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  • HITTING THE HEADLINES 01

    INTERIM RESULTS
    HITTING THE HEADLINES
    Following in the footsteps of the record breaking
    growth last year, this year's half-year results, published
    on November 7, are particularly encouraging.
    JS's interim pre-tax profits on...

  • JS awarded £1,000 01

    JS awarded £1,000
    £1,000 WAS AWARDED to JS at the
    conclusion of a court case in
    Nottingham on November 13.
    JS was acquitted of charges which
    were brought under the Trades
    Descriptions Act. Sainsbury's topside
    cuts of beef...

  • Christmas campaign 02

    Christmas campaign
    THE STAMFORD GROUP has already
    made two separate payments
    totalling £1,250 to their current fund
    raising project. The cost of the special
    recording equipment needed in the hearing
    research department at...

  • Commodity accounting 02

    Commodity accounting
    GEORGE SWALLOW has been appointed
    manager, commodity accounting
    at Streatham, following the resignation
    of Bill Anderson.
    He has spent the past 15 years working
    as chief accountant for television
    rental...

  • Contents Page 02

    Pages 1-5
    General news
    Pages 6-13
    Features
    Pages 14-15
    Photo competition
    Pages 16-17
    Letters
    Pages 18-23
    People
    Page 24
    Archives

  • Kings Reach shoot out 02

    Kings Reach shoot out
    FOUR ARMED MEN held up a bullion
    van outside the Kings Reach branch
    of the Midland Bank, used by many
    office staff, at about 9.15am on Friday
    November 2.
    Shots were fired, though no one was
    seriously...

  • Managers' conference 02

    Managers' conference
    THE BRIGHTON METROPOLE
    Hotel has again been booked as the venue
    for the retail managers' conference
    on Sunday and Monday, January 27
    and 28, 1980, and further details will be
    announced in due...

  • New payroll manager 02

    New payroll manager
    NORMAN SMART has been appointed
    payroll manager following the resignation
    of Dorothy Paterson.
    Norman began his career at JS in
    1957 as a commercial trainee and then
    became a wages clerk until he moved...

  • Six day trading launch 02

    Six day trading launch
    SIX DAY TRADING was extended to
    the majority of the 193 JS supermarkets
    and most of the 20 self-service and service
    stores on Monday October 8.
    This development follows trials conducted
    over the past...

  • The L-shaped success 03

    The L-shaped success
    A RUSH until the eleventh hour gave
    way to a smooth and overwhelmingly
    popular opening for Kingsbury branch
    on November 13.
    Manager Michael Hall said he was
    extremely happy with the way the opening
    and...

  • A sting in its tale! 04

    A sting in its tale!
    FOR THOSE AMONGST US with a
    cultured palate a tasty little item was
    reported in a recent Daily Bulletin—
    minced bee and onion!

  • Home cooking 04

    Home cooking
    TWO TOTALLY NEW lines have emerged
    from grocery buying 2.
    Particularly appealing to those of us
    who are home-cook fanatics is the 1.5 kg
    metric pack of Sainsbury own-label
    wholemeal bread flour which is priced...

  • Longlife pure goodness 04

    Longlife pure goodness
    NO ADDITIVES are needed to enhance
    the goodness of the new JS own-label
    longlife pure grapefruit and orange
    juices.
    Helen Mills, a buyer in the dairy buying
    department with responsibilities to
    develop...

  • Speaking in a European language 04

    Speaking in a European language
    EDWARD HEATH, the former
    Conservative prime minister faced a barrage
    of questions from JS head office
    staff on October 22. Mr Heath was the
    guest speaker at the Traders Club tenth
    anniversary...

  • Good food guide no 3 05

    Good food guide no 3
    GETTING THE BEST VALUE from
    your meat buys is the theme of the most
    recent Sainsbury's Food Guide. At a
    good value price of 25p the booklet includes
    a special section on carving meat
    economically and is...

  • Stocking fillers 05

    Stocking fillers
    HI-FI ENTHUSIASTS are flocking to
    their local Sainsbury's to pick up the
    latest bargains! Four types of blank tape
    cassettes have been launched by the hardware
    buying department as a totally
    new extension to...

  • Sail and save 06

    Sail and save
    TWELVE HUNDRED members of JS
    staff, their families and friends, took advantage
    of the two SSA 'Sail and Save'
    cruises from Southampton to Cherbourg
    on October 28 and November 4.
    When the idea was first...

  • Knockout weekends 07

    Knockout weekends
    Some of the competitors in the donkey derby. OVER 9500 PEOPLE had a great time at
    the three SSA Pontin's gala weekends at
    Camber Sands, Brean Sands and
    Hemsby.
    Hemsby was the first held for Eastern
    Counties...

  • 999 08

    A 999 CALL early on Friday October
    26 alerted the police and fire brigade to
    the fact that a fire had broken out at JS's
    Letchworth branch.
    Six firemen wearing breathing apparatus
    broke in and quickly brought yyy
    the fire,...

  • Anniversary air waves 09

    Anniversary air waves
    A BIRTHDAY BROADCAST was
    made to celebrate the first anniversary of
    Hempstead SavaCentre. Radio personality
    Terry Wogan was one of the special
    guests invited along to the festivities
    in the middle of...

  • What's cooking at head office 10

    What's cooking at head office
    THE HEAD OFFICE STAFF
    RESTAURANT was recently surveyed
    very favourably by Woman magazine, so
    now the Journal takes a look at some
    of the people behind the scenes and finds
    out the views of a few...

  • PUTTING THE SNAP IN CRACKERS 12

    CHRISTMAS CRACKERS have become such an integral part
    of our Yuletide festivities that how many of us could imagine
    the celebrations without them? Though production and selling
    techniques have changed over the years, the spirit...

