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  • Efficiency pays off... investment pays off 01

    Efficiency pays off
    Inflation ate up most of our 22 per cent growth in turnover ... but we're back to a healthier profit level. We held our prices down . Staff get lOp from every £1 in the till so customers increased, boosting...

  • Contents Page 02

    Pages 1-9
    General news
    Pages 10-17,22-23
    Features
    Pages 18-19
    Letters
    Pages 20-21
    People
    Page 24
    Jubilee

  • Now we are ten 03

    Now we are ten
    IT'S OPEN HOUSE at Buntingford depot
    on May 22 to celebrate the opening of
    the depot ten years ago to the day.
    During the morning there will be guided
    tours of the depot, a reach truck display
    and an...

  • Washington's high flyers! 03

    Washington's high flyers!
    AMERICAN PRESIDENT Jimmy Carter
    was welcomed to Washington Green,
    County Durham by a whole troop of
    SavaCentre bandsmen during his visit to
    the town on May 6.
    The bandsmen/women (whose ages
    range...

  • Winning exposure! 03

    Winning exposure!
    IT WASN'T PERFECT weather for tak-
    ing pictures but Terry Wright, winner of
    our photographic competition (see Ch-
    ristmas 1976 issue), still took his camera
    along on his mini-cruise to Denmark.
    Our winning...

  • Women's rights 03

    Women's rights
    FROM April 6 this year, new regulations
    covering the national insurance contributions
    of female employees who are
    married or widows came into effect.
    An employee in either of these two
    categories (and paying...

  • Champions beat everyone under the table! 04

    Champions beat everyone under the table!
    THE JS TABLE TENNIS team has won
    the division five championships of the
    central London Table Tennis League.
    Led by 1976 JS champion Alan Bennett
    (purchase accounts, Streatham) and...

  • Elwyn is next in line for president 04

    Elwyn is next in line for president
    ALTHOUGH ELWYN DA VIES has
    been at Cwmbran only since November
    1976, when he became manager of JS's
    first branch in Wales, he has already made
    his mark in local trading circles.
    For Elwyn...

  • Freezer centre advertising hots up 04

    Freezer centre advertising hots up
    The eye-catching posters in position at Chingford's integrated freezer centre. ALL JS freezer centres have been hooked
    on to a new style of advertising this month.
    The new theme is bolder,...

  • JS's super marriage mart 04

    JS's super marriage mart
    SPRING IS in the air and so is romance—
    especially at JS's Wandsworth branch.
    For the second time this year (the first was
    in March when Wandsworth's grocery
    manager Steve Base and North...

  • Israel keeps mum about new melon 05

    Israel keeps mum about new melon
    Left: the new Galia melon—same high
    quality but higher yield than right: the
    smaller Ogen melon.
    A NEW VARIETY of melon developed in Israel is now appearing in some JS stores. The
    Galia...

  • New style concrete overcoat! 05

    New style concrete overcoat!
    A LUCKY ESCAPE for Basingstoke
    driver Bill Collins when he was freed from
    this metallic muddle with only a few cuts
    and bruises.
    The accident occured on the Kingston bypass
    as Bill was passing a...

  • Tesco gives the red light to Green Shield stamps 05

    Tesco gives the red light to Green Shield stamps
    TESCO has finally cut off its 14 year
    link with Green Shield stamps. The
    decision, which was announced last week,
    brought a smile to the lips of many JS staff
    who have long...

  • Washington SavaCentre first with in-store computer 05

    Washington SavaCentre first with in-store computer
    SAVACENTRE will be the first British
    retail company to install the highlycomplex,
    totally in-store NCR computer
    system. It consists of 38 checkouts linked
    to a mini computer...

  • Elaine's easy on the ear... and eye 06

    Elaine's easy on the ear... and eye
    HOUSEKEEPER Elaine Davies, of JS's
    Cowley branch, was interviewed on Radio
    Oxford during a programme about local
    staff canteens.
    The programme discussed a health
    inspector's report which...

