'JS Journal', September 1983
brass bands, orchestras and pop music (with photograph) p. 2;
senior appointments (with photographs), Sainsbury's voted retailer of the month by Super Marketing Magazine, winner of the J Sainsbury prize for best student on a retailing and distribution course at UMIST (with photograph) p....
brass bands, orchestras and pop music (with photograph) p. 2;
senior appointments (with photographs), Sainsbury's voted retailer of the month by Super Marketing Magazine, winner of the J Sainsbury prize for best student on a retailing and distribution course at UMIST (with photograph) p. 3;
branch openings at Chester, Cardiff (with photographs) pp. 4-8;
new products-Soft Drink Concentrates for Sodastreams, Luxury Quiches, Bereich Zell (white wine in a box), 'Picnics and Barbecues' by Clare Payne, Primula crockery range, fruit fillings, 'Home Freezing' a book by Mary Norwak, bathroom towels and accessories (with photographs) pp. 10-11;
rounders, Persian cat, Corby Hiking Club, football, the Kelly Girl award (with photographs) pp. 12-13;
darts (with photograph) p. 14;
assault course (with photographs) p. 15;
swimming, (with photographs) p.16;
Nuneaton branch wins local council food hygiene award for the fourth consecutive year, sponsored sports (with photographs) p. 17;
the retirement of Stan Bowman (with photograph) p. 18;
Archives feature on the closing of Rye Lane (with photographs) pp. 19-20.
- Ref. No: SA/SC/JSJ/37/9
- Format: Publication
- Date: Sep 1983
- Level: Item
- Extent: 1 volume
- Access: Open
Table of content
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Contents Page
02
Page 2
Property
Page 3
News
Page 4-5
Branch opening—Chester
Page 6-7
Branch and Homebase opening—Cardiff
Page 8
Cardiff—the media story
Page 9
Business news
Page 10-11
New products— from barbecues to bathrooms
Page... -
Property
02
PROPERTY
The Sun Life band playing at Green Park station. Photo: Bath Evening Chronicle. OPENINGS to put in your diary for this
month are:
Kingston Homebase, Kingston Road,
New Maiden on Monday, September 12,
at 9.00... -
Sainsbury's honour for university student
03
Sainsbury's honour for university student
BARBARA LARKIN is the winner of the
1983 J Sainsbury prize for the best
student on the retailing and distribution
course at UMIST (The University of
Manchester Institute of Science... -
Senior appointments
03
Senior appointments
ON AUGUST 22 Ron Yeates succeeded
Arthur Henn as general manager of
SavaCentre Ltd.
Ron Yeates was the Woking area
general manager for seven years. COLIN HARVEY, previously manager
of branch operations,... -
Telling which is the best
03
Telling which is the best
SAINSBURY'S has once again been
voted retailer of the month by Super
Marketing magazine.
This is how the magazine announced
its decision: 'For pioneering the provision
of automatic banking... -
Branch opening—Chester
04
BRANCH OPENINGS
'NEXT STOP Sainsbury's.' That's what
you will now hear on a number of Chester
buses. With the opening of the new
supermarket at Great Boughton on July
26, bus routes have been diverted to drop
customers right... -
Branch and Homebase opening—Cardiff
06
BRANCH OPENINGS
THERE WAS a real Welsh welcome for
Sainsbury's in Cardiff on July 26.
