'JS Journal', May 1980

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• Shop window that reflects success
  01

  Shop window
  'A RESOUNDING SUCCESS' is how
  chairman John Sainsbury described JS's
  performance over the last year as a
  result of the annual results published on
  May 7.
  In the year 1979/80 JS has boosted
  pre-tax profits by no...

• By the buy
  02

  By the buy
  A CHANGE in SavaCentre's buying
  procedures was announced last month.
  JS is taking over buying control of food
  for this JS/British Home Stores joint
  hypermarket venture to build on its
  previous success. From the...

• Contents Page
  02

  Pages 1-7 and 10-11
  General news
  Pages 8-9 and 12-14
  Feature
  Pages 16-23
  People
  Page 24
  Archives

• Fresh foods and pastures new
  02

  Fresh foods and pastures new
  THE NEW ROLE of fresh foods marketing
  manager has been taken up by
  Mike Conolly, previously advertising
  manager.
  Mike graduated from Cambridge
  University with a languages degree and
  came to JS...

• Good year for business partners
  02

  Good year for business partners
  IT'S GOOD NEWS WEEK for at
  about the same time as details of JS's
  bumper trading year were released, there
  came the news that two of the
  company's business partners also
  announced higher...

• Opening phase
  02

  Opening phase
  THE FIRST PHASE of JS's new
  supermarket development at Brighton
  Hill, Basingstoke, celebrated its opening
  day just as the Journal went to press on
  May 13.
  The sales area of 13,864 square feet
  (1,358 square...

• Big deal clinched
  03

  Big deal clinched
  'LOCAL HISTORY in the making' was
  the comment made by councellor
  Richard Kirby when he received
  substantial cheque from JS director of
  property and development Gurth Hoyer
  Millar.
  The exchange clinched a...

• Health and beauty go it alone
  03

  Health and beauty go it alone
  HEALTH AND BEAUTY buying has
  now developed into a new separate department.
  The last few years have seen
  the rapid growth of the toiletries trade—
  172 JS branches now stock health and
  beauty...

• BOUNCING BABYWEAR
  04

  ROMPING HOME easily in the popularity
  stakes are the new developments
  in the textiles department's babywear
  section.
  Additions to the attractive range that
  has been built up from the first pilot
  schemes 18 months ago,...

• A logical extension
  05

  A logical extension
  EXTENDING ITS LEAD again into
  the own-label electrical accessory
  market, JS has now introduced handy 13
  amp and 5 amp extension leads coiled
  and thus compact and ideal for any
  household.
  Both leads...

• Stationery moves on
  05

  Stationery moves on
  A CORPORATE IMAGE now links
  over two dozen JS own-label stationery
  accessories.
  A new card design has been developed
  to standardise this range for
  peg board display in all branches that stock stationery....

• Dough raising Raises dough
  06

  Dough raising Raises dough
  THE HURLINGHAM CLUB was the
  venue for a cookery demonstration on
  March 20 to raise money for the Parsons
  Green Friends of the Imperial Cancer
  Research fund.
  Two hundred people paid £2 to...

• Meanwhile up on the roof...
  06

  Meanwhile up on the roof...
  HAPPY LANDINGS were made recently
  at Oldbury SavaCentre—by the
  air handling units that is.
  The units, to provide heating by
  means of gas, and air conditioning in the
  summer, were lifted by a...

• Off to Peru!
  06

  Off to Peru!
  PARDON ME BOY is that the
  Cusichaca choo-choo? Not as an unusual
  a question as you might think—
  especially for graphic designer at Blackfriars
  Sarah Drew. This month sees her
  off to Peru until September as one...

• Seeing stars
  07

  Meeting before lunch the nine Miss JS finalists outside Buckingham Palace. Left to right: Debbie Young, Yvonne Walker,
  Cheryt Edwards, Anna Gray, Dawn Harper, Tina Canon, Debbie Mooring, Lisa Head and Elaine Swan *WE WERE TREATED...

• Computer conference
  08

  Computer conference
  JS HOSTED an important international
  event at the end of March. Major
  supermarkets of the world were
  represented at the 23rd Plenary meeting
  of the Comite International des
  Enterprises a Succursales...

• Sir John tells UK farmers how to grow
  08

  LAST YEAR the chairman accepted an invitation
  from Agriculture Minister Peter Walker to join a team
  of five advisors to investigate the problems of
  marketing UK agricultural and horticultural
  products. In this role he recently...

• Press breakfast at JS
  10

  Press breakfast at JS
  THE PRESS WERE IMPRESSED
  when they were introduced by J S to its
  wide range of quality breakfast foods at
  a special reception on April 8.
  New ideas mixed with the traditional
  as journalists were invited...

• Egg sell
  11

  Egg sell
  SPILLERS IS TO buy the 40 per cent
  share-holding in the company Sainsbury
  Spillers owned by JS.
  The move was announced on April 11
  in a joint statement and Sainsbury
  Spillers, which claims a 5 per cent share
  of the...

• Insurance premiums cost less at Sainsbury's
  11

  Insurance premiums cost less at Sainsbury's
  DID YOU KNOW that if yon work at JS you can obtain
  discounts off insurance premiums under two staff insurance
  schemes operated by the company.
  The first scheme is run by the Royal...

• JS man for president
  11

  JS man for president
  LEN PAYNE, the director responsible
  for JS's distribution division, has been
  elected president of the Freight
  Transport Association.
  The association represents all major
  industrial, commercial and retail...

