'JS Journal', March 1983

Table of content

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2
  News
  Page 3
  Property
  Page 4-5
  Branch opening—Northfield
  Page 6-7
  Homebase opening—Seven Kings
  Page 8, 9, 15
  Business news
  Page 10-11
  Miss JS Personality Girl 1983
  Page 12-13
  New products
  Page 14-15
  Hobbies
  Page...

• National Health aide
  02

  National Health aide
  ROY GRIFFITHS, JS's managing
  director and deputy chairman, is to head
  an inquiry into the effective use and
  management of manpower and related
  resources of the National Health Service.
  The appointment...

• New computers for JS
  02

  New computers for JS
  SAINSBURY'S has ordered an Atlas 10
  IBM compatible computer system from
  ICL (International Computers Ltd), which
  is due for delivery in June.
  The Atlas 10 offers a range of systems
  including the most...

• Youth Training Scheme
  02

  Youth Training Scheme
  ISN'T IT NICE to know that during such
  times of high unemployment, Sainsbury's
  is yet again going against the trend!
  As well as consistently creating new
  jobs through expansion, and being one of
  the top...

• Freezer Centre
  03

  Freezer Centre
  WALTON-ON-THAMES branch is very
  proud of its replacement Freezer Centre,
  which opened on February 2, only halfa-
  mile down the road from the old centre.
  Situated next door to the supermarket,
  the new Freezer...

• Stage one at Arnold
  03

  Stage one at Arnold
  SNOW STORMS did not detef faithful
  customers on February 8 from turning
  out to witness stage one of the Arnold
  branch extension.
  The 'old store', of 10,800 sq ft, closed
  for extensive modernisation and...

• Branch opening—Northfield
  04

  1. Eager shoppers queue before
  opening. 2. Store manager,
  Steven Fuery and BPO, Norah
  Gosling. 3. Deputy manager,
  Gordon Webb. 4. Sir John
  Sainsbury welcomed the first
  customers. 5. Rear entrance
  to the store. 6. Also at...

• Homebase opening—Seven Kings
  06

  SEVEN KINGS
  1. Exterior of new store.
  2. Sleet and snow didn't
  deter shoppers looking
  around outside—thanks to
  the courtesy umbrellas.
  3. Laura Ashley's storewithin-
  a-store. 4. Gurth Hoyer Millar (left)
  greets the...

• Frozen food—what for the future?
  08

  Frozen food—what for the future?
  ONE OF THE SINGLE most important
  trends in food consumption is the continued
  increase in the use of frozen food. The
  pattern of frozen food expenditure in recent
  years is shown in table...

• ASDA
  09

  ASDA
  THE ASSOCIATED DAIRIES Group (ADG j
  announced their results tor the half-year to
  November 13.
  The sad saga of Ukay, the furniture
  superstore company, came to an end. It
  turned in trading losses of £0.7 million,
  ceased...

• Breakfast tv
  09

  Breakfast tv
  EARLY RISERS will have noticed a change
  to their television screens in recent weeks.
  Both the BBC with Breakfast Time, and a
  new independent contractor, TV-AM, have
  chosen to disturb the early...

• Fitch Lovell
  09

  Fitch Lovell
  FITCH LOVELL fired off the best possible
  riposte in their defence against the
  unwelcome bid from Linfood. The owners
  of Keymarkets report pre-tax profits to
  October 23, up 43 per cent against the...

• JS rules OK
  09

  JS rules OK
  LAST OCTOBER Woman magazine asked
  its readers: Tell us what you think about
  supermarkets'—and 40,000 did!
  The answers, when analysed, proved
  what JS already knows-Sainsbury's is
  best!
  To the question, 'Where...

• Milko
  09

  THE LATEST innovation in the milk world
  comes from Express Dairies in Chester.
  Flexible milk packs, one and a quarter
  inches wide, are being postod through letter
  boxes in Cheshire to beat thieves who steal
  bottles from...

• New bodies
  09

  New bodies
  BRITAIN'S packaging manufacturers are to
  be represented by two newly formed trade
  associations.
  The larger body, part of the Process Plant
  Association, to be called the Food, Drink
  and Machinery Group, will...

• Miss JS Personality Girl 1983
  10

  Miss JS 1983
  an evening
  of glamour
  fun and
  excitement!
  This years' annual
  SSA dinner and dance
  proved better than ever ONE THOUSAND people raised the
  roof at the West Centre Hotel on
  February 19 during the annual...

• Legs extra
  12

  Legs extra
  LOOK DEVASTATINGLY elegant and
  seductive with JS's new own-label
  Patterned Tights and Stockings, now
  available at 200 branches.
  Sainsbury's first sheer pattern tights
  (15 denier) have a three spot design all
  the...

• Products
  12

  OWN-LABEL Custard Powder is now
  available in a new 12oz packet as well as
  the 12oz and 24oz drums already on sale.
  The new packet sells for a competitive
  32p at 130 branches.
  SOMETHING'S brewing... a bumper
  pack of 240 JS...

