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  • Another JS wins JS prize 02

    Another JS wins JS prize
    JOHN STEWART is the second
    winner of the J Sainsbury prize
    for the best final year student on
    the retailing and distribution
    course at UMIST (The University
    of Manchester Institute of
    Science and...

  • Contents Page 02

    Page 2-3
    News
    Page 4-5
    Branch opening — Blackpool
    Page 6
    Homebase opening — Penge
    Page 7-9
    New products
    Page 10-11
    Children's charities campaign—a look at what the charities do and what is being done at JS to help them...

  • ENTERPRISING DONATION 02

    ENTERPRISING DONATION
    Area director, Eddie Ricketts, above right,
    presented a cheque for £1,500 on behalf of
    the company to the Hillingdon Enterprise
    Agency (HILENTA) on July 20.
    The agency has been formed to encourage
    new...

  • Search for voices begins 02

    Search for voices begins
    THE COMPANY is sponsoring
    new and exciting nationwide
    choral event, the Sainsbury's
    Choir of the Year Competition.
    The competition, which is the
    largest national choral competition
    of its type ever...

  • Kate Kennedy 03

    THIS IS Kate Kennedy, editor of
    the Australian Hardware Journal,
    talking with Richard Olliffe,
    manager of Croydon Homebase,
    in the store's garden centre.
    Kate Kennedy was visiting the store as part of her fact finding
    tour...

  • Property 03

    PROPERTY
    JS PLANS for a supermarket and
    Homebase at Alexander Stadium,
    Perry Barr, have been finally
    turned down by Birmingham
    planning committee.
    Sainsbury's has submitted
    plans for a store to be built on the
    ABC site in...

  • TROLLEY SCULPTURE 03

    TROLLEY SCULPTURE
    Have trolley will pile up, at least that/s what a French
    artist thought when he created this 2 8 ft high sculpture.
    Exhibited at the fifth annual Chicago International Art.
    Exposition, the pile up consists of...

  • WINNING WITH VISION 03

    WINNING WITH VISION
    One of die prize winners in the architecture section of
    this year's Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy
    was a drawing of Sainsbury's Canterbury store due to
    open this autumn. The architects who produced...

  • Branch opening—Blackpool 04

    HAVING A lovely time on Tuesday, August
    7, were hundreds of customers discovering
    the delights of the new Sainsbury's store at
    Red Bank Road, Bispham, Blackpool.
    The queue stretched down the road and
    preparations were...

  • Homebase opening—Penge 06

    PROUDLY PERCHED on Oakfield Road,
    Penge Homebase House and Garden Centre
    opened its doors on Monday July 16, at
    9.00 am.
    The third store to open this year, Penge has
    a total indoor and outdoor sales area of
    41,920 sq...

  • Book those Christmas presents now 07

    Book those Christmas presents now
    A DELIGHTFUL collection of
    new books from JS are the ideal
    titles to put on Christmas present
    lists. (Yes, it's almost that time
    again!)
    Josceline Dimbleby has two
    new books. 'First...

  • JINGLE BELLS ALREADY? 07

    JINGLE BELLS ALREADY?
    high calibre magazines like Vogue and
    Good Housekeeping, attended.
    Said Cathy Forman, the PR executive
    responsible for presenting the Christmas
    products: 'Many of the journalists were
    amazed at the...

  • Buttons and rolls 08

    Buttons and rolls
    TWO SWEET bags of fun
    have recently arrived on
    Sainsbury's shelves—Mini Jelly
    Buttons and Mini Cocon'*
    Rolls.
    Pink and blue Mini Je
    Buttons are aniseed flavo
    and are covered in hundre__
    and thousands...

  • Crackers 08

    Crackers
    A CRACKING good snack is JS's
    Wheat Crackers.
    Twenty-four golden brown
    crackers to a pack, these are
    made from wholemeal flour and
    are delicious with cheese. They
    are also ideal for snacks, picnics,
    parties or...

  • Mustard and more 08

    Mustard and more
    OOH, LA LA! The French are on
    their way to the Great British
    dinner table in the guise of les
    trois moutardes.

