'JS Journal', June 1988

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• Appointments
  02

  Appointments
  JOHN PHILLIPSON was
  appointed area director.
  Eastern area, on April 25. He
  was previously district manager.
  Central and Western
  area. He replaces John Galloway
  who has left the company.
  Roy Pagden has taken...

• Contents Page
  02

  Page 2-5
  Headlines
  Page 6
  New JS sponsorship scheme for students
  Page 7
  Romford Homebase opening
  Page 8
  Wilmslow is extended
  Page 8-9
  Brentford Homebase opening
  Page 10-11
  JS launches the Health Education Programme
  Page...

• Depot delivers distribution facts to MPs
  02

  Depot delivers distribution facts to MPs
  Ministers see the back end of the business. MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT
  paid an educational visit
  to Charlton depot on May 16.
  The members of the House of
  Commons Transport Select
  Committee...

• Frontline
  02

  FRONTLINE
  THIS MONTH'S Journal
  ofTers a bonus to readers in the
  form of a unique pull-out
  section containing photographs
  of JS taken by Lord
  Snowdon.
  It is thirty years since he
  took a series of photographs,
  for the...

• High tech LINKs with charity
  03

  High tech LINKs with charity
  AS THE 2,000th customer to pay for goods at High Wycombe
  with a LINK debit card, IVIary Chappell was singled out for
  special treatment.
  To celebrate this landmark of the experiment in...

• New JS company will make most of old property
  03

  New JS company will make most of old property
  JS HAS JOINED with London
  and Edinburgh Trust pic
  (LET) to form a 50/50 joint
  development company, Sainsbury
  LET Shop Developments
  Limited.
  This new company has...

• Results put JS at top in food retailing
  03

  Results put JS at top in food retailing
  JS ANNUAL RESULTS have
  yet again confirmed the company's
  position at the top of
  the food retaihng league table,
  with group sales exceeding £5
  billion for the first time, and
  profits...

• Wine writer puts his name to best book
  03

  Wine writer puts his name to best book
  WINE WRITER, Oz Clarke,
  went on the road during April
  and May to visit 12 stores as far
  apart as York and Lee Green.
  He was conducting a wine
  tasting and signing copies of...

• . . . And Paula makes three
  04

  . . . And Paula makes three
  PAULA KIERNAN joined the
  Journal and celebrated her 21st
  birthday at the same time.
  Paula, from Rochdale in Lancashire,
  is the Journal's new
  editorial assistant. She transferred
  from public...

• Milton Keynes welcomes a Princess
  04

  Milton Keynes welcomes
  MILTON KEYNES welcomed a Royal visitor on May
  12 when the Princess Royal officially opened the Milton
  Keynes Food Centre and toured the JS supermarket.
  Central and Western area director, Dino Adriano,...

• Children display great vision
  05

  Children display great vision
  CHILDREN AT a Wakefield
  school are enjoying the fruits
  of their own imagination
  thanks to JS.
  A national arts competition,
  the under 16 and schools
  section of which was sponsored
  by JS, called...

• Management structure corrections
  05

  Management structure corrections
  HANDS UP those eagle eyes who spotted the two errors in last
  month's article about the new management structure.
  Management will, of course, not be starting any shift at 1.00
  or 2.00 in the...

• New enterprise is launched
  05

  New enterprise is launched
  JS PLAYED host on May 17 to
  60 people who met to launch a
  new enterprise project in
  Blackfriars.
  The LEntA Properties
  workshops project will sec the
  conversion of an old building on
  the corner of...

• Orient expresses interest
  05

  Orient expresses interest
  A TOP-LEVEL delegation of
  Chinese economic policymakers
  visited Nine Elms on
  April 15.
  The party of ten, mostly of
  ministerial status, was drawn
  from two of the most important
  Chinese government...

• Wolverhampton is put in tiie picture
  05

  Wolverhampton is put in tiie picture
  WHEN THE new JS store at
  Wolverhampton was built,
  incorporating the old St
  George's church, a pool of
  local talent was used. Architects
  were Tweedale Planning and Design Group of...

