'JS Journal', November 1985

Table of content

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2-4
  News
  Page 4
  25 Club dinner
  Page 5
  Homebase opening — Waltham Cross
  Page 6-7
  Branch opening — Burpham
  Page 8
  You shall be fishers of men — graduate recruitment gets a new image
  Page 9
  What's the weather like — a...

• JS Vintage is wine of the year
  02

  JS Vintage is wine of the year
  ONE OF SAINSBURY'S wines
  has been selected as the Sunday
  Telegraph Wine of the Year.
  The winning wine is the
  Vintage Selection, Quinta da
  Bacalhoa, 1982, exclusive to JS.
  This is an excellent...

• Lionel Hickman
  02

  Lionel Hickman, previously
  personnel manager, distribution
  division, has been
  appointed deputy manager,
  Charlton. He took up this
  position on October 28.

• Property
  02

  PROPERTY
  PLANNING permission has been
  granted for a 32,000 sq ft supermarket
  to be built in central
  Milton Keynes. The store is due
  to open in time for Christmas
  1987.
  Opening dates for November
  are: Redhill supermarket,...

• Polka puts on the style
  03

  Polka puts on the style
  THE MAGIC OF THEATRE
  will be travelling to children first
  class from now on. JS has
  purchased a new tour van for the
  Polka Children's Theatre as part
  of its sponsorship which has
  assisted the theatre...

• Princess in Wales
  03

  A DREAM CAME true for little
  Jessica Ainger the night she met
  the Princess of Wales. Four yearold
  Jessica, daughter of JS
  Swansea manager Paul Ainger,
  presented a posy to the Princess
  who, with the Prince of Wales,
  was...

• Visitors to Dulwich
  03

  Visitors to Dulwich
  THE ANNUAL Veterans visiting
  panel conference was held on
  October 1 at Dulwich and was
  attended by approximately 65
  visitors.
  Visitors had the opportunity to
  exchange ideas and were
  addressed by the...

• Winner gets the message
  03

  Winner gets the message
  THE LUCKY WINNER of the
  SSA £1,000 quarterly draw was
  Stephen Harknett, leading trades
  assistant from Harlow.
  Stephen was on holiday in
  Tunisia when the draw was made
  but the minute he stepped...

• Club night
  04

  Club night
  A record number of long-servers received gold
  watches from chairman, Sir John Sainsbury, on
  October 14 as they were welcomed to the JS 25 Club.
  This huge initiation of 120 new members took
  place before the annual...

• Share option scheme
  04

  Share option scheme
  Those who have worked for JS
  for three consecutive years again
  have the opportunity to save for
  JS shares under the Savings-
  Related Share Option Scheme.
  From November 8, 1985 details
  of this year's...

• Homebase opening—Waltham Cross
  05

  Proudly flying Homebase balloons,
  customers floated in to Waltham Cross
  on opening morning to see whether
  'there is no place like Homebase'.
  Extending a paw to customers
  was the ever cuddly Dulux dog . 1. A stranger rides...

• Branch opening—Burpham
  07

  A new country seat
  for the company is
  Burpham store which
  has a style
  reminiscent of a rural
  manor house.
  Nevertheless the
  branch was as busy
  as a small town on its
  first day serving over
  6,000 customers
  before it...

• IT'S THE BUSINESS
  08

  IT'S THE BUSINESS
  DEREK WILLIAMS, personnel manager,
  buying, compares the creation of the new
  graduate recruitment brochure and video to
  parenthood! 'Well, they were nine months in
  the making!'
  It had been five years since...

• And now a look at the weather
  09

  And now a look at the weather
  Cancel that trip to the zoo;
  don't bother to water the
  garden and buy a pair of
  wellies to match next
  week's wedding outfit. Now
  that the daily bulletins carry
  twice-weekly weather
  reports we...

• THE BUYER WHO NIBBLES FOR A LIVING!
  10

  THE BUYER WHO NIBBLES FOR A LIVING!
  'As I was crawling through the holes in a Swiss
  cheese the other day it occurred to me to wonder
  what a Swiss cheese would think if a Swiss cheese
  could think and after cogitating for some...

• Sunday fun day in Sheffield
  12

  Sunday fun day in Sheffield
  Coventry area's family day
  headed further north this year
  on Sunday, September 22 and
  grabbed one of the few
  glorious days of the summer.
  In the splendid surroundings
  of Beauchief Hall
  Country...

