'JS Journal', May 1976

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• In a word, it's SavaCentre
  01

  In a word, it's SavaCentre A flight of fancy, soon to become fact, over the SavaCentre site at Washington, showing where the new store will be. SAVACENTRE is the name that's been
  chosen for the JS/BHS hypermarket venture.
  And...

• Contents Page
  02

  Pages 3—7
  General news
  Pages 8-17
  Features
  Pages 18-20
  People
  Pages 21-22
  Letters
  Pages 23-24
  Picture news

• New shop stops losses
  03

  New shop stops losses
  A SHOP-WITHIN-A-SHOP is the new
  way to sell to branch staff, at a discount,
  goods whose containers have been
  damaged or over-stocked perishables
  that have a limited code life. This
  saves the company the...

• Results: has JS turned the corner?
  03

  Results: has JS turned the corner?
  IT WASN'T such a bad year after all.
  After a poor start, with profits in the first
  six months down by 24 per cent, the
  second half picked up to give an overall
  profit for the year of £15.4...

• Stamford Group dogged by success
  03

  Stamford Group dogged by success
  ACCOMPANIED by his own guide
  dog, an alsatian named Flash, Terry
  Day (South East Regional Organiser of
  the Guide Dogs Association) received a
  cheque for £500 from the Stamford
  Group during a...

• A feather in our night-cap
  04

  A feather in our night-cap SLEEP - continental style, is now available
  at four JS branches, Kempston,
  Barkingside, Pitsea and Chippenham, in
  the form of a new range of continental
  quilts.
  Says JS textile manager...

• Mayor rings the changes
  04

  Mayor rings the changes
  LOOKING resplendent with his chain
  of office, the Mayor of Swindon,
  Councillor John Stevens, toured Sainsbury's
  supermarket at Swindon.
  At the end of his two-and-a-half hour
  visit the Mayor tried his...

• New departmental director joins trading division
  04

  New departmental director joins trading division
  PETER DAVIS joined the company as
  a departmental director in the trading
  division on May 3. He joins JS from Key
  Markets Limited, where he was managing
  director.
  After his...

• Number, please
  04

  Number, please
  LAST month's JS Journal carried a
  feature on the telephone and JS. But the
  early years are shrouded in mystery, so
  Honor Godfrey, JS archivist, would welcome
  any information on the early JS
  telephone system,...

• Staff pool their resources
  05

  Staff pool their resources Above: Warehouseman Mick Fyfe lines up a shot, watched by John Phillips. Below: It's John's turn to wield a cue. THE CLACK of balls on the pool table
  at Basingstoke branch doesn't mean a
  quick profit...

• Success in a tights situation
  05

  Success in a tights situation
  TWENTY PENCE off a five-pair pack
  of micromesh tights is an offer that JS's
  female customers can't refuse, so, when
  the price was slashed from 99p to 79p
  for the four most popular colours,...

• Fruit and veg are on the loose
  06

  Fruit and veg are on the loose
  HAND-PICKED produce is being tried
  out at JS's Lewisham branch and the
  results so far are very encouraging. The
  hand doing the picking belongs to the
  customer. Since early April the store...

• We also heard . . . empties threat
  07

  We also heard . . . empties threat OUR eternal thanks to the unknown
  person who sent us a clipping from a
  recent copy of Woman magazine and
  drew our attention to a letter from a
  reader with an Ilford address.
  The writer...

• We never close
  08

  The main entrance of Stamford House, JS's head office at Blackfriars. THE EVENING begins at Stamford
  House when the switchboard closes
  down between five and six o'clock. From
  then on all the calls for head office are
  routed...

• Psst! Wanna buy a freeza?
  10

  Psst! Wanna buy a freeza? The familiar front of a JS freezer centre.
  This one, at Maidenhead, was opened in
  March, 1975. JUST OVER two years ago, in January
  1974, JS announced its entry into the
  freezer centre business. Most...

• Half a lamb is better than . . .
  11

  Half a lamb is better than . . .
  HALF A LAMB sounds more like
  meal for Desperate Dan (of Beano
  comic and cow pie fame) than for thrifty
  JS shoppers. But half-lamb packs are
  one of the most successful lines
  developed...

