'JS Journal', October 1990

Table of content

• Contents Page
  02

  CONTENTS
  HEADLINES 2-6
  STORE OPENINGS 7-10
  WRITELINES 11
  RECRUITING
  STAFF WITH
  DISABILITIES 12-14
  MARKET
  RESEARCH 15
  DEVELOPMENT STORY
  AT TUNBRIDGE
  WELLS 16-17
  YOUR PENSION 18
  LIFELINES 19
  HEALTH
  PROGRAMME...

• Frontline
  02

  There's a lot of paper
  wasted in all parts of the
  company, from reams of
  computer print-outs,
  much of which is never
  read, to ruled pads being
  used where scrap paper
  would do.
  As a major user of paper
  the Journal has to...

• ROYAL ART INSPIRES
  02

  ROYAL ART INSPIRES
  JS has helped the Prince of Wales help Salisbury
  Cathedral. The company sponsored an exhibition of the
  Prince's watercolours as part of the Salisbury Festival.
  There were 62 sketches on show, and proceeds...

• PALETHORPES SALE RAISES £14 MILLION
  03

  PALETHORPES SALE RAISES £14 MILLION
  JS has sold Palethorpes to Northern Foods pic for £14 milhon.
  This move is part of the company strategy to focus on the four
  retail areas of JS supermarkets, Homebase, Savacentre and...

• TOP OF THE TRUCKERS
  03

  TOP OF THE TRUCKERS
  JS depots are proud of the skills and impressive
  safety records of all its drivers. But Buntingford
  depot has reason to be extra proud of one driver
  in particular.
  Des Matthews was named runner-up...

• WINE AWARDS POUR IN
  03

  WINE AWARDS POUR IN
  For the second year running JS has been voted the
  Supermarket of the Year in the Wine Magazine/Good Wine
  Guide International Challenge 1990.
  In the summing up of its achievement, the judges declared
  that...

• APPOINTMENTS
  04

  APPOINTMENTS
  Non-executive director
  JOE BARNES, who
  recently retired as joint
  managing director, is
  now a non-executive
  director, in tiiat capacity
  he has been appointed to
  the board of J Sainsbury
  USA Inc and to the...

• AUTOMATIC DONATION
  04

  AUTOMATIC DONATION
  The opening of the new store at Haverhill on September 11
  left MENCAP £100 better off thanks to the generosity of
  Lloyds and National Westminster banks.
  Executives from the banks arrived, shortly after the...

• PRINCESS ROYAL GOES TO THE FAIR
  04

  PRINCESS ROYAL GOES TO THE FAIR
  The JS stand at the London Careers Fair, held at the
  Business Design Centre in Ishngton on Jidy 3 to 5, was
  one of only five to receive a visit from Her Royal
  Highness, The Princess Royal.
  As...

• BEST OF THE BATCH
  05

  BEST OF THE BATCH
  Jackie Buckthorpe of Coldham's Lane receives her trophy
  for being best bakery student 89/90 at Cambridge
  Regional CoUege, from Peter Jones, deputy manager,
  fresh foods.
  Kevin Cross (second from right) and...

• POST OFFICE OPENS IN FIRST CLASS STYLE
  05

  POST OFFICE OPENS IN FIRST CLASS STYLE
  Merton Savacentre opened its new full service Crown Post
  Office at the end of August with help from loccd dignitaries
  and a cunningly disguised member of staff.
  Scheduling clerk, Simon...

• PUTTING CHIPPENHAM IN ITS PLACE!
  05

  PUTTING CHIPPENHAM
  IN ITS PLACE!
  Apologies to the new Chippenham branch. Their opening
  report really did fall victim to the gremhns last month. Not
  only did they appear on the map of Britain in the position
  you would normally...

• SSA WINNER
  05

  SSA WINNER
  Congratulations to Heather
  Swlnney of New Telford branch.
  She was the September winner of
  the SSA's £1,000 draw.

• MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU
  06

  MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU
  It can be a nightmare keeping children occupied during the school hohdays, but this
  summer one solution was to get them involved with the poUce. Lambeth Summer
  Project 1990 was led by the Metropolitan...

