'JS Journal', October 1994

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• Blobby blobby blobby!
  02

  Blobby blobby blobby!
  Noel Edmonds with Mr Biobby.
  Who wants fame and fortune? Now is the time to stand
  up. The BBC is looking for suitable candidates to be
  thrust into the public eye on two of their shows. Mr
  Blobby has...

• Contents Page
  02

  CONTENTS
  HEADLINES 2-S
  WRITELINES 6/7
  BRANCH OPENINGS:
  EXETER CENTRAL
  NEWBURY
  EPSOM CENTRAL 8/9
  PLYMOUTH MARSH MILLS
  WHITECHAPEL
  HIGH WYCOMBE
  HOMEBASE 10/11
  HEALTHY EATING
  CAMPAIGN 12/13
  TROLLEY INTERESTING...

• Frontline
  02

  Autumn seasoning
  October is full of exciting changes that come with
  a new season. iVIost exciting of all is news that
  the Group is acquiring part of a second US food
  retailing chain. We will look at that in more detail
  next...

• JS on FM
  02

  JS has become the first food retailer to sponsor a radio
  programme. Classic FM's 15-minute morning recipe
  feature on the Henry Kelly show is billed as 'The Classic
  Recipe presented by Sainsbury's'. 'Crafty Cook' Michael
  Barry,...

• Sainsbury's makes new US investment
  02

  Sainsbury's makes new US investment
  At 8.20am on October 3,
  chairman David Sainsbury
  made the following
  announcement through the
  company's electronic
  mail: 'I am delighted to
  report that last Friday the
  Board entered into...

• JS top of the wine traders
  03

  JS top of the wine traders
  Sainsbury's is once again Supermarket Wine
  Merchant of the Year. It is the third time that the
  Wine Magazine International
  Wine Challenge
  has picked JS as the top
  supermarket wine seller.
  The...

• New London Colney layout sets style for 11th Savacentre
  03

  New London Colney layout sets style for 11th Savacentre
  Chairman David Sainsbury
  officially 'unveiled'
  the new look and congratulated
  Savacentre's
  managing director Mike
  Broomfield. It was, he
  said, 'an excellent...

• New qualiflcations for NVQ co-ordinators
  03

  New qualiflcations for NVQ co-ordinators
  Six of the newly qualified area NVQ co-ordinators with John
  Adshead: (I to r) Angela Ford (SE), Sue iVIcGlynn (Mids),
  IMaureen Flynn (Nthn), Jane Lyie (Mids), Cynthia ive (SW)
  and Linda...

• Watering hole for customers
  03

  Watering hole for customers
  Monks Cross was the first
  store to show off the new
  Shoppers' Oasis customer
  catering format. The new
  shoppers' watering hole is
  designed for stores with
  lower customer numbers
  than will support...

• 125 years in the making
  04

  125 years in the making
  It has been a long wait -
  125 years in fact - but tlie
  125th anniversary book,
  'The Best Butter in the
  World', could not have
  come out sooner! The book was launched on
  October 17 when chairman
  David...

• JS bakers rise to the occasion
  04

  JS bakers rise to the occasion Streatham Common's Larry
  Mackenzie was narrowly
  pipped at the post by an Asda baker for the In-store
  Bakery Manager of the Year
  category. Larry was praised for his product knowledge
  and...

• Milk co-op about to make its Marque
  04

  Milk co-op about to make its Marque
  The Milk Marketing
  Board (MMB) is about to
  transform itself into Milk
  Marque, a farmers' cooperative,
  as part of a
  government deregulation
  process. And what, you
  might ask, has that to...

• Winning lamb is height of quality
  04

  Winning lamb is height of quality
  Lamb that breathes probably
  the freshest air in
  Britain has won a competition
  for meat processors
  and the prize was presented
  by fresh meat senior
  manager Peter Morrison.
  Robert Osborne's...

• APPOINTMENTS
  05

  APPOINTMENTS
  Angela Megson. ANGELA MEGSON is promoted to
  departmental director for
  dairy, cheese and frozen
  foods trading. Formerly
  senior manager, Angela takes
  over from John Ramsden, who
  transfers to director in
  charge...

• News in brief
  05

  News in brief
  Simon Mayo.
  Here comes yet another TV
  adaption of a popular radio
  feature. Radio 1 presenter
  Simon Mayo's Confessions
  slot is coming to BBCl in
  the New Year and he is
  looking for contestants who
  have secrets...

• TV ad takes off into hypermarket hyperspace
  05

  TV ad takes off into hypermarket hyperspace
  Savacentre has launched
  its first TV advertising
  campaign using hi-tech
  graphics and a sci-fi travel
  theme. The emphasis is on the
  shopping experience. A
  family sets off on a trip...

