'JS Journal', October 1993

Table of content

• Congratulations to Joan Hodgson
  02

  Congratulations to Joan Hodgson, health and
  beauty assistant at Barkingside. She is the
  latest winner of the SSA £1,000 lucky draw.

• Contents Page
  02

  CONTENTS
  HEADLINES
  DISCOUNT FLIGHT
  PROMOTION
  GIVE AS YOU EARN
  UPDATE
  WRITELINES
  BRANCH OPENINGS:
  HAYES HOMEBASE
  AND SUPERMARKET
  BRIDGEND
  WORTHING
  GOOD NEIGHBOUR
  SCHEME
  GREEN SCENE
  THE RISE OF THE APPLE
  FAMILY FUN...

• Farnborough wins clean food hatrick
  02

  Farnborough wins clean food hatrick
  With Famborough's
  three well-earned
  certificates, are
  (I to r) Ian Marlow,
  food safety officer; Pat
  Gaines, restaurant
  section manager; Don
  Hawkins, branch
  manager; Morag
  Hutchison,...

• Five pounds go to Daniel Bamping
  02

  Five pounds go to Daniel Bamping
  meat replenishment
  assistant at Bolton,
  for his interpretation
  of HA! HA! Well it
  certainly made us
  laugh. Keep those
  photographs rolling
  into our competition.

• Frontline
  02

  Great flying fish, it's the new
  autumn promotion. Read all about
  Sainsbury's/British Ainways
  discount flights offer on pages 6
  and 7. And look out for November's issue; we have
  £4,000 in British Ain^^ays flights
  for you to...

• Vocational victory at Victoria
  02

  Vocational victory at Victoria
  The eight Victoria staff with
  branch manager Alan Reid
  (far left, back row); Lesley
  Shanahan, education manager
  (far right); Sue Karaska,
  course tutor (second left,
  front) and Bob Mitchell...

• Fanhams Hall modernisation is complete
  03

  Fanhams Hall modernisation is complete
  Building work has just
  finished on the refurbishment
  of Sainsbury's conference
  and training
  centre, Fanhams Hall in
  Hertfordshire. The old
  country house dates back
  to 1666 and was...

• Judith Chalmers opens travel showcase at London Colney
  03

  Judith Chalmers opens travel showcase at London Colney A new concession at
  London Colney Savacentre gives customers
  the opportunity to book
  a holiday after flying
  around the store for their
  weekly shop.
  The new Pickfords...

• Supermarkets unite to support Sunday Shopping Day
  03

  Supermarkets unite to support Sunday Shopping Day
  National Sunday Shopping
  Day was launched on
  September 19 by joint
  managing director David
  Quarmby at Purley Way
  to the accompaniment of a
  jazz band and the release
  of...

• APPOINTMENTS
  04

  APPOINTMENTS
  Steven Gravelle
  Design
  in order to coordinate
  design issues across the
  company, STEVEN GRAVEUE
  has been appointed to the
  new position of corporate
  design manager. He will
  have overall responsibility
  for...

• Beckton digs in for opening
  04

  Beckton digs in for opening
  The countdown to the first
  Savacentre opening for
  three years has begun,
  marked by a tree planting
  ceremony attended by the
  local mayor. The soil
  around the last of the 850
  trees planted in...

• Hungary for knowledge
  04

  Hungary for knowledge
  Lionel Hickman, deputy depot manager (second from left);
  Ray Hasler, regional distribution manager (third from left)
  and Garry Marshall, transport operations manager (far
  right) show the Hungarian...

• News in brief
  04

  News in brief
  When Tesco reported their
  half year figures on
  September 21 'the City
  was disappointed by a
  mere 3.4% increase in pretax
  profits to £261.5m'
  reported the London
  Evening Standard. Share
  prices in the grocery...

• Advertisers won't be going to work on eggs
  05

  Advertisers won't be going to work on eggs
  "** ^oS^
  Eggs were set to join our
  breakfast reading on
  September 21, but the EC
  rejected a proposal to allow
  advertising to be printed on
  the shells. The idea was not
  previously...

• Awards encourage women to break new ground
  05

  Awards encourage women to break new ground
  Winners of this year's
  Sainsbury's Opportunity
  2000 Awards came to
  Blackfriars on September
  14 for a presentation
  ceremony, and they took
  the opportunity to look
  behind the scenes...

• Course creates a way in for women returners
  05

  Course creates a way in for women returners
  The new Enfleld store has
  pioneered a scheme to help
  mothers get over the
  invisible barriers to
  returning to work.
  Explains Linda Stoker of
  the training agency Dow
  Stoker, which...