• JS SPONSORS FUTURE MANAGERS THROUGH STUDIES
  06

  JS SPONSORS FUTURE MANAGERS THROUGH STUDIES
  FROM SEPTEMBER this
  year 15 students will begin
  their courses at universities
  and polytechnics across
  Great Britain with one
  thing in common — they
  will all be taking part in...

• Homebase openings—Romford
  07

  HOMEBASE OPENING
  1. First day customers queue right round the store and . . . 2. the welcome is
  ready inside. 3. Manager, Paul Shoemaker and personnel officer. Dawn
  Peterson, confer before kick off. 4. Information always...

• CUSTOMERS SEE DOUBLE AT WILMSLOW
  08

  CUSTOMERS SEE DOUBLE AT WILMSLOW
  Wilmslow has almost doubled Its sales area and number
  of checkouts with an extension carried out in three
  stages over the past two years. The final stage was
  completed on April 20.
  Said...

• Homebase openings—Brentford
  08

  BRENTFORD
  The latest Homebase store at Brentford looks set
  to be a high flyer. The building's design, inspired by
  an Italian biplane, met with unanimous approval
  from the hundreds of guests attending a special
  preview for...

• JS launches the Health Education Programme
  10

  DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR . . . FOLLOW THE
  JS HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAMME THIS MONTH the company launches the JS Health Education Programme.
  The programme, which will run for the next eight months, will cover four themes: healthy...

• FUNDRAISING GETS TO THE HEART OF THINGS
  12

  FUNDRAISING GETS TO THE HEART OF THINGS
  THIS YEAR JS staff will be putting heart into their
  fundraising. The company's adopted charity for 1988/89
  is The British Heart Foundation.
  Money raised will be used to buy...

• Results of the BBB Challenge Quiz
  12

  EVERYONE DESERVES a mention. That's what the organisers said so that is what we've done. Shown
  here are the names of every person who entered the BBB Challenge Quiz featured in the December 1987
  issue of The Journal.
  Every...

• 1988 SSA/JS JOURNAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
  14

  1988 SSA/JS JOURNAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION THE LAUNCH of this year's SSA/JS Journal photographic
  competition is pure inspiration. That inspiration follows on the
  next pages which are devoted to Lord Snowdon's images of...

• VIEWS FROM SNOWDON
  15

  In 1958 the young
  photographer Tony
  Armstrong-Jones
  took a series of
  photographs for the
  JS Journal to mark
  the closure of
  Sainsbury's first
  branch at 173 Drury
  Lane. In 1988 he
  visited Ladbroke
  Grove and
  Wandsworth...

• Veterans trade in memories
  23

  Street!' Ken, Len and Tony were all managers
  at Queen's Crescent, Kentish Town,
  during the 1940s, and had some pretty vivid
  memories to relate to the Archives.
  Queen's Crescent was one of the market
  streets in which John...

• THE WORLD OF SPORT BRINGS A WEALTH OF WINNERS
  24

  1. Lewisham—winners of the DJ Clapham cup.
  2. Homebase — Division II champions (taken at a recent DIY
  5-A-Side Tournament staged at Vicarage Road).
  3. Top goal-scorer, Homebase's Steve Ingram.
  4. The veterans team won both...

• VETERANS GATHER ROUND A WISHING WELL
  26

  VETERANS GATHER ROUND A WISHING WELL APRIL 11 and 18 were days to remember for nearly
  2,000 JS veterans. Memories and greetings were
  exchanged in the happy atmosphere of London's Royal
  Lancaster Hotel at the 40th annual reunion...

• JS MAKE ITSELF THE TALK OF THE TOWN
  27

  JS MAKE ITSELF THE TALK OF THE TOWN
  EVERY TIME a new store development
  is proposed a campaign
  is mounted by the development
  division to promote the scheme
  and generate local support.
  The ever increasing rate of new...

