'JS Journal', July 1978

Table of content

• CLOSE ENCOUNTERS of the best kind
  01

  Dulwich was invaded on June 18 by 12,000 happy families who between them staged an event that was out of this world

• Contents Page
  02

  Pages 2-7
  General news
  Page 8-9
  Letters
  Pages 10-11
  Feature
  Pages 1,12-16
  Family Day special
  Pages 17—23
  People
  Page 24
  Archives

• Four star opening
  02

  Four star opening
  TANKED UP and ready to go is the
  petrol station at Newcastle-Under-Lyme
  branch which opened on July 3.
  The station has four pumps, all dispensing
  four star grade petrol at a cost of
  68p a gallon—the...

• Grape expectations
  02

  Grape expectations
  JS IS TAKING ITS FIRST SIP of the
  home-brew and winemaking market on
  July 4. This is the day three JS stores
  (Kempston, Northampton and Bitterne)
  start selling a full-range of beer and wine
  making kits,...

• More Clapham moves
  02

  More Clapham moves
  THE EXODUS continues with the move
  on June 19 of the estates department and
  site potential from Clapham to Blackfriars.
  This leaves the architects department,
  design engineers, branch...

• Tesco—cut-price profits?
  02

  Tesco—cut-price profits?
  THE PRICE of Tesco's Operation Checkout
  seems to have been paid out of the
  company's pre-tax profit for 1977/78.
  Tesco's recently published end of year
  results show that although sales had...

• Around the world in a dozen days
  03

  CHAIRMAN JOHN SAINSBURY
  clocked up 25,937 miles in 12 days during
  his recent business trip to the United
  States of America and Australia. On the
  first leg of his tour, which began at
  Heathrow on May 24, he was accompanied
  by...

• Clubhouse gets OK
  03

  Clubhouse gets OK
  GOOD NEWS for the staff at Basingstoke
  depot. Their long awaited clubhouse
  has got the go-ahead and building commenced
  on July 3.
  The clubhouse will have two bars, one
  designed as a multi-purpose room...

• Coventry takes to the green
  03

  Coventry takes to the green
  COVENTRY AREA successfully got
  themselves into a hole 27 times over on
  June 5 at their first Midland area golf
  day. It all began with a chance meeting
  between JS veteran Jack Walters and
  Coventry...

• Royal visitor
  03

  Royal visitor
  PRINCE CHARLES paid an unofficial
  visit to Stamford House on June 6. The
  Prince is president of the Council of the
  Friends of Covent Garden, of which John
  Sainsbury is chairman. During the year
  the chairman's...

• As seen on TV
  04

  As seen on TV
  SAINSBURY'S hit your TV screens for
  three weeks last month in a new burst of
  advertising. Featuring one new commercial,
  and a re-run of the one filmed in
  Putney, the adverts were screened on
  ATV, Southern,...

• JS COFFEE LOVERS
  04

  JS COFFEE LOVERS are full of beans
  since they heard the news that the price of a
  four ounce jar of own-label instant coffee
  granules is now down-by 12p to 95p.
  JS instant granules contain a proportion of I'ree/.e-dried coffee...

• JS keeps in training
  04

  JS keeps in training
  JS'S TRAINING PROGRAMME has
  once again been given the thumbs-up by
  the Distributive Industry Training
  Board.
  The DITB recently completed a review
  of training within JS and have now
  informed the company...

• Leamington steps out and about
  04

  Leamington steps out and about
  TOP PRIZE for making the most of a day
  out must go to Leamington Spa branch.
  On June 11, two coach-loads of staff,
  their families and friends set off at nine
  am for Cherry Garden Pier in...

• Nine Elms disease
  04

  Nine Elms disease
  THE FINANCIAL PROBLEMS of the
  new Covent Garden market at Nine Elms
  were put under the microscope in a recent
  edition of London Weekend Television's
  'The London Programme'. The investigation,
  screened on...

• Pip, pip hurrah!
  04

  Pip, pip hurrah!
  PURE APPLE JUICE surfaced recently
  as an own-label product. The juice is
  made from Bramleys and Cox's Orange
  Pippins, and is cloudy because only some
  of the particles left after manufacture are
  filtered out....

• Shareholder's annual meet
  04

  Shareholder's annual meet
  THE ANNUAL GENERAL
  MEETING of shareholders and other
  interested parties took place at the
  Connaught Rooms, London on July 5.
  More news of the meeting in the August
  issue.

• SavaCentre sells a million!
  05

  SavaCentre sells a million!
  THEY'VE SOLD A MILLION
  gallons of petrol at the SavaCentre
  petrol station at Washington since it
  opened last November. And to celebrate,
  two large bottles of champagne were
  presented to the...

• Shirley's perfect eggshell finish
  05

  Shirley's perfect eggshell finish
  AN EMU'S EGG is what Shirley Maile
  has set her heart on. Shirley, who works
  at Folkestone branch, has acquired something
  of a reputation as a craftswoman—
  and one of her specialities is...

• . . . as good as new!
  06

  In less than a week, branch and area office
  staff transformed Pinner's old-fashioned
  service shop into a modern self-service store
  that looks . . .
  ... as good as new! CUSTOMERS AT PINNER can't believe their eyes—in...

• Your letters
  08

  Your letters
  Letters are welcome and should be
  addressed to the editor. Weighing up the'Anker
  From: B Brandon, Swindon branch
  It seems that the company has gone to a
  lot of trouble to get printed Anker ticket
  rolls in pretty...

