'JS Journal', February 1979

Table of content

• This issue:
  01

  This issue:
  Working for nothing: page 11
  Salt of the earth: pages 8-10
  Strictly for the birds: pages 14-15
  Finger-chip control: page 6-7

• Contents Page
  02

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

• Final moves
  02

  Final moves
  'OPERATION CLAPHAM' is now
  complete. The last JS staff at the
  Clapham office moved to Blackfriars
  at the end of 1978. Now in the process
  of settling in, over 160 people from
  the engineers and...

• Old Swan swims in view
  02

  Old Swan swims in view
  LOOK OUT SCOUSERS, SavaCentre's
  on the way! Liverpool shoppers could
  soon be using a SavaCentre hypermarket
  if a recent planning application by the
  joint JS/BHS company gets the go ahead.
  The £5...

• Terry trains a winner
  02

  Terry trains a winner
  REMEMBER COLIN POWERS, the
  boxer trained by Terry Toole of Charlton
  depot? We featured them in the August
  issue, and we've just heard that Colin has
  regained his British light welterweight
  title. This...

• Third time lucky
  02

  Third time lucky
  THE DISRUPTIONS of the past few
  weeks caused the senior management
  conference to be called off for a second
  time.
  The conference was due to take place at
  Eastbourne on January 14/15.1 n the light
  of the...

• Clubhouse realises a dream
  03

  Clubhouse realises a dream
  THE BASINGSTOKE CLUBHOUSE is
  looking good. With a possible completion
  date before Easter, the depot is
  looking forward to a grand official opening
  soon afterwards. Work is now going
  ahead on the...

• News in Brief
  03

  News in Brief
  HOME-FREEZER OWNERS living
  near Burnt Oak in Edgware, Middlesex,
  will soon have a JS Freezer Centre on
  their doorstep. On February 27 the company
  is opening a new Centre at 153
  Burnt Oak Broadway.
  Edwin Hughes...

• Above the law
  04

  Above the law
  THE MAGNIFICIENT EIGHT—and
  Nuneaton branch is one of them.
  Sainsbury's was one of eight stores in
  Nuneaton and Bedworth who were judged
  by the council's health inspectors to
  be worthy of a special award for...

• 'Bigger labels' predicts Keith
  04

  PREDICTIONS of bigger food packaging
  labels were made recently by Keith
  Brackenborough, JS packaging coordinator.
  Keith was invited to speak at a luncheon
  organised by a firm called Dolphin
  Labels on the topic of JS...

• Dim the lights
  04

  Dim the lights
  SUIT YOUR LIGHTING to your
  moods with two new dimmer switches
  that'll be in 54 JS stores by the end of the
  month. Controlling one or two lights, the
  electronic dimmers are designed to fit into
  a standard light...

• Run, don't ride!
  04

  WITH THE FALLIBILITY of public
  transport proved yet again, perhaps some
  of us should follow the example of David
  Simpson from the discount department in
  Stamford House.
  David has been running the seven and a
  half miles from...

• Barnet scheme gets go ahead
  05

  Barnet scheme gets go ahead
  GOOD NEWS for shoppers in New Barnet, northwest London, as outline planning
  permission has been granted for a new JS supermarket on East Barnet Road. With a
  sales area of 2052 square metres (22,088...

• Dem bones, dem ... hot bones
  05

  Dem bones, dem ... hot bones
  A NEW PROCESS for boning beef
  carcasses has been developed by JS researchers.
  Called 'hot-boning', the process
  involves removing the meat from the
  carcass while it is still warm, vacuum
  packing...

• In a Worle!
  05

  In a Worle!
  STEPPING UP the orders for safety
  shoes is Worle branch who have ordered
  nearly £400 worth during the past couple
  of months. 'The shoes are such good
  value' says BPO Barbara Baines 'and
  everyone says how...

• New PA for chairman
  05

  New PA for chairman
  STEPHEN CHAPMAN is to succeed
  Martin Whitty as chairman John
  Sainsbury's personal assistant. Martin
  will be joining the supply control department
  at Blackfriars in May, when he
  completes his term of duty...

• One into five 'Easy Pints'
  05

  One into five 'Easy Pints'
  FOR THOSE AWKWARD mornings
  when the milkman hasn't come and
  you're dying for your cornflakes, why not
  stock up with JS's new instant milk
  product—'Easy Pints'. Each pack will
  make five pints of...

• Chip chat
  06

  COMPUTERS have been with us for a
  long time, but for many people they still
  remain slightly worrying things—
  casting shadows of 'Big Brother', or
  HAL' the mad computer in Stanley
  Kubrick's film 2001. Yet basically
  they're...

• A salt-mine of information
  08

  A salt-mine of information
  IN THE SPRING the company is to
  open its first branch in Northwich,
  Cheshire, on land that was once the
  site of the Baron's Quay Rock Salt
  Mine. When the consultant
  architects began asking for...

• Working for love not money
  11

  WORKING FOR FREE on a Saturday
  night is one of the ways staff at Forest Hill
  branch are raising money for charity.
  They have given themselves one month
  (starting January 20) to raise as much
  cash as they can towards the cost...

• JS kitchen tinware takes the biscuit!
  12

  DULL KITCHENS ARE OUT and JS kitchen tinware is
  definitely in! The company has established a very high
  respect in the world of supermarkets and multiple stores
  for its originality and initiative in the domestic hardware
  field....

• Flights of fancy
  14

  'IT USED TO BE a real cloth-cap and muffler sport, but now there's a lot of money
  floating around' says Barry Odom about his favourite sport—pigeon racing. Barry's the
  meat manager at Burton-on-Trent and he's got well over a...

