'JS Journal', August 1983

Table of content

• Brent Clean Food award
  02

  THE SECOND Brent Clean Food award
  presented to Sainsbury's (JSJ June 1983)
  went to Kingsbury branch on June 14.
  PeterLongstaff,branch manager(right)
  received the award from Graham Purvis,
  chairman of the Liaison group...

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2-3
  News
  Page 4
  Property
  Page 5-6
  Charity bonanza
  Page 6-8
  Business news—Paying for our goods in the future
  Page 9
  An easier life for disabled shoppers
  Page 10-11
  A silver jubilee for Haverhill Meat Products
  Page 12-13
  New...

• GEORGE RUSBROOK
  02

  GEORGE RUSBROOK joined the
  company on June 13 as security adviser.
  He was previously deputy assistant
  commissioner at Scotland Yard.

• Images in motion
  02

  Images in motion
  ART has taken to the road with the help
  of JS.
  The Images for Today art competition,
  organised and sponsored by Sainsbury's
  last year, has led this summer
  to an exciting exhibition touring a
  number of...

• Political moves
  02

  Political moves
  FOLLOWING Timothy Sainsbury's
  appointment as assistant government
  whip it has been necessary for him to
  resign as a non-executive director.
  For many years Mr Timothy was the
  director responsible for JS's...

• Business game results
  03

  Business game results
  THE FINAL decisions had all been made
  and the financial accounts published for
  25 imaginary companies by June 16.
  It was on this date that the Executive
  Club's cut throat business game (JSJ
  April '83)...

• Sainsbury's AGM 1983
  03

  Sainsbury's AGM 1983
  SAINSBURY'S Annual General Meeting
  for shareholders was held on July 6.
  Chairman, Sir John Sainsbury, spoke
  to shareholders of the company's performance
  in its ten years since going
  public. He looked at...

• Property
  04

  PROPERTY
  YORK is to have a second Sainsbury's
  store. The company is at present seeking
  a suitable site to develop a supermarket
  for the western side of the city.
  Earlier plans dealt with a site in Acomb
  but this has been...

• 'The Whisper'
  04

  WHAT THESE girls are really discussing
  is anybody's guess. Even Sir Hugh
  Casson, Royal Academy President, cannot
  fathom their secret, try as he might.
  But someone whispered in our ear that
  the girls shall continue their...

• Bright news for sunshine fund
  05

  Bright news for sunshine fund
  OUR PICTURE is full of sunshine and
  there's a good reason why. It was taken at
  a happy occasion in Woking branch
  when Ron Yeates and Kay Gray presented
  a £1,000 cheque to Elizabeth...

• Charity for children
  05

  BILL ALLEN and Vi Tennant (below)
  took a second trip this year to the Bone
  Marrow Unit at Westminster Children's
  Hospital.
  With them went a cheque for £1,000.
  Professor Jack Hobbs, director of the
  team, was delighted: 'To...

• Donations and jubilations
  05

  Donations and jubilations
  YOUR GENEROSITY has resulted in
  three exciting donations to charity.
  Four SSA committee members found
  themselves recently with £3,000 to hand
  over to some very rewarding cases
  thanks to JS...

• Paying tomorrow
  06

  Paying tomorrow
  THE PROPHESIES of a cashless society
  have been around for quite some time now.
  At first it was thought tliat cash would be
  replaced by cheques and other sorts of
  paper money'; then it was suggested...

• Protective custody
  06

  Protective custody
  THE SSA BOASTS 100 per cent pet
  ownership amongst its members. In
  fact every individual owns a cat. Unusual?
  Stranger still, the cat is a Siberian Tiger
  and its proud owners also have a...

• Checking out Tesco results
  08

  Checking out Tesco iresults
  THE RESULTS of Checkout '82 are now
  apparent. Turnover for the year to February
  26,1983 was just over 14 per cent ahead at
  £2,404 million. Of this sales increase, some
  five per cent was due to...

