'JS Journal', September 1985

Table of content

• Charity scheme to benefit under fives
  02

  Charity scheme to benefit under fives
  Community groups with responsibility
  for the under fives age
  group are to receive support from
  Sainsbury's community project,
  the JS Good Neighbour Scheme,
  during 1985/6.
  In the past...

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2-3
  News
  Page 4-5
  Swansea branch and Homebase openings
  Page 6
  Profit sharing, Sainsbury's and the student
  Page 7
  New Products
  Page 8-9
  Ice cream treat
  Page 10-11
  Business news
  Page 12-13
  You will believe a branch...

• New appointments
  02

  New appointments
  ON JUNE 14 David Sainsbury
  announced that with effect from
  August 5 Paul Chambers (left)
  would be appointed assistant
  company secretary. The appointment
  strengthens the company
  secretary's department and...

• New service cashes in
  02

  CUSTOMERS AT Nine Elms
  now have a new service — four
  automatic teller machines outside
  the branch.
  They became operational on
  July 29 and were an instant hit
  with shoppers. One of the first
  customers to take advantage...

• Christmas products launched
  03

  Christmas products launched
  IT MAY NOT be quite the season
  of goodwill, but on July 23,
  Sainsbury's unwrapped an array
  of own-label Christmas products
  and set them before 60 journalists
  from leading women's magazines.
  Why...

• Property
  03

  PROPERTY
  JS HAS PROPOSED the
  development of a site adjoining
  Garratt Lane, Wandsworth, as a
  32,000 sq ft supermarket. The site
  is currently occupied by a variety
  of depot buildings, workshops
  and associated car parking...

• Third JS wine speaker
  03

  Third JS wine speaker
  JS HAS APPOINTED George
  Bull as wine speaker for the West
  of England.
  His responsibilities will include
  speaking to non-specialist groups
  as well as established wine appreciation
  societies, giving...

• Swansea branch and Homebase openings
  04

  There's lovely! It was 'Croesoi Sainsbury's' in
  Swansea or 'welcome to Sainsbury's' as the
  new supermarket opened just a f ew days after
  Homebase had made itself very much at home
  in the city. Homebase chairman, Gurth...

• The argument for taking your share
  06

  The argument for taking your share
  Centre is David Sainsbury with Jeremy Bradshaw; to their left is Richard Wainwright, MP;
  to their right is Edgar Palamountain, president of WSOC. Left and right are runners up.
  'The day that...

• Get fresh
  07

  Get fresh
  WAKE UP to the new taste of
  coffee with Sainsbury's latest
  range for percolators and filter
  machines.
  For filtering, there are two new
  varieties:
  Viennese Coffee (£1.19) is a
  medium roasted coffee with...

• New crop
  07

  New crop
  SAINSBURY'S HAS a crop of
  new wines ready for harvesttime
  celebrations.
  With enough wine for 26
  glasses is Sainsbury's Bornheimer
  Trappenberg three litre
  wine box. This is a. medium
  white wine made from a...

• September sup
  07

  September sup
  THE TWO wines of the month
  for September are from Italy and
  Germany.
  Sainsbury's Barbera d'Alba
  DOC, is a full-bodied, dry red
  wine from the district around the
  town of Alba in the Piedmont
  region of...

• Tasty reading
  07

  Tasty reading
  AN ESSENTIAL item for the
  good cook's library is the latest
  range of Sainsbury's cookbooks
  available from all branches.
  For a healthy way of living, dip
  into Wendy Godfrey's 'Low-fat
  Cookery' (85p).
  This is...

• A FOOD FOR ALL SEASONS
  08

  A FOOD FOR ALL SEASONS
  Sainsbury's has many frozen 'assets', but none are
  as exciting as own label ice cream sold by the litre
  all year round. In search of a treat the Journal visited
  an ice cream factory to get a taste of...

• Can small be beautiful?
  10

  Can small be beautiful?
  LORD YOUNG, Mrs Thatcher's Minister without
  Portfolio, has recently published a White Paper
  entitled 'Lifting the Burden'.
  This sets out the Government's policies on cutting
  down the amount of red tape...

• Hillards' uphill struggle
  10

  Hillards' uphill struggle
  HILLARDS, the West Yorkshire
  based supermarket operator,
  showed increased trade in the
  second half of its financial year to
  April 27, 1985 to compensate for
  a two per cent decline in the...

• PORKY'S IN THE PINK
  10

  PORKY'S IN THE PINK
  IT LOOKED LIKE the end of the
  road for Luise, a German wild
  pig, when the Hanover drug
  squad decided to retire her from
  her drug sniffing job. Amazingly
  enough they thought that sniffer
  dogs were more in...