  • Pick of the kids 14

    Pick of the kids
    1st
    Sue Purcell-Manser wins
    our top prize of
    £50 with this picture. THE YEAR OF THE CHILD' has proved a popular theme.
    for this year's Journal photographic competition. Judges
    Sidney Harding, validation...

  • Depot gives more to Oliver! 15

    Depot gives more to Oliver!
    ONCE AGAIN BUNTINGFORD
    STAFF have proved what a talented lot
    they are.
    When work is over, some depot members
    occupy their leisure hours with the
    local Buntingford Dramatic Society, and
    in...

  • Your letters 16

    Your letters
    Letters are welcome and should be
    addressed to the editor. Cheque it quickly!
    From: S R Henderson, clerical instructor
    Charlton depot
    You may, or may not agree that the time
    spent in JS branches is just...

  • Caught short 17

    Caught short
    AN URGENT REQUEST for a delivery
    of toilet rolls sent by Kettering
    branch to a contract depot inspired the
    following reply, which arrived with tHe
    said goods at the earliest convenience!
    In answer to your urgent...

  • Choice cuts 17

    Choice cuts
    IT IS NOT UNUSUAL for the chef to
    be complimented after a particularly
    good meal, but it is for the guests to also
    give equal praise to the butcher who
    supplied the meat for the main course.
    But this is exactly...

  • Dream machine 17

    Dream machine
    LET'S HOPE that the events of this
    poem, written anonymously, do not
    come true for Gladys Routleff, company
    car centre clerk, whose voice is familiar
    to so many of us.
    Hallo Gladys, is that you
    I want to hire...

  • Lack of volume 17

    Lack of volume
    WOOLWORTH'S ARE CLOSING the
    food departments in another 100 of its
    stores. This means that in the past 18
    months or so the number of Woolworth
    stores selling food has been cut from
    well over 700 to around the...

  • Shut cut 17

    Shut cut
    THE CLOSURE of a Fine Fare (known
    locally as Hodgson & Hepworth's) in
    the Ardale Centre at Doncaster upset at
    least one Sainsbury's fan.
    'I'm sorry to see that Hodgson &
    Hepworth have closed' she told a member
    of...

  • Zippered 17

    Zippered
    THE PROBLEM of keeping an inquisitive,
    lively fingered child under control
    when shopping in a supermarket has been solved by one young mum at
    Basingstoke, She just zips her son's arms
    inside his anorak, leaving the...

  • A 'Grand' wedding 18

    A 'Grand' wedding
    LUCKY COUPLE Sarah MacDonald
    and Steve Potts will certainly be celebrating
    their wedding, in June next year,
    in style.
    For Steve, reception manager at
    North Cheam branch, and Sarah, who
    he met when she was...

  • Pop quiz success 18

    Pop quiz success
    Left to right: Mike Bocock, Chris Barnes and Dave Thomas. THREE LIKELY LADS from the
    south coast are steaming their way, on
    behalf of JS, through a pop quiz organised
    by the Hospital...

  • Buntingford pavilion tingford 19

    Buntingford pavilion
    tingford The luxurious new bar inside the pavillion. A NIGHT CLUB AT A DEPOT? Well
    not quite, but the redecorated and extended
    pavilion at Buntingford is certainly
    just as good.
    The extensive...

  • What a gas! 19

    What a gas!
    A GOOD TURN OUT greeted the first
    cookery demonstration in a series of
    joint projects between JS and North
    Thames Gas.
    On October 25 at Chingford the weather
    was wet and miserable but this did
    not stop over 300...

  • Appointments 20

    Appointments
    M Handscombe, formerly marketing information
    manager and DMC secretary
    in the market research and information
    department, has been appointed head of
    marketing co-ordination in the market
    research and information...

  • Long service 20

    Long service
    John Bishop, senior tradesman at New
    Maiden branch, is celebrating 40 years
    atJS.
    John began his service as an egg boy
    and after the war returned to the company
    at 168 Streatham. Since then he
    has worked at...

  • Retirements 20

    Retirements
    Jim Soper from the branch trading department
    at Blackfriars has retired after
    44 years at JS.
    Jim began his career at 97 London
    Road, Kingston and went to many
    branches before his first management
    position at...

  • Caring for KARES 21

    Caring for KARES
    A HARVEST SUPPER and country
    dance ended the first day of a very successful
    weekend for the East Kent caravan
    club rally in September.
    Roger Howell, a works engineers foreman
    at Charlton depot, has been...

  • Home hopes 21

    Home hopes
    A GREAT BOOST was given to
    young spastic boy at the Norwich area
    district buffet dance, held at the
    Sainsbury Centre, University of East
    Anglia, on October 27.
    John Davey is a local lad and is paralised
    from the...

  • Obituary 21

    Obituary
    Raymond Burniston, a chargehand at
    Basingstoke depot, died on August 21.
    Raymond, who leaves a wife and two
    sons, was 45 years old. He joined JS nine
    years ago.
    George Gatting, meat manager at
    Corby branch, died...

  • Facility for fitness 22

    Facility for fitness
    BEAT AND FEET are working together
    at the Streatham office as the ladies
    are keeping fit to the sound of music
    with the help of their colleague Denise
    Palmer.
    When the joint consultative...

  • Retirement honeymoon! 23

    Retirement honeymoon!
    'WORK HARD and play hard' has
    been the motto that has carried 'Henry'
    Hall through a career at JS lasting over
    46 years. He concluded that career as
    assistant warehouse manager at
    Hoddesdon depot, an...

  • This little turkey went to market... 24

    Archives
    This little turkey went to market... Mr B. E. S. Turkey and his family (above)
    are on their way to Sainsbury's in two
    shades of brown on a paper bag of the
    1930s. In those days, they would have
    joined hundreds of...