'JS Journal', June 1980

Table of content

• Contents Page
  01

  Page 2-3
  General News
  Page 4-5
  JS's mew cook shop range
  Page 6
  A look along the shelves
  Page 7
  Wine tasting at HO
  Pages 8/9
  Brighton Hill opens
  Page 10
  New uniforms on trial
  Page 11
  Search for a pretty car park
  Page 12-13
  JS...

• EEC tax goes as £ falls
  02

  EEC tax goes as £ falls
  THE 2.1 PER CENT tax on British
  food imports disappeared last month
  under EEC rules because of the fall of
  the pound on foreign exchange markets
  after a period of appreciation.
  A tax on British food...

• Green Park gets green light
  02

  Green Park gets green light
  YEARS OF INDECISION have
  ended at Bath. On May 19 the City
  Council gave the go-ahead to the JS
  scheme for the Green Park Station site.
  The rival bid by Tesco to build a hotel
  to win the site was...

• New trio opening soon
  02

  New trio opening soon
  THREE MORE new JS supermarkets
  will be opening during the next few
  weeks. One at Rugby on June 17, the
  next at Maidenhead on July 1, and the
  third at Chertsey on July 8.
  First of the three to open is...

• Quintessent eggs-change
  02

  Quintessent eggs-change
  SAINSBURY-SPILLERS has changed
  its name to Quinton Farms. In April,
  Spillers purchased the 40 per cent shareholding
  in Sainsbury-Spillers owned by
  JS.
  The name Quinton Farms is already
  being used by...

• Second try at Gloucester
  02

  Second try at Gloucester
  FOLLOWING LAST YEAR'S
  rejection of plans for a SavaCentre at
  Barnewood by Gloucester City Council,
  JS have now submitted plans for a
  supermarket on the same site.
  The store would be less than half...

• British bacon is best
  03

  British bacon is best
  A BUY BRITISH BACON campaign,
  the biggest ever mounted by JS, received
  a boost on its launch on May 23 from
  Minister of Agriculture, Peter Walker.
  He toured Sainsbury's Victoria branch
  with company...

• Hypermarketing
  03

  Hypermarketing
  MARKET RESEARCH has recently
  been aimed in the direction of
  hypermarkets—and with some
  interesting results.
  The first report was carried out by the
  West End agency, Donaldsons, and
  looked at the Hempstead...

• JS properties worth £276m
  03

  JS properties worth £276m
  JS SHARES shot up lOp following the
  news that a revaluation of, the company's
  properties showed a surplus of £132m.
  The book value of the properties was
  £144m. This comprised £71 m at...

• COUNTRY CORNER
  04

  HARDWARE FLAIR may soon
  become a byword around Blackfriars—
  yet again the departments ability to pick
  the right kind of products for JS has
  been demonstrated, this time by the new
  cookshop section.
  Launched on February 4,...

• One green bottle . . .
  06

  One green bottle . . .
  GREEN AND CHUNKY, wearing a
  gold cap, about five-and-a-half inches
  tall, and often spotted at picnics and at
  dinner with single people. What's this—
  a space invader? You may be forgiven
  for thinking...

• Pizzas and thins
  06

  Pizzas and thins
  THE POPULARITY OF PIZZAS in
  this country has grown beyond
  prediction over recent years.
  The latest indication of this still
  growing trend is the decision taken by
  JS's biscuit buyers to introduce a...

• A grape success!
  07

  A grape success!
  SAINSBURY'S range of 73 own label
  wines is the largest of any food retailer
  in the country, and top wine writers got
  the chance to taste 20 of them at a wine
  tasting held at Stamford House on
  April 29.
  It...

• Growing success
  08

  Growing success
  A STILL GROWING COMMUNITY
  saw the opening of a still growing JS
  store at Brighton Hill, Basingstoke, on
  May 13. Sir John Sainsbury opened this
  branch which will eventually have a
  sales area of 18,700 square...

• Watford Fills the gap
  08

  Watford Fills the gap
  A FACELIFT AT WATFORD branch
  has given the store new importance and
  has improved staff morale.
  The increased display capacity has
  allowed the introduction of an attractive
  free-flow produce department...

• Dressing the part
  10

  Dressing the part
  SMART RECEPTIONISTS at head
  office presented a new image to an
  unsuspecting public last month!
  It was decided that the appearance of
  receptionists at Rennie House and
  Stamford House, Pauline Budgen...

• Putney's polyester testers
  10

  Putney's polyester testers
  THE LONG SAGA of branch staff
  overalls continues and now it is the turn
  of Putney branch to put on trial further
  designs and colour schemes to test their
  practicality under store...

• Watch this space
  11

  CAN A CAR PARK be a work of art? JS thinks it can. So
  much so that the company is putting up £7,000 of the
  £8,000 prize money being offered to the winners of a
  national competition to design a visually acceptable,...

• JS counsellors celebrate a decade of talking shop
  12

  JS counsellors celebrate a decade of talking shop
  Above: The longest and newest serving JS counsellors toast their first decade (left to right) Cynthia Gillett .Kent, SE London i
  5 Essex, Gwen Wright, Midlands—afternoons,...

