'JS Journal', January 1982

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  THE GREAT IMPORTANCE of modernisation
  and refits of older JS stores is
  frequently stressed by the chairman. Sir
  John Sainsbury, when he announces
  company results and developments.
  During the present financial...

• Contents Page
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  Page 1, 12, 13
  Feature—branch refits and modernisations, the inside story
  Page 2
  News
  Page 3
  Snow business—how the weather has affected JS
  Page 4-7
  Branch openings—Leatherhead, Woodhall Farm
  Page 8-9
  Feature—JS Montilla...

• Forty year luncheon
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  Forty year luncheon
  THE FIFTH FORTY year luncheon was
  held on January 4 at the Howard Hotel,
  London.
  Sir John Sainsbury and four JS
  directors, this year with their wives,
  hosted the lunch held in honour of the 17
  members of...

• Snow business
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  NO ONE AT JS could have been blind to
  the effects of bad weather and snow
  during December.
  The worst snow seen in Britain for
  many years brought out the best in
  employees companywide.
  Staff walked (or slid!) to work in...

• Branch opening—Leatherhead
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  Snow greeted customers on opening morning
  The old and the new—former Leatherhead manager,
  Gordon Faulkner (left), with Alan James FREEZING CONDITIONS greeted staff
  and customers alike on the morning of
  December 8 in...

• Branch opening—Woodhall Farm
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  HOT DRINKS revived the first 15
  customers in the queue who were waiting
  for the opening of Woodhall Farm
  branch, near Hemel Hempstead on
  December 8.
  Even an unexpected and heavy snowfall
  during the previous night could...

• The taste of summer
  08

  THE HARSH REALITY of
  winter weather in Britain makes
  the lure of sunnier climes and
  memories of summer days even
  more real at this time of the
  year.
  Perhaps it has partly been the result of
  this desire for the sun that has...

• In the soup
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  In the soup
  GAME BROTH, Lobster Bisque,
  Vichyssoise, Consomme, Cock-a-leekie
  and French Onion are the six varieties
  available in the new JS Gourmet Soup
  range.
  Expensive ingredients, such as wine,
  sherry and venison, have...

• JS to the rescue
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  JS to the rescue
  ORAL HEALTH toothbrushes need
  never again be considered an unduly
  extravagant purchase—thanks to JS.
  Sainsbury's oral toothbrush which has
  been thoughtfully and specially designed
  with the help of a...

• Latest instant
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  Latest instant
  FULL ROAST is the latest in own-label
  instant coffee. A new process, together
  with good quality beans, has given this
  coffee an improved, fuller flavour.
  There are two sizes available—a 200
  gram (7.05 oz)...

• Soft soap
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  Soft soap
  LIQUID SOAP is one of the fastest
  growing sectors of the toiletry market
  and JS's own-label variety is selling very
  well.
  Along with several other companies
  who have entered the market place, the
  toiletries...

• LET THERE BE LAZA
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  LET THERE BE LAZA
  LAZA hope to be beaming across the
  airways very shortly because they have
  completed the recording of their first
  record and sent copies to national and
  local radio stations.
  Pete Sugden, a refrigeration...

• London's new faces
  11

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• Holloway
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  The difference between Holloway
  branch's produce department 'before'
  (left) and 'after' (opposite) is significant.
  Below: Old branches have to be
  stripped out and their layouts revised
  before any modernisation can take place...

• Christchurch collage
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  Christchurch collage
  THE LAST FOUR Christmasses at
  Christchurch branch have been made
  brighter thanks to the efforts of senior
  supermarket assistant, Jean Forse.
  Each year she has decorated the walls
  of the canteen with...

• Christmas round-up
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  Christmas round-up
  JUST BEFORE Christmas it was seven
  days a week hard work for all JS, including
  the SSA.
  Many branches held their own
  Christmas parties, dances and dinners.
  Wilmslow for example had their celebration
  at...

• Sava Centre Xmas
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  Sava Centre Xmas
  SANTA CLAUS, or rather his stand-in,
  Oldbury SavaCentre's training officer,
  David Parsons, proved a big hit last month
  at the Nechell's Family Centre Christmas
  party.
  He was sent along with £250 worth...

• Long service
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  Long service
  Arthur Dove, stock controller in the
  purchasing department at Blackfriars,
  has completed 40 years' service with JS.
  He joined the company in the post
  department and a year later moved to the
  sales office to...

• Obituaries
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  Obituaries
  Sheila Barley, part-time supermarket
  assistant at Bedford, died on December
  1, aged 51.
  Sheila began working for the company
  in 1960 at the old Bedford store as a
  full-time supermarket assistant, moving
  to the...

• Retirements
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  Retirements
  Albert Ellis, foreman at Basingstoke
  depot, retired last month after 27 years'
  service.
  Albert began his career with JS in the
  cheese department at Blackfriars and
  moved to Basingstoke in 1964.
  Alice Salthouse,...

• Somers Town
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  Somers Town
  DID YOU REALISE that Drury Lane
  was not the oldest JS shop? Admittedly it
  was where the young Sainsbury couple
  set up their business in 1869, but it soon
  expanded and they took over 87 Chalton
  Street in Somers...