• NURSERY GETS A GREAT START IN LIFE
  06

  NURSERY GETS A GREAT START IN LIFE
  The patter of tiny feet at Streatham has won an award for
  the company from Super Marketing magazine.
  The Grocery Trade Award for June was given for JS 'taking
  the initiative and stepping into...

• WHO DID YOU MEET THIS SUMMER ?
  06

  WHO DID YOU MEET THIS SUMMER ?
  Recognise any of these faces?
  These are the students, now back at their universities
  and polytechnics - who have taken part in the trial of a
  new scheme at JS. Each has worked in a different...

• Branch opening—Tunbridge Wells
  07

  TUNBRIDGE WELLS
  The new store at Tunbridge Welh is situated alongside a former railway station
  and an engine repair shed, from which the local
  railway preservation society ran a diesel engine on opening day.
  (For the full...

• Savacentre opening—Meadowhall
  08

  MEADOWHALL
  Savacentre has pride of place in the massive new MeadowhaU shopping and
  leisure centre at Sheffield. The store is three times larger than the biggest JS
  supermarket, with 50 checkouts, full JSfood range, Homebase...

• Homebase opening—Camberley
  09

  CAMBERLEY
  Offering ten per cent off all marked prices, Homebase
  number 60 opened its doors to the public just in time for
  what is traditionally one of the busiest dates in the
  DIY calendar, the August Bank Holiday.
  Helen...

• Branch opening—Haverhill
  10

  HAVERHILL
  Nearly 13 years after opening the Haverhill store in Jubilee Walk,
  Lord Sainsbury ofDrury Lane, joint president, was back on branch
  opening duty, welcoming first day customers to the new
  Haverhill supermarket at...

• Writelines
  11

  The cleared Line Path
  PATH OF
  PLEASURE
  The following letters were
  written by New Barnet
  customers after the store's
  Clean-up operation cleared
  a local path known as
  the Line Path.
  Mr and Mrs Slack:
  What a joy to walk...

• DISABLED WE ARE . . . INCAPABLE WE'RE NOT
  12

  DISABLED WE ARE . . . INCAPABLE WE'RE NOT
  Disabled people have an enormous contribution to make in the workplace.
  JS recognises this and exercises an equal opportunities policy.
  But what does it mean in the real world? The...

• FINDING OUT WHAT THE CUSTOMER WANTS
  15

  FINDING OUT WHAT THE CUSTOMER WANTS
  Many of you will have seen interviewers standing outside your store, with clipboard
  in hand, approaching customers. Recently, at some stores, tables upon which
  products are arranged have been...

• ALL CHANGE FOR TUNBRIDGE WELLS
  16

  ALL CHANGE FOR TUNBRIDGE WELLS
  The station building (centre with cloclc tower) and the
  locomotive repair shed, immediately behind, make a sorry site
  after the closure of the railway. The Journal looks at the history of the
  new...

• Confused? You won't be
  18

  Confused? You won't be
  Many of the more honest amongst us will probably admit to being
  slightly bewildered by the complex calculations and terminology
  which characterise documents explaining pension benefits.
  However, this...

• A WORKING DAY ON ICE
  19

  A WORKING DAY ON ICE
  WHEN ONE OF BRITAIN'S skating champions isn't zooming around on the ice at his local
  rink he is often to be found working behind the ice on the fish counter of his local JS.
  Simon Briggs, who is a part-time...

• STEWARTS DRIVING AMBITION
  19

  STEWARTS DRIVING AMBITION
  ONE OF THE FASTEST men on four wheels in the country
  today is Croydon Homebase's extra service supervisor,
  Stewart Dyer. In his first season of Formula First racing he
  steered his 1.6 litre engine car...

• HEALTH PROGRAMME
  20

  HEALTH PROGRAMME
  YOU CAN COPE We are continumg our series
  of articles on stress with a
  look at some ways of coping
  with it.
  When we say that someone is
  suffering from stress, we
  mean they are under
  excessive stress....