• Golden arrows
  14

  Golden arrows
  Pictured here with their branch manager is the winning ladies darts team from the
  competition for the EG Ricketts' Cup held at Dulwich on May 12. The team, from
  London Road, Brighton, who beat Bromley in the...

• Reading, Writing and Rubbish!
  14

  Imaginative project work by class 3 on a troublesome subject, was aided
  by a tour of their local Sainsbury 's. Teacher Georgina Jaggers (pictured
  above with her class) enjoyed the visit too! A CROWD OF CHILDREN invaded
  Watney...

• Wendy likes the taste of JS quality
  15

  Wendy likes the taste of JS quality
  I WAS QUITE EXCITED about
  coming to work for JS' said new home
  economist Wendy Godfrey. 'The
  company has the image of quality and
  the work I've seen so far has proved that
  the image is...

• Your letters
  15

  Your letters
  Letters are welcome and should be
  addressed to the editor. Horsepower!
  From: Charles Wills, branch engineers,
  Bromley area office
  Although the branch engineering
  department has always prided itself on
  keeping...

• Stan changes gear
  16

  Stan changes gear IT WAS LIKE having your own little
  business' says Stan Pfeil of the time
  during the late thirties when he was a JS
  roundsman. 'I liked the personal contact
  with customers, I enjoyed the driving
  side of the...

• Caramel ripple in the pool
  17

  Caramel ripple in the pool
  THE DISAPPEARANCE of JS's
  caramel yogurt from the shelves at
  Chippenham branch caused an uproar
  in a local typing pool.
  Some of the mermaids in the pool, it
  seems, became hooked on caramel
  yogurt...

• Appointments
  18

  Appointments
  L Skellon, formerly manager of
  Coldhams Lane, has been appointed
  manager of Lordshill.
  R Wilkinson, formerly manager of
  Woking, has been appointed manager of
  Coldhams Lane.
  K Fitzpatrick, formerly manager...

• Long service
  18

  Long service
  Mike Fowler, manager at
  Bridgwater, has completed 40 years
  with JS.
  He joined the company in
  Northampton and worked at many
  branches before becoming manager at
  Nuneaton in 1970. He moved to
  Bridgwater in...

• Retirements
  18

  Retirements
  James 'Tick' Tickner, a non-perishable
  warehouseman at Basingstoke depot,
  recently had to retire on medical
  grounds after 31 years with JS.
  Following 12 years service in the Navy
  he joined the company in the...

• Obituary
  19

  Obituary
  Iris Carr, a part-time supermarket
  assistant at Kings Heath, died on April
  27 after a long illness.
  Aged 58, she has been at the branch
  since 1966, and was a well liked and
  active member of staff.
  Christopher...

• The moving ad man writes and...
  19

  THE FIRST SILLY SEASON ol' the
  new decade has got off to a rolling start
  in supermarkets with the advent of
  advertising on trolleys.
  An unknown Leeds firm has pulled off
  the marketing coup of the year, winning
  exclusive...

• Fun in the oven!
  20

  Fun in the oven!
  NINE HAPPY EVENTS are expected
  at Bishop's Stortford branch. A fact
  which in itself is not disturbing or even
  special, except that they all seem to coincide
  with the installation of an...

• Lil knocks 'em in aisles
  20

  Lil knocks 'em in aisles
  JS VETERAN LIL EYRE recently appeared
  before an audience of millions—
  knocking up butter!
  As a result of an appeal by archivist
  Harriet Geddes at the JS veterans reunion,
  Lil agreed to demonstrate...

• Summer smile
  20

  Summer smile
  PRETTY GIRLS and summertime
  somehow go together. So at the beginning
  of what we hope will be a glorious
  summer here is pretty Ruth
  Waddingham. Ruth is a supermarket assistant
  at Northampton branch and she
  was...

• Charles moves into action
  21

  Charles moves into action
  WHEN TALKING TO Charles
  Clarenbone you get the definite impression
  that he's determined to make
  the best of his retirement after 48 years'
  service with JS (the last 30 of them at
  Rye Lane shop). And...

• 'Time to retire' says Pat
  22

  'Time to retire' says Pat
  PAT PENDRY has seen a lot of
  changes in Midlands trading throughout
  the 45 years he has spent with the company.
  Pat concluded his long career at
  Walsall branch as grocery manager.
  His working life...

• Start of a new life for George
  23

  Start of a new life for George
  A POPULAR PERSONALITY at
  Colchester branch retired on May 23.
  On that date deputy manager, E G
  (George) Hill, was looking forward to a
  new future from a career of over 40
  years at JS.
  George...

• The Pied Piper of Rennie House
  24

  Archives
  The Pied Piper of Rennie House DID YOU KNOW that rats have a
  discriminating palate, enjoying the
  exotic taste of coriander mixed with
  stale bread? Fred Green, sometimes
  known as Rattie, revealed this and...