• Whirls, quills, spirals & shells
  12

  Whirls, quills, spirals & shells
  MEET THE FOUR NEW Italian Pastas
  you don't have to wind round a fork—
  whirls, quills, spirals and shells—available
  for only 32p each (250 gram).
  Now that it is easier to pick up...

• Cheese snack
  13

  Cheese snack
  SPREAD a little Petit Suisse, Sainsbury's
  new low fat soft cheese, on a jacket
  potato or eat it with a salad for the
  perfect snack.
  In a unit of three little pots (30 grams
  each), this delicious cheese sells for...

• More ready meals
  13

  More ready meals
  SAINSBURY'S have put a new 'slant' on
  Ready Meals this month with the launch
  of Chinese Ready Meals—Chicken with
  Chillies (£1.49), Chicken with Peanuts
  (£1.49), Lemon Chicken (£1.49), Special
  Fried Rice...

• Spring clean with Sainsbury's
  13

  Spring clean with Sainsbury's
  ATTRACTIVELY redesigned JS Cream
  Cleaner, Window Cleaner, Floor Polish,
  Liquid Cleaner, Oven Spray and Floor
  and Wall Cleaner represent everything
  one could possibly need for that big
  yearly...

• Rita in oils
  14

  Rita in oils
  A proud Rita shows off some of her works. 'MY FIRST EVER painting, immortalised
  on the back of my mother's insurance
  policy, was of a crinoline lady' commented
  Rita Farnell, BPO at Ashford.,
  who has been painting...

• Co-ops combine
  15

  Co-ops combine
  TWO OF THE largest co-operative retail
  societies, the Greater Lancastria and North
  Midland, have agreed to merge. With
  annual sales in excess of £220 million and
  about 250 stores, they will become one of
  the...

• Starling work
  15

  A SPECIAL EXHIBITION proved a
  great success for veteran Len Starling,
  previously secretary of the SSA.
  'I thought that if I sold one or two
  paintings it would just be an added bonus
  to the joy of holding my own one man
  show'...

• Sunday trading
  15

  Sunday trading
  THE FOLLOWING letter from chairman. Sir
  John Sainsbury, was published in The
  Times on February 15:
  Sir, There is no doubt that the effect of
  Sunday trading varies according to the type
  of trade. In non-food...

• Marathon presentation
  16

  Marathon presentation
  JIMMY SAVILE, OBE, received a
  cheque for £306.70 on behalf of Stoke
  Mandeville Hospital on January 29,
  presented to him by David Baker, Maintenance
  Engineer at Charlton depot.
  David, who has been with...

• News in Brief
  16

  STAFF AT West Wickham branch
  organised raffles galore before Christmas
  last year, in aid of the local Cheyne
  Hospital for Children.
  Their marvellous efforts resulted in a
  cheque for £300 being handed over to a
  hospital...

• Pancake princess
  17

  Pancake princess
  IT WAS OUT OF Northwich into the
  frying pan for Sue Lomas, Miss JS 1982,
  who took part for the second year
  running in the Grocery Trade Personality
  Girls National Pancake Race in Lincoln's
  Inn Fields, on...

• Apologies
  18

  Apologies
  FIRSTLY to Dr Roy Spencer (p2, JSJ
  February '83). The printers somehow
  managed to reverse the photograph of Dr
  Spencer and his colleagues. The caption
  should therefore be read in reverse order:
  (I to r) Dr Dick...

• Baby boom
  18

  Baby boom
  PRODUCTIVITY is definitely on the
  increase at Winchester branch where
  eight members of staff are all expecting
  twins, triplets, sextuplets—who knows—
  between the months of March and July. Commented BPO, Beryl...

• Unanimous praise
  18

  Unanimous praise
  YOUNG STUDENTS from St Saviour's
  School, Oxton, were unanimous in their
  praise of Birkenhead branch after a
  recent visit in January of this year.
  During the school visit, the children,
  aged between six and...

• Feedback
  19

  Letters are welcome
  and should "be
  addressed to the editor
  Thank you JS
  From: Cynthia Gillett, JS home economist,
  Kent, SE London & S Essex.
  Members of the Redbridge Focus Club
  have asked me to thank, through the
  Journal,...

• LONG SERVICE
  19

  LONG SERVICE
  Arthur Hibberd, deputy meat manager at
  Brighton branch, has completed 25 years'
  service with JS.
  He joined the company at Hove and a
  year later was promoted to leading
  butcher.. In 1963 he became assistant
  head...

• OBITUARY
  19

  OBITUARY
  Richard Dick, returns and despatch
  warehouseman at Charlton depot, died
  suddenly on December 28, aged 60.
  He had been with the company for 17
  years.
  Rose Martin, supermarket assistant at
  Stafford branch, died on...

• RETIREMENTS
  19

  RETIREMENTS
  Mary Gaywood, assistant checkout
  manager at Wallington, has retired after
  20 years' service at JS.
  She joined the firm as a packer/
  weigher. In 1968 Mary transferred to the
  checkouts, until 1973 when she became...

• Archives
  20

  AN EXHIBITION of the work of
  designer, Leonard Beaumont, at the
  Graves Art Gallery in Sheffield last
  month, has brought to mind some
  examples of his work in the JS archives
  which illustrate his efforts in coming to
  grips...