• SPLASHING ABOUT IN BATH
  21

  SPLASHING ABOUT IN BATH
  Bath Area Play Project leader, Peter Gross, persuaded Bath
  Homebase to give him some paint so his handicapped group
  could have some fun!
  Shortly afterwards manager, Andrew Whiston, received...

• THINGS THAT GO TRAMP IN THE NIGHT
  21

  THINGS THAT GO TRAMP IN THE NIGHT
  Eight sleepy teddy bears and their owners left the comfort
  of their beds at 3.00 am to raise around £600 for Sunshine
  Coaches and four year old Adam Smart who has cancer.
  The members of staff...

• WINNERS IN WHITE
  21

  WINNERS IN WHITE
  David Dahms, South Eastern area services
  manager, centre left, presents the Mike
  Broomfield Shield to Graham Carter, store
  manager of Central Croydon and captain of his
  branch cricket team which won the area...

• YABADABADOO!
  21

  YABADABADOO!
  Staff at Leamington Spa
  coioldn't resist the familiar
  cheer when their float won
  first prize in the town's
  annual carnival.

• GEARED UP
  22

  GEARED UP
  Going for the yeUow jersey, but already in the right gear,
  were three pedal pushers from Hayes.
  Between them, .n.ii&un wut "* , BPM| Bobbie Overy,
  general office section manager, and m Morrisey, customer
  services...

• MEGA MONEY FOR MENCAP
  22

  More stories of fandraising
  for the company's adopted
  charity, MENCAP, have
  come our way.
  MEGA MONEY FOR MENCAP
  What did you do when it was 90° in the shade? Keith
  Fitzpatrick's district donned fancy dress, tied...

• REACH FOR THE PRIZE
  22

  REACH FOR THE PRIZE
  When Buntingford wanted to find two champion reach
  truck drivers to represent the depot in a national competition
  it set up its own competition to give every reach truck
  driver on site a chance.
  Thirty two...

• WORTHING CAUSE
  22

  WORTHING CAUSE
  Putting colour in the cheeks of Worthing, staff dressed
  up to collect cash outside the store and gave away
  sweets and balloons. The store also ran a Bric-a-brac stall
  and a tombola.

• KEYING INTO SCHOOLS
  23

  KEYING INTO SCHOOLS
  Halifax has been strengthening it's links with local schools.
  Manager, David Duxbin presented £200 to St Peter's
  Infants School, Sowerby, to help them buy new computer
  equipment.

• MANAGER'S NOT A DRIP
  23

  MANAGER'S NOT A DRIP
  The New Southgate Homebasc manager has proved
  he's no wet blanket when it comes to fundraising fun. At
  a barbeque and disco held in aid of the Royal Marsden
  Hospital (Homebase's adopted charity), staff...

• STORE SENDS BRAVE ANNIE TO DISNEYLAND
  23

  STORE SENDS BRAVE ANNIE TO DISNEYLAND
  Newcastle under Lyme's resident engineer, John
  Brassington, was able to introduce his daughter, Annie, to
  Mickey Mouse in person this, summer thanks to the kindness
  of his colleagues and a...

• ANDY IS SAYING GOODNIGHT
  24

  Hopefully mother wasn't watching when Andy Pandy and
  Wee Wmy Winky ran through the town of Coventry, calling
  in on public houses to collect cash for Homebase's nominated
  charity, the Royal Marsden Hospital.
  Among Andy and Wee...

• BATTLING FOR CHARITY
  24

  BATTLING FOR CHARITY
  After what reports suggest was his limited success at the
  crease, senior deputy manager, presented St
  Albans MandeviUe School with the £330.27 raised through
  sponsorship of the cricket match, which took...

• DRIVE AWAY PRIZE
  24

  DRIVE AWAY PRIZE
  Handing over £5,000 with one hand whilst giving away a
  car worth £7,000 with the other, is not one of the regular
  duties of a store manager.
  However, thanks to the efforts of his staff in selling...

• WHAT'S MIME IS MENCAP'S
  24

  Crawling around pubs, walking to Hampstead Heath and
  dressing up in strange clothes were just some of the ways in
  which staff from Kilburn managed to raise £1,200 for MENCAP.
  Chatterbox Andy Maguire (left) had his own idea to...