• Pushing ahead
  09

  Pushing ahead
  Over the past few years Welfare Authorities have endeavoured to make society more
  understanding towards the problems facing disabled people and have especially
  encouraged the improvement of facilities and help...

• Twenty-five Tendersweet years
  10

  Twenty-five Tendersweet years
  Twenty-five years ago in Haverhill, Suffolk, Sainsbury's first packets of sliced, weighed and labelled Tendersweet bacon appeared at the end of a small production line employing 12 people. Customers...

• Dog's dinner
  12

  Dog's dinner
  DON'T GIVE Lassie and Rover a dog's
  life. Give them Sainsbury's Supermeat,
  new Biscuit Assortment and Dog Chocs.
  You'll keep them healthy and happy.
  Sainsbury's Supermeat, offering your
  dog an additional choice...

• Heaven scent
  12

  Heaven scent
  WAFT CONFIDENTLY through the day
  with Sainsbury's new 'J' Body Spray
  Perfumed Deodorant now available in
  111 branches.
  A completely new concept in the 'J'
  range, the body spray has a light, soft,
  feminine,...

• It's nutty
  12

  It's nutty
  IF YOU CAN'T FACE breakfast here is a
  new JS own-label cereal that could make
  you change your mind.
  Crunch Oat Cereal with Bran and
  Apple is a must for those who wave the
  wholefood banner. It's made from...

• Salud!
  12

  Salud!
  TAKE A GUIDED tour round the
  Iberian Peninsula with Sainsbury's three
  new red Spanish Wines (Denominacion
  de Origen): Sainsbury's Vallformosa
  1975, Valdepeiias Vina Albali 1978 and
  Jumiila 1978.
  Sainsbury's...

• Bag 'em
  13

  Bag 'em
  TEMPTATION is looming with the
  recent introduction of Sainsbury's
  bumper bag of crisps.
  Ready Salted, Cheese and Onion and
  Salt and Vinegar are the three popular
  flavours available in the nine pack bag...

• Dream cake
  13

  Dream cake
  SEDUCTIVE, delectable, frivolous and
  altogether wickedly attractive is the only
  apt description of Sainsbury's new freezer
  food. Lemon Cream Torte, now available
  at all freezer centres and 55 branches.
  This light...

• Foiled afresh
  13

  Foiled afresh
  WRAP IT all up with Sainsbury's new
  wrapping foil now on sale in 161 stores.
  Made from finer gauge foil, it is not
  recommended for roasting. Nevertheless,
  because it is cheaper to produce than JS's
  standard...

• Nova cola
  13

  Nova cola
  QUENCH your summer thirst with
  Sainsbury's new own-label Decaffeinated
  Cola, the first of its kind in Britain.
  For those who want to avoid caffeine
  this new option is a super fizzy alternative
  and is now available...

• Summer delights
  13

  Summer delights
  KEEP AS COOL as a cucumber this
  summer with seasonal recipes available
  in 'The Sainsbury Book of Ices and Cold
  Desserts' and 'The Sainsbury Book of
  Suppers and Snacks', two new additions
  to the hardback...

• The big freeze
  13

  The big freeze

• Crawley confetti
  14

  Crawley confetti
  WEDDING BELLS were ringing loud
  and clear in St Richard's Church, Crawley
  on Saturday June 25 for a Sainsbury's
  wedding.
  Denise Young, a supermarket assistant
  and Paul Wilkinson, a senior tradesman
  at...

• Insurance due?
  14

  Insurance due?
  As a membeir of JS you
  can pay less
  THE COMPANY has arranged discount
  for JS staff and veterans on two schemes:
  1. Royal Insurance Group, one of the
  largest insurers in the country and
  established in most...

• Lion's share
  14

  Lion's share
  THIS IS no ordinary shopping trip as you
  might guess by the official attendance as
  Nuneaton branch's Barbara Eaton checks
  out Julie Massey's lion-sized load.
  Julie is the fiancee of Geoffrey Dowell,
  local man...

