks is: 'When is your birthday?'
  He doesn't spend all his money on presents - it's justl
  that, given a date, he can tell you...

• Get raffling-the Stamford Group needs you!
  06

  Gel raffling-the Stamford Group needs you! MORE THAN £150 was
  raised for the Stamford
  Group's Guide Dogs for the
  Blind project by a raffle held
  at the SSA office section's
  annual buffet and dance at
  Upper Court, Esher...

• Joan gets the USDAW vote at Buntingford depot
  06

  JUST THE JOB . . . the first lady Joan gets the USDAW vote
  at Buntingford depot THE FIRST woman in JS to
  be elected a senior steward is
  Joan Plackett — and most of
  her members are men.
  She represents about 80
  clerical...

• YOUR LETTERS
  06

  The pool: A veteran remembers From: Dave Davis, JS veteran
  I WAS INTERESTED to
  learn that JS are going into
  the 'Pallet Pool' system at
  last, for in my opinion this is
  long overdue. (See JS
  Journal, January issue).
  During...

• APPOINTMENTS
  07

  APPOINTMENTS Maurice Raison has been
  appointed manager designate of
  retail competition, based at
  Blackfriars. He was formerly
  sausage buyer, pork products, at
  Blackfriars.
  Richard Fear has been
  appointed area meat...

• JS's youngest AGM gets into training
  07

  ALL ABOUT PEOPLE
  JS's youngest AGM gets into training DAVID SMITH is JS's youngest area general manager.
  This month Mr Smith, who is 39, leaves his job as a
  district manager at Ealing area office to become area
  general manager...

• LONG SERVICE
  07

  LONG SERVICE Gordon Bryant, meat manager
  at New Maiden, celebrated 40
  years with JS on January 20. He
  started as a cycle boy at 97/99
  Kingston branch, becoming a
  butcher after two years.
  Mr Bryant interrupted his
  service...

• OBITUARY
  07

  OBITUARY
  Dennis Cecil, a refrigeration
  engineer at the Romford area
  office, died on January 30.
  He joined JS in 1967.
  Mr Cecil, who was 30, had
  leukaemia and had just recently
  returned to work, on a part-time
  basis. He had...

• OUR APOLOGIES
  07

  OUR APOLOGIES
  Les Price, warehouse manager
  at Bury Park, Luton, retired on
  December 15, after 44 years
  with the company, not as stated
  in the January issue as manager
  of Bury Park after 14 years
  service.
  Our apologies to...

• RETIREMENTS
  07

  RETIREMENTS John 'Joe' Wilkerson, electrical
  engineer at Basingstoke depot,
  retired in June 1975 after 44
  years with the company.
  He started with the company
  as an electrician's mate,
  transferred to branch...

• BRANCHES FACE A YEAR OF ACTION
  08

  RETAIL CONFERENCE '76
  BRANCHES FACE A
  YEAR OF ACTION AGM'S got the message from the top
  at the Eastbourne conference in
  January. Over the following weeks they
  passed it on to their managers at five
  one-day think-ins to find...