  • Nature takes a shower 08

    Nature takes a shower
    WHY NOT be totally indulgent
    and take the nearest thing to
    asses milk into the shower—new
    JS Showergel.
    An extension to Sainsbury's
    bubble bath range, Showergel
    comes in two varieties: Marine—
    a...

  • On a silver dishy 08

    On a silver dishy
    A TASTY new product has been
    navigated onto Sainsbury's
    shelves. The Fisherman's Pie is a
    unique new line. You will wait
    with 'baited' breath as the delicate
    aroma of chunky cod,
    parsley sauce, creamy...

  • Pure and simple puree 08

    Pure and simple puree
    GIVE YOUR COOKING a new
    lease of life with Sainsbury's four
    purees in a tube —Garlic, Mixed
    Herbs, Onion and Anchovy
    Puree.
    No more weeping over chopped
    onions and now you can keep your fingers...

  • Sweet wine for September 08

    Sweet wine for September
    A NEW QUALITY wine has
    joined the existing range of
    German wines.
    Kliisserather St Michael Riesling
    Spatlese is a rich, medium
    sweet white wine produced from
    Riesling grapes grown near the
    river...

  • BEAUTY'S HOLD 09

    BEAUTY'S HOLD
    'PACK UP your troubles in your new kit bag'. There are four new
    beauty bags from JS's mix and
    match Beauty Care range.
    Ideal for lipstick and powder is
    the cosmetic ungussetted Zip
    Purse. Just the right size...

  • Butter them up 09

    Butter them up
    NEW IN the JS freezer this month
    are Vegetables in Sauce.
    Peas in Butter Sauce and
    Sweetcorn in Butter Sauce consist
    of juicy young vegetables in a
    thick, luxurious butter sauce.
    They may be part of a...

  • Chicken feed 09

    Chicken feed
    THE POULTRY buying department
    has been going to pieces
    lately! They've added two new
    lines to the Fresh Chicken Portion
    Range and launched a larger
    pack of Drumsticks in Breadcrumbs.
    JS Fresh Chicken Leg...

  • Cornish pasty from Cornwall 09

    Cornish pasty from Cornwall
    THE CORNISH tell us that a
    pasty was the first convenience
    food of the Western world with a
    history dating back many
    hundreds of years, long before
    burgers were even dreamed of!
    JS's new Premium...

  • Paradise tinned 09

    Paradise tinned
    ENJOY THE TASTE of paradise
    with JS own label South Seas
    Tuna in oil now available in 92
    branches.
    Specially selected from Pacific
    catches its light fresh colour and
    delicate taste makes it ideal for
    summer...

  • Perked up coffee 09

    Perked up coffee
    LOVERS OF percolated coffee
    can now buy own-label Vacuum
    Packed Medium Ground coffee
    especially prepared for percolators.
    Packed for freshness, Continental
    Roast, Kenya, Original,
    Coffee & Chicory, Viennese...

  • Pickling perfection 09

    Pickling perfection
    IN A PICKLE? The Sainsbury's
    Pickling Malt Vinegar is ready to
    come to the rescue.
    This new product is ready
    spiced for making pickles,
    chutneys, relishes and sauces. All
    the bottles come with...

  • FOR THE SAKE OF THE CHILDREN 10

    A Massive appeal throughout the
    branches has been launched to raise
    money for Action Research for the
    Crippled Child and the National Society
    for Prevention of Cruelty to Children
    (NSPCC) in its centenary year. All areas
    are...

  • Cider - still a master's art 12

    Cider - still a master's art
    In the heart of the apple
    orchards in the West
    Country, many different
    apples are blended
    together to produce the
    fine flavours of Sainsbury's
    own label ciders. And
    behind the modern...

  • A SOLUTION TO THOSE STAINS 15

    A SOLUTION TO THOSE STAINS
    OUT, OUT damned spot!
    How many times have we put on a clean
    pair of trousers or a skirt and a few hours later
    spilt coffee down them. How many of us have
    friends who kick glasses of red wine...