• Protestors petition over pilot whales
  05

  Protestors petition over pilot whales
  As part of a national campaign to stop the traditional
  slaugtiter of pilot wtiales by the Faroese, eight
  members of the Pilot Whale Campaign visited JS head
  office on September 16 to...

• GIVE AS YOU EARN
  06

  GIVE AS YOU EARN
  Sainsbury's operates a payroll giving
  scheme - Give As You Earn - as a
  facility for staff who wish to give
  regularly to charity. The Journal spoke
  to community investment manager Eric
  Nicholls for a reminder...

• UP, UP AND AWAY
  06

  UP, UP AND AWAY
  ?
  Customers at JS, Savacentre and Homebase can once again be seen peering into empty trolleys in the
  trolley parks or carrying their shopping with head stooped and eyes peeled to the ground. All aboard for the...

• Writelines
  08

  15 YEARS OF FUNDRAISING
  Rosemary Durrant,
  checkout assistant,
  Bowthorpe, Norwich
  J Sainsbury at Bowthorpe
  celebrates its 15th birthday
  on October 10, 1993.
  Many of the staff have
  worked at the store from
  the start and...

• Homebase opening—Hayes
  10

  Opening date: August 12,1993
  Address: Lombardy Retail Park,
  Coldharbour Lane, Hayes,
  Middlesex
  Opened by: Homebase deputy
  managing director Ross McLaren
  Branch manager: Martin Paterson
  Project manager: Neil Hotston
  Staff:...

• Branch opening—Coldharbour Lane, Hayes
  11

  COLDHARBOUR LANE, HAYES
  Coldharbour Lane is the first store to feature the new hot
  chicken counter. It is an idea that took only 30 weeks to bring
  from the initial concept to a trading counter and was made
  possible by...

• Branch opening—Lyons Farm, Worthing
  12

  LYONS FARM, WORTHING
  Opening date: August 24,1993
  Address: Downlands Business
  Park, Lyons Way, Worthing
  Opened by: Chairman
  David Sainsbury
  Branch manager: Paul Stefansl Project manager: Alan Hodgson
  Staff: 338 (214 new...

• Branch opening—Bridgend (Pen-y-Bont)
  13

  BRIDGEND (PEN-Y-BONT)
  The eighth Sainsbury's in Wales can truly be said
  to be a Welsh store inside and out. The proliferation
  of Joneses, Davises and Thomases are
  evidence of the Welsh origins of many staff, as is
  the...

• A little help goes a long way
  14

  SAINSBURY'S GOOD NEIGHBOUR SCHEME
  Savacentre
  THE SAINSBURY'S HYPERMARKET The Good Neighbour Scheme has just
  completed its 11th year of helping local
  community projects.
  The scheme was launched in 1983 with a
  budget of...

• GREEN SCENE
  15

  GREEN SCENE
  DID YOU KNOW THAT.
  There are over 1.3 million green produce
  crates used in Sainsbury's wliicli mal around 40 million journeys a year. Eacli
  crate has an average life of five years
  before being recycled into a...

• CORE GROWTH
  16

  CORE GROWTH
  Laxton's Fortune,
  D'Arcy Spice,
  Ashmead's Kernel and
  Michaelmas Red: all
  lyrical names that you
  would not be surprised
  to see lining up for the
  3.10 at Haydock Park.
  They are actually more
  likely to be seen...

• MICROWAVE BAKED BRAMLEYS
  16

  MICROWAVE BAKED BRAMLEYS
  Four Bramley cooking apples
  75g (3oz) pecan nuts, halved
  75g (3oz) stoned dates
  Chopped zest and segments
  of one orange
  50g (2oz) demerara sugar
  1. Core the apples and make a shallow cut around...

• WALTON FAMILY DAY
  17

  The stakes may not be as high as a Lewis v Brano fight, but it's a iot
  less painfui.
  The modem quad
  racing was a popuiar
  activity contrasting with
  the historic bacicdrop of
  Walton Haii.
  it was difficult for the
  kids to...

• Casualty crews collect for a good cause
  18

  Casualty crews collect for a good cause
  Locals could be forgiven for
  thinking a major disaster had
  occurred at Tamworth branch
  when they saw the car park filled
  with emergency service vehicles.
  But there was no cause for...

• Couple steps out in memory of Sylvia
  18

  Couple steps out in memory of Sylvia
  When a friend and colleague of
  Bob and Rita Butcher died, the
  couple went for a long walk.
  They spent 16 days walking
  190 miles from Cumbria to
  Yorkshire in memory of...

• Driving force of Basingstoke Fundraisers
  18

  Driving force of Basingstoke Fundraisers
  The drive and determination of
  drivers at Basingstoke depot
  raised over £700 for a local child.
  The drivers, through Ted
  Monger, arranged a collection
  across the depot to help...

