'JS Journal', June 1978

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• Backdoor raiders
  01

  Backdoor raiders
  MASKED GUNMEN burst through the
  backway at Walthamstow High Street
  branch after trading on Saturday May 27,
  just as the shutter was closing behind a
  Securicor van. Minutes later the gang
  escaped with over...

• Special delivery!
  01

  Special delivery!
  BANK HOLIDAY SATURDAY was
  an eventful day for the staff of Kempston
  branch, when they took part in the road
  procession of the Bedford River Festival.
  The store's float, the brainchild of
  deputy meat manager...

• Bystanders watch Earl throttled!
  02

  Bystanders watch Earl throttled!
  A VICIOUS ATTACK on Doncaster's
  deputy manager Earl Wightman made
  the headlines in the local press last
  month.
  Just before six o'clock on Friday, May
  19, a man and woman were spotted...

• Contents Page
  02

  Pages 1-7, 9
  General News
  Pages 8, 10-11, 24
  Features
  Pages 12-13
  Competition
  Pages 14-22
  People
  Page 23
  Archives

• Miracle workers
  02

  Miracle workers
  IT'S ALL CHANGE at Pinner branch.
  When the branch closes after trading on
  Saturday June 10, one of the niftiest JS
  conversions will commence.
  At the moment the shop is part counter
  and part self service. By...

• Seaside trading change
  02

  Seaside trading change
  THIRTY STORES got the go-ahead for
  Monday trading on June 5. Following
  experiments at branches in city centres
  and in market towns it has been decided
  to extend the opening hours of twelve
  stores in...

• Swing kilo sweet chariot
  02

  Swing kilo sweet chariot
  CASTER AND GRANULATED went
  metric at JS during the week beginning
  Mayl5. Sugar was one of the items already
  on the statute books when the
  recent government decision not to go
  ahead with compulsory...

• Anything can happen when you're wearing . . .
  03

  Anything can happen when you're wearing . . .
  WHAT'S SO SPECIAL about JS's new
  extra fine tights? The high quality is for
  one thing and the competitive price is for
  another.
  The yarn used to make JS's extra fine
  tights is...

• Eating out
  03

  Eating out
  THE HEATWAVE gave JS's new range
  of picnic equipment and accessories a
  flying start last month. The first week's
  sales were given a welcome boost by
  temperatures soaring into the 80's—the
  first swallow of what...

• Cowley's success keeps growing and growing
  04

  Cowley's success keeps growing and growing
  ANOTHER OPENING and another
  great success for Cowley branch with the
  completion on May 23 of a new extension
  that adds over 880 square metres (about
  9500 square feet) to the sales...

• The biggest store in town
  04

  The biggest store in town Michael Trim chats to Sue James, the new
  JS counsellor for the North West. Above: BPO Arlene Lafferty presents the
  Mayoress with a special bouquet of
  flowers. Right: Pat Curley and Phemie
  McCartney...

• D-I-Y-manship in a bottle!
  06

  D-I-Y-manship in a bottle!
  REAL ALE can be a joy for ever (and get you into the wife's
  good books) if you use the empties as the basis of an
  attractive kitchen container shelf unit. The pleasing dumpy
  shape of JS's own-label...

• All the fun of the family
  07

  All the fun of the family
  A guide to the layout of the Griffin ground for the Family Day. A MAMMOTH OPERATION is the
  only way to describe the preparations
  being made for the first SSA 'Family Day'
  at Dulwich on Sunday, Junel8....

• HQ recognise SATA
  07

  HQ recognise SATA
  UNION RECOGNITION has been
  given to members of SATA working at
  Blackfriars. SATA, the Supervisory,
  Administrative and Technical Association,
  is a section of USD AW, the Union
  of Shop, Distributive and...

• Opening soon . . .
  07

  Opening soon . . .
  GOOD NEWS for shoppers at Goodmayes
  with the opening on July 6 of a new
  JS freezer centre. The centre, in Goodmayes
  Road, near Ilford, Essex, will have
  a sales area of over 220 square metres
  (about 2400...

• Showered with success!
  07

  Showered with success!
  GOODBYE BATHTIME blues, hello
  showertime fun. Last month 54 stores were
  treated to the arrival of a new display of
  shower equipment, designed to convert
  even the most modest bath into a shiny...

• Dennis rules over George III
  08

  Dennis rules over George III
  Just the job
  This month the Journal
  takes a look at the world
  of data processing. DENNIS HEATH was JS's first computer
  operator, way back in 1961. Today
  he is production manager, DP...

• Heap delicious
  09

  Heap delicious A TASTE OF HONEY has appeared
  recently in 136 stores in the form of JS
  'Honeycomb Crunch'. Retailing at 21p for
  a pack of four, the new sweet consists of
  milk chocolate with a delicious honeycomb
  crunch centre....

• Looking towards the sun
  09

  Looking towards the sun SHADES OF DISTINCTION have
  shown up in four stores in the last month.
  Designed to capture the imagination of
  sunseekers shopping in Folkestone,
  Langney, Bexhill and Great Yarmouth, a
  new range of...

• Talking about change
  10

  Deputy chairman Roy Griffiths was the guest speaker at a recent
  Institute of Grocery Distribution Convention. The subject of his
  talk was 'managing change'. At the beginning of the talk he said
  he did not want to 'abuse the...