• Virgin enters cola market
  05

  Virgin enters cola market
  Richard Branson, chairman
  of Virgin Atlantic airline, is
  to launch Virgin Cola
  within the next few weeks
  to rival Coca Cola, Pepsi
  Cola and Sainsbury's
  Classic Cola.
  Virgin plans to undercut
  the...

• Writelines
  06

  IF THE CAP
  DOESN'T FIT
  September's letter from
  members of Pitsea staff
  restaurant concerning their
  new uniforms prompted a
  number of sympathetic
  responses from colleagues
  in other staff restaurants.
  Among the letters...

• Branch opening—Epsom Central
  08

  EPSOM CENTRAL
  Opening date: 2 August 1994
  Address: 102 High Street, Epsom,
  Surrey
  Opened by: Joint managing director
  David Quarmby
  Store manager: Jason Knox
  Project manager: Steve Newell
  Staff: 220 (120 new staff)
  Sales...

• Branch opening—Exeter Central
  08

  EXETER CENTRAL
  Opening date: 26 July 1994
  Address: Guildhall Shopping Centre,
  Exeter, Devon
  Opened by: Joint managing director
  David Quarmby
  Store manager: Tony Crow
  Project manager: Steve Newell
  Staff: 190 (40 new...

• Branch opening—Newbury
  08

  NEWBURY
  Opening date: 26 July 1994
  Address: Kings Road, Newbury,
  Berks
  Opened by: Retail director
  Colin Harvey
  Store manager: Mike Salmon
  Project manager: Roy Birch
  Staff: 373 (165 new staff)
  Sales area: 31,500 sq...

• Branch opening—Marsh Mills
  10

  MARSH MILLS
  Opening date: 9 August 1994
  Address: Plymouth Road, Crabtree,
  Plymouth
  Opened by: Deputy chairman
  Tom Vyner
  Store manager: Mike Booth
  Project manager: John Kemsley
  Staff: 531 (450 new staff)
  Sales area: 40,000...

• Branch opening—Whitechapel
  10

  WHITECHAPEL
  Opening date: 9 August 1994
  Address: Cambridge Heath
  Road, Whitechapel
  Opened by: Joint managing
  director David Quarmby
  Store manager: Mark Ellery
  Project manager: Steve Newell
  Staff: 323 (142 new staff)
  Sales...

• Homebase opening—High Wycombe
  10

  HIGH WYCOMBE
  Opening date: 12 August 1994
  Address: 300 London Road, High
  Wycombe
  Opened by: Development director
  Ian Coull
  Store manager: Mike Virgo
  Project manager: Mike Gould
  Staff: 62 (54 new staff)
  Sales area: 34,135...

• Not just for hippies and rabbits
  12

  Not just for hippies and rabbits
  Sainsbury's Healthy Eating campaign was launched to a flurry of media interest last
  month. The JS Journal gets its teeth into the programme... T
  he most visible sign of the programme is the...

• Getting a handle on the shopping trolley
  14

  There's a new trolley in store. It's far smaller than the
  225 litre capacity trolley - the standard for JS - and it's
  very light and easy to manoeuvre. The new senior
  citizens' trolley is just the latest in a wide range...

• 'Intelligent' machines are learning about us
  16

  'Intelligent' machines are learning about us
  Twenty-first century computer technology is being
  introduced to speed up supplier deliveries to depots. The new system uses
  technology known as
  'artificial intelligence'.
  Explains...

• SSA OFFERS AND COMPETITION
  17

  Come Ski with us - Come Ski with Equity
  After an excellent season last year the SSA is pleased to offer all members the
  opportunity to enjoy a high quality skiing holiday at top value prices. Equity are
  the ski holiday...

• THE NEW RAG AND BONE MEN
  18

  From a standing start around two years ago,
  there are now over 115 banks on JS sites for unwanted
  clothes, and more than 2,500 banks across the country.
  Unlike other recycling banks, textile banks have a
  twofold benefit - they...

• GREEN SCENE
  19

  GREEN SCENE
  A BREATH OF
  FRESH AIR
  OiANER EMISSIONS MEAN YOU CAN
  David Coulthard, the Williams Formula One team
  number two driver (standing), Kate Hinton of London
  First and Secretary of State for the Environment John
  Gummer...

• Shooting stars
  19

  Shooting stars
  Matthew Bailey's picture is just one of the many entries
  received in the JS Journal Photographic Competition 1994
  to be judged by TV Times picture editor Jo Laycock. All
  entries should be received by the end of...