• Charity likes Frank clean shaven!
  28

  Charity likes Frank clean shaven!
  FRANK KNIGHT'S colleagues
  at Buntingford depot
  obviously didn't like his moustache
  because they paid £419
  to make him shave it off.
  As part of the depot's contribution
  to the Wishing...

• Director's daughters are 'Troubles' twins
  28

  Director's daughters are 'Troubles' twins
  ANYONE WHO watched
  'Troubles', a two part television
  film adaptation of J G
  Farrell's novel of the same
  name, would have enjoyed the
  performance of the quirky and
  precocious young...

• Lions' winner gives her share to charity
  28

  Lions' winner gives her share to charity
  THE WARWICK Lions'
  trolley dash, held at Warwick
  store on March 1, was a roaring
  success.
  The raffle to find the dasher
  had raised a total of £2,225 for Warwick Hospital and...

• Fareham raises funds in answer to an appeal
  29

  Fareham raises funds in answer to an appeal
  PRESENTING A fat cheque
  for £1,275.51 to Mike Lyons of
  the Queen Alexandra Body
  Scanner Appeal (left of pic) are
  members of Fareham branch.
  They are, left to right: Eleanor...

• Once more into the beeches
  29

  Once more into the beeches
  THE POPULARITY of skirmish
  events has increased so
  much that these days they're
  more on the scale of a full
  blown war than an innocent
  sounding skirmish. When all
  that macho make-up mingles
  with...

• Sidney St toasts JS devotees
  29

  Sidney St toasts JS devotees
  DOUBLE GOLDEN anniversary is being toasted here at Sidney Street, Cambridge. Mr and Mrs
  Beaumont celebrated 50 years of marriage and 50 years of shopping at JS at the same time. The
  store presented...

• Staff fall over themselves to help
  29

  Staff fall over themselves to help
  IF CO-ORDINATION is the
  secret to a successful threelegged
  pub crawl, then West
  Ealing reckons it didn't quite
  get it together! On April 23
  around 20 members of staff
  and management braved...

• Feats of footwork
  30

  Feats of footwork
  MARKS . . . GET SET . . . GO!
  Two hours 49 minutes later Zina
  Marchant, part time supermarket
  assistant at Chippenham,
  crosses the finish line of the
  London marathon.
  Exactly one hour after Zina
  collected...

• From bed pushes to push bikes
  30

  From bed pushes to push bikes
  THE WISHING WELL appeal for Gt Ormond Street Hospital has
  no shortage of well-wishers at JS.
  Staff from Terry Wigley's district in the Northern Area raised
  £5,000 for the appeal by organising...

• Children say thank you in style
  31

  Children say thank you in style
  JS LIFE IS an education. Bury
  St Edmunds and Stanway
  recently gave local school
  children tours around the
  branches.
  Class Five from Brightlingsea
  Junior School sent pictures
  and letters of...

• Epsom hammers home the need for more guide dogs
  31

  Epsom hammers home the need for more guide dogs
  'THE BID'S AGAINST YOU,
  sir . . . going, gone. Glen Hoddie's
  football shirt sold to the
  man at the back for £100.'
  The bidding went on until late
  evening at Epsom's...

• How to cash in on clowning around
  31

  How to cash in on clowning around
  SEND IN THE CLOWNS?
  Don't bother they're here!
  About 100 staff from Swindon
  went walkabout to raise over
  £1,000 for a local hydrotherapy
  pool.
  Meanwhile, 'flipping' clowns
  from Newbury,...

• Basingstoke gets to grips with raising funds
  32

  Basingstoke gets to grips with raising funds
  BASINGSTOKE depot staff
  really have got pulling power
  when it comes to attracting
  funds for the local hospital's scanner appeal. When they
  pulled a 16 ton JS lorry from the
  depot...

• Depot cooks up celebration
  32

  Depot cooks up celebration
  COOKS FROM Buntingford
  depot's staff restaurant put their
  feet up recently and let someone
  else prepare the meal for a
  change.
  The occasion was a special buffet held at the Jolly Sailors
  pub to...