  • Bringing colour to the cheeks 16

    Bringing colour to the cheeks
    ASHTON BROTHERS, the market
    leader in terry towelling nappies,
    has announced that it will be
    starting to sell coloured nappies
    in the autumn. Thus, the clothesline
    traditionally adorned with...

  • Delightful year lor Dee 16

    Delightful year lor Dee
    DEE CORPORATION continued its recent
    occupation of the limelight with the
    announcement of its results for the year to
    April 28. The figures contained some very
    impressive-looking percentage...

  • In search of the Bath Oliver 16

    In search of the Bath Oliver
    BATH OLIVER biscuits, the
    invention of a West Country gout
    doctor in the eighteenth century,
    have become rather scarce
    recently. Indeed, regular consumers
    have been driven crackers
    trying to...

  • Super Co-op on the way? 16

    Super Co-op on the way?
    MERGER FEVER is at large as
    Co-operative Societies join together
    to solve financial problems
    and try to compete more effectively
    with the big multiples.
    The South Suburban Cooperative
    Society based...

  • Argyll takes over Amos Hinton 17

    Argyll takes over Amos Hinton
    Amos
    AMOS HINTON, the North East
    supermarket chain, has accepted
    a £25 million takeover bid from
    Argyll. The announcement follows
    weeks of mounting speculation
    after Hinton's disclosed that...

  • John has pedal power 17

    John has pedal power
    ONE FIGURE on wheels which
    almost whizzed by on our TV
    screens during the Olympics was
    that of John Oakes, part-time
    assistant at Beckenham. John is a
    champion cyclist who made it
    onto the shortlist for...

  • JS wine outshines the rest 17

    JS wine outshines the rest
    THE CONSUMERS' Association
    has recently published a report on
    supermarket wine in Which? Wine
    Monthly that slams most of the
    wine sold in British supermarkets.
    Blind tastings were conducted on
    up...

  • THE PLOT STRANGER THAN FICTION 17

    THE PLOT STRANGER THAN FICTION
    A CRIMINAL plan by evil genius Nathan Noskeau
    was foiled immediately it was put into action.
    In an attempt to start a poison scare he wrote to
    Salisbury's saying he had the draft of a...

  • Re-burial ceremony at York 18

    Re-burial ceremony at York
    EDIEVAL cemetery dis- A MEDIEVAL dis
    covered during the construction
    of York supermarket and Homebase
    has recently been re-sited
    adjacent to the store's car park.
    The graveyard, believed to
    have dated...

  • Tanks for a dream come true 18

    Tanks for a dream come true
    FULFILLING a lifetime ambition,
    Maureen Brighton, supermarket
    assistant at Chippenham,
    recently climbed into the cockpit
    of a Chieftain tank and manoeuvred
    it over Salisbury Plain.
    Maureen's...

  • A special day from the drivers 19

    A special day from the drivers
    IN WHAT seems determined to
    become an annual event handicapped
    children in Basingstoke
    were taken for a ride on July 29.
    For the third year running
    Basingstoke depot's drivers
    arranged a...

  • Photographic Competition '84 19

    SSA/JS JOURNAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION '84
    A NOT TO BE SNIFFED at
    first prize of £100 could be
    yours if you enter the SSA/JS
    Journal Photographic Competition
    and just think what you
    could do with the money!
    On September...

  • Pushing up the children's fund 19

    Pushing up the children's fund
    HAVE SOUTHPORT branch
    staff gone off their trolleys? On
    Sunday July 1 manager, David
    Mellows-Facer and eight branch
    members walked 18 miles from
    Sainsbury's Preston to Sainsbury's
    Southport,...

  • Basingstoke bowls 20

    Basingstoke bowls
    BOWLS ARE GATHERING
    momentum at Basingstoke depot
    since the Griffin Bowls Club was
    formed in October of last year.
    So far the Club has 100 founder
    members and all are doing great
    things.
    Ken Jenkins,...