That date saw JS take its second step
into Welsh territory. In addition to its
store in Cwmbran, Sainsbury's is now
established in the... -
Cardiff—The media response
08
The media response
Above: Linda Takata presents a bouquet of flowers to the Lady
Mayoress of Cardiff. Right is Peter Davis. BBC Wales puts the action on film. Customers seem more
interested in the merchandise than cameras!... -
Meat will be deer
09
VENISON may soon appear in supermarket
chilled cabinets. The 113 members of the
British Deer Producers' Society hope to be
able to sell 100,000 carcases a year once
the scheme is in full swing. Deer meat imported from New... -
Pioneering partners
09
Pioneering partners
NO SOONER was the ink dry on the August
Issue of the Business News which featured
electronic funds transfer than a story Is
published about our Hometase partners— GB-lnno-BM—pioneering an EFT system
In... -
Served with chips
09
Served with chips
MAflKS & SPENCER has ordered 267
NCR micro-computers to equip every one
of its UK stores. Together with several new
large head office computers, the machines
will speed up the processing of stock... -
The big apple
09
The big apple
CIDER-MAKER HP Bulmer announced a
healthy 77 per cent increase in pre-tax
profits recently This was something of a
disappointment to City folk who had allowed
the sunny weather of July to cloud their
vision of... -
Tossing away a coin
09
Tossing away a coin
THE HALFPENCE piece might be destined
to disappear Although an unbelievable 120
million of the coins are minted each year,
their value has declined so much that the
Government is considering... -
Pack a picnic or two
10
Pack a picnic or two
PICNICS come in all shapes and sizes.
There's the sandy snack on the beach, the
grassy guzzle on a river bank or even
rolls on a hillside. For all these and other
snack spots, Sainsbury's have got... -
Bags of room
11
Bags of room
WHERE DO men keep all those important
little things when they're in
transit? You know—toothpaste, soap,
mini computer. The essentials for a man
on the move.
Sainsbury's has just the answer at just
the price... -
Filling fruity
11
Filling fruity
IF YOU want your pies to be upper crust,
you have to ensure they're superior
through and through.
Pack them with the pick of fruit
fillings—Sainsbury's Apple and Raspberry
flavour.
This is the fifth variety... -
Keep on the rails
11
Keep on the rails
BRIGHTEN your bathroom by showering
it with Sainsbury's new matching bathroom
accessories, now available in six
exciting colours—grey, red, navy, truffle,
peach, and sage.
This range includes a hand... -
Smashing dishes
11
Smashing dishes
GIVE YOUR OLD crockery a rest and
start a collection of Sainsbury's super
new range of informal fun crockery, now
available in 35 branches.
The Primula range, decorated with
green, apricot and turquoise... -
Sub zero reading
11
Sub zero reading
HOME FREEZING', the latest in
Sainsbury's series of food guides, is
available in all stores, priced at 30p.
As over 50 per cent of households now
own a freezer or fridge-freezer, there is
bound to be a wide... -
Calling all cats
12
Calling all cats
PUSSY CAT, pussy cat, where have you
been?
This was the question Joan Morgan,
housekeeper at Bedminster branch, was asking when' her black Persian cat.
Smoky, went missing one day in July.
After a long... -
Rounders round up
12
Gwyn MacComiick, secretary to Keith
Worrall, brings a touch of individuality to
the game. Taking a run-up of two miles,
in the style of her hero. Bob Willis, Gwyn
was so intent on perfecting the technique
that she ran all the... -
Award girl at Homebase
13
Award girl at Homebase
DETERMINATION and singlemindedness
has won Sarah Lacey, a junior
secretary in the buying department at
Croydon Homebase, the Kelly Girl award
for 1983. Sarah, who has been with Homebase
only a few... -
Bath or bust!
13
Bath or bust!
Back row: Dougie Petrie (extreme left), Keith Payne (2nd from left} and Andy
Petrie (2nd from right). Front row: Thomas Benson (extreme left), Alan Tosh (2nd
from left). The rest are all members of the Corby... -
Score on the south coast
13
Score on the south coast
THUNDERSTORM or no thunderstorm,
Fortsmouth and Brighton Hill branches
met on the football pitch for a very
electric match on July 31.
Players were on good form and
performed well on the newly laid... -
Bromley area individual darts champions
14
Above left to right, Bromley area individual darts champions: Barry Cripps, senior supermarket assistant; Val Edney, instore
instructor; Linda Oliver, butcher; Ernie Berriman, reception manager. -
Potter puts it into words
14
Potter puts it into words
WHEN Daisy Rusted, meat assistant,
retired in August from Cambridge,
warehouseman Ron PotteE, composed a
rhyming au revoir:
DAISY!
