'JS Journal', April 1979

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• Gold-mine
  01

  Gold-mine
  THE HOME OF BRITISH SALT
  struck gold on April 3 with the opening
  of a glittering JS supermarket in
  Northwich, Cheshire, a new trading area
  for the company.
  Since Roman times Northwich has
  been the centre of...

• Closing down
  02

  Closing down
  EASTER SATURDAY was the last
  day's trading for Whetstone branch. On
  April 14 the old store closed, the final
  step in a phasing out programme that
  has been going on for some time.
  After careful consideration JS...

• Contents Page
  02

  Pages 1-7
  General news
  Pages 8-15
  Feature
  Page 16
  Letters
  Pages 17-22
  People
  Page 24
  Archives
  Page 24
  Winning numbers

• Diners club
  02

  Diners club
  THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY of the
  JS 25 Club annual dinner is to be celebrated
  on October 8,1979. For the past nine
  years these dinners have been held in
  honour of staff who have completed 25 or
  more years' service,...

• Expansion Leeds on
  02

  Expansion Leeds
  THE NORTHERN EXPANSION
  gained new impetus last month with the
  announcement that Leeds City Council
  had accepted JS's tender for a
  development on an eleven acre site in
  North Leeds, in the face of...

• Happy Hayes ahead
  02

  Lull before the storm for manager Martin Miles and Carol Jarrett.
  Happy Hayes ahead SMOOTH AND CALM were the words
  used by all concerned to describe the
  successful opening of the new Hayes,
  Middlesex, branch on April 3....

• The big freeze!
  02

  The big freeze!
  THE LARGEST JS FREEZER
  CENTRE opened at 113/117 Streatham
  Hill on April 10. This independent
  centre has a sales area of 2,475 square
  feet (approximately 230 square metres)
  and is opposite the self-service...

• A Book Full of Plums
  04

  REMEMBER CHRISTMAS? Remember
  'Cooking for Christmas', the first
  Sainsbury Cookbook (see November
  Journal)? Well now the second in the
  series of cookbooks written by
  Josceline Dimbleby has reached
  the shelves. Entitled...

• Bank rewards Chris's clever cheque-mate
  04

  Bank rewards Chris's clever cheque-mate
  A STOLEN CHEQUE BOOK recently
  earned £50 for Christine Jackson of
  Holloway branch. Not because she's a
  criminal, but because she helped to catch
  the thief. A grateful Midland Bank...

• World-wide Wandering Trolleys
  04

  World-wide Wandering Trolleys
  THE WANDERLUST of JS trolleys has
  even reached the shores of frozen lamb
  country, as this cutting from The Press, a
  New Zealand newspaper that bears an
  uncanny resemblance to The...

• Tin Tops
  05

  Tin Tops
  SPRING-CLEANING kitchens is being
  made very easy this year with the help of
  the new co-ordinated series of tinware
  from JS.
  In just a short time the 'Brown Bouquet'
  range has firmly established its popularity
  and...

• Wilkommen
  05

  Wilkommen
  ANOTHER FIRST FOR JS with the introduction this month of an own-label
  German lager. Although other imported lagers have proved a big success in
  the UK, this is the first time that an own-label version has been...

• Lordly cup winners
  06

  Lordly cup winners
  CUP FEVER gripped Buntingford on
  Sunday, April 1, when the depot hosted
  the finals of this year's East Anglia
  Sunday Youth Cup Football competition.
  On the touchline was Lord Alan
  Sainsbury—presenting...

• RADAR at JS thinks thin
  07

  RADAR at JS thinks thin
  NOW SLIM FIGURES are being found
  by RADAR at JS! The charity group
  RADAR (the Royal Association for
  Disability and Rehabilitation) got in
  touch with many large organisations including
  JS because it...

• Staff Communications
  07

  A MAJOR REDRESSING programme
  got under way at Chingford branch last
  month, and was ushered in by a new
  kind of staff communications meeting.
  The brainchild of Romford AGM
  Dave Smith, the meetings were designed
  to let all the...

• Management on the move
  08

  Management on the move
  Just the job
  We take our second look
  at what it takes to be a good
  supermarket manager ON ANY SATURDAY between the
  hours of 11 am and 4 pm the, 160,000
  people who live in and around Lewisham
  can be...

• Tending her own plot
  09

  Ladies' night—Helen with Claire and Sarah (right).
  Tending her own plot GUY FAWKES hangs on Helen
  Harris's family tree. Helen's own brand
  of plotting however has proved to be
  more effective, if less explosive, than...