• Honoured hosts
  09

  Honoured hosts
  A HIGH POWERED trade delegation
  from Hungary paid a visit to Basingstoke
  depot last month. The delegation was
  headed by the Secretary of State for
  Foreign Trade, Dr Szerloi, and included
  Ministry of Foreign...

• Sue joins the converted
  10

  'I'M NEW TO SAINSBURY'S' says Sue
  James 'and they're new to the North
  West, but I'm converted—honest!' Sue is
  JS's counsellor for the region around the
  new stores in Wilmslow and Newcastle-
  Under-Lyme, and has only...

• Chew this over and win £50
  11

  Chew this over and win £50
  TO JUDGE by the clicking of shutters at the
  'Family Day' last month the Journal's photo
  competition has really caught the imagination of
  JS's budding David Baileys. To help you with
  your entry we...

• Hold up foiled
  11

  Hold up foiled
  TWO MEN attempted to rob two Securicor
  guards as they left Golders Green
  branch on June 24. The robbers surprised
  the guards as they left the store.
  However, one of the Securicor men was
  quick-witted enough to...

• Tinned trees
  11

  Tinned trees
  A TIN OPENER and greenfingers are all
  you need to successfully grow an apricot
  tree from a tin of apricots according to a
  customer at Ballards Lane branch. Mrs
  Coralie Hewkyard says about two years
  ago she...

• Top trucker
  11

  Top trucker
  YET ANOTHER JS DRIVER has made
  his way to the national final of the Lorry
  Driver of the Year competition organised
  by Commercial Motor magazine. This
  year Basingstoke driver Chris Preston
  finished top of his...

• Wed to their work
  11

  Wed to their work
  A TRIO OF WEDDINGS at Basingstoke branch took place last month, when four of
  the branch staff entered the matrimonial stakes. First off the mark were Gillian Martin, a
  senior cashier, and Andy Gibb, a senior...

• Happy families day!
  12

  Happy families day! Top left: Come on in the water's luverleeeeee... Centre: Jean Jeapes of Islington
  branch deals Uxbridge area's giant joker. Above: Romford area's cheerleaders keep their
  team on its toes. Below: Standing room...

• Freddie loosens JS family ties
  17

  Freddie loosens JS
  A JS FAMILY broke up at the end of
  June, when Freddie Gilford, a foremanin
  the returns department of Basingstoke
  depot, retired after 41 years' service.
  Freddie's son, Fred junior, and his sonin-
  law Barry...

• Scrub and carry days are over
  17

  'WE HAD TO CARRY all the stuff off
  the vans on our shoulders' recalls Bert
  Imbert about his early days with JS at
  Islington branch. Bert started his career
  as a porter in 1937 and this month closes
  it as a driver at...

• Maurice stays by the sea
  18

  Maurice stays by the sea
  MANY OF US dream of retiring to a
  little house by the sea. For Maurice Eaton
  it is a reality. When he retired on June 24,
  after 46 years with the company, it was to
  his neat-as-a-pin bungalow not...

• Willy keeps on travelling
  18

  Willy keeps on travelling
  'I LOVE DRIVING and I love travel'
  says Willy Williams, who for the past 41
  years has been doing plenty of both as a
  driver for JS, based first at Blackfriars
  and more recently at Charlton depot....

• The house that Danny built . . .
  19

  The house that Danny built...
  BRICKLAYING runs in Danny Geary's
  family. His father was a master bricklayer,
  and when Danny left school at 14
  he joined his father to learn the trade. A
  few years later he joined JS as a...

• Appointments
  20

  Appointments
  D Davies, formerly area engineer for the
  Uxbridge area, has been appointed area
  engineer for the Midlands.
  C Baker, formerly planning and
  development manager in branch
  productivity services at Blackfriars,...

• Long service
  20

  Long service
  George Bradburn, manager of Dunstable
  branch, celebrated 40 years with JS on
  June 14.
  Mr Bradburn joined the company in
  1938 at 158 Catford and a year later
  moved to Bedford branch. He spent the
  war years with...

• Retirements
  20

  Retirements
  Harry Mercer, a leading trades assistant
  at Lewisham branch, retired on June 24
  after 22 years with the company.
  Mr Mercer joined JS as a porter in the
  old Lewisham store. He was promoted to
  senior warehouseman...

• 'Stagnate—never' says Ken
  21

  'Stagnate—never' says Ken
  i ANSWERED AN ADVERT in the
  local paper for an inside porter at 14
  Hove, and the next thing I knew I was
  working for Sainsbury's.' That was the
  start of Ken Stoner's 41 year career with
  JS.
  Ken,...

• Bill takes the responsible approach
  22

  Bill takes the responsible approach
  FAR FROM EVADING responsibility
  Bill Leonard actively seeks it out. 'I like a
  job where it's down to me to see it's done
  properly' says Bill, who until his retirement
  on June 30 had been...

• Cleanliness is next to slimliness
  22

  Cleanliness is next to slimliness
  'THE FLAB' is taking a beating from the
  staff of the hygiene and food technology
  department at Blackfriars. 'We were
  nearly all overweight' said food technologist
  Brian Duddy 'so 15 of us...

• Shad rests on her laurels!
  23

  Shad rests on her laurels!
  Shad looks forward to joining the ranks of the Veteran's Group she has so ably taken care
  of over the past years. A REVERSAL OF ROLES for Vera
  Shadbolt, who after many years of looking
  after the...

• Anyone for Cricket?
  24

  Anyone for Cricket? IN BETWEEN knocking up butter, staff managed to find
  time to knock up a few runs during the cricket season. JS
  had a cricket team as early as 1915. 'It's my first memory
  of sport at head office' recalls...