• Return of the real thing
  10

  Return of the real thing
  THE MANAGEMENT of US soft
  drinks giant Coca Cola is being
  accused of inspirational marketing
  or just plain misjudgement
  following the latest high jinks in
  the long running Cola war.
  In May, Coke...

• A HEAD OF TECHNOLOGY
  11

  A HEAD OF TECHNOLOGY
  PROGRESS, in the form of new technology, does
  not always march forward it seems. In the case
  of a previously unheralded innovation in the
  restaurant business, the robot wine waiter, the
  movement is more...

• Feminine touch for Tesco
  11

  Feminine touch for Tesco
  TESCO'S RECENT AGM was
  dominated by calls for the
  appointment of a woman to the
  all-male board of directors. As one
  lady shareholder put it 'It would be a jolly good idea to have a woman
  (on the...

• Laura goes public
  11

  Laura goes public
  LAURA ASHLEY, which has
  outlets in all Sainsbury's Homebase
  stores, is shortly to become
  a public company with its shares
  quoted on the stock exchange.
  Thirty years after the business
  started with printed...

• SUPERMANAGER
  12

  When Mark Smith became
  one of Supermarketing
  magazine's Managers of
  the Year he promptly left
  the country! His prise was
  an all expenses paid trip to
  the States with three other
  winners to study retailing
  USA. District...

• Family Day Questionnaire
  14

  Family Day Questionnaire
  WERE YOU ON THE SCENE? If you went along
  to Family Day on June 16 you may be able to provide
  vital clues in an important detective story. The
  Family Day Committee is hunting down the perfect
  day and...

• Right on cue for the big one
  15

  Right on cue for the big one
  Jim Rempe, world pool champion, has a real
  challenger in Hazel Dabrowski, senior supermarket
  assistant at Oxford.
  For the past year, the Journal has been following
  Hazel's many successes at home...

• The great Woking hen chase
  15

  The great Woking hen chase
  CLIFF GRAY, senior productivity
  officer at Woking area
  office, seemed a little henpecked
  when he related, the following
  incident to the Journal.
  'One Monday morning recently
  a bantam hen of tender...

• Verses from Dryden
  15

  Verses from Dryden
  INGRID BUSHBY, branch
  personnel manager (BPM) at
  Lewes Road, believes she may
  have discovered a poet of the
  future.
  Georgie Dryden is a little girl
  of seven who wrote to the branch
  with her impressions,...

• Bury St Edmunds
  16

  TUCKING INTO a slice of days gone by were staff and veterans
  of Bury St Edmunds this summer.
  To celebrate the store's 25th birthday a special lunch was organised.
  Veterans were invited and together with staff they...

• Carnival time for cannibals
  16

  Carnival time for cannibals
  A NUN and a vicar were on the
  menu at Leamington branch
  recently. No, there wasn't a
  shortage in the staff canteen,
  it was all part of the branch's
  efforts in the town carnival.
  The theme of the...

• Family business
  16

  Family business
  TRAINEES HAD their parents
  in tow on July 9 at Sutton Coldfield
  for a YTS parents' evening
  Last year's trainees introduced
  their parents to members of staff
  and showed them round the
  branch.
  Manager, Chris...

• Nottingham is friend in need
  16

  Nottingham is friend in need
  STAFF FROM Nottingham
  Homebase have been busy
  recently with two charity drives
  for worthy causes.
  A raffle held within the store
  raised over £90 for a local day
  centre for physically and...

• Bingo Bob is pride of Burton
  17

  Bingo Bob is pride of Burton
  'BINGO' BOB MEARS (JSJ
  July 85), has been honoured with
  the first ever Burtonian of the
  Month award.
  Bob, who is a customer service
  assistant at Burton-on-Trent, has
  raised over £5,000 for...

• The players present...
  17

  The players present...
  THE SPOTLIGHT has been
  shining on the talents of staff at
  Cannon Park recently.
  Last autumn, the branch's own
  dramatic company took to the
  boards and put on two highly
  successful performances of...

• FISHING FOR compliments
  18

  FISHING FOR compliments at York is Jes Thorley
  alias Jaws. He's got the sharp end of the shark while
  Jim Cairns is holding up this particular fisherman's
  tail.
  But this is the one that didn't get away!
  Fish manager Jes says:...

