'JS Journal', March 1977

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• Sandy steals the show!
  01

  Sandy steals the show! Front page picture:
  Sandy Meek gets a congratulatory kiss
  from boyfriend John after she was voted
  Miss J Sainsbury 1977. More about the
  Miss JS finals on pages 4,12 and 13.

• Contents Page
  02

  Pages 1-6,24
  General news
  Pages 8-15
  Features
  Page 16
  Competition
  Pages 7,17-18
  Letters
  Pages 19-23
  People

• Two new directors join the board
  02

  Two new directors join the board
  DEPARTMENTAL DIRECTORS
  Peter Davis and Bob Ingham have been
  appointed to the board as part of the
  reorganisation following Peter Snow's retirement
  last month. The changes include
  a move for...

• £2,000 cheque for Ironbridge museum
  03

  £2,000 cheque for Ironbridge museum
  TELFORD'S industrial museum is to
  receive another donation from
  Sainsbury's—this time for £2,000. The
  company previously gave £1,000 to the
  Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust in 1974
  when...

• Making a Jubilee display of yourself
  03

  Making a Jubilee display of yourself
  THERE ARE STILL three months to go
  to the big day but already some
  Sainsbury's branches are thinking about
  those Jubilee celebrations. Stores will be
  taking part mainly in window...

• Should JS opt out of the new state scheme?
  03

  Should JS opt of the new state scheme?
  NOW IS THE TIME for us to start
  thinking seriously about whether or not
  JS should contract in or out of the new
  state pensions scheme which comes into
  effect on April 1978.
  From that...

• SSA chief to sit on government committee
  03

  SSA chief to sit on government committee
  ALAN KETTLEY is a real expert on
  recreation, so much so that he has just
  been asked by Dennis Howell, minister for
  Sport and Recreation, to join a government
  committee on the...

• Battersea to close
  04

  Battersea to close
  A COMPULSORY PURCHASE
  ORDER on the site of JS's Battersea
  branch means that the store will have to
  close on May 28.
  There has been a Sainsbury's in Battersea
  for nearly 50 years and the company
  is looking...

• Great night finals!
  04

  Great night finals!
  SANDY MEEK is the winner of this
  year's Miss JS finals, held at the West
  Centre Hotel, London, on February
  26.
  'It's like a dream' she says, 'I can't
  believe that it's happening to me.'
  Sandy is 22 and...

• Happiness in store...
  04

  Happiness in store...
  LOVE BLOSSOMED amid the groceries
  for Rose Chandler and Steve Bass when
  they both worked at North Cheam
  branch.
  On February 26, 18 months later, their
  friendship became firmly cemented when
  they got...

• Introducing journalist Jan...
  04

  Introducing journalist Jan...
  JAN WALSH joins the JS Journal reporting
  team this month. Her first job after
  leaving university was as a reporter on the
  Eastern Evening News.
  Jan, who is 26 and comes from York,
  has also been...

• Double Dutch week makes sense
  05

  Double Dutch week makes sense
  SAINSBURY'S WENT DUTCH for two
  weeks, commencing February 21, when
  fresh foods from Holland were promoted
  in JS branches.
  Called 'Dutch Fresh Food at
  Sainsbury's' the promotion centred...

• New role for star of Dad's Army
  05

  New role for star of Dad's Army
  STAFF AT STAMFORD HOUSE were
  surprised one morning to see Uncle Cyril
  taking his nephew Steven on a guided tour
  around the building. Uncle Cyril, better
  known as Arthur Lowe of Dad's...

• News from around and about
  05

  News from around and about
  TRADING AND OFFICE hours for the
  Easter period have now been announced.
  All stores, with the exception of Victoria,
  will be open on Good Friday but
  will close for Tuesday April 12 giving most
  staff...

• Pull the other leg
  05

  Pull the other leg
  THE NAME JAKE was the only clue to
  the nature of a complaint from a customer
  who returned a pair of JS one-size tights.
  Those of you who are acquainted with
  Mr Jake (the peg) will be way ahead of us
  when...

• Finals keep players on the ball
  06

  Finals keep players on the ball
  IT TOOK TEN HOURS of non-stop play
  to decide this year's SSA table tennis
  finals, held in the recreation room at
  Rennie House on Sunday 20 February.
  Two ace players, Margaret Bowyer and
  Simon...

• JS fairy cakes rise to the occasion
  06

  JS fairy cakes rise to the occasion
  FACED WITH AN OVEN made out of a
  tin box resting on four bricks, with a wood
  fire underneath and hot ashes on top,
  Linda Brooks' heart fell; but not her JS
  cupcakes, which rose splendidly...

• Rescued from chain gang
  06

  Rescued from chain gang
  SOMEONE OBVIOUSLY THOUGHT a
  lot of this JS trolley to chain it to the
  railings outside a block of flats in Fulham.
  The picture was taken by a sharp-eyed
  customer who said the 'owner' had...

• Sue's prize helps the housekeeping
  06

  Sue's prize helps the housekeeping
  MEET LUCKY HOUSEWIFE Sue Willmott whose weekly shopping bill up to £5 will be
  paid for the next two years by Living magazine.
  That was the prize Sue (seen above with manager Stan Stanford),...

• Is the Bullock report the answer...?
  07

  Is the Bullock report the answer...? The response to the invitation to let
  the Journal know what you think
  about the Bullock report on worker
  participation (see February issue)
  has been so great there just isn't
  enough space...

