'JS Journal', December 1995

Table of content

• A message from the chairman
  02

  'My best wishes to you all for a
  very happy Christmas and New
  Year. I would like to thank you most
  warmly for your hard work and
  commitment to the company over
  the last year. I hope that you and
  your families enjoy good...

• Contents Page
  02

  CONTENTS
  HEADLINES 2-7
  BRANCH OPENINGS
  STOCKTON SAVACENTRE 7
  RUISLIP JS 8
  HERMISTON GAIT
  HOMEBASE 8
  HEDGE END HOIMEBASE 9
  WITNEY JS 9
  WRITELINES
  PHOTO COMPETITION
  RESULTS
  RETAIL REVIEW LIVE
  JUST THE JOB - PA
  BUYERS...

• Season's cheatings
  02

  Season's cheatings
  John Cleese has turned the successful recipe television ad campaign
  on its head this Christinas. Rather than showing viewers how
  to make simple but delicious
  dishes he shows them how to cheat
  - by buying...

• The Blue Peter Appeal
  02

  The Blue Peter Appeal is gaining
  momentum in stores across the
  country, with 626 tonnes of
  paper waste having already been
  collected for recycling. The
  appeal aims to help a UK charity
  called Whizz Kidz buy
  specialised...

• Treemendous
  02

  Store director Richard Smith had
  the idea for a giant tree and he and
  his deputy Alan Seed set about
  trying to find a tree large enough
  to make an impact.
  One and half miles of electric
  cable and 4,000 lights were needed to...

• Christmas at the South Pole
  03

  Christmas at the South Pole
  Our intrepid explorer,
  Roger Mear, has
  completed the first stage
  of his 1,700 mile journey.
  Roger, who is being
  supported by Sainsbury's,
  left Nerkner Island on
  November 24 and is now
  onto the...

• JS role in royal visit
  03

  JS role in royal visit
  Her Majesty The Queen met members of JS including Brendan Glynn and Jane Blower. Attending a reception as
  patron of Africa '95, a
  celebration of the diversity
  found in ttie Deptford area,
  the Queen was...

• Off the wall art
  03

  Off the wall art
  The aisles were full as both
  experienced and first time
  buyers of contemporary art
  perused the wares on offer
  at the Contemporary Art
  Society Market at the
  Royal Festival Hall in
  London.
  Held from...

• TalkBack comes to the crunch
  03

  TalkBack comes to the crunch
  The TalkBack team says a
  big thank you to everyone
  who took part in the first
  phase of the TalkBack
  survey, which featured in
  the October issue of the JS
  Journal.
  This was launched in
  South...

• Tom's triumph
  03

  Tom's triumph
  L to r: South area general manager David Boverhoff; Tom
  and his wife Denise-Anne; and Chris Papadapoulos of Addis. Tom Davey, manager of
  Crayford Homebase, was
  runner-up in the Addis/
  DIY Superstore...

• JS means business on equal opportunities
  04

  JS means business on equal opportunities
  Sainsbury's showed how it
  is leading the way in equal
  opportunities for staff at
  the premiere personnel
  conference of the year at
  the end of October.
  Personnel director
  Judith Evans...

• New depot opens at Haydock
  04

  The enormous building
  near Liverpool is twice the
  size of a typical Savacentre
  store and required 30,000
  tonnes of concrete just for
  the foundations. At full
  speed, the new depot will
  move one million 'pieces'
  per week to...

• Seeing how the other half works
  04

  Seeing how the other half works
  Almost 100 store managers have
  visited head office over the past
  two months in an initiative to
  develop a better understanding
  between buyers and retailers.
  The store managers were
  given...

• Staff are assurance of quality
  04

  Staff are assurance of quality
  Charlton depot has attained a British Standards
  Institute Award for its International Standards Organisation
  (ISO) 9002 programme for quality assurance. The award was achieved
  through asking...

• Birth of a great idea
  05

  Birth of a great idea
  Jeanette Groarke, occupational
  health adviser on
  Don Hayward's district,
  based at Chaddesden, has
  been recognised for the
  support package she
  designed for staff
  expecting babies. Jeanette
  recently...

