'JS Journal', July 1979

Table of content

• Annual meeting
  02

  Annual meeting
  THE ONCE A YEAR DAY for JS
  shareholders comes around again on
  July 4, the date of this year's annual
  general meeting. This is the company's
  fifty-seventh AGM and the venue is the
  Connaught Rooms, just off...

• Contents Page
  02

  Pages 1-5
  General news
  Pages 6-15 and 18
  Feature
  Pages 16-17, 19-23
  People
  Page 24
  Archives

• Continental flavour
  02

  Continental flavour
  FRENCH STYLE is something that
  cannot be denied. A new idea from the
  dairy buying department can bring that
  certain chic to your shopping basket!
  French natural yogurt is now available
  at all large...

• Put the squeeze on summer
  02

  Put the squeeze on summer
  THE GREAT SQUEEZE is on in 53 JS
  stores at the moment. But it's not a
  crisis—it's a new product. The 'juicer'
  below costs only 95p, and is the perfect tool for converting fresh oranges to
  fresh...

• Where the action is
  02

  Where the action is
  'ACTION POINTS' are part of a new
  campaign organised by branch operations.
  They are designed to remind
  managers and all their staff of their important
  role in the running of a busy JS
  store and help them...

• Logical 'extension'
  03

  Logical 'extension'
  FOLLOWING THE SUCCESS of the
  JS square tea-tray featuring the 'extension
  of premises' design (see Christmas
  1978 Journal) is a round tray.
  The chocolate brown and cream 'nostalgic'
  design was found to be...

• Marginal notes
  03

  Marginal notes
  'OPERATION CHECKOUT' is beginning
  to pay off for Tesco, according to
  the annual results published last month.
  Profits jumped by 32 per cent to £37.6
  million, and turnover increased by 26
  per cent to £1,235...

• New TV ad
  03

  New TV ad
  THE TELEVISION SPOTLIGHT
  shone on JS again during June when
  Michael Barratt appeared in a three
  week burst of advertising.
  A new advert lasting 30 seconds went
  on the air during peak viewing times in
  the trading...

• Telly quiz-kid
  03

  Telly quiz-kid
  GAME FOR ANYTHING, Karen Dance, supermarket assistant
  and in-store instructor at Bristol, has made her debut on
  television. Karen is renowned at her branch for her love of
  quizzes and was recently invited to...

• PLUS goes live
  04

  PLUS goes live
  The computer age has arrived with a
  bang at Broadfield, with the start of the
  first of two trials of in-store computer
  systems. BROADFIELD BRANCH'S NEW
  'PLUS' computer checkout system went
  'live' with...

• All in a week's work
  06

  This is a page in chairman John Sainsbury's diary which, apart
  from the deletion of two confidential appointments on
  Monday, is as it was actually written for a week near the end
  of last April. Not quite a typical week—like...

• Tackling this and VAT
  08

  Tackling
  this and
  VAT
  DRAMATIC VAT INCREASES announced
  in the June Budget have affected
  everyone's lives in Britain but none
  more so than the retailer. In order to
  find out how increases affected JS
  branches the Journal...

• The day of days
  10

  The day of days
  MONTHS OF PREPARATION went
  into the Family Day, and there was only
  one thing that could have ruined it—the
  weather. After weeks of monsoon downpours fingers were crossed all over the land to keep the rain...

• JS fixes a Micky Finn
  16

  JS fixes a Micky Finn
  A DREAM CAME TRUE for eight
  year-old Stuart Finn last month—at
  Sainsbury's Bracknell branch. Manager
  Roy Harrison and his staff played host
  to a film crew from the BBC's 'Jim'll Fix
  It' programme who...

• Miaowl!
  16

  Miaowl!
  PEA GREEN BOATS are not the only
  thing owls and pussy cats have in common,
  it seems they also share a liking for
  JS's meat and liver cat food. This piece
  of gastronomic togetherness came to
  light when Amanda Tennant...

• South banker!
  16

  South banker!
  WITH JS AND IPC as customers and
  neighbours it's not surprising that when
  the Midland Bank recently moved
  across the road into new premises in the
  King's Reach development, one of the
  results was the cartoon on...

• Norwich raise the rafters
  17

  Norwich raise the rafters
  CRAFTY RAFTS recently caused a
  great deal of fun for the two Norwich
  branches—St Stephens and Anglia
  Square. Malcolm Jones, St Stephens'
  deputy manager, says: 'The raft race on
  the River Wensum...

• NOSTALGIC PACKAGE DEAL
  18

  ANTIQUE OR ORDINARY, it does
  not seem to matter to Robert Opie, historian
  and packaging 'guru' to
  Sainsbury's. Whether it is an old packet
  of Sunlight soap, dessicated soup or the
  latest JS yogurt tub you want to...

• Ice cream Sundays
  19

  Ice cream Sundays
  A good cause that has
  two JS stores
  skating on thin ice! GETTING YOUR SKATES ON means
  quite literally that for a growing number
  of staff at JS's Kettering arid
  Wellingborough stores. .Trips to the
  Silver...

• Appointments
  20

  Appointments
  R Shepperd, formerly manager of the
  beef department at Basingstoke depot,
  has been appointed meat manager (beef
  and lamb) at the depot.
  M Whitty, formerly personal assistant
  to the chairman, has been...

• Long service
  20

  Long service
  Barney Britland, the assistant meat
  manager at Ashford branch, celebrated
  25 years with JS on May 31.
  Barney joined the firm at the shop
  in Reigate, Surrey. In 1959 he moved
  to Ashford, and has since served in...

• Obituary
  20

  Obituary
  Mrs Josie Bowden, who worked in the
  bakery department at Pitsea branch,
  died on June 16. She had worked at the
  branch for three years. Mrs Bowden
  leaves a husband and three children.

• RADAR gains as JS loses!
  20

  RADAR gains
  as JS loses!
  FOLLOWING THE TRAIL of JS
  super slimmers, the Journal has heard
  that seven strong willed ladies at Dartford
  branch raised £50 for the charity
  RADAR during just four weeks of
  sponsored...

• Retirements
  20

  Retirements
  William Staples, the senior warehouseman
  at Shirley branch, retired on
  June 9 after nearly 25 years with JS.
  William joined the company as a porter
  at Southampton branch. He transferred
  to Shirley in 1963, and...

• STOP PRESS!
  20

  STOP PRESS! Derby slimmers have
  collected £100 for RADAR. BPO at that
  branch, Peggy Hill, tells us that a total
  of 22 slimmers finished the course and
  between them lost 12 stone. 'All in all, it
  was a worthwhile attempt,...

• Everything in the garden's lovely
  21

  Everything in the garden's lovely
  WITH THE BEST GARDEN in his
  area, on more than one occasion in recent
  years Arthur Higgins has won awards in
  national newspaper competitions.
  Justifiably proud of this fact, upon...

• Len loves life at home
  22

  Len loves life at home
  'I LOVED every minute of it' says Len
  Tidd of his 43 years with JS. On May 26
  he retired as meat manager at East
  Ham branch, and he says he loves every
  minute of his new lifestyle just as much.
  However...

• That's entertainment!
  23

  That's entertainment!
  THE HIGH POINT of this year's SSA
  calendar—the Family Day—also marked
  the end of an SSA stalwart's career.
  Len Starling, 42 years with JS and involved
  with the SSA since it was set up
  in 1947,...

• Commercial art
  24

  Commercial art
  THE TWENTIES are re-born in these superb
  examples of JS advertising material of the
  time. In full colour, they evoke not only the
  styles and aspirations of the era but capture the
  essence of the grocery trade...