• Bags of pennies
  20

  Bags of pennies
  Hornchurch customers IVIr and
  Mrs Emery placed their Penny
  Back pennies in the store's
  charity box and Instantly found
  themselves handing over
  £1,000 to the Saint Francis
  Hospice. The store was...

• Crayford cleans up
  20

  Crayford cleans up
  Karen Gordon wields the chamois
  and cashier Karalyn Giles makes
  sure the headlights are sparkling as
  Kevin Edkins of car wash equipment
  manufacturer Kew keeps them
  raking in the cash for charity.
  A local...

• Ellenor Foundation
  20

  Restaurant staff at
  Crayford received a special
  tliank you from the Ellenor
  Foundation which raises
  funds for hospice care. The
  staff were pictured in the
  foundation's newsletter
  after setting up a collection
  box for loose...

• Hear our songs
  20

  Hear our songs
  Like most hospital radio
  stations. New Bournemouth
  Hospital's Radio Bedside relies
  totally upon charitable donations. Local Sainsbury's
  Christchurch regarded the station
  as extremely worthwhile and so
  chose...

• Looking after the hearts of Kent
  20

  Looking after the hearts of Kent
  It's not just Sainsbury's that
  has been spreading the
  gospel of healthy eating. A
  number of local councils too
  have seen the 'light'. The City
  of Rochester Upon Medway
  has its own Health...

• Locksbottom
  21

  Locksbottom donated two cakes with curly tails to Foal Farm
  animal rescue centre at Biggin Hill to be raffled on their Gala
  Day. The cakes, complete with marzipan pigs, were iced by
  the bakery.

• Mind that child
  21

  Mind that child
  Selly Oak's store manager Melvyn Turner (right) with representatives of the Councii's Consumer Protection
  section on the Chiid Safety Weeic stand in the car parl(. Birmingham City Council lias
  been busy...

• SAINSBURY'S GOOD NEIGHBOUR SCHEME
  21

  SAINSBURY'S
  GOOD NEIGHBOUR SCHEME
  Day-trippers from Essex.
  The name of the Essex
  organisation Contact for the
  Elderly explains exactly what
  they are about, and group leader
  Wendy Quayle elaborates:
  'Helpers take elderly...

• School report
  21

  School report
  School reports are normally
  given by teachers to pupils.
  At Dulwich Hamlet Junior
  School, however, pupils gave
  a report to their local
  Sainsbury's.
  Children from Class Four
  spent time at Dulwich...

• Shaking cans in Camberley
  21

  Shaking cans in Camberley
  Camberley Homebase has set
  itself a target of raising £1,500 for
  Leukaemia Research. Their latest
  collection day bounty of £400 has
  put them in sight of that target.
  Pictured in between...

• All aboard for a journey back in time
  22

  All aboard for a journey back in time
  A group of staff from Hornchurch
  had long relished a dream of
  travelling on the Orient Express,
  so after last year's trip to Ascot
  they decided to start saving. A
  year of tucking away...

• Coventry store
  22

  Coventry store is in
  celebratory mood.
  November marks their
  30th anniversary and
  'a bit of a do' is being
  held on Sunday,
  November 13. Former
  employees and veterans
  wishing to attend should
  contact store manager
  Neil...

• Jordan switches to more control
  22

  Jordan switches to more control
  Meet Jordan Rowland. She is
  in control and that is doubly
  important when you have
  disabilities. Jordan is the
  daughter of Jane Rowland,
  former store instructor at
  Stratford. Jane's colleagues...

• Pioneering Marion takes the plunge
  22

  Pioneering Marion takes the plunge
  The abseiling quartet, clocl senior deputy manager Dominic
  Walsh; provisions manager Allstair
  IMoutrle; trainee manager Ashley
  Lowther and IVIarion Samuel.
  IVIarion poised for...

• What some people will do for money
  22

  What some people will do for money
  Paul Sandom
  and Jeanette Kirby reverse
  roles.
  So this Is what Paul Sandom
  gets up to at night! Tootsie eat
  your heart out. Mere Green hit
  upon a novel fund-raising idea in
  their campaign...

• ASK ME ANOTHER, SMEG-HEAD
  23

  ASK ME ANOTHER, SMEG-HEAD
  * ? - - ^ - ^
  -*i If'-'
  k ' " « . ^
  If Lister, Rimmer, Kryten and the
  Cat are regular guests in your
  living room then you're one of
  seven million viewers of cult
  science fiction TV comedy...

• Debbie is orphans' mum for a week
  23

  Debbie is orphans' mum for a week
  Debbie brings a little diversion into orphan Carty's normally bleak life. Pinhoe Road customer service
  supervisor Debbie Brelsford has
  returned from a Sainsburyfunded
  mercy-mission to...