• Put your camera where your mouth is!
  12

  Put your camera where your mouth is!
  Shutter fingers ready? Then get shooting in the Journal's latest
  photo competition. This year we want you to send us pictures on
  the theme of 'eating'. You can win yourself £50 worth of...

• Gone fishing!
  14

  Gone fishing!
  DAVY JONES' LOCKER yielded up
  some rare treasures at Kings Lynn recently. recently.
  Conservancy Board workmen netted
  this strange catch whilst dredging the
  river and filled ten large nets with
  forlorn and...

• Good deed guide
  14

  Good deed
  YVETTE JOINS RILLA in the staff
  restaurant at Stamford House with the
  presentation on May 18 of a second
  cheque for £500, to the Guide Dogs for
  the Blind Association by the Stamford
  Group. Yvette and Rilla are the...

• Bessie travels the world air mail...
  15

  BESSIE MARSHALL has been shot
  from a rocket, up in a balloon, flown from
  England to Australia in a helicopter and
  travelled around the world at least a
  hundred times, in as many different types
  of aircraft—all without...

• Leader of the band
  15

  MILITARY MUSIC keeps Doug
  Roshier on his toes. Doug, a supervisor in
  the grocery department of Basingstoke
  depot, is commanding officer of the local
  detachment of the Hampshire and Isle of
  Wight Army Cadet Force. Over the...

• Poem
  16

  There's a store in the valley, to work there is fun,
  Where they train all the staff at the point of a gun,
  There's procedures for this and procedures for that,
  And tempers that flare at the drop of a hat.
  The manager's Welsh,...

• Your letters
  16

  Your letters
  Letters are welcome and should be
  addressed to the editor. Electrical fault
  From: R C Hawes, electrician, Charlton
  depot
  I feel I must comment on photograph
  three of Stan Ramage's article in the
  April issue....

• Getting to the top safely
  17

  Getting to the top safely
  TWO RUNGS definitely don't make a right if you're halfway
  up a ladder and one of them is missing! To help
  make sure your trip to the top of the ladder is a success
  and accident free, safety advisor...

• Country boy who became city slicker
  18

  Country boy who became city slicker
  MIDNIGHT PARTIES on the river at
  Cambridge are among David Goddard's
  favourite memories of his early days with
  JS. David, who retired in April after 44
  years with JS, joined the company as...

• Bob wins through . . .
  19

  Bob wins through . . .
  THE ARMY WAS EASY after
  Sainsbury's' says Bob Warner, manager
  of the grocery department at Basingstoke
  depot, who retires this month after 41
  years with JS.
  Bob joined the company in 1937 at...

• Appointments
  20

  Appointments
  J A Renshaw, formerly senior manager in
  the frozen foods buying office, has been
  appointed senior manager in the marketing
  division, reporting to marketing director
  Peter Davis.
  Mr Renshaw will be responsible...

• MP probes prices at Dartford
  20

  MP probes prices at Dartford
  MP Sally Oppenheim (centre) and
  manager Martin Wagstaff (far right) talk
  politics and prices to customers at
  Dartford branch. IS THE GOVERNMENT KEEPING ITS PROMISE and keeping prices down?...

• Retirements
  20

  Retirements
  Frank Smith, an internal auditor at
  Streatham, retired on April 8 after 42 years with the company.
  Mr Smith started in the works department
  at JS, staying there until the outbreak
  of war in 1939. From 1939 to...

• Eileen adds up forty years
  21

  Eileen adds up forty years
  T WAS MEANT to work at Sainsbury's'
  says Eileen Hatcher, who retired as senior
  administration clerk at Woking area
  office on May 19 after a total of 40 years
  with the company. T was bored with...

• Have caravan—will travel
  21

  Have caravan—will travel
  STAN INKPEN took to the hills when he
  retired on May 13 after 44 years with JS.
  The hills were those in and around the
  Peak District, Yorkshire and Scotland;
  before taking to them Stan was...

• Mutual praise
  22

  Mutual praise
  'IF YOU ARE NICE to customers, they
  are usually nice to you' says 17-year-old
  Beverley Richards, a weekend student at
  Bishop's Stortford branch, who recently
  received a charming 'thank you' letter
  from a...

• WHILE THE REST OF US
  22

  WHILE THE REST OF US dream of sands, an ex-JS customer (now living in of both sun and sand) longs for nothing more than a Sainsbury's store.
  She recently expressed her longing Gurth Hoyer-Millar, who offered her following desert...

• Basingstoke's carnival queen
  23

  Basingstoke's carnival queen
  ANOTHER FIRST for Kim Spreadbury,
  Basingstoke depot's representative
  at this year's Miss JS contest. Kim was
  selected to be this year's Basingstoke
  Carnival Queen at a dance last month and
  in the...

• 'I remember when . . .'
  23

  'I remember when . . .'
  HERE FOR YOUR DELECTATION
  are just a few of the archival anecdotes
  gathered by JS archivist Honor
  Godfrey at this year's veterans
  reunion.
  'If there was any sign of attachment
  between male and female...

• What's in store at JS . . .
  24

  What's in store at JS . . .
  Building programme
  Ashford (Kent) Supermarket with integral freezer centre,
  scheduled to open in Autumn 1978
  (replacing existing store),
  Solihull Supermarket with bakery and integral...