Our Daisy has reached a really ripe age
She's even older than Mr... -
Spot the winner
14
Spot the winner
EPSOM branch customer, Patricia
Attwood is beaming from ear to ear in
our photograph because she has just
become the proud owner of the sparkling
microwave oven before her.
The oven w£is Patricia's prize as... -
Over the top
15
In the fearless fight for
funds, traming can win or
lose a battle. That is what
20 bruised, scratched,
muscle-weary but proud
veterans of a war for the
worthy will tell you.
IN A MASSIVE assault on behalf of the
Deaf... -
A degree of success
16
A degree of success
MARILYN SMITH, evening shift
supervisor at Bishop's Stortford branch
has proved herself one of life's
superwomen by combining her job at
Sainsbury's with bringing up a young
family and following a degree... -
From JS to teaching
16
From JS to teaching
INITIATIVE is taking Paul MUler f a r
all the way to Thailand, in fact. This
Pitsea branch student will be spending
year under the sun, thanks to his own
efforts.
Paul will be teaching English at
school... -
Haverhill's costume parties
16
Haverhill's costume parties
HAVERHILL branch ladies are really
in the swim of things as they work hard to
achieve their wings—water wings, that is!
Assistant checkout manager, Pat Gray,
used to teach pensioners how to... -
Teaching from JS
16
Teaching from JS
DONNING a JS uniform, local school
teacher, Margaret Taylor, spent a week in
Ipswich branch, as part of an industrial
scheme, getting involved with the day to
day activities.
Feeling satisfied that she could... -
Call to arms for ARMS
17
Call to arms for ARMS
RAFFLES, sponsored walks and bring
and buys resulted in Dartford branch
presenting a cheque for £2,000 to Action
for Research into Multiple Sclerosis
(ARMS) on July 5.
Dartford first started collecting... -
Four times as hygienic
17
Nicholas Tazewell.
Four times as
hygienic
NUNEATON branch has won a local
council food hygiene award for the fourth
consecutive year.
Twenty local companies were invited
to enter for the hygiene certificate and of
these... -
Photographic Competition
17
THE STANDARD is hotting up amongst the 1983 JS
Journal/SSA photographic competition entries.
With £200 in prizes there's everything to shoot for. This year's
holiday could actually make you a bit of money if you slip a
black... -
LONG SERVICE
18
LONG SERVICE
Norman Bonnick, disco manager at
Basingstoke depot, has completed 25
years' service with JS.
He joined the company at Finchley
Road as a butcher. In 1961 he moved to
the work study department at... -
OBITUARY
18
OBITUARY
Nancy Dixon, customer service assistant
at Walsall, died suddenly on June 6
aged 58.
She had been with the company for ten
years.
Doris Munslow, supermarket assistant
at Southend, died on July 24, aged 58.
She had... -
RETIREMENTS
18
RETIREMENTS
Edward Herbert, meat manager at
Feltham, has retired after 43 years'
service with JS.
He began his career at St Helier bf-anch
and in 1942 joined the Royal Navy. Four
years later he rejoined JS and worked... -
Stan of St Stephens
18
Stan of St Stephens
'WE'VE got a church for every week of
the year and a pub for every day'
says Stan Bowman, meat manager at St
Stephens, about the town of Norwich. He
retires now after 46 years with JS.
Book-keeping,... -
Feedback
19
Letters are welcome
and shLOuld be
addressed to the editor
Hastings lielp
From: Miss Rita Knocker, supermariiet
assistant, Bowthorpe brancli.
The staff at Hastings branch have been
doing various sponsored activities to... -
A trip down memory lane
20
A trip down memory lane
THE CLOSURE of Rye Lane manual
store on November 27 1982 was heralded
in the national press as the passing of an
era. The end of a shop—and a slice of
our heritage too' proclaimed the Daily
Mail...
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