• Hiking for the hospice
  18

  Hiking for the hospice
  WALKERS FROM Wolverhampton
  branch marched off for
  a good cause recently when they
  raised funds for Compton Hall
  hospice.
  The 80 who took part collected
  £550 when they walked 12 miles
  around the Penn...

• JS korfball champions
  18

  JS korfball champions
  THE SUPERBASKETS, Sainsbury's
  Korfball team from Streatham
  office, has emerged this
  season as second division champions
  in the London League in
  which they play for Lambeth.
  Team captain, Dave...

• Row your boat
  18

  Row your boat
  THERE WERE 16 men and
  women in a boat on July 19 when
  the battle of the giants took place
  — a head office rowing match
  between branch computers and
  branch productivity.
  The venue was the Trafalgar
  Rowing...

• Trainees get tough
  18

  Trainees get tough
  LACE MAKING, physical jerks
  and nights under the canvas, were
  just some of the activities that five
  YTS trainees got up to in pursuit
  of the Duke of Edinburgh bronze
  award.
  Rachel Payne, John McDaid
  and...

• SSA/JS JOURNAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION '85
  19

  SSA/JS JOURNAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION '85
  THERE'S A POT of gold at the
  end of the rainbow for someone.
  For the first time ever the SSA/JS
  Journal photographic competition
  will accept colour entries!
  The classes will remain...

• Talented spotters
  19

  Talented spotters
  HOW APPROPRIATE the
  Journal's summer spot the
  difference cartoon turned out to
  be. The chilly message obviously
  struck home because there was a
  massive response to the
  competition.
  Marketing director,...

• WORD SEARCH
  19

  WORD SEARCH
  DISCOVER all the items on this
  'shopping list' and you could be
  shopping for the ingredients of
  recipes found in the latest JS
  cookbook collection — 'Sainsbury's
  Cookery Classics'. This is
  the star prize for...

• Appointments
  20

  Appointments
  Graham Adams, formerly
  manager at Worcester, has been
  appointed manager of Dudley.
  Roger Austin, formerly
  manager at Bromley, has been
  appointed manager at Orpington.
  David Buddin, formerly
  manager at...

• HIGH DAYS AND HOVE DAYS
  20

  HIGH DAYS AND HOVE DAYS
  Fred Stewart, reception manager
  at Hove, remembered 'the old
  days' at JS on August 13 when
  many old friends and colleagues
  joined him for a party. They were
  there to celebrate Fred's 49 years
  with...

• Long service
  20

  Edna Wheeler, office manager at
  Cowley, has completed 40 years
  with JS.
  She joined the company at
  Oxford manual shop, working on
  the grocery counter. In 1950,
  Edna became office clerk and
  after two years was made...

• Retirements
  20

  Sid Doddrell, chargehand at
  Basingstoke depot, has retired
  after 29 years with JS.
  He joined the company in the
  cheese department at Stamford
  House and three years later
  joined the stores department. In
  1965, Sid...

• Luxury of a lie-in for Fred
  21

  Luxury of a lie-in for Fred
  DANCING THE NIGHT
  AWAY on August 17 was
  happy end to a happy career at
  JS.
  The career and retirement
  being celebrated was that of Len
  Sewell, reserve meat manager at
  Cannon Park, who, 46 years...

• Obituary
  21

  Obituary
  Victor Antona, warehouseman at
  Ballards Lane, died suddenly on
  June 22, aged 62. He had been with the company
  since 1975.
  Richard Baker, student at
  Wimbledon, died suddenly on
  July 27, aged 17.
  He had been with...

• The day Tony wed our Ida
  21

  The day Tony wed our Ida
  TONY HEATH, warehouseman
  at Reading, married Ida Frith,
  supermarket assistant at Reading,
  on June 8 at St Mary's Church,
  Burghfield. The couple have
  worked at the branch for 18 years
  and the best...

• Feedback
  22

  FEEDBACK
  Answer to
  unemployment?
  From: Jim Beresford, supervisor,
  returns department, Basingstoke
  depot.
  In view of present day high
  unemployment figures and as
  computerisation has now been
  implemented at...

• Stepping out together
  23

  MANY HAPPY RETURNS to
  St Stephens, Norwich, which, on
  July 5, celebrated its 20th
  birthday.
  Raising their glasses to the
  occasion were a number of veterans
  who returned to the store not
  only to sing 'happy birthday' but
  to...

• Tile it with style
  24

  ARCHIVES
  Tile it with style
  ON DISPLAY in the archives is a
  colourful collection of decorative
  tiles which were rescued from
  branches while they were being
  modernised or demolished. Photographs of
  the old shops show how a...