• DOWN ON THE FARM
  25

  DOWN ON THE FARM
  Leeds deputy manager Malcolm Forrest and BPM Karen Hughes
  enjoyed life down on the farm recently.
  The local Meanwood Valley Urban Farm, which gives children from the city of
  Leeds a chance to see farm animals...

• MESSING ABOUT ON A RIVER
  25

  MESSING ABOUT ON A RIVER
  Jolly boating weather did not, unfortunately, bless the
  day of the dinghy race on the Grand Union Canal in
  which a team from Hemel Hempstead store finished
  seventh out of some 150 entries.
  Often in...

• PEDAL POWER
  25

  PEDAL POWER
  Staff at Dewsbury turned the wheels of an exercise bike into
  wheels of fortime recently by pedalling for two days in the
  store foyer to raise cash for MENCAP.
  During the sponsored cycle the local branch of...

• RESEARCHER FINDS A JOB
  25

  RESEARCHER FINDS A JOB
  'Does Sainsbury's in Tonbridge attract
  a wide range of customers - and if so,
  why?' That is the title of a project carried
  out by 16 year old James Hayden
  as part of his geography GCSE. To find
  out the...

• APPOINTMENTS
  26

  APPOINTMENTS
  PAUL ABBOT, from deputy
  manager, Tewkesbury Road, to
  manager, Cheltenham. DEREK
  BROUGHTON, from manager,
  Sittingbourne, to manager,
  Lincoln. GEOFFREY COLE, from
  manager, Stratford, to manager,
  St Albans. DAVID...

• LONG SERVICE
  26

  LONG SERVICE
  Employees who have completed
  40 years' service are:
  WALLY KEEN, manager, suppliers
  accounts, Streatham office.
  BILL NICHOLLS, administration
  assistant, Charlton depot. LORD
  SAINSBURY OF PRESTON
  CANDOVER, ch...

• OBITUARY
  26

  OBITUARY
  EoiN BAILEY, cold store warehouse
  assistant at West Ealing,
  aged 27, died suddenly on
  August 3. He had been with the
  company for three years.
  JOYCE HIBBARD, aged 63, died
  suddenly on August 9. She was
  bakery...

• OXFORD WEDDING
  26

  OXFORD WEDDING
  Oxford's evening shift section
  manager, Dan DeGale, and
  evening display assistant,
  Henrietta Wong, were married
  on June 22 a t Oxford Registrary
  Office. The couple spent their
  honeymoon in Singapore...

• RETIREMENTS
  26

  RETIREMENTS
  JOHN MARLOW, Basingstoke
  depot (39 years). JOHN SHEAR,
  butt'her, Tonbridge (36 years).
  JIM FORREST, meat manager,
  Lordshill (3,5 years). GERALD
  BALCHIN, senior store warehouse
  assistant. Worthing (23
  years)....

• BEEF IT UP
  27

  BEEF IT UP
  For an authentic American hamburger taste it's hard to beat
  new Double TViners. Two whopping fresh meat burgers,
  made of 98 per cent beef with seasoning, come with ready
  sliced sesame seed baps and a pot of special...

• CHICKEN A LA COINTREAU
  27

  CHICKEN A LA COINTREAU
  Orange and Cointreau Chicken
  is a poultry dish with a French
  accent. It comprises two readyto-
  bake, skinless chicken breast
  fillets marinated with Orange
  and Cointreau, and it is available
  in...

• WALLPAPER COLLECTION WITH CLASS
  27

  WALLPAPER COLLECTION WITH CLASS
  Homebase Exclusive Collection ready pasted vinyl wallcoverings
  can add a touch of class to any room in the
  house. The coUection comprisesvtwelve pasted vinyl wallcoverings
  and nine non-pasted,...

• THE BRANCHES THAT BATTLED THROUGH THE BLITZ
  28

  THE BRANCHES THAT BATTLED THROUGH THE BLITZ News Chronicle, 22 October 1940.
  A JS branch, possibly Stamford Hill, moves its counter outside.
  Miss I Barnes remembers serving customers at a makeshift
  stall in a nearby street...