• Holy shire horses!
  18

  Holy shire horses!
  The loading bay of Tunbridge
  Wells played host to rather
  unusual guests recently, in the
  form of two Whitbread Shire
  Horses.
  The horses were to pull a
  carriage at a local wedding and
  their owner had...

• The plants now leafing platform one
  18

  The plants now leafing platform one
  Competition judges (left to right) Simon Wainwriglit; Bill Jenkins, works
  controller London Underground environmental services, and Ian Arthurton,
  London Underground's director of passenger...

• Coasting along
  19

  Coasting along
  David Horwood, a baker at
  Braintree, accompanied by two
  friends, spent his summer
  holiday backpacking on a coast
  to coast walk of 190 miles and
  raised £1,106 for Cancer
  Research.
  David's colleague,...

• Neville's Big Breakfast bounty
  19

  Neville's Big Brealtfast bounty
  On August 23, Neville Ward
  enjoyed a red letter day which
  began with a big breakfast.
  Neville, section manager
  systems at Frome, had tried
  twice to get through on the
  competition telephone...

• Norwich House nutters take the plunge
  19

  Norwich House nutters take
  the plunge
  Brave bungee jumpers, left to right: Paula Bamford, Tim Veal and Samantha
  Reissland. s t i l l time to back out... but it's
  onward and downward. When Tim Veal told the Journal
  he would be...

• Pizzas and Pavarotti
  19

  Pizzas and Pavarotti
  Rosemarie Hall, section manager
  of the staff restaurant at Durham,
  thought staff would enjoy a
  change of scenery and so she
  organised an Italian break.
  Pavarotti sweetly serenaded
  staff, and the Italian...

• Bygone Brentwood
  20

  Bygone Brentwood
  Brentwood branch is 25
  years old in IVlarch 1994 and
  they are holding a dinner
  dance at the New World Inn,
  Brentwood, on March 26 to
  celebrate.
  It is hoped that both past
  and present staff will...

• Pitching in for cancer charities
  20

  Pitching in for cancer charities
  Buntingford depot set the ball
  rolling in their bid to raise funds
  for cancer charities with a
  football match they hope will
  become an annual event. < Joe Kelly from Blackfriars...

• Rugby women have more pulling power
  20

  Rugby women have more pulling power
  Staff at Rugby had to harness
  their strength when they pulled a
  fire engine through the town
  centre, raising £136 for local
  charities.
  Thirty local companies
  entered teams Into...

• Schoolboy sculptors find inspiration in store
  20

  Schoolboy sculptors find inspiration in store
  Pupils at Birkenhead Boys
  Junior School may not have
  invented the idea of groceries
  as art, but they have taken the
  idea to new lengths. And, with
  Andy Warhol's original soup...

• West Park Farm holds a fairy tale party
  20

  West Park Farm holds a fairy tale party
  Once upon a time in the town of
  Folkestone a JS supermarket
  called West Park Farm was
  opened. One year on from the
  opening, a great party was held
  in celebration.
  Snow White (alias...

• Crime prevention day leaves its mark
  21

  Crime prevention day leaves its mark
  A Crime Prevention Day held in
  tlie car park of Hanley branch
  certainly left its mark on cars and
  residents alike.
  The event, organised in
  conjunction with the Staffordshire
  Police, had...

• Everyone's favourite poster designer
  21

  Everyone's favourite poster designer
  L to R: customer services manager Nina Dubaic, Sue Dyices
  and Rodney Brooitsby. Everyone's favourite ingredient
  ...a friendly cashier.
  Simply take a fresh 'checkout
  smile', a polite...

• Leatherhead lashes the competition
  21

  Leatherhead lashes the competition
  Vic (standing centre) with the
  Leatherhead team.
  While Martin Bicknell was doing
  battle for England at Headingly,
  his father Vic Perren led
  Leatheriiead to victory in David Reynold's annual...

• Pot of gold for Rainbow charity
  21

  Pot of gold for Rainbow charity
  Generous customers of Kimberiey branch
  have made it possible for the
  store to present The Rainbow
  Handicapped Children's
  Charity with a cheque for
  £300.
  The charity is a home
  for mentally...

• Stanway saves the life of Sainsbury the foal
  21

  Stanway saves the life of Sainsbury the foal
  'The AA may be the fourth
  emergency service, now I regard
  Sainsbury's as the fifth', said June
  Stirling after Stanway branch
  helped save the life of her foal.
  The foal, which has...

• SEVEN DAYS AND NIGHTS ON CAMELOT
  22

  SEVEN DAYS AND NIGHTS ON CAMELOT
  For three years now, Jeremy
  Folkard, deli buying at Blackfriars,
  lias been sailing an ocean racing
  yacht with five college friends, but
  this year the group took on their
  biggest challenge...