  • News of pay and players 06

    News of pay and players
    THE SALARIES OFFICE has moved
    from Streatham to Blackfriars. Staff who
    are paid four-weekly will now receive their
    payslips from the second floor of Rennie
    House. Any queries about pay should...

  • Survival of the fittest at HO! 06

    Survival of the fittest at HO!
    THE RECREATION ROOM at Rennie
    House, Blackfriars, buzzes with keep-fit
    activity every Monday evening.
    For, under the guidance of Hatha Yoga
    expert Lester Springer (a food analyst in
    the JS...

  • We've got a holiday for guess what day! 06

    We've got a holiday for guess what day!
    THE SPRING BANK HOLIDAY on
    Monday, June 6 and the holiday declared
    for the Queen's silver jubilee on Tuesday,
    June 7, means a long weekend lies ahead
    for all JS staff.
    Branches, depots...

  • Window dressing with a royal touch 06

    Window dressing with a royal touch
    JS WINDOWS will go red, blue, silver and purple to celebrate the Queen's silver jubilee in
    June. The posters are the work of Peter Dixon, head of the JS design studio—apart from
    the union...

  • Free-flow produce is a hand-picked winner 07

    Free-flow produce is a hand-picked winner
    SINCE THE TRIAL PERIOD one year
    ago free-flow produce has proved a tremendous
    success in JS stores. By the end of
    May almost 30 branches will have 'gone
    loose'.
    Every branch to have...

  • JS counsellors have their once a year day 08

    JS counsellors have their once a year day
    JS COUNCILLORS went willingly to
    the Tower on April 5, not to lose their
    heads but to attend their agm. The tower
    was the conference suite of the swish
    Tower hotel just across the...

  • News from around and about... comfy cabs on trial 08

    News from around and about... comfy cabs on trial
    TWO NEW MAKES of JS lorries will be
    seen on the roads this month. Buntingford
    depot is trying out Mercedes and Daf and
    hopes to have five of each by the end of
    July.
    The new...

  • C'est magnifique—and scrumptious 09

    C'est magnifique—and scrumptious
    CROISSANTS AND COFFEE are to the
    French what bacon and eggs are (or were)
    to the British—the perfect way to start
    the day. It is therefore not surprising that
    the French know their...

  • Royal feast 09

    Royal feast
    FIT FOR A QUEEN—that's how staff at
    JS's High Street, Walthamstow branch
    described the sumptuous buffet prepared
    for them by housekeeper Flo Gooden for
    their jubilee party, held on March 29.
    The canteen was...

  • The driving force behind the wheel 10

    The driving force behind the wheel Just the job
    The first in a new series of
    articles that will take an indepth
    look at a JS job, and the
    person behind it. This month
    we visit Rennie House to meet
    Ralph Henderson... FOR...

  • A labour of love 11

    A labour of love
    HUNDREDS of letters pour into JS's
    public relations department every week.
    Many of them are from teachers and
    students asking for posters they can use to
    illustrate a project they are working on.
    One letter...

  • Living memories of those good old/bad old days 11

    Living memories of those good old/bad old days
    AT THE VETERANS REUNION on
    April 18, living, walking, talking history
    revealed itself in a field-day for the JS
    archives. Here are some of my favourite
    quotes:
    'I answered an ad...

  • Something to celebrate 11

    Something to celebrate
    EVERYBODY'S jumping on the jubilee
    souvenir-hunters' bandwagon. Everybody
    except, perhaps, James Fairman,
    deputy manager, at JS's Dorking
    branch. He has been an avid collector of
    royal commemorative...

  • JS converts take a trip to their local 12

    JS converts take a trip to their local
    Continuing our series of close-up studies in different
    areas of JS we visit scrumpy country to meet a couple
    who take their own customer-eye view of a JS store . . . The
    ANN AND BRIAN...

  • A-golfing we will go... 16

    A-golfing we will go...
    OVER THIRTY GOLFERS took to the
    hills of Berkshire on April 25 to take part
    in Ealing area office's annual golf tournament.
    The hills were those that go to make up
    the 18 holes of the Goring and...

