'JS Journal', April 1978

Table of content

• Cover Page
  01

  Top: Perambulations—page five
  Above: We are the champions!—page five
  Right: Buntingford walks tall—page 18
  Below: Glory on the green—page 15 Top: Spot the ball!—page four
  Above: New good food guide—page nine
  Full...

• A ROAR OF APPROVAL
  02

  A ROAR OF APPROVAL from
  the Ceylon lion for JS's green label
  tea. From time to time the Ceylon
  Tea Centre, in London's Regent
  Street, ask a panel of tea tasters to
  sample teas identified by the Ceylon
  lion symbol.
  At a...

• Colour changes
  02

  Colour changes
  DISCOUNT '78 changed colour on April
  10. New advertising material printed in
  red and yellow was distributed to all
  branches, in order to keep the advertising
  fresh in the public mind and avoid staleness.
  It is...

• Contents Page
  02

  Pages 1-7
  General news
  Pages 8-15, 17
  Feature
  Page 16
  Letters
  Pages 18-23
  People
  Page 24
  Archives

• Nut-ritious
  02

  Nut-ritious A NEW CONDIMENT has arrived on
  JS shelves. Called 'Crunchnut Topping'
  and retailing at 22p for four ounces, it is a
  mixture of crushed peanuts and cashew
  nuts covered in a sweet coating. It is
  especially good...

• Spot the branches in new TV advertising
  02

  Spot the branches in new TV advertising
  WOOLWICH AND PUTNEY saw
  some of the bright lights early in April
  when they played host to the film crews
  shooting the next round of JS TV advertising.
  Woolwich were also treated to a...

• Success story
  02

  Success story
  BRETTON'S TROLLEY DEPOSIT
  scheme is turning up trumps. The first
  month's operation of this JS innovation
  in trolley control has gone without a
  hitch, and store manager Bob Simpson
  has reported it 'a tremendous...

• Tea trade goes off the boil
  02

  Tea trade goes off the boil
  CAREFUL FORWARD BUYING and
  shrewd trading enabled JS to quietly ride
  out the storm that has recently been
  affecting the tea trade. Consequently JS
  tea prices, which were reduced on
  January 9, have...

• HMS Sainsbury's
  03

  HMS Sainsbury's
  FLYING THE FLAG in honour of the
  staff at Chatham branch is Lieutenant
  Rod Morris of the Royal Navy.
  Lieutenant Morris, who is secretary to
  the chief of staff to the flag officer, at the
  HM Naval base at...

• Pack-up your troubles
  03

  Pack-up your troubles
  MAF 78 will soon be showing in selected
  stores. This is not some new form of
  Discount '78, but the latest brainchild of
  the packaging engineers at Clapham.
  The new MAF 78 machines are an
  updated form of...

• Energetic Easter at Dulwich
  04

  Easter is always a peak time for sporting and charitable
  functions. Here we look at two—the SSA football and netball
  competitions and Portsmouth's pram race.
  Energetic Easter at Dulwich A HEARTY CROWD gathered at JS's
  sports...

• Portsmouth pushes ahead!
  05

  Portsmouth pushes ahead!
  A TUNED-UP JS TROLLEY travelled 52 miles from Brighton to Portsmouth over
  Easter weekend. Pushed by a team of trolley experts from Portsmouth branch, the
  trolley was taking part in the annual Portsmouth...

• Basingstoke thinks big
  06

  Basingstoke thinks big
  IN THE PROCESS of being writ large at
  the entrance of Basingstoke depot are the
  letters JS. Here depot groundsman Vic
  Blunden is putting the finishing touches to
  the'S'bend.
  The next step will be to...

• Prof of the pops is number one
  06

  THE POP WORLD holds no mysteries
  for John Conlan, a student worker at JS's
  Kilburn store. In fact John knows so
  much about pop music that he won Granada
  TV's 'Pop Quest' quiz series, earning
  himself a £300 music centre, a...

• Action plan replay in action
  07

  Action plan replay in action
  A NEW DEPARTURE in courses for
  branch managers got the thumbs up last
  month when eleven managers attended a
  day-long follow-up meeting at Blackfriars.
  They met to discuss the results of a...

• Sandra's Sardinian surprise!
  07

  Sandra's Sardinian surprise!
  'MY FIANCE still doesn't believe me' says 19-year-old Sandra Edwards about the news
  that she has won a £500 holiday for two in Sardinia. 'I can hardly believe it myself. I'm not
  the lucky...

• Paul is always in training
  08

  Paul is always in training Just the job
  This month, our series of
  JS job profiles takes us up
  to Coventry area office for
  a look at the work of a
  senior training specialist.
  PAUL JOHNSON is a familiar face
  around stores in...

• Busy doing something
  09

  Busy doing something
  AN ARTICLE very like this one was
  Paula Brindley's first introduction to the
  world of a JS counsellor. Last year a
  friend showed her a story in the October
  JS Journal about JS counsellors. Six
  months...

• Something in the air
  10

  Something in the air
  WHIRLYBIRD ENTHUSIASTS of all
  ages flocked to the site of the new
  SavaCentre, being built near Gillingham
  in Kent, on Sunday March 19, to watch
  an airlift spectacular.
  A Lama helicopter was used to lift...