• THE SPIRIT OF ENTERPRISE
  22

  THE SPIRIT OF ENTERPRISE
  'In 1969 most little girls did school
  projects on horses or the girl
  guides', explains Lee Sansome,
  night shift assistant at Mere Green.
  'All I wanted to write about were
  the incredible stories of...

• OUR CUP BRIMMETH OVER
  24

  A RCHIVES
  Tea packing at
  George Payne and Co c.1913.
  OUR CUP BRIMMETH
  OVER
  "Come in", said the Wolf, "and
  I hope you have bought some of
  Sainsbury's Pure Tea, for I am sadly
  in need of a cup."
  Tea advertising card c.1910....

• Competition Corner
  25

  Competition
  Corner
  Dinosaurs have returned with the
  popularity of Jurassic PatW, and
  Sainsbury's now has its very own
  dinosaur - SCANNERPACKTiLL!
  This dinosaur name is tlie creation of
  Paui Cotton from Castie Bouievard,...

• CORRECTION
  25

  CORRECTION
  In last month's article about Stamford
  House, we incorrectly stated that the
  cheese store became a staff restaurant in
  1957. This should have read 1973.
  Thank you to those who telephoned to
  point out our mistake.

• DOUBLE CREAM AND DOUBLE QUICK CURRIES
  26

  DOUBLE CREAM AND DOUBLE QUICK CURRIES
  An exclusive range of curry sauces
  has been launched into stores.
  The three varieties: Korma,
  Tikka Masala and Rogan Josh
  retail at 99p (introductory offer of
  89p).
  Korma is a rich...

• INTO THE BLUE
  26

  INTO THE BLUE
  JS has launched a medium
  fat blue cheese, which goes
  by the unusual name of Blue
  Vinney, with 40 per cent less
  fat than Blue Stilton. With
  only 22 per cent fat the
  cheese is a healthy
  alternative but with all...

• MORE LOVELY THAN EVER
  26

  MORE LOVELY THAN EVER
  JS, still the only food retailer In
  the UK to have an own brand
  cosmetics range, has relaunched
  its J Range in aquamarine
  packaging to give it a fresh,
  modern look.
  The existing high...

• PAPER TIGERS
  26

  PAPER TIGERS
  One of the 'bear' necessities of
  any children's party is fun paper
  tableware, and JS has launched
  just the thing.
  The Jungle Book range,
  consisting of napkins, paper
  cups, paper plates and
  tablecloth, should...

• TREATS WITH A TOUCH OF LUXURY
  26

  TREATS WITH A TOUCH OF LUXURY
  
  JS has launched a
  new selection of
  biscuits and peanuts
  for Christmas.
  The new biscuits
  include a gift-wrapped box of
  Luxury Swiss Chocolate Biscuits
  which makes a perfect present
  or a...

• BRANCH MANAGER APPOINTMENTS
  27

  BRANCH MANAGER APPOINTMENTS
  DAVID AMBROSE, from Taunton
  to Pinhoe Road, Exeter. WILLIAM BALDWIN, from
  Swindon to Newbury.
  RUSSELL BESSEY, from deputy
  manager, Burpham, to
  branch manager, Farnham.
  GARY BIDDULPH, from...

• OBITUARY
  27

  OBITUARY
  GLORIA ASHDOWN, deli
  counter assistant, llford,
  died after a long illness on
  September 9, aged 53 (12
  years). DAPHNE EDWARDS,
  checkout/replenishment,
  Chiswick, died suddenly on
  August 11, aged 53 (7
  years)....

• RETIREMENTS
  27

  RETIREMENTS
  RON CUTTS, reception
  manager, Dewsbury (38
  years). RONALD GALBRAITH,
  trolley retrieval, Walton (31
  years). RONALD PARNELL,
  section manager, reception.
  Pound Lane, Norwich (26
  years). ERIC DEBNAM,...

• WEDDINGS
  27

  WEDDINGS
  • TRACEY KNOTT, system 25
  clerk, and BARRY KEOWN,
  section manager, meat
  room, both from Winchmore
  Hill, were married on July
  24. Tliey spent two sunny
  weeks in IVIalta on tlieir
  honeymoon.
  • GREG ROWLES and...

• SSA OFFERS
  28

  SAINSBURY'S
  STAFF ASSOCIATION
  Tel: 0719217227
  EQUITY TOTAL SKI
  HOLIDAY COMPETITION
  Equity Total Ski have once again devised an exciting programme of sl hoiidays for Sainsbury's staff, witli big reductions on published...