• A CASE OF WINES TO COME
  14

  A CASE OF WINES TO COME
  SAINSBURY'S HAS a cellar full
  of new wines, ready for the
  festive season.
  There are three Vintage Selection
  wines from France:
  Santenay La Maladiere 1981
  Premier Cru (£5.95, 75cl) is...

• BOOK COLLECTIONS
  14

  BOOK COLLECTIONS
  THERE ARE two new collections
  for good cooks.
  The books — 'The Best of
  Sainsbury's Entertaining' and 'The
  Best of Sainsbury's Desserts' (£1.99
  each) — are exciting collections
  from JS's acclaimed...

• GOOD LOOKING DATES TO MEET
  14

  GOOD LOOKING DATES TO MEET
  MAKE A DATE with Sainsbury's
  new design slimline
  Calendars (99p).
  For 1986, there are four new
  designs — 'Teddy', 'Busy Days',
  Animals' and 'Flowers'.

• NUTS AND NIBBLES
  14

  NUTS AND NIBBLES
  SAINSBURY'S HAS four new
  n i b b l e s ' :
  Peanuts, Raisins and Mijk
  Chocolate Chips (89p); Mixed
  Nut Kernels (£1.29); 12-pack crisp
  assortment (99p) — four each of
  cheese and onion, ready salted
  and...

• CHRISTMAS WITH BOWS ON
  15

  CHRISTMAS WITH BOWS ON
  THIS YEAR, Sainsbury's has an
  extensive range of seasonal
  trimmings:
  There are several new, bold
  contemporary cards alongside the
  traditional designs. Prices range
  from 69p (24's) to £1.99...

• Do they mean us?
  15

  Do they mean us?
  This month the Journal welcomes a guest writer to the New Products page; or rather, the Not So
  New Products page. Miles Kington, editor of Punch, was far too eager to obtain a scoop for the other
  paper he...

• GOURMET GOUJONS
  15

  GOURMET GOUJONS
  Pictured above: Smoked
  Haddock Goujons (£1.99) —
  haddock strips in a crispy potato
  flake. Free from all artificial
  additives, this joins the Selected
  Seafood range.
  Also new: Julienne Carrots
  (49p) —...

• Bananas with bite
  16

  Bananas with bite
  THE DISPLAY of bananas at
  Tesco's, Ballards Lane, North
  London store was rather more
  authentic than librarian Paula
  Lewis bargained for.
  'I had just reached out for the
  bananas,' said Mrs Lewis, 'when
  I...

• Coupon crazy in USA
  16

  Coupon crazy in USA
  IN THE USA it is claimed that a
  staggering 163,200 million money
  off coupons were distributed to
  consumers during 1984 (an
  increase of 14 per cent on the
  previous year).
  The huge increase in the
  amount...

• Milk chocolate choice
  16

  Milk chocolate choice
  EEC FOOD POLICIES come in for
  a fair amount of criticism from
  members who see the Common
  Agricultural Policy (CAP) keeping
  domestic food prices high, whilst
  at the same time selling
  subsidised butter...

• Mood of mystery and suspense
  16

  Mood of mystery and suspense
  FIRST, LET'S CREATE THE
  ATMOSPHERE . . . dead of
  night, thunder storm raging, batridden
  castle suddenly illuminated
  against a lightning white sky . . .
  creaking door, footsteps echoing
  down a...

• Not in the pink
  16

  Not in the pink
  AVANA GROUP, a leading food
  supplier, is no longer to be found
  in the share prices quoted in the
  Financial Times. Disgruntled by
  the amount of typographical
  errors regularly found in this
  learned Journal,...

• Woolworth's more efficient
  16

  Woolworth's more efficient
  WOOLWORTH'S RESULTS for
  the half year to August 3, 1985,
  showed a rise in pre-tax profit to
  E7.5 million from £600,000 for the
  first half of 1984/85. Most of the
  increase was down to...

• Doing bird at Dover
  17

  Doing bird at Dover
  DOVER BRANCH recently
  helped a couple celebrate their
  Golden Wedding anniversary in
  the best possible way.
  Valued customers Rita and
  Noel Walton went to the store to
  purchase a JS turkey for...

• Shoot that golden arrow
  17

  Shoot that golden arrow
  SANDRA PAGE, leading supermarket
  assistant at Warren
  Heath, scored a personal bullseye
  recently when she and her
  partner Lyn Norman, qualified to
  represent Suffolk in the finals of
  the prestigious...

