'JS Journal', January 1983

Table of content

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2
  News
  Page 3-9
  Branch openings- Bath, Bournemouth, Peckham, Gravesend, Hornchurch
  Page 10-11
  New products
  Page 12-13
  Photo competition gallery
  Page 14-15
  Business news
  Page 16-17
  Hobbies—a look north
  Page 18
  Just the...

• Minister at Calcot
  02

  Minister at Calcot
  THE MINISTER FOR AGRICULTURE,
  Fisheries and Food, Peter
  Walker, visited Calcot SavaCentre on
  November 19.
  He was accompanied on a tour of the
  store by Sir John Sainsbury and Arthur
  Henn (general manager...

• SSA draw
  02

  SSA draw
  EXTRA SPARKLE was added to the
  festive season for part-time supermarket
  assistant at Dartford, Monica Richardsshe
  was the lucky winner of the halfyearly
  SSA £1,000 draw!
  A stunned Monica commented after
  being...

• Branch opening—Bath
  03

  Top: The newly restored Green Park Station. Above: Sir
  John guides Princess Margaret around a special
  exhibition showing the history of the development. ROYAL PATRONAGE has put the
  opening of the new Bath branch firmly in
  the...

• Branch opening—Bournemouth
  06

  FAMOUS FOR ITS sun and sea,
  Bournemouth greeted eager customers
  with temperatures below freezing on
  November 30 for the opening of JS's new
  store in the Hampshire Centre.
  Situated just outside the town, the
  supermarket, with...

• Branch opening—Peckham
  07

  A SPLENDID STORE, with splendid
  staff and a fantastic opening!' was the
  comment from deputy manager, Keith
  Harvey, on November 30 following the
  opening of JS's new store at Peckham.
  With a sales area of 17,094 sq ft...

• Branch opening—Gravesend
  08

  ST GEORGE'S SQUARE, Gravesend,
  sparkled on December 7 for the opening
  of the town's new JS store.
  The company is, of course, already
  well known in the area with branches in
  Dartford, Chatham and the nearby
  Hempstead...

• Branch opening—Hornchurch
  09

  ENORMOUS CROWDS quickly swamped
  the 24,166 sq ft of sales area at
  Hornchurch branch during its record
  breaking opening day on December 7.
  Shortly after the chairman, Sir John
  Sainsbury, and the manager, Elwyn
  Davies, had...

• Choose choice
  10

  Choose choice
  AFTER THE SUCCESSFUL launch of
  JS's own-label Decaffeinated Gold Choice
  coffee in September of last year,
  Sainsbury's have now introduced
  Continental Choice Coffee (lOOg).
  This new product is made from...

• Pizzas & pies
  10

  Pizzas & pies
  PORK PIE with Rich Pastry, Bacon and
  Pork Pie, Pizza Fingers and French Bread
  Pizza with Peppers are just a few of the new lines recently launched by the pies,
  sausages and burger buying department.
  Pork Pie...

• What a dish
  10

  What a dish
  QUICHE AU ROQUEFORT, tarte a
  Voignon and banana cream pie are some
  of the delicious recipes individually
  featured on Sainsbury's new earthenware
  flan dishes.
  There are five different flan dishes
  (91/2" diameter)...

• Colour coat
  11

  Colour coat
  SAINSBURY'S own-label Colour Coat
  range, a series of non-stick, colour
  co-ordinating houseware utensils are
  now available at 19 branches at very
  competitive prices.
  The range includes a large roasting...

• Fruity
  11

  Fruity
  EVER THOUGHT of drinking yogurt?
  JS have now introduced two own-label
  fresh yogurt drinks for that purpose—why
  not try them?
  Low fat Strawberry and Orange drinks
  are made from fresh strawberry and
  orange juice...

• Sounds fishy
  11

  Sounds fishy
  DON'T WAIT for Good Friday to snap
  up JS's latest own-label Coley Portions
  and Fish Cakes—buy them now!
  Coley Portions P'Aoz, 24p), launched
  last November, complement the already
  existing range —Cod and...

• Photographic Competition
  12

  Above! Runner-up.
  Terry Wright,
  manager, Edmonton.
  Right: Runner-up.
  Colin Welch,
  student, Poole.
  Below: Paul Miller,
  student, Pitsea. A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE separates
  the attitudes of the winners of the 1982...

• Jars can . . .
  14

  Jars can . . .
  FOOD AND DRINK packaging is in a state
  of rapid development. Not only has almost
  every sort of alcoholic beverage other than
  spirits been sold in a box, but the world of
  bottling and canning is changing too....

• Tesco rattles the can
  14

  Tesco rattles the can
  TESCO'S sales for their half year to August
  14 1982 were 15 per cent up at £1,056
  million. With inflation at 7-8 per cent and
  3 per cent coming from new stores, values
  improved by 3-4 per cent. This...

