'JS Journal', January 1979

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• Besieged!
  01

  Besieged!
  PANIC BUYING boosted trade to near
  record levels in the first weeks of the New
  Year, despite supply complications
  caused by the road haulage dispute.
  The strike had immediate widespread
  effects throughout British...

• THE LATEST news
  01

  THE LATEST news as we go to press (Monday, January 15) is that despite a
  very high level of trade most stores are reasonably well stocked. There are
  continuing shortages of frozen foods and canned vegetables, but meat...

• Contents Page
  02

  Pages 1-5, 10 and 17
  General news
  Pages 6-9,11-14,18/19 and 24
  Feature
  Page 16
  Letters
  Pages 15,17, 20-23
  People

• Newsflash
  02

  Newsflash
  THE BRANCH MANAGERS'
  CONFERENCE has been cancelled and
  the senior management conference has
  been postponed because of the current
  road haulage dispute. The managers'
  conference was due to take place at
  Brighton on...

• Pensions up 8%
  02

  Pensions up 8%
  A GOOD START to the year for JS
  pensioners with the news that from
  January 8 their JS pensions went up by 8
  per cent. The increase applies to pensioners
  who retired before March 3 last
  year.
  The 8 per cent...

• Record last minute rush
  02

  Record last minute rush
  CHRISTMAS TRADING started with a
  whimper but ended with a bang that
  broke all JS's Christmas trading records
  to date. Usually there is a slight uplift in
  trade around the end of November which
  builds...

• Changes at the top
  03

  Changes at the top
  Angus Clark joins the board
  and two retirements after
  the 1979 AGM Simon Sainsbury. Bernard Ramm. Angus Clark. BOARDROOM CHANGES were announced
  by the chairman on December
  28. With effect from this year's...

• Ruislip wades into New Year
  03

  Ruislip wades into New Year
  THREE INCHES OF WATER greeted
  John Ware when he arrived at Ruislip
  branch to open up after the New Year
  holiday. 'There was water streaming from
  under the front door' says John, who is
  deputy meat...

• Five day trading at HQ
  04

  Five day trading at HQ
  SAINSBURY'S SMALLEST STORE
  opened for business just before
  Christmas. Greeted by none of the usual
  fanfare in the local press, the 100 square
  metre store is totally unlike any other JS
  shop. Potential...

• JS and the IGD
  04

  JS and the IGD
  IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE
  about the activities of the South Eastern
  branch of the Institute of Grocery
  Distribution it couldn't be easier. On
  January 1 Dino Adriano was appointed
  branch secretary and Bob Cooper...

• Discount '79
  05

  JS's DISCOUNT PROGRAMME is a
  year old and it has proved to be one of the
  most successful marketing initiatives in
  the company's history. And, from the
  success of'78 is born Discount '79.
  The 1978 programme cut prices on...

• Three crucial questions'
  05

  Three crucial questions'
  CHAIRMAN JOHN SAINSBURY was
  one of the 21 'leaders of British industry'
  to whom the Business Observer put 'three
  crucial questions' to find out 'how will the
  UK fare in 1979?'.
  In answer to the first...

• BRAN LEADER
  06

  BRAN LEADER
  THE FIBRE FAD started in the United States, and has already
  made an impact in this country. In the December Journal we
  looked at the scientific basis for this latest food fashion, and we
  follow up by looking at the...

• Wendy's team keeps JS on top
  08

  Wendy's team keeps JS on top
  Just the job
  A look at how JS keeps
  clean behind the scenes and
  on the shopfloor SECOND TO NONE! JS has always
  been recognised as the most quality and
  hygiene conscious of the top food...

• Application to build on memory lane
  09

  Application to build on memory lane
  THERE'S A CHANCE that the company
  will once again have a store in Drury
  Lane. Not the Drury Lane that was home
  to the founders and their family, but
  Drury Lane in Braintree, Essex.
  JS...

• Flavoursome five
  09

  Flavoursome five
  CHAMPAGNE RHUBARB is one of
  the new and unusual JS yoghurt flavours
  under-going a popularity test. A
  different variety is being put on trial
  almost every month to find out which
  customers prefer.
  Five new...

• Whipping up enthusiasm
  09

  Whipping up enthusiasm
  THE CENTRAL STORES catalogue is
  not a JS publication normally read for its
  human interest stories, but the wind of
  change may be in the air. In the dairy
  section, slotted in amongst the cheese...

• 960 years at a sitting
  10

  The chairman welcomes more staff to the select band
  of forty year men (and women).
  960 years at a sitting THE SECOND LUNCH for staff who
  have completed 40 years service was a
  great success. The lunch was held at the
  Connaught...

• VAT 79
  12

  VAT 79 Who makes unhopped beer and then deliberately turns it sour?
  And who in their right mind would then sprinkle it on their
  food? The answer to the last question is nearly everyone,
  especially on fish and chips, and the...

• A poetic look back towards 1979
  15

  A poetic look back towards 1979
  From: Stella Palmer, BPO, Bognor and Chichester branches
  A decade ago, I was a JO, in Sainsbury 's centenary year,
  The staff gave their thanks and support for the family dear.
  Lord Alan, JB, RD,...

• Melanie is Midlands' choice
  15

  Melanie is Midlands' choice
  THE SEARCH for Miss JS Midlands is
  over. On December 11 Melanie Quinton
  got the judges vote for the second time.
  It was decided to hold three area
  heats and not just one to decide who
  would wear...