  • Bristow: Frank Dickens 17

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  • Shirin's happy giving away money! 17

    Shirin's happy giving away money!
    SHIRIN KESHAVJEE can be forgiven if
    in the cause of duty she allows her heart to
    rule her head. For she is JS's charities
    clerk, responsible for dealing with the
    many requests for help that...

  • Your letters 18

    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 Money's worth!
    From: C S Lundy, JS veteran
    I have a good deal of sympathy with...

  • Bracknell gets its name in the paper 19

    Bracknell gets its name in the paper
    STAFF AT BRACKNELL branch are
    well known locally for being extra helpful
    and considerate to their customers. So
    much so that one of their 'regulars' decided
    to say 'thank you' through...

  • Dream holiday knocks Roy and Margaret for six! 19

    Dream holiday knocks Roy and Margaret for six!
    'IT'S LIKE A DREAM come true' says
    Roy Quelch, winner of the £400 Greek
    holiday for two that was the top raffle
    prize at this year's Miss JS finals.
    Basingstoke depot drew the...

  • Appointments 20

    Appointments
    Derek Graham (pictured above) has been
    appointed depot manager at Charlton
    depot. He was formerly depot manager,
    contracts, based at the distribution
    division's central offices at Blackfriars.
    Mr Graham, who is...

  • Long Service 21

    Long Service
    Fred Coombs, post messenger, Rennie
    House, Blackfriars, celebrated 40 years'
    service with JS on May 3.
    Mr Coombs started with the company
    in 1937 as foreman in the bakery at the
    now closed Blackfriars factory....

  • Obituary 21

    Obituary
    Frederick Tilley, driver, Charlton depot,
    died suddenly on April 1. He had been
    with the company for nearly 40 years.
    Mr Tilley started with JS in 1938 as a
    porter in Marylebone branch. In 1947 he
    was transferred to...

  • Pontin's weekend gets everybody in the holiday mood 21

    Pontin's weekend gets
    everybody
    in the holiday mood
    JS staff and their families from places as far
    afield as Cwmbran and Cambridge descended
    on Pontin's holiday camp at Camber
    Sands, Sussex, on April 15 for a SSA
    weekend of...

  • Retirements 21

    Retirements
    John Rappard, warehouseman, Shirley,
    retired on April 30 after 22 years' service
    with the company.
    Mr Rappard joined JS in 1955 as a
    porter at Above Bar branch in Southampton.
    It was in 1971 that he took up his...

  • Veterans' get-together grows . . . and grows! 22

    Veterans' get-together grows . . . and grows!
    THIS YEAR more than 1400 JS veterans
    gathered at the Royal Lancaster Hotel on
    April 18 for their 29th annual reunion.
    Despite the increase in numbers, the organisation
    of the...

  • Mike makes mincemeat of his opponents 23

    Mike makes mincemeat of his opponents
    WHEN JS BUTCHER Mike Whelan, of
    Golders Green branch, flexes his muscles
    over a baron of beef he is not just doing his
    job but getting useful preparation for a
    sporting pastime that takes...

  • We also heard... a view with a room (or two) 23

    We also heard...a view with a room (or two)
    GRACIOUS LIVING is incomplete
    without a JS store less than a Rolls-Royce
    ride away. Or so it would seem from an
    advertisement in a recent copy of the
    Sunday Observer which, after an...

  • Everybody's doing it... 24

    Everybody's doing it...
    WE'VE BEEN INUNDATED with news
    of jubilee celebrations being planned
    around JS. Everybody's doing it. Branches
    are throwing parties, central offices
    are going the whole hog and having a
    jubilee ball,...

  • There's still time to win £50 24

    There's still time to win £50
    The The JS Journal offices have been
    flooded with entries for our jubilee competition.
    Ideas have arrived from as far
    afield as Brighton and Bridgwater, Doncaster
    and Dorking. But it's the...