• Bringing up baby - with help from JS
  05

  Bringing up baby - with help from JS
  One week after Mother
  and Baby magazine
  readers voted JS Retailer
  of the Year, the company
  was the flrst supermarket
  to announce a
  policy on breastfeeding.
  The ground-breaking
  policy...

• Cargo purchase may be unique JS Club store
  05

  Cargo purchase may be unique JS Club store
  Sainsbury's is applying to convert the recently acquired Cargo Club site at Bath
  Road in Bristol into a unique Sainsbury's members-only cash and carry club. JS purchased three...

• Giant's Israel Cohen dies
  05

  Giant's Israel Cohen dies
  Giant Food chairman and
  chief executive officer
  Israel Cohen died on
  November 22 at the age of
  83.
  Last year, Sainsbury's
  purchased 16% of the nonvoting
  shares of Giant
  Foods Inc, as well as...

• Painting the town
  05

  Painting the town
  A jointly sponsored wall mural was unveiled at
  Bromley store on November 21, accentuating JS's
  continuing efforts to co-operate with the public sector. Painted by a local artist,
  the mural appears on...

• Certified for safety
  06

  Certified for safety
  Sainsbury's should be an even safer and healthier place to work now that
  around 120 staff have undergone a specialist health and safety course.
  The students were principally district food and safety...

• HOW THE CARDS ARE DEALT
  06

  HOW THE CARDS ARE DEALT
  THE NEW STAFF DISCOUNT CARD HAS NOW BEEN EMBRACED
  BY ALL CORNERS OF THE GROUP. SINCE MANY STAFF ARE
  STILL GETTING USED TO THE NEW SYSTEM, HERE ARE THE
  ANSWERS TO SOME OF THE MOST COMMONLY...

• News in brief
  07

  News in brief
  Tesco goes
  shopping in Poland
  Tesco has purchased a
  majority stake in Polish
  supermarket chain Savia.
  Its £8m has bought 36
  stores in the south of
  Poland to add to its stake
  in Hungarian chain...

• Savacentre opening—Stockton
  07

  STOCKTON
  Stockton opened its doors on Sunday November 26 - making it the
  first company store to open on a Sunday. Since the acquisition of the
  site from the Co-op earher this year, the store has undergone a...

• Homebase opening—Hedge End
  08

  HEDGE END
  Despite fierce competition on the
  opening day, Hedge End's new
  Homebase fared well and is now moving
  from strength to strength. Built as the
  89th Homebase store, it shares its site
  with the Hedge End JS branch. It...

• Homebase opening—Hermiston Gait
  08

  HERMISTON GAIT Store manager Steven Quinn welcomes one of the first customers
  Was it Bill or was it Ben? Neither, it was James Slater who came along
  with his Dad Bill. Homebase has arrived in Scotland! Hermiston Gait Retail Park...

• Branch opening—Ruislip
  09

  RUISLIP
  Opening up alongside the JS store, Ruislip lool in the retail park. Customers began queuing up before the opening and were met
  by Homebase chairman DinoAdriano.
  The store gave away...

• Branch opening—Witney
  09

  WITNEY
  Over 300 new employees joined with members of the
  public in celebrating the opening of the new
  Sainsbury's in Witney, Oxfordshire. This new store was built using locally-sourced reconstituted Cotswold stone and
  roof...

• Writelines
  10

  Jack Bates, customer, Croydon
  I would like to express my appreciation of the
  service given by your staff...and also my high
  regard for the quality of your kippers.
  I am an amateur photographer and have just
  obtained a...

• 1995 JS Journal Photographic Competition Results
  12

  1995 JS Journal Photographic Competition Results
  Nick takes his pick
  Nick Hall is picture
  editor of the Observer
  Life Magazine. When he
  broke off to judge the JS
  Journal 1995
  Photographic
  Competition he was in
  the middle...

• RETAIL REVIEW LIVE BEAMS INTO STORES
  14

  A television programme transmitted live iiy sateliite
  to ten stores on Novemlier 15 could IM tiie future
  of internal communications in JS,
  RETAIL REVIEW LIVE BEAMS INTO STORES Chairman David Sainsbury, deputy chairman and joint...

