'JS Journal', September 1976

Table of content

• We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo
  01

  WHO BETTER to show off some of the
  natty numbers from JS's autumn range of
  children's clothes than six boys and girls
  whose mums all work at JS's Dudley store.
  Where better to go to show them off—
  and put the clothes...

• Contents Listing
  02

  Pages 1-5, 24
  General news
  Pages 6-17
  Features
  Pages 18-19
  Letters
  Pages 20-23
  People

• JS puts the plug in
  02

  SAVE WATER—but don't put JS's standards
  of hygiene at risk. That is the simple
  message that the 'Save Water at Work'
  poster (pictured below) is now putting
  across in kitchens, washrooms, preparation
  areas and laboratories...

• Prices you can't beef about!
  03

  TOP QUALITY BEEF, at prices so low
  they looked like a misprint, kept freezer
  cabinet lids in perpetual motion at JS
  freezer centres last month.
  Home produced beef was that month's
  supersave (there is a different frozen...

• Roy is one degree nearer his goal
  03

  ROY PALARAM, of branch financial
  control, has obtained an external degree in
  English from London University.
  Mr Palarm, who has been with JS for
  two years, did all his swotting in the
  evenings to get his degree and take...

• Two branches to close this autumn
  03

  ERDINGTON AND ST ALBANS branches
  are to close this autumn. The closures
  are part of the company's overall plan to
  phase out smaller, outmoded stores in
  favour of bigger, more efficient JS supermarkets
  trading in the same...

• Football season could dry-up
  04

  IT'S NOT JUST the big boys like Leeds,
  Liverpool and Leicester who've kicked off
  to another season of league football.
  Joining them in Britain's favourite winter
  sport on September 26, when the Griffin
  Sunday morning league...

• New rules don't go far enough
  04

  A STEP in the right direction but regrettably
  not far enough. That's what Bill
  Ponter, hypermarket manager in JS's
  estates department, thinks about the recent
  Government directive that eases the
  restrictions that have slowed...

• Package deal
  04

  A SUNTAN that doesn't stop where a
  bikini starts is like Sainsbury's
  packaging—clear and uncluttered. This
  piece of body philosophy comes up during
  a short divertissement currently being
  performed at the open air theatre...

• Red triangle goes as six-month price curb ends
  04

  THE GOVERNMENT'S voluntary price
  restraint scheme, which came into effect in
  shops on February 16 ended its six-month
  run in August. During that period shoppers
  became familiar with the red triangle
  symbol that spotlighted...

• The breeding season…
  04

  FIRST, a JS shopping trolley mysteriously
  arrived on a Cambridge traffic island. Next
  day another turned up, and on the third day
  a sign appeared indicating that 'At certain
  temperatures Sainsbury shopping trolleys
  have been...

• Bread— costs up, subsidy down
  05

  BREAD PRICES went up by lp a loaf on
  August 9. Half the increase is due to a
  reduction in the Government bread subsidy
  and half to increases in bakers' costs.
  The lp increase applies to both large
  and small loaves. As an...

• Just the weather for pretty girls
  05

  GARDENERS may be having a rough
  time at the moment but lovers of pretty
  girls have never had it so good. The
  months of summer sunshine have brought
  forth a fine crop of sun-tanned, longlimbed
  lovelies at JS.
  Karen Thurber...

• New slant on going straight
  05

  'CONSCIENCE MONEY for goods
  stolen from your store over the years by a
  group of people who should have known
  better and who have now decided to go
  straight.
  'Please forgive us.'
  Branch manager John Langrish found
  that typed...

• SavaCentre helps revive Oldbury
  05

  NEWS of another SavaCentre—this time
  at Oldbury in the West Midlands.
  Negotiations with the Sandwell District
  Council are well ahead for a site that forms
  the major part of phase one of a new Civic
  Centre to be built at...

• A Day at the Zoo
  06

  who's wearing what.
  Using the photograph with the chimp as a guide, the clothes are as
  follows (working from left to right): Amanda (next to the chimp)
  wears an acrylic polo neck skinny rib sweater, available in four
  colours....

• The Act that sets our rights to rights
  08

  Over the last few months the JS Journal has looked
  at the Health and Safety at Work Act and the Sex
  Discrimination Act. Now it's the turn of the
  Employment Protection Act, a far-reaching piece of
  legislation that came into...

• Roger is the leader of the pack
  10

  WALKING THE DOG is no easy matter
  for Roger Draper, a security chargehand
  at Buntingford depot. He has five of
  them—three basenjis and two Ibizan
  hounds, both comparatively rare breeds
  in the UK.
  Roger's interest goes far...

• Over a hundred quid's worth but no chips!
  11

  FIRST PRIZE in the Schools of Chesham
  carnival draw was a two-minute grub grab
  at Sainsbury's Chesham branch won by
  Mrs Sheila Taylor.
  Altogether she managed to grab
  £128.19-worth of goods ranging from
  joints of meat to...

• Part of life's rich tapestry goes on show
  11

  AN EXHIBITION of tapestries made by
  JS veteran Thomas Wilkerson has been
  staged at the Willow Hale library in
  Bognor Regis.
  Mr Wilkerson, who served with JS for
  45 years and retired in 1963 as manager of
  Burnt Oak branch,...