• News in brief—a round-up activities companywide
  14

  FRANK GILES of Croydon branch
  bowled his heart out on the green at the
  Griffin grcuind on Family Day.-
  With skilfully executed movements—
  slightly crouched body and synchronised
  swinging of the arm, Frank mowed down
  the...

• One chilling makes £2,000
  14

  One chilling makes £2,000
  SEVEN YEARS of hard walking has
  meant that Vi Shilling, leading departmental
  assistant at Orpington branch,
  has raised a total of £2,000 in sponsorship
  money for the Orpington Christian...

• Second serve
  14

  Second serve
  CUSTOMERS AT Wigston branch near
  Leicester have recently been concerned
  about their eyesight. Double vision seems
  to be the problem.
  When investigated by branch staff the
  affliction was traced back to...

• Marathon efforts all round
  15

  Roy Burfoot is number 73 and Alec Walkernumber 554.
  Marathon efforts all round ARE YOU ON THE RUN? If so join
  ranks with Basingstoke depot, Wellingborough
  and Nine Elms, who have
  recently been running and walking...

• No-litter Bitterne
  16

  Left to right: John Marks; former Southampton Mayor, Barbara Barfoot;
  Margaret Oakey (joint winner) and Brenda Purdie.
  No-litter Bitterne BITTERNE BRANCH is a little bit
  proud of itself since winning the Tidy
  Trader of the...

• Photographic Competition
  16

  HURRY, HURRY, if you want to enter
  the 1983 JS Journal/SSA photographic
  competition. The closing date is only two
  months away.
  So far we have received a handful of
  entries but are now awaiting the big
  onslaught. Summer...

• Ron blows his own trumpet
  17

  Ron blows his own trumpet
  'MUSIC HATH charms to soothe a
  savage breast,' and in civilised Britain
  there are probably more savage breasts
  heaving along summer roads in sticky
  vehicles than anywhere else you'd care...

• LONG SERVICE
  18

  LONG SERVICE
  Dave May, leading departmental
  assistant at Hastings, has completed 25
  years' service with JS.
  He joined the company at Tonbridge
  as a porter and 11 years later moved to
  Avebury in charge of van checking....

• RETIREMENTS
  18

  RETIREMENTS
  Stan Hart, customer service assistant at
  Worthing, has retired after 31 years'
  service with JS.
  He joined the company at Leatherhead as a porter and in 1968 moved to
  Warwick Street, working in the same
  capacity....

• When opportunity knocked
  18

  When opportunity knocked
  LOOKING BACK over the last 45 years
  at JS, Roy Shepperd, meat manager at
  Basingstoke depot, summed up his life
  with the company: 'It was rather like the
  TV programme "Opportunity Knocks".
  All my...

• Feedback
  19

  FEEDBACK
  Letters are welcome
  and should be
  addressed to the editor
  Strike me!
  From: E Pritchard and K Aussamand,
  customers at Telford branch.
  I would like to thank Zigurds Busevics,
  deputy manager at Telford branch for...

• HOMEBASE APPOINTMENTS
  19

  HOMEBASE APPOINTMENTS
  D Bast-Boverhoff, formerly deputy
  manager of Basingstoke, has been
  appointed manager of Lordshill.
  W Simms, formerly deputy manager of
  Croydon, has been appointed acting
  manager at Croydon.
  M Tucker,...

• OBITUARY
  19

  OBITUARY
  Fred Eagle, section manager in depot
  stocks, Streatham, died suddenly on June
  8, aged 58.
  He had been with the company since
  1961.
  Doris Mclntyre, a part-time seamstress
  at Buntingford depot, died on February
  9,...

• The OX that finally came home
  20

  The OX that finally came home
  THE OPENING of the new Wakefield
  House called to mind a recent gift to the
  Archives from a Bury St Edmunds
  customer. Her letter read: 'When my
  mother died sixteen years ago, I inherited
  one of...