• Wimbledon laps it up
  23

  Wimbledon laps it up
  'The' best evening we've had in
  ages is how Nick iVIcJannet
  systems clerk at Wimbledon
  described the recent indoor karting
  supermarket challenge. Wimbledon
  and Crystal Palace each entered
  two teams of...

• GIFT OF SWEETNESS
  24

  Chocoholics young and old
  will love the new range of
  Christmas confectionery now
  on the shelves.
  For big kids and small
  kids of simple tastes there
  are Chocolate Sleighs and
  Chocolate Penguins. Fun
  Tumblers filled with...

• LEISURELY LIFESTYLE
  24

  Over 50 JS stores are
  stocking selected clothes
  from the new autumn season
  Lifestyle range. The new
  lines will include underwear,
  kids outerwear such as the
  jogging sets and
  skirt/jumper sets, a new
  ladies body in...

• POSH SCHOOLS
  24

  Four new fish ready meals are
  heading a premium range that will
  number eight by the end of
  October. Customers will enjoy
  impressing friends at dinner
  parties and claiming the work as
  their own. Impressive additions
  to any...

• CREME DE LA CREME
  25

  CREME DE LA CREME
  What Jane Asher did for Sainsbury's Celebration
  cakes, Raymond Butcher is now doing for our
  cream cakes. Raymond owns four shops named
  Piece of Cake selling an irresistible range of
  luxury patisserie. He has...

• GET FRESH
  25

  The chicken has landed! Frozen
  Chick'n'Mix was the advance guard
  and now the main battalion of
  Fresh Chick'n'Mix is making an
  assault on stores. Since the
  market for fresh is eight times that
  for frozen, the buyers expect...

• IT'S GOOD TO TALK AT HOMEBASE
  25

  IT'S GOOD TO TALK AT HOMEBASE
  Always rushing to answer the phone? The new Homebase range of
  telephone accessories makes fitting another phone a doddle.
  The range comprises extension leads, extension kits, extension
  connecting...

• PIZZAS WITH EVERYTHING ON, AND HOLD THE TAKE-AWAY
  25

  PIZZAS WITH EVERYTHING ON, AND HOLD THE TAKE-AWAY
  Pizza lovers get ready! Just
  released are the new Sainsbury's
  pizzas, accompanying pizza-breads
  and deli breads.
  The new Italian Pizzeria and
  American Pizza ranges offer...

• In your own write
  26

  In your own write
  Departmental director
  Hamish Elvidge (left)
  was SO impressed with
  the entries in the JS leg
  of the CWS 'Retailers
  Care' essay competition that he has awarded the
  prizes of high quality Waterman fountain...

• JS JOURNAL POETRY COMPETITION
  26

  JS JOURNAL Poetry COMPETITION
  If you have ever wandered lonely as a cloud then this corner of the
  Journal could be for you. It's poetry corner.
  After discovering the talent of tine Sainsbury's
  essayists in our last competition...

• LONG SERVICE
  27

  LONG SERVICE
  Employees who have
  completed 40 years' service
  are:
  NORMAN HEDGER, section
  manager, grocery, Woodhall
  Farm.
  Employees who have
  completed 25 years' service
  are:
  AUDREY BARNARD, checkout
  assistant,...

• OBITUARY
  27

  OBITUARY
  Length of service in brackets
  BARBARA GAME, bread & cake
  assistant, Harpenden, died
  after a short illness on
  August 15 aged 55 ( 1 1
  years). PETER O'MALLEY,
  occupational health
  manager, Blackfriars, died
  suddenly...

• RETIREMENTS
  27

  RETIREMENTS
  G ALDRIDGE, branch personnel
  manager, Bridgwater (14
  yrs). G ATTREE, supermarket
  assistant, Taunton, (37 yrs).
  T BALL, section manager.
  Woodhall Farm, (13 yrs). J
  BOVENIZER, fire officer.
  construction resource,...

• WEDDINGS
  27

  WEDDINGS
  Congratulations to JANE
  WOODS, part-time systems
  Clerk at Balham, and STEVEN
  WILDE, section manager,
  nightshift, Nine Elms, who
  recently tied the knot. It was
  not so much a marriage as a
  Sainsbury outing! The...

• GOOD NEIGHBOURS
  28

  ARCHIVES
  GOOD NEIGHBOURS
  The Staples and the Hailes,
  the Deacocks and the Peppers,
  the Coppens, the Frosts, the Bantons
  and the Greigs.
  In the furiously competitive trading
  I climate of late Victorian London,
  neighbouriy...