• Pennies spent at JS save £££s
  11

  Pennies spent at JS save £££s
  JS IS BEST in many ways, but did you
  know that just one of those special
  assets is good value toilet paper?
  Roll for roll and sheet by sheet
  Actionwoman in Woman magazine hunted
  out and...

• Woking's sparkling success
  11

  Woking's sparkling success
  PROSPECTING FOR DIAMONDS is
  not, as far as we know, on the supermarket
  assistant training programme,
  but the girls at Woking branch recently
  found a diamond without any trouble at
  all.
  When a...

• La creme de la trifles
  12

  La creme de la trifles
  JANUARY 29 SAW the first
  appearance in 121 Sainsbury stores of
  JS's own-label fresh cream trifles with
  raspberries.
  Reported the Journal 'if your culinary
  reputation hangs on the excellence of
  your...

• Hunting for a hobby
  15

  Hunting
  ITS NOT ONLY THE RICH and
  landed gentry who own impressive
  hunter weight horses if Elaine Swan is
  anyone to go by. Energetic and
  hardworking Elaine looks after her
  horse Harvest Gold with no assistance,
  financial or...

• A high degree of learning
  16

  A high degree of learning
  A PERSONAL AMBITION has been
  achieved by Laurie Diggle, wages and
  management accountant at Basingstoke
  depot. Laurie's long years of study—and
  a lot of support and patience from his
  wife and...

• Out for a duck!
  16

  Out for a duck!
  ANTI-DUCK LAWS had to be
  explained to customers Chris and Helen
  Covill when they tried to take their pet
  on a shopping trip to Ilford central
  branch.
  They thought the rule to bar all
  animals was quackers...

• Thank you letters
  16

  Thank you letters
  RA Y SIMS, manager at Lordshill
  branch, was unfortunately taken ill a few
  months ago, and since then his wife Erica
  has been overwhelmed by the number of
  people throughout the company who have
  been in touch...

• Veterans double bill
  17

  Veterans double bill
  A WELCOME RETURN was made
  this year to the favourite haunt of the JS
  veterans group, the Royal Lancaster
  Hotel, for their 32nd annual reunion.
  This year though for the first time the
  event was held over...

• Depot double
  18

  Depot double
  A SPECIAL ACCOLADE has been paid to the very successful Charlton football
  team by SSA central office in the form of a commemorative cup. The team, which
  has now disbanded, won the JS Sunday league for the last six...

• Pushing the bed to the limit
  18

  Pushing the bed to the limit
  WEEKS OF PREPARATION were put
  in by Cheltenham branch before a
  charity race on March 30.
  One of the team members told the
  Journal, 'with the help of the local
  hospital, who supplied us with the...

• World beaters?
  18

  World beaters?
  ALMOST £2,500 was recently raised for
  charity by Ian Meldrum, a driver at
  Orpington branch, with eleven friends in
  a sponsored darts marathon.
  The 12 strong team from Orpington
  Village Hall Social Club took...

• Lucky darts
  19

  Lucky darts
  THESSA DARTS finals were held at
  Basingstoke clubhouse on April 13. The
  event was a great success , entered into
  with the usual gusto by all who attended.
  Pictured right are the winners of the
  Arcady Team Trophy...

• Appointments
  20

  Appointments
  C Etheridge has now assumed
  responsibility for C Summerton's
  district. Mr Summerton is taking on the
  branches in A Trevethan's district while
  Mr Trevethan assumes responsibility for
  O Keen's district.
  A Dring,...

• Long service
  20

  Long service
  Jean Cherrett, part-time supermarket assistant
  at Winchester, has completed 25
  years service with JS.
  She joined the company at 67 Sutton
  and transferred to Winchester in 1950.
  Doug Ginn, meat manager at...

• Retirements
  20

  Retirements
  Willie Smith, grocery manager at
  Eastbourne branch, retired on April 11
  after 46 years with the company.
  Willie joined JS in 1934 in the old
  manual shop and remained there until
  he joined the Royal Artillery in...

• Obituary
  21

  Obituary
  Jean Sanford, a display assistant at
  Kings Lynn branch, died on April 8—
  some four months after it was found she
  was suffering from cancer.
  Jean began working for JS in 1972
  when the Kings Lynn branch...

• Trading trials for maximum service
  21

  Trading trials for maximum service
  EXTRA 'LATE NIGHT' trading is one
  way of extending JS's service to
  customers and meeting the demands of
  today's stiff high street competition.
  Experiments are now in progress to
  ascertain...

• Getting fit for retirement
  22

  Getting fit for retirement
  RETIRING EARLY due to ill health
  has gentled Bill Allwright into his new
  life.
  Bill, provisions warehouseman at
  Kingsland Road branch, completed
  more than 40 years at JS and although
  he admits...

• Sporting life
  23

  'I'VE ENJOYED EVERY minute of it
  so far,' said recently retired Fred
  Coombs, former post room messenger
  familiar to everyone at Blackfriars. 'It's
  all I've wanted since I was 14!'
  Fred joined the bakery department on
  the...

• Running Horses Yard
  24

  Archives
  Running Horses Yard THE OLD PHOTOGRAPH (above)
  shows Running Horses Yard in 1923,
  with the spire of Christchurch in the
  background. Obviously its days of
  splendour had passed, for from the
  1750's it had been a...