• The Streatham connection
  08

  The Streatham connection
  For the second in our new series of close-up stories we take
  the minibus to Streatham to find our how JS's central
  accounting and internal auditing departments add up . ..
  The vital link—Bill...

• The internal audit department
  11

  Some of the people behind the scenes
  Names to the faces are (clockwise)—Paddy
  Griffin, Chris John, Derek Pretty (left)
  with Frank Netscher, Malcolm Watkins,
  Vera Curtis, Bill Anderson (enjoying a
  cuppa), Bernard Mark and,...

• Take ten pretty girls ...
  12

  Take ten pretty girls ...
  Beauty and the lucky beast! The beauty (from left to right): Karen Pini, runner up of Miss
  World 1977 and one of the judges; Miss JS 1977 Sandy Meek; Miss JS 1976 Wendy
  Boutwood; and Miss International...

• The Great Race
  14

  WITH MORE THAN a little help
  from BBC TV's Nationwide
  programme, Putney branch was
  transferred into 'own Brands Hatch'
  on January 14, for the staging of the
  first ever supermarket trolley Grand
  Prix, shown on...

• A right royal competition
  16

  A right royal competition
  and would jubileeVe it, a £50 hamper to the winner!
  WIN YOURSELF a hearty
  hamper with a royal flavour—
  a jubilee feast—including
  a crown of lamb, a majestic
  Stilton, smoked scotch salmon,
  a...

• Your letters
  17

  Your letters
  Letters are welcome and should be
  addressed to the editor. Don't forget
  you can use the Journal's
  ring-in service on 01-921 6221 Making allowances
  From: W J Cole, grocery manager, Trinity
  Street, Coventry
  I...

• Homage to fromage
  18

  Homage to fromage
  'ONE OF THE finest Camemberts I have
  ever tasted' wrote a customer at JS's
  Farnborough store in a letter of praise to
  manager Ray Clark, about a cheese she
  had recently bought at the store.
  Explaining that...

• The bullock report...
  18

  The bullock report... JS archivist Honor Godfrey comes up with a piece
  of surprisingly topical documentary evidence THIS SIGNIFICANT PIECE of ephemera,
  lavishly illustrated in red and gold,
  has recently been donated to the...

• Appointments
  19

  Appointments
  K Sisk, formerly chief specialist programmer,
  has been appointed deputy
  technical services manager at Blackfriars.
  R Sims, formerly manager of Feltham,
  has been appointed manager of Lords Hill
  (Southampton)...

• Long service
  19

  Long service
  Jack Graves, assistant manager, Muswell
  Hill, celebrated 40 years with the company
  on March 1.
  Mr Graves commenced with JS at Ipswich.
  After serving seven years with the
  Royal Field Artillery, he rejoined JS...

• Glynis is a guest at the Palace
  20

  Glynis is a guest at the Palace
  A VISIT TO BUCKINGHAM PALACE
  was an important part of a day that 18-
  year-old Glynis Parker spent recently in
  London.
  Glynis, a scheduling clerk and cashier at
  JS's Churchill Road, Brighton...

• Obituary
  20

  Obituary
  Wally Turner, cleaner, Buntingford depot,
  died suddenly on January 31. He had
  been with JS for six years.
  Mr Turner leaves a wife and two sons.
  Bob Jaggard, assistant meat manager,
  Wood Green, died peacefully in his...

• Retirements
  20

  Retirements
  Jim Rose, warehouse manager at Christchurch,
  retired in March, after 45 years
  with JS.
  Mr Rose commenced with the company
  in 1932 at 32 Croydon and later worked at
  146 Bournemouth. In 1940 he served with
  the RAF...

• RetepWons sets sail for Acrojam
  21

  RetepWons sets sail for Acrojam
  PETER SNOW was born above
  Sainsbury's in Crouch End where his
  father was the manager. At the age of 15,
  in 1939, he too started work at JS, as a
  junior salesman at Whetstone.
  On March 4 he...

• Mabel sticks to it for 45 years!
  22

  Mabel sticks to it for 45 years!
  'STICK IT FOR SIX MONTHS, it
  doesn't do to keep changing jobs' was the
  advice given to Mabel Aylmore when she
  started work as a junior clerk at JS's
  Bexhill branch in 1932. The job, paying...

• Not a man for marking time.
  22

  Not a man for marking time. . .
  MARK ROBINSON is a travelling man.
  Over the past 14 years he has covered
  roughly 600,000 miles (that's equivalent
  to 22 times around the world) as stores and
  materials inspector for the...

• A life on the ocean waves was not for Cyril
  23

  A life on the ocean waves was not for Cyril
  'DON'T GO TO SEA whatever you do'
  young Cyril Hart was told by his father,
  who, as captain of many a ship out of
  Folkestone harbour, knew the hardship of
  life afloat.
  Cyril heeded...

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

  An up-dated look at what's in store at JS
  Opening programme to date
  Cannon Park
  (Coventry)
  Cowley
  (Oxford)
  Wellingborough
  Lords...

• We also heard... just what the doctor ordered!
  24

  We also heard...just what the doctor ordered!
  ARRESTED FOR SHOPLIFTING
  from JS's Walsall branch, a customer was
  told that she was never to enter the shop
  again.
  A few days later she was back there
  shopping as usual. As she...