• JS s front-seat drivers are the best
  11

  JS's front-seat drivers are the best THE ROMANTIC IMAGE of a
  chauffeur in a peaked cap and
  impressive leather driving gauntlets,
  created for the most part by early moviemakers,
  is nowhere near the real image
  of the...

• Unhappy returns
  12

  Unhappy returns In a corner of a branch cold store a
  boxful of leaking and discoloured
  vacuum packs and out-of-code perishables.
  For them it's back to the depot This financial year over £5 million worth of unsold
  goods were...

• Uncle Ray rides again !
  16

  Uncle Ray rides again ! HURTLING AROUND a field in a battered,
  souped-up old Ford 100E is how
  Ray Anderson unwinds after a week
  behind the wheel of a big JS artic. Ray,
  who is a driver at Buntingford depot, is a
  grass track...

• Appointments
  18

  Appointments
  Derek Pretty has been appointed deputy
  chief accountant at Streatham. He was
  previously special assistant to the
  marketing directors, having joined JS in
  L973 as a financial analyst, and he will
  now be...

• Long Service
  18

  Long Service
  George Darby, senior skilled meat
  tradesman at Pinner, celebrated 40
  years' service with the company in April.
  Mr Darby worked for 23 years as a
  van salesman at Harrow, until that type
  of delivery was no longer...

• Retirements
  18

  Retirements
  Ted Shaw, a district manager at Bromley
  area office, retired on April 23 after
  45 years with JS.
  Mr Shaw started his long and varied
  career with the company at Bexhill. He
  transferred to Hastings in 1937 and...

• AGM who looks too young to retire
  19

  AGM who looks too young to retire TALL AND LEAN with a boyish
  twinkle in his eye, Les Westcott looks
  too young to retire. But he isn't, and on
  May 15 he retires as area general
  manager of JS's Woking office after
  nearly 45...

• JS says goodbye to SB
  20

  JS says goodbye to SB STANLEY BRIGHTWELL'S 30-year
  career with JS, which ended when he
  retired on March 5, saw the revival of
  production in the factory after the war
  and the growth of the laboratories from
  a handful of...

• Your letters
  21

  Your letters
  Letters are welcome and should be
  addressed to the editor. Don't forget
  you can dictate one by using the
  Journal's phone-in service on
  Blackfriars extension 2363 Staff get hooked
  From: Jill Mitchell,...

• Cost Inflation—25 years on
  22

  Cost Inflation—25 years on
  LOOKING AT the preliminary results
  and the talk of inflation and cost cutting
  which inevitably surrounds them, one
  might be forgiven for thinking that both
  topics were new.
  But no! A browse...

• Depot 'all-stars' take on the Entertainers
  23

  Depot 'all-stars' take on the Entertainers
  BUNTINGFORD DEPOT lost the
  game but won the day on April 18, when
  they entertained a crowd of over 500
  with a 'star' studded charity football
  match.
  Not ones to do things by halves,...

• Do you really like working here?
  23

  Do you really like working here?
  BBC RADIO DERBY dropped by at
  the Eagle Centre, Derby, on April 29,
  and their reporter Andrew Turner
  chatted to staff at the JS branch.
  He asked clerk Janet Selby: 'Do you
  like working...

• Dot's before your eyes
  23

  Dot's before your eyes
  IT'S spring again, so we offer you not
  tulips from Amsterdam, but Dot
  Holland from Woking (pictured left).
  Twenty-one-year-old Dot, a clerk in
  the wages and payroll records department
  at Woking area...

• Top flight finals
  23

  Top flight finals
  OVER nine hours of play finally
  resolved the winners in this year's darts
  competition, organised by the SSA and
  held at the new recreation centre at
  Rennie House, Blackfriars.
  The event attracted many...

• Winning ways
  23

  Winning ways
  FORTUNE has smiled on two JS
  shoppers in competitions run by weekly
  magazines.
  A shopper at Bristol branch, Mrs
  Dolly Taylor, won a holiday in Majorca
  worth £400 and £100 spending money.
  And Mrs Pamela...

• Jumping to it at the Griffin Club
  24

  Jumping to it at the Griffin Club
  GLORIOUS sunshine, together with
  hundreds of SSA members and their
  families in sporting and holiday mood,
  went to make the Easter Monday sports
  day at Griffin Athletic Club in Dulwich
  a...