• John on the air
  32

  John on the air
  JOHN WORLEDGE, deputy manager of Bedford, took to the air
  on BBC Radio Northampton on May 1. As a keen photographer
  and a local historian of Northamptonshire, John made a
  quizzing cassette for listeners. The...

• Trainees' valley trail
  32

  Trainees' valley trail
  SOUTH WALES YTS trainees
  present a cheque for £180 to the
  NSPCC (left), the money was
  raised by a 13 mile sponsored
  walk along the Wye Valley.

• WEEKLY RAFFLES
  32

  WEEKLY RAFFLES organised
  by staff at Ilford raised £250 for
  the NSPCC.
  A Child Protection Team Unit
  is opening locally in late spring
  and it is hoped that fund raising
  at the branch \yill help form a
  strong relationship...

• Wishing the weight away
  32

  Wishing the weight away
  WHEN JAMES TOMB, deputy manager at SWISS
  COTTAGE, denied himself the sweeter things in life, he lost 12!lbs
  in weight and gained £250 for the Wishing Well Appeal. Almost
  all of the sponsorship money...

• Appointments
  33

  Appointments
  Robert Allen, formerly manager
  at Fulham, has been appointed
  manager of Chislehurst.
  Nigel Bacon, formerly manager
  at Richmond, has been
  appointed manager of Kingston.
  Martin Bowden, formerly
  manager at...

• Long servers . . . and Samuel!
  33

  JOHN JOHNSON, deputy
  manager at Streatham, has
  retired after 40 years' service
  with the company.
  He began his career at
  Rosehill, Sutton and he
  worked at many West and
  South West London branches
  including High St...

• Obituary
  33

  Obituary
  STAN CARTER, manager of
  the SSA department at head
  office, passed away on Wednesday
  April 20. He was 59.
  Stan joined the company in
  depot stock in 1958. He transferred
  to become a staff
  engager in 1965 where...

• Retirements
  33

  Retirements
  GORDON STEPHEN,
  LEntA c o n s u l t a n t at
  Blackfriars, has retired after 39
  years with JS.
  His varied career included
  five years as pa to Lord Sainsbury
  when he was chairman,
  and three years as...

• Writelines
  34

  WRITELINES
  Mother's Day
  marketeering?
  From: Mary Cairns, Shirley.
  As an employee of what I
  consider to be a 'caring company',
  I feel somewhat uncomfortable
  about an incident I
  witnessed on Mother's Day
  weekend.
  I have...

• BEAUTIFUL BARBECUE
  36

  BEAUTIFUL BARBECUE
  The redesigned barbecue
  range has everything for the al
  fresco feast including the new
  Easy Lighting Charcoal (£1.45)
  and a specially designed
  Cleaning Brush (£1.45).

• JAZZING UP THE JUICE
  36

  JAZZING UP THE JUICE
  Customers now have a
  better display of fruity thirst
  quenchers than the tennis
  stars on Wimbledon's centre
  court.
  In handy one litre cartons
  there's Exotic Fruit Juice
  (85p) — a delicious mixture
  of...

• SANDWICH COURSE
  36

  SANDWICH COURSE
  Now that summer has
  arrived, what better way to
  brighten up that picnic
  hamper or barbecue than
  these new larger-thanaverage
  white salad baps.
  Sold in a pack of four,
  they contain two sesame
  seed and two...

• Welsh Goat's Cheese
  36

  To add to the already vast choice of cheeses in stores is
  this new Welsh Goat's Cheese. Available in three different
  varieties — natural, with sweet peppers and with herbs —
  it is priced at 79p and is in 145 stores.

• WOODEN IT BE LOVELY
  36

  WOODEN IT BE LOVELY
  Wood can stay looking good
  thanks to the comprehensive
  range of woodcare products
  at all Homebase stores.
  There's non drip Interior
  Varnish in a choice of five
  colours, with a Gloss or
  Satin finish, and...