• Woodhall Farm
  17

  With casters at the ready staff and friends from Woodhall Farm lined up for the great trolley push on June 30, In top gear
  they trundled their way across 12 miles to Harpenden and In doing so raised £600 for a children's ward In...

• Greased lightning and grease paint
  18

  Greased lightning and grease paint
  CLOWNING THEIR way along
  an 18 mile route, staff and friends
  of Haywards Heath recently
  raised funds the energetic way.
  Produce manager Lee Quinn
  (in front, right) and ex-student
  Mark...

• Puzzle winners
  18

  Puzzle winners
  HERE'S ONE deluge that slipped
  unnoticed past Sainsbury's
  weather forcasters — the flood of
  entries for the Journal's recent
  word search competition.
  Those who earned themselves
  additions to their kitchen...

• Spokes-women for charity
  18

  Spokes-women for charity
  THREE PEDAL-PUSHERS
  from Fulham store, recently
  completed an exhausting 24 hour
  sponsored exercise cycle
  marathon.
  Supermarket assistants Nora
  Morrissey, Trisha Keogh and
  Tracey English, and 50...

• THE RED BANK FACTOR
  18

  THE RED BANK FACTOR
  DATE: a dark, misty July 10.
  MISSION: to boldly carry an
  ammunition box over a one
  mile obstacle course — across
  'battlefields' and 'icy waters'
  at Fleetwood, to raise money
  for the NSPCC.
  THE SQUAD:...

• Bowling beautifully
  19

  Bowling beautifully
  MEMBERS OF Griffin Bowls
  Club, Basingstoke depot were
  bowled over with delight when
  the Wednesday Night 'A' team
  won the Fourth Division
  Championship in the Whitchurch
  and District League. Bill...

• Children learn safety on site
  19

  Children learn safety on site
  BUILDING SITES are dangerous
  places. That's the message
  builders, Costain, wanted to get
  across to children and with this in
  mind they invited a party of children
  from Penton Primary School
  in...

• Dunstable does it on wheels
  19

  Dunstable does it on wheels
  GIVING THEIR feet a rest, staff
  from Dunstable branch celebrate
  the end of a trolley push. They
  wheeled their way around pubs
  and clubs and raised £154 for the
  child care unit at Luton...

• Hazel's head for heights
  19

  Hazel's head for heights
  AIRBORNE, Hazel Anderson, a
  16 year-old trainee at Gloucester,
  raised over £200 for the Crack
  Cancer Campaign, recently.
  After only a day's training in
  landing techniques and
  emergency drill, Hazel...

• Students join Stafford
  19

  Students join Stafford
  Ring out the old. Ring in the new.
  The new YTS students are
  welcomed to Stafford branch by
  the previous years' intake.
  Pictured, left to right, are: Liz
  Hollis (now supermarket
  assistant); Marcia...

• Far from the madding crowd
  20

  Onward and upward
  LAST YEAR Maggie Cooper, BPM at St
  Stephen's, Norwich shared with Journal
  readers her extraordinary experience of life as
  it was encountered on a Nepal trek. This year
  Maggie was lacing up her hiking boots...

• Guildford's glory days
  22

  Guildford's glory days
  PICTURE THE SCENE on
  opening day: an autumn morning
  in Guildford, a queue of shoppers
  anxious to be the first to see the
  wide range of quality products, to
  examine the tastefully designed
  interior and...

• Feedback
  24

  FEEDBACK
  Kindness of
  colleagues
  From: Jean Keating, former
  supermarket assistant at Arnold.
  Could I, through your letters page,
  send my grateful thanks for the
  letters and messages of sympathy
  I received following the...

• Honeymoon by JS
  24

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• Long service
  24

  Long service
  John Schofield, senior packaging
  engineer at Blackfriars, has completed
  40 years with JS.
  He began his career with the
  company as an electrical apprentice
  and in 1949 joined the RAF
  for National Service....

• Obituary
  24

  Obituary
  Noel Flynn, meat manager at
  Golders Green, died after a long
  illness on September 26, aged 56.
  He had been with the company
  for 25 years.
  Joan O'Flynn, cashier at
  Fulham, died after a long illness
  on October 7,...

• Retirements
  24

  Retirements
  Fred Newbury, assistant manager
  at West Ealing, has retired after
  36 years' service with the company.
  He joined JS at Ballards Lane
  as a senior trainee, and was soon
  promoted to assistant manager.
  After serving...