'JS Journal', October 1979

Table of content

• Board changes
  01

  Board changes
  Managing director and deputy chairman
  Roy Griffiths
  Chairman and chief executive John
  Sainsbury
  Assistant managing director Peter Davis LOOKING TO THE FUTURE chairman
  John Sainsbury announced important
  changes...

• Chance to save £3,000 nest egg!
  02

  Chance to save £3,000 nest egg!
  EVERYONE who has worked at JS as a
  full-time employee for three consecutive
  years will get the chance on October 5 to
  save towards what could be a very attractive
  nest egg in five years...

• Contents Page
  02

  Pages 1-8
  General News
  Pages 9-10 and 15-16
  Feature
  Pages 11-14
  Guide
  Pages 16-17
  Letters
  Pages 18-23
  People
  Page 24
  Archives
  Pull out Top Management

• Lexden's smooth blend
  02

  Lexden's smooth blend
  WELL TRAINED CONFIDENT
  staff ensured the success of Lexden
  branch's opening day on September 25
  according to manager Barrie Jones.
  The attractive Lexden building, which
  has an unusual pitched roof and...

• Excess VAT
  03

  Excess VAT
  VAT is going to rear its ugly head again
  this month when the cost of all JS canteen
  meals are to be slightly increased.
  The Government has charged an extra
  seven percent on many things liable to
  VAT, including...

• Peanuts take a roasting!
  03

  Peanuts take a roasting!
  A NUTTY IDEA that looks like
  becoming a best seller is Sainsbury's
  barbecue flavour dry roasted peanuts,
  which made their debut at 150 branches
  on September 24.
  Dry roasted peanuts are an...

• Brown Bouquet blossoms out
  04

  Brown Bouquet blossoms out
  A GREAT SUCCESS has meant the
  extension of another range of products
  from the hardware buying department.
  The demand for 'Brown Bouquet' coordinated
  range of tinware has been so
  impressive that...

• Put a kick in your cooking
  04

  Put a kick in your cooking
  A TASTE FOR THE EXOTIC is easily
  satisfied if you know a thing or two
  about cooking with herbs and spices,
  which just happens to be the title of the
  latest Sainsbury Cookbook written by
  Josceline...

• Three-way value
  04

  Three-way value
  ANOTHER JS OWN-LABEL range
  was increased last month by the addition
  of a three-way adaptor to the growing
  choice of Sainsbury's electrical
  accessories.
  The 13 amp adaptor is recommended
  by the hardware...

• Cold chain hots up
  06

  Cold chain hots up
  CONTROLLED TEMPERATURE
  produce store rooms are a hew idea that
  will be incorporated into all major new
  branches within the next year.
  These refrigerated produce areas will
  form part of a 'cold chain'...

• What's brown and furry and tastes like bananas?
  06

  What's brown and furry and tastes like bananas?
  AN EGG IN A FUR COAT is probably the best way to
  describe a Kiwifruit. But don't be put off by its rather strange
  appearance, inside that brown fur coat is a delicious...

• News from around and about
  07

  News from around and about
  TWO CLOSURES will be replaced by
  one opening in November. Burnt Oak
  and Kenton are both to close after trading
  on Saturday November 10, but the
  area will instead be serviced by a new
  big...

• Small screen poses big problems
  07

  Small screen poses big problems
  THE STRIKE AT ITV did more than
  deprive us of Crossroads it threw the
  whole world of TV advertising into confusion,
  with millions of £'s of airtime at
  stake. JS was just one of the...

• Haven of peas!
  08

  Haven of peas!
  THE HIGH PRICE OF PEA SEEDS
  prompted a customer at Putney branch
  to experiment with a 20p packet of JS
  dried peas. The results was 'one of the
  finest crops' he had ever seen.
  He was so pleased he wrote to...

• Labour of love
  08

  Labour of love
  'CAN YOU HELP ME, I think I'm
  going to have my baby?' is not the usual
  sort of question customers ask but it was
  one that Pat Noonan was faced with not
  so long ago.
  Pat is senior cashier at Cowley branch
  and...