• Sally attains her goal
  10

  Sally attains her goal
  A DAY OF A LIFETIME at
  Buckingham Palace for Sally Cook, instore
  instructor from 728 Cambridge was
  also an historic day for the whole nation. That morning of March 29 a defeated
  Jim Callaghan went to...

• Can't see the branch for the tease!
  11

  Can't see the branch for the tease!
  PONDERING how to put Woking area office on the JS Journal
  map, administration manager Derek Appleford began playing
  around with the names of all the branches in the area and came up
  with the...

• Familiar faces
  11

  Familiar faces
  SHOPPERS AT UXBRIDGE BRANCH could be forgiven for getting a little
  confused if they keep seeing the same girl popping up all over the shop. For in fact it's
  not one girl, but five. The Sleap sisters, two pairs of...

• SOFT SELL
  12

  There's one thing that no-one likes to run out of, and
  that's toilet paper. Whenever there's a wave of
  panic buying you can safely bet that soft toilet paper
  will be one of the first things to be hit. And yet. for
  all its...

• Distinguished redcoat
  15

  Left: An artillery man through and through! Above: In the dining hall.
  Distinguished redcoat THE VETERANS' REUNION on
  April 23 will be graced by the startling
  red uniform of a Chelsea Pensioner. Pat
  Nolan, ten years a security...

• Give-away count-up
  15

  Give-away count-up
  STAFF AT FOREST HILL have raised
  well over £500 towards the cost of buying
  an artificial kidney machine for a
  local hospital. On January 20 all the
  staff at the store set themselves the task
  of raising as...

• Your letters
  16

  Your letters
  Letters are welcome and should be
  addressed to the editor. Sharing authority
  From:Tony Gayfer, distribution division
  The comments on productivity within JS
  by Messrs Trussell and Payne in the
  March JS Journal...

• Sweet story
  17

  Sugar was originally sold to customers in pieces 'nipped' off the
  cone. Then came the famous blue bags made up in their thousands
  by the shop assistants in spare moments. A recent donation to the
  archives is a collection of...

• George stays put
  18

  George
  stays
  put
  'MOVING FROM NORWICH has
  never entered my head' says George
  Roper, grocery manager at St Stephens
  branch upon his retirement this month.
  Both he and his wife Pauline were 'born
  and bred' in Norwich and do...

• Memorable moments...
  19

  Memorable moments... 'MY BROTHER BILL was a butcher at
  JS' says Stan Burrage 'so I followed in
  his footsteps and signed-up as a trainee
  butcher and went to work at Surbiton
  branch.' That was in 1934, since when
  Stan has...

• Appointments
  20

  Appointments
  Paul Chambers, formerly assistant to the
  chief internal auditor of Unilever, has
  been appointed chief internal auditor.
  Ron Dooge will join the retail division and
  assume responsibility for the financial
  section...

• Long service
  20

  Long service
  George 'Bill' Allan, manager of the motor
  engineers at Charlton depot, celebrated
  40 years with JS on April 4.
  Mr Allan joined the company just before
  the war as an electrician fitter in the
  motor engineers in...

• Say "cheese"
  20

  Say "cheese"
  HOW TO RAISE £1000 before the end
  of the year was the task staff at Buntingford
  depot set themselves. They raised it
  in two months!
  In January, the girls in the cheese
  department began to think of how...

• Obituary
  21

  Obituary
  Ernie Manly, an accounts clerk at
  Buntingford depot, died on February
  17. Mr Manly had been with the company
  for nine years, originally in the
  motor engineers section at the depot,
  but transferring to the accounts...

• Retirements
  21

  Retirements
  Bert Woolard, assistant meat manager at
  Stratford branch, retired on April 7 after
  33 years with JS.
  Bert began his career at Hackney in
  1946, and since then has worked in
  branches all over...

• A Sussex survivor
  22

  'I'VE SURVIVED' says Perce Cooper,
  assistant meat manager at East
  Grinstead, looking back on over 44 years
  work in JS shops. He's seen all the
  changes, and can now sit back and enjoy
  the fruits of his labours—or perhaps...

• Happy feet
  23

  Happy feet
  'AFTER 46 YEARS I am bound to
  need time to readjust to a new lifestyle'
  says George Lilley who retired on April
  6 after a varied as well as long career,
  that came to a close in the commodity
  distribution control...

• Snow place like home
  23

  Snow place like home BY SLEEPING ON THE JOB manager
  of Dunstable branch Alex Watson and
  two of his management team made sure
  was business as usual during the 'shock,
  horror' weather of the last months.
  When the snow and ice...

• Your Number's Up!
  24

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