  • CARRYING IT FURTHER 20

    CARRYING IT FURTHER
    A Sainsbury's carrier bag
    was recently spatted
    wending its weary way
    round the Great Wall of
    China. In hot pursuit Is
    Jeannette Romeril,
    secretary to Cecil Roberts,
    buying director.

  • 'Please Sir can we have some more?' 20

    'Please Sir can we have some more?' Wellingborough
    branch were out to get the most from
    the public on July 7 when they joined in the
    Wellingborough carnival to raise money for a
    number of charities. The theme of their...

  • SUPREME CRIME! 20

    SUPREME CRIME!
    Some pets will do anything to get hold of JS Supreme
    pet food! In West Wickham the offenders left a trail of
    empty cans behind them. It is feared they are cats and
    dogs not fed on JS Supreme.

  • What a star! 20

    What a star!
    GRAHAM CRANGLE is a nice
    person. _ That's what the Daily
    Star has' confirmed. A customer
    of Sainsbury's East Ham branch,
    Eric Beckton, wrote to the Daily
    Star's regular 'Nice People'
    column saying:
    A young...

  • Mountain Gorillas 21

    Over the last five
    months Woking area
    branches have taken
    Mountain Gorillas
    under their wings
    (JSJ February 1984)
    and raised £3,659 in
    sponsorship money.
    David Attenborough,
    a keen supporter of
    the Mountain...

  • Snakes alive! 21

    Snakes alive!
    A REAL FAST mover with a wonderful
    wriggle shares the home of lean Griffiths,
    part-time supermarket assistant at Churchill
    Square.
    He is five-year-old Percy, a 15 ft reticulated
    python, who, since joining the...

  • Ann says Tom is top of the trolleys 22

    Ann says Tom is top of the trolleys
    From: Ann Macfarlane,
    customer at Kingston.
    After being out of circulation for
    three months following major
    surgery, it was good to see Tom
    on my first shopping expedition
    to the Kingston...

  • Appointments 22

    Appointments
    Michael Barrett, formerly deputy
    manager at Cardiff, has been
    appointed manager of Cwmbran.
    Peter Coles, formerly manager
    at Chelmsford, has been appointed
    manager of Great
    Yarmouth.
    Paul Cox, formerly manager...

  • Feedback 22

    FEEDBACK
    Letters are welcome
    and should be
    addressed to the
    editor
    JSin
    paradise!
    From: Grace Springthorpe,
    veteran, Basingstoke.
    I recently went on a cruise on the
    Canberra to Gibraltar, where I
    took this photograph of...

  • Long service 22

    Long service
    Brian Cooley, warehouse reception
    manager at South Harrow,
    has completed 25 years with JS.
    He joined the company at
    Burnt Oak where he remained
    for four years. After a short break
    from JS, Brian rejoined...

  • Obituary 22

    Obituary
    Maria Ishak, supermarket assistant
    at Paddington, died on July 7
    after a long illness. She was 53.
    Darren Norman, trades assistant
    at Woodhall Farm, died
    suddenly on June 16 aged 20.
    He had been with the...

  • Pairing up in Pinner 22

    Pairing up in Pinner
    THE BELLS were ringing
    for yet another IS couple
    on July 14.
    Wealdstone and South
    Harrow branches
    were the latest stores
    to be united in
    matrimony.
    Gillian Cooley, senior
    supermarket assistant...

  • Retirements 22

    Retirements
    Bill Beattie, senior despatch clerk
    at Charlton depot, has retired
    after 20 years' service with JS.
    He joined the company as a
    labourer at Blackfriars before
    moving to Charlton.
    Ron Childs, chargehand...

  • Finding the right words 23

    Finding the right words
    NO-ONE OUT there can be
    suffering from word blindness
    as we had a huge response to
    our Word Search competition.
    The hidden phrase was, of
    course, 'Good Food Costs Less
    At Sainsbury's.' And no-one...

  • Scribbles of history in the Holybook 24

    ARCHIVES
    Scribbles
    of history
    in the
    Holybook A
    LUCKY FIND for anyone trying to
    trace their family history is a family
    bible. The custom of recording the
    births, marriages and deaths in the
    family's most important—and...