• Praise indeed
  08

  Praise indeed
  APPRECIATION has been coming in
  on all sides for the way staff responded
  to the Forest Hill fire. (See front page of
  September issue.)
  Here are extracts from just two of the
  letters from customers praising the...

• Win £50
  08

  Win £50
  A SPLASH HIT for Kenneth
  Allemandy, manager of office planning,
  Blackfriars who is our choice from this
  month's entries to our 1979 photographic
  competition. As well as getting
  his picture published he also gets a...

• Cheddar
  09

  Cheddar
  Say cheese and most people think of Cheddar. Say farmhouse
  cheese and most people think it is a thing of the past, gone the
  way of free-range eggs and country butter. They couldn't be
  more wrong.
  Farmhouse cheese, and...

• Pull out Top Management Guide
  11

  MAIN BOARD DIRECTORS
  John Sainsbury
  Chairman and Chief Executive
  As the head of the company he is
  responsible for the overall running
  of the business, with special
  emphasis on longer term issues.
  He is the eldest son of...

• Your letters
  17

  Your letters
  Letters are welcome and should be
  addressed to the editor. Hot under the collar
  From: Daphne Birch, catering specialist,
  Coventry area office
  I was interested to see in the August
  issue a photograph of one of...

• JS gives money for minibus
  18

  JS gives money for minibus
  A MINIBUS APPEAL got maxisupport
  from JS recently with the presentation
  of a cheque for £2,000 towards
  the £9,000 target figure.
  JS has been trading in Potters Bar,
  which is on the outskirts of...

• Demob happy Tom reaches for the sky!
  19

  Demob happy Tom reaches for the sky!
  'IT'S LIKE returning to civilian life after
  being in the Army!' That's how Tom
  Searle viewed his approaching retirement,
  but he made it quite clear that he enjoyed
  his work as leading...

• Appointments
  20

  Appointments
  L Hickman, formerly personnel manager
  at Charlton depot, has been appointed
  depot services manager at Charlton.
  D Simpson, formerly discount coordinator,
  discount/SavaCentre department,
  has been appointed deputy...

• Long service
  20

  Long service
  Bill Allwright, a warehouseman at Kingsland Road branch, has recently
  celebrated 40 years at JS.
  Bill joined the firm in 1939 at 418
  Lordship Lane.
  Bill Begbie, clerk at Basingstoke
  depot, celebrated 40 years'...

• Obituary
  21

  Obituary
  Amy Fowles, a supermarket assistant at
  Harold Hill branch, died on August 28
  after a long illness. Amy, who leaves a
  husband and two grown-up daughters,
  was 55. She joined JS in 1973.

• Retirements
  21

  Retirements
  Rene McAllen, canteen assistant at
  Stamford House restaurant, retires this
  month after 13 years at JS.
  Rene worked in various Blackfriars
  locations, before joining the Stamford
  House restaurant staff in...

• THE INTERNAL POST
  21

  THE INTERNAL POST recently brought departmental director Dennis
  Males, this 'special' edition of the Daily Bulletin.

• No more 'tramlines' for Les
  22

  No more 'tramlines' for Les
  TACKS AND TURTLES led Les
  Jiggins to a career at JS lasting nearly 45
  years! Les, who concluded that career at
  Central Ilford branch last month, remembers
  vividly why he wanted to work
  for...

• Pete's new life bowls him over!
  23

  Pete's new life bowls him over!
  'SAINSBURY'S WAS A GOOD FIRM
  to work for in the thirties' says Pete
  Serjeant 'particularly if, like me, you
  were a young man living away from
  home for the first time. Sainsbury's
  looked after...

• A store of memories
  24

  Archives
  A store of
  THE ARCHIVES GO STATESIDE this
  month as a result of JS archivist Honor
  Godfrey's recent trip to America. Although
  she was on holiday you can't keep a good
  archivist down, so it wasn't long before
  Honor...

• Will you buy it?
  24

  Will you buy it?
  THE DERIVATION OF SELSA, an
  early JS brand name, is not proving so
  simple. JS veteran, F W Tack, wrote to
  the archives following the discussion in
  the June issue. T have always understood
  it to be Bill...