• Trials and . . .
  14

  Trials and . . .
  SAINSBURY'S recently went on trial—
  accused by the London Borough of Enfield's
  trading standards department of misleading
  the public with its advertising slogans.
  In the test case at Wood Green...

• Who is so big?
  14

  THE SUPPOSED POWER of the major
  supermarket chains has been the subject of
  a lot of attention in recent years. Food manufacturers
  in particular have complained
  about the alleged unfair buying power that
  the large multiples...

• End of an egg?
  15

  End of an egg?
  THE RECENT judgment of a Shropshire
  court may mean that free-range eggs will all
  but disappear. A poultry farmer unsuccessfully
  appealed against a conviction for
  wrongly describing his eggs as free-range.
  To...

• Take the biscuit
  15

  Take the biscuit
  IT NOW LOOKS certain that Nabisco
  Brands will take over Huntley & Palmer.
  Nabisco, who gave the world Fudge-Striped
  Shortbread, are perhaps better known in the
  UK for Shredded Wheat. They stepped into
  the...

• Where is Lymeswold?
  15

  Where is Lymeswold?
  THE ANSWER is hardly anywhere. It is a
  fictitious name designed by the Milk
  Marketing Board's marketing men. It is
  rarely found on the shelves of grocers.
  Although Lymeswold cheese is reported
  to have a...

• Which? is wrong
  15

  Which? is wrong
  IN ITS October issue last year, Which? published
  one of its periodic reviews of grocery
  prices—the last one was in 1979.
  Unfortunately the report lacked the usual
  objectivity of Which? articles and most...

• Snakes alive!
  16

  Snakes alive!
  There are some unusual
  hobbies and habits at JS
  Whether they are on the land, in the air
  or in the sea is seems that personal
  challenges run high at Sainsbury's.
  With the company's expansion northwards,
  news...

• Managing with Mike
  18

  Managing with Mike
  HOMEBASE'S HISTORY, albeit short,
  has already given rise to many new
  opportunities for management progression.
  Various people have chosen to transfer
  from JS to its young subsidiary in order to
  expand...

• Selector your wines
  19

  Selector your wines
  SAINSBURY'S has recently introduced
  an informative new shelf labelling guide
  for its extensive range of own-label
  white, rose and sparkling wines.
  Called the Sainsbury s Wine Selector,
  it grades all wines...

• Trolley bags of success
  19

  Trolley bags of success
  THE LATEST innovation from JS
  a shopping bag which can be used in
  association with supermarket trolleys to
  make life, from the check-out to the car
  park, easier for customers.
  The PVC trolley bag has...

• Wimbledon opens—again!
  19

  Wimbledon opens—again!
  THOROUGHLY MODERN Wimbledon
  opened officially on December 7 1982,
  stage two of its development plan having
  finally come to an end following five
  months of extensive refurbishment.
  Stage one opened on...

• News in brief—a round up of activities companywide
  20

  NEWS IN BRIEF
  It's all a question of being in the right
  place at the right time and certainly as far
  as Calcot SavaCentre staff were
  concerned, they were in the right place
  when Josceline Dimbleby, author of so
  many JS...

• Emily's centenary!
  22

  Emily's centenary!
  HAVING SEEN the birth of the motorcar,
  the aeroplane and the steam engine,
  Emily Bailey, JS's oldest veteran, saw in
  her 100th birthday with a bang on
  November 12.
  Surrounded by many of her old JS
  friends...

• LONG SERVICE
  22

  LONG SERVICE
  Allan Smoker, bacon buyer at Blackfriars,
  has completed 40 years' service with JS.
  He began his career at Stamford House
  in the sales office and subsequently
  moved to Union Street. After two and
  half years in...

• RETIREMENTS
  22

  RETIREMENTS
  Grace Seal, supermarket assistant at
  Addiscombe, has retired after 20 years'
  service at JS.
  She joined the company at South
  Croydon and remained there until it
  closed in 1965 when she transferred to
  Norbury....

• APOLOGIES
  23

  APOLOGIES
  APOLOGIES to three members of staff
  from Hemel Hempstead branch for an
  unfortunate mistake which otcurred in
  the December 1982 issue of the JSJ.
  The names mentioned as being the
  main slimmers should have been:...

• Feedback
  23

  Letters are welcome
  and should be
  addressed to the editor
  BATH ENGINE?
  From: Jim Price, driver, Basingstoke
  depot.
  What a pleasure it was to see the
  re-development of Bath Green Park
  station. A fine new store for JS and...

• OBITUARY
  23

  OBITUARY
  Lawrence Daly, building supervisor at
  Woking area office, died on October 26,
  aged 56.
  He had been with the company for 29
  years.
  Joyce Fuller, skilled supermarket
  assistant at Harpenden branch, died on
  October 1,...

• Archives
  24

  SATURDAY November 27 saw the
  closure of the counter-service branch at
  Rye Lane, Peckham.
  The occasion was, in some respects, a
  sad one for this was the last service
  branch to be replaced by a modern
  supermarket.
  Both staff...