• Your letters
  16

  Your letters
  Letters are welcome and should be
  addressed to the editor. Token of disrespect
  From: R E Shrubsole, supply control,
  Blackfriars
  As an employee, customer and shareholder
  of the company, may I register...

• Taking the roughage with the smooth
  17

  Taking the roughage with the smooth
  'I EAT your Swiss style every day' wrote a
  customer 'because it is interesting, palatable
  and scarifies the bowels. But last
  Wednesday I almost wrecked my crumbling
  tooth on the attached...

• One-man show
  18

  One-man show
  Talented artist Jim Woods, a JS veteran,
  is this month displaying a selection of his recent
  paintings during a one-man exhibition
  at Sutton library. AN EXHIBITION of a variety of Jim's
  paintings, mostly...

• Bill celebrates forty-four years
  19

  Bill celebrates
  forty-four years
  QUITTING THE RAG TRADE some
  44 years ago Bill Heron joined the staff at
  his local Sainsbury's store in Folkestone.
  T saw an advertisement outside the shop
  and decided that to join JS would...

• Joyce turns winter into spring!
  19

  THE HOLIDAY OF A LIFETIME has
  been won by Joyce Day, chief cashier at
  Basildon branch. She has only ever travelled
  as far as Jersey before but this trip
  will take her and her husband, James, up,
  up, and away to Australia and...

• A 'walk' before lunch...
  20

  A 'walk' before lunch...
  HRH THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH is
  the guest of honour at a lunch that sixteen
  lucky people from JS will be
  attending.
  The lunch, which is being held at
  London's Grosvenor House Hotel on
  April 25, is the...

• Appointments
  20

  Appointments
  E Davies, formerly manager of Cwmbran
  branch, has been appointed manager of
  Barkingside.
  P Cox, formerly deputy manager of
  Woking branch, has been appointed
  manager of Cwmbran.
  J Jennings, formerly manager of...

• Long service
  20

  Long service
  James Gardner, meat manager al
  Churchill Square, Brighton, celebrated
  25 years with the company on January 25.
  James—better known to his friends as
  Old Jim—started at JS's Eastbourne
  branch when meat was...

• Retirements
  20

  Retirements
  Kit Francis, chief clerk at Romford
  branch, retired on January 6 after 22
  years with the company.
  Mrs Francis joined the firm at the
  Colliers Row shop as a packer-weigher in
  the bacon department. She became...

• Camberley backs a winner
  21

  Camberley backs a winner
  GAY MACDONALD'S
  WAGES hung in the
  balance until she agreed to
  become a contender for the
  Miss JS Southern title.
  'When I went to collect my
  money' says Gay, who is a
  student worker at
  Camberley...

• Home sweet home!
  21

  Home sweet home!
  'I WAS IN AND OUT of various 'omes,
  went into Stamford House, a big remand
  'ome down our way in London, escaped
  from there a couple of times . . .'
  'Does this make us all delinquents?'
  asks Trevor Faull, who...

• IRIS blossoms
  21

  IRIS blossoms
  IRIS's best friends, Roger Darby, Chris Hobbs, John Evans and Lesley Klecha. THE MOST MODERN computer system
  at JS will very shortly allow easy
  access to an enormous bank of data
  regarding all goods issued to...

• Map reference
  21

  Map reference
  'PORING over an atlas with my two
  favourite small boys' recounted journalist
  Veronica Papworth in a recent copy
  of the Sunday Express 'I embarked on a
  geography lesson.'
  She continued by explaining how she
  had...

• Mademoiselle Monique
  22

  Mademoiselle Monique
  CHIC, petite 17-year-old Monique Farrugia is to represent the office section at this
  year's Miss JS finals.
  Born in Nice of French parents., dark-haired, dark-eyed Monique was about twoand-
  a-half when...

• Pastures new...
  22

  'IT'S A CHALLENGE!' That's how
  Doug Bramham feels about retirement
  after nearly 43 years with JS. 'There are so
  many things I want to do, and so much I
  haven't had time to become involved with
  before, that I am looking...

• Depot's special delivery
  23

  Depot's special delivery
  FOND MEMORIES of a JS depot have
  been discovered in a boys' school that is
  now to be found on Hayling Island. Run
  by a team of nuns, the boarding school
  houses 50 mentally handicapped children
  and...

• Folkestone first and last
  23

  After 42 years Ted Smith sees the end of an era
  Folkestone first and last 'ON MY FIRST DAY I thought I was
  going to get the sack!' Ted Smith did not
  get fired from JS though and is celebrating
  his retirement next month after...

• A spanner in the works!
  24

  IN 1940 the 'garage staff crazy gang'
  produced a two-hour show in answer to
  the first efforts of the newly-formed JS
  Amateur Dramatic Society—a little
  friendly rivalry between office and
  garage staffs! There were three...

• Children's favourites
  24

  Children's favourites
  SIXTY CHILDREN invaded Sutton Coldfield branch and
  after the invasion two of them sat still long enough to compose
  the following poem:
  Thankyoujor our party on Sunday
  It really was a fun day.
  The music...

• England expects...
  24

  'SOMETHING very strange is happening
  in our shop' says Rosaleen Palmer.
  'Everyone seems to be pregnant.'
  Rosaleen works at Islington branch
  and she tells us: 'Two girls have just left to
  have babies, three more are expecting...

• The big ones'
  24

  The big ones'
  IT WASN'T A LADDER it was 'the big
  ones' outside Stockwell branch with its
  show of turkeys, photographed in 1937
  and featured in the Christmas issue.
  JS veteran Leslie Price, kindly put the
  archives straight...