• Office partytime
  15

  Office partytime
  DISCOTIME was enjoyed at the 'O'
  section SSA office party in the restaurant
  at Stamford House recently. All who
  attended joined in the dancing and merrymaking
  to the sounds of Andy's Mobile
  Disco—and those...

• Safety first footers!
  15

  Safety first footers!
  STAFF AT BRACKNELL branch have
  started 1979 on the right foot by taking
  advantage of the company's offer of subsidised
  safety shoes.
  Immediately after reading about the
  new style safety shoes in the...

• Christmas past
  16

  Christmas past
  POSITIVELY THE LAST SANTA of
  the season. He appeared at the kids
  Christmas party in Blackfriars on
  December 7 just too late to make the
  Christmas Journal. In the guise of Jim Campbell, who used to be the...

• Your letters
  16

  Your letters
  Letters are welcome and should be
  addressed to the editor. Wheelchairs welcome
  From: FW Cameron, JS veteran
  I was very pleased to read in a recent issue
  of the Multiple Sclerosis Society News
  that in future all...

• Beauty expert
  17

  EYELASH TINTING, skin care and massage are just a few of the skills Diane Wylds
  has at her fingertips. Diane, who will be 19 on January 31, has been chosen to represent
  Hoddesdon depot at the Miss JS finals in February.
  Diane...

• Buzby's new hot line
  17

  Buzby's new hot line
  Makes someone happy with the hardware
  department's latest new products, a Buzby
  tray and waste paper bin. Retailing at 79p and
  99p respectively, they'll be in 52 stores from
  the end of January, and...

• Tealeaf card sharps!
  17

  Tealeaf card sharps!
  TWO SMALL BOYS, when asked why
  they had stolen 167 packets of tea, replied
  they wanted the picture cards inside!
  The lads were seen emptying dozens of
  packets of the tea into a waste bin....

• Try it with milk' says Andy
  17

  Try it with milk' says Andy
  YOGURT goes with a lot of different
  foods, but not many people would eat it
  with their cornflakes. At least not in this
  country.
  During a recent visit to Holland, Andy
  Anderson of Basingstoke...

• Visitors welcome
  18

  JS veterans are not left out in the cold thanks to the
  efforts of a group of people who are veterans
  themselves.
  Visitors
  welcome COLDS AND FLU attack the very
  strongest of us. And at this time of the
  year when the cold, wet...

• If muesli be the food of dove
  19

  If muesli be the food of dove
  BY CONSTANTLY REJECTING stale
  bread, a white dove has trained a homo
  sapiens to supply it with Sainsbury's
  Swiss-style breakfast cereal. Our thanks
  to The Birmingham Post for publishing
  this...

• Out of stock(ing) blues
  19

  Out of stock(ing) blues
  FINDING HIMSELF in a tight(s) spot
  James Bush, manager at Brentwood
  branch gave as good as he got and
  parried a customer's letter verse for verse.
  With 'Oh Mr Porter' playing in the
  background a...

• Appointments
  20

  Appointments
  George Quick, purchasing controller in
  the purchasing department, has been appointed
  deputy manager of that department.
  This is so as to provide for a
  smooth handover when the present manager,
  Peter Ellis,...

• Long service
  20

  Long service
  Ron Dart, deputy manager of Hastings
  branch, celebrated 25 years with JS on
  January 11.
  Mr Dart joined the company at Hook
  branch as a trainee, and two years later
  transferred to New Maiden as a...

• Obituary
  20

  Obituary
  Sheila Cutler, a part-time cashier at
  Northfield branch, died of cancer on
  November 29 last year. Mrs Cutler had
  been with the company for eight years,
  and leaves a husband and two daughters.
  Fred Price, who worked...

• Retirements
  20

  Retirements
  Bill Corbett, senior chargehand in the
  branch engineers department at
  Blackfriars, retired on December 15 after
  18 years with the company.
  Mr Corbett joined JS from a machine
  tool manufacturer who also made...

• Phil takes stock of 45 years
  21

  RUNNING AND CYCLING filled Phil
  Crook's days when he joined the company
  back in 1933. As a runner in the
  Purley shop he had his hands full learning
  the retail business, and had to cycle 15
  miles a day to and from his home...

• Master carver
  22

  Master carver
  'IF YOU'VE NEVER tasted a York you've never tasted ham'
  says Bill Howlett, who is an expert on cured and cooked meats
  with a particular penchant for old style York ham. A whole
  York ham on a china stand was a...

• The year ahead
  22

  The year ahead
  CHRISTMAS DATES all now being
  eaten, here are some more—this time for
  your sporting and social calendar!
  February 24 is when the SSA's annual
  dinner/dance is to be held at the West
  Centre Hotel, Fulham and...

• Streatham adopts a family
  23

  A MISERABLE NEW YEAR and
  Christmas for one family was quickly
  averted by the generosity of JS staff at
  Streatham office. Just a few days before
  Christmas toys donated by staff were
  distributed amongst various local...

• What's in store at JS . . .
  24

  What's in store at JS . . .
  Building programme
  Hayes
  (Middlesex)
  Northwich
  (Cheshire)
  Lexden
  (Colchester)
  Woodhall Farm
  (Hemel
  Hempstead)
  Stafford
  Winton
  Tamworth
  Surbiton
  Rugby
  Clifton...