• A work of art
  12

  The Sainsbury Centre for
  Visual Arts opened on April 7.
  The Centre is the gift of Sir
  Robert and Lady Sainsbury
  and their son David, to the
  University of East Anglia, just
  outside Norwich.
  In 1973 Sir Robert and his
  wife...

• Buntingford plays at home to win
  14

  Buntingford plays at home to win
  LORD AND LADY SAINSBURY were
  on the touchline to watch the finals of the
  East Anglia Sunday Youth Football
  League, held on April 2 at Buntingford
  depot. Lord Sainsbury is president of...

• Secretaries miss their trains home!
  14

  Secretaries miss their trains home!
  SECRETARIES working in London
  were tempted to miss their train home on
  April 5 and come to Stamford House for
  a drink and a chat instead.
  The temptation was spelt out in a...

• All teed-up for the top
  15

  BUNTINGFORD'S GOLFERS are
  making their mark on the local golf scene.
  Two of the golf society, driver Paul Holcombe
  and Dave Little, a general duty
  motor engineer, hit the big time with a
  win in the Cambridge Evening News...

• Your letters
  16

  Your letters
  Letters are welcome and should be
  addressed to the editor.
  Advertising the facts
  From: J Mead, on behalf of staff at
  Basingstoke depot
  The members of the production operations
  office and many of the...

• Plug ugly
  17

  Plug ugly
  The shocking effect of static electricity was the
  subject of JS safety advisor Stan Ramage's March
  cautionary tale. This month it is the turn of the manmade
  variety.
  AN ELECTRIC CURRENT of less than...

• Tall Story
  18

  THE BIGGEST FEET IN BRITAIN
  belong to Derek Myson, a warehouse
  supervisor at Buntingford depot. From
  heel to toe his right foot measures 35.88
  centimetres (14£ inches). His left foot is a
  fraction smaller. And he takes size...

• Pirates of JS Hants
  19

  PIRACY may not be a very fashionable
  profession at the moment, but two of the
  staff at Basingstoke depot were determined
  to prove otherwise. Appearing
  in the Basingstoke Amateur Operatic
  Society's production of Gilbert...

• Appointments
  20

  Appointments
  F Netscher, JS's chief accountant, has
  been appointed to the status of departmental
  director. For organisational
  purposes however, he will continue to be
  known as chief accountant.
  R Cooper, formerly assistant...

• Long service
  20

  Long service
  Pete Serjeant, a departmental manager
  with Sainsbury-Spillers Ltd, celebrated
  40 years association with JS on February
  21.
  Mr Serjeant joined the company in
  1938 at 96 Kilburn, working as a poultry
  blockman. He...

• Retirements
  20

  Retirements
  Dennis 'Ozzie' Osborn, distribution manager
  in the purchasing department at
  Blackfriars, retired on April 7 after 39
  years with JS.
  Mr Osborn joined JS in 1939, working
  in the Stamford Street factory as a...

• Forty years keeping the show on the road
  21

  Forty years keeping the show on the road
  'HORSES TO LORRIES, I've seen all
  the changes' says Eddie Fitsall, warehouse
  supervisor at Basingstoke depot.
  Eddie retired this month after 43 years
  with JS, all of them spent in the...

• Obituary
  21

  Obituary
  Bill Claridge, a store serviceman at Reading
  branch, died last month. Mr Claridge
  had been with JS for eleven years.
  Liz Scadden, a cashier at Welwyn Garden
  City branch, died on February 20.
  Mrs Scadden had worked...

• Rugby is recognised as top dog!
  21

  Rugby is recognised as top dog!
  RUGBY'S SUCCESS at raising funds
  for an ex-employee's guide dog (see October
  and December '77 Journals) was
  marked last month at the official presentation
  of their donation. Contributions
  from...

• Clean sweep!
  22

  A HAT-TRICK FOR HARLOW last
  month as they collected their third successive
  award for hygiene and cleanliness.
  The award scheme, run by the local
  health authority, is designed to encourage
  a high standard of hygiene...

• Evans the warehouse retires
  22

  Evans the warehouse retires
  COALMINING OR FARMING were
  the only job prospects ahead of 16-yearold
  Thomas Evans if he stayed in his
  home town of Lampeter in the west of Wales. He didn't want a career in either
  so he decided to...

• Bill moves into overdrive
  23

  Bill moves into overdrive
  RYE LANE TO VIAREGGIO is quite a
  trek, but Basingstoke driver Bill Buck has
  managed it. Bill, who retired in March
  after 42 years with Sainsbury's, started at
  Rye Lane branch in 1936 and will...

• JS's Epsom assault
  24

  JS's Epsom assault
  JS HAS BOUGHT a one-and-a-half acre
  site in Epsom's town centre. At the
  moment the site has planning permission
  to build shops, offices and flats but not supermarket. However JS are in the process
  of...

• Save our bacon . . . and our cheese and . . .
  24

  Save our bacon . . . and our cheese and . . .
  THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE is JS veteran Thomas Evans,
  photographed in about 1926 at JS's North Finchley branch
  at 780 High Road. The photograph is a copy of one Mr Evans
  sent to the...