• A Racing Certainty
  12

  Above: a final word of encouragement before the race for Ian from Tom Barnes.
  Below: Ian amid the bustle of the pits.
  ;*W?&*SS*£i*fi#:
  CER1
  At weekends Ian Harrison swops his
  a black one-piece racing driver's suideputy...

• New employee handbook says it all
  14

  AM I ENTITLED to sickness payment?
  How much holiday is due to me ? What are
  my contractual obligations with JS ? What
  is the company policy on safety, overtime,
  dismissal or absenteeism?
  You will find the answers to these,...

• Brave steps towards a good cause
  15

  VERA POWELL, for four years on the
  staff at JS's Chelmsley Wood branch prior
  to resigning due to ill health, recently
  undertook a 400 metres walk for charity.
  The distance may, at first, not seem very
  much until one is made...

• Malcolm's poetic world goes into print
  15

  PLENTY OF PEOPLE write poemsvery
  few have them published. But Malcolm
  Napier, skilled tradesman at Camberley
  branch, has just published a book
  of his own poems—'Poet's Portrayal'.
  'I went to some London publishers,...

• Hardly enough leftovers to feed a flea!
  16

  We find out how JS catering staff cope if we don't ask for more
  EVER WONDERED what happened
  to the leftovers at your staff restaurant?
  Contrary to popular belief they do not
  constitute next day's 'chefs special' soup
  or hot...

• Your Letters
  17

  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
  Credits and debits
  From: B R Lucas, deputy...

• Into the valley of death rode…
  19

  It is not, I hope, unduly cynical to
  suggest that history is made more by
  ignorance, misunderstanding and
  accident than by good judgement, far
  sighted statesmanship and a clear
  understanding of fundamental issues.
  More...

• This glass dish needs looking into
  19

  THE BIGGEST MYSTERY yet from the
  JS archives is this glass dish. We don't
  know anything about it, except that it's six
  inches across and two-and-a-half inches
  high and has 'J Sainsbury' 'London' and 'R-
  7563-5' impressed on...

• Appointments
  20

  J C Litrizza, formerly personnel officer
  (recruitment) head office, has been
  appointed office recruitment manager.
  Dorothy Paterson, branch personnel
  officer of West Wickham, has taken up
  her new appointment as payroll...

• Long Service
  20

  John Williams, manager pork products,
  head office, celebrated 40 years with the
  company in August.
  Mr Williams started with the company
  as an egg boy at Brondesbury branch, also
  working at Willesden Green and 96...

• Margaret remembers the 'gentry' of Kensington
  20

  'EVERYBODY SAYS THE SAME—
  there's nowhere like Chelsea. It's a branch
  with a different atmosphere' says Margaret
  Campbell.
  She originally went to the branch in
  1946. She was supposed to be there for a
  fortnight, but she stayed...

• Bill's the last of a long line at JS
  21

  BILL WILLARD'S RETIREMENT
  from the dairy department at Blackfriars
  on August 20 brings to an end 67 years'
  continuous service with JS by the Willard
  family, starting with Bill's father, who
  joined JS in 1909.
  Says Bill: 'I...

• Retirements
  21

  'Bob' Terry, assistant manager at Bexhill,
  retired on August 7, after spending 39
  years with the company.
  He worked at Bexhill and the Wealdstone
  as a salesman—1946 brought his
  demob and an upgrade to senior...

• Chad's life of blood, sweat and tears
  22

  'I WAS BORN in a police station. My
  father, my brother, my uncle, my cousin,
  my husband, my son and two of my
  nephews were or are policemen'— Barbara
  Chadburn has spent all her working
  life in security. She retired after 20...

• Steven Mitchell
  22

  Steven Mitchell, tradesman at Corby
  branch died on July 17 after a collision on
  his motor bike. Steven joined the branch
  two years ago and was 17 years of age.

• Manager looks back on some good times
  23

  AFTER A CAREER spanning 39 years,
  Doug Billings, manager of JS's Bristol
  branch, retired on August 24. Mr Billings
  started his working life with a Midlands
  based provisions firm where many of the
  managers were former JS...

• Reg carves up a dragon
  23

  CHISELS AND DRAINING BOARDS a r e the
  tools of Reg Parrish's hobby—wood carving.
  Two weeks of deft manoeuvring of
  chisel on draining board has produced a
  carving of St George and the dragon. This
  is one of three wood...

• An up-dated look at what's in store at JS
  24

  Opening Programme for next 12 months
  Sittingbourne
  Maidstone
  Broadfield
  (Crawley)
  Cwmbran
  Worcester
  Exeter
  Poole
  Cannon Park
  (Coventry) and
  Wellingborough
  Uxbridge
  Cowley (Oxford)
  Town centre location. Supermarket...

• Crossword
  24

  Crossword
  Compiled by Chris German, supply control
  Each answer, except 13 and 22 down, is place name and the location of
  a JS store.
  Across
  1 Put on after contraband sound (5)
  3 This hill is wooded (6)
  7 Gain weight (6)
  8...