• The multi-faceted job swap
  15

  The multi-faceted job swap
  Behind great director is ...a great personal assistant. Paul Millard chairs a senior managers
  meeting while Peter Ibbotson takes the
  minutes in the bacl

• MANAGING A WORLD CLASS BRAND
  16

  MANAGING A WORLD CLASS BRAND
  It was a conference of realism and celebration as the marketing and buying divisions discussed
  strategy. And part of the proceedings was the JS Journal Product of the Year Award. Here are brief...

• Through a child's eye
  17

  Through a child's eye
  The last mounted prints have now
  been presented to junior schools
  as part of the 1995 Pictures For
  Schools scheme. Over 1,500
  schools have received the four
  pictures as a gift from JS since
  October 17....

• Top gun battle
  17

  District manager David Ware (far left) with Chester's winning team,
  I to r: Brian Thake, Paul Carrington, Graham Minshall and Chris Durband. Friendly fire flew over
  Hawkstone Park in Shropshire
  on October 11, as almost...

• Weighing up the advantages
  17

  Weighing up the advantages
  Freda Armstrong from Lineslde Day
  Centre (pictured above) is another
  satisfied customer at Lancaster
  store, which recently lowered their
  produce scales to wheelchair level.
  This makes it possible...

• All generations celebrate 40 years of JS
  18

  All generations celebrate 40 years of JS
  Lewisham store went all nostalgic
  for their 40th birthday
  celebrations held in the last week
  of October. Store manager Tracy
  Simon decided to highlight the
  store's history in the...

• Birthday party provides reunion
  18

  Waltham Cross Homebase staff
  celebrated the store's tenth
  anniversary at a local wine bar on
  October 22. Almost 100 past and
  present employees turned up at
  the party, including four previous
  store managers. Office...

• North East pools training talent
  18

  Savacentre trainees working alongside Durham produce staff (I to r): Joan
  Smith, Claire Jackson, Sharon Simpson, Emma Davis, Ann Norland, Norma
  Reynolds, Angela Henderson.
  North East pools training talent Durham and...

• Petrol team share success
  18

  Petrol team share success
  Branch manager Geoff Cole presents
  the cheque for £200 to a
  representative from the Multiple
  Sclerosis Society.
  Staff at the petrol station in
  Harlow liave been fuelling sales
  recently by...

• Witching time
  18

  Witching time
  standing guard over the pumpkins,
  the Witch of Low Hall hides a sweet
  treat.
  Customers were spookily
  entertained to see this creation
  looming over the pumpkins at
  Low Hall Chingford store during
  the...

• COMPETITIONS
  19

  COMPETITIONS
  Christmas is a wonderful fun time of year but Yuletide
  can tal What better way to rejuvenate after a hectic December than four
  days of pampering at a health...

• Putting the pennies back
  19

  Putting the pennies back
  The Penny Back programme really does pay back into the stores'
  communities, as a local charity in Norwich recently found out. Staff at
  the Queens Road Norwich store were proud to present a cheque...

• Stocking up on holy orders
  19

  Stocking up on holy orders
  Shoppers in Kempston were
  surprised when store manager Barry
  Scott was spotted walking around
  the store with three clergymen - and
  it wasn't even a Sunday!
  Roman Catholic Bishop of
  Northampton,...

• CHILDREN IN NEED
  20

  Big smoothie!
  Prestwlch branch had a novel idea for raising funds - they
  sponsored their BPM, Andrew Simpson, to undergo a
  full body wax! His painful efforts raised £200.
  Once again, staff members
  from around the...

• HOW the money is being spent
  21

  HOW the money is being spent
  The money was raised principally from two sources: profit from the John Tovey and Delia Smith
  Cookery Roadshows plus the JS donation of 5p for every entry in the customer/staff prize draw to
  win...

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  22

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• Gifts for under a tenner
  24

  Gifts for under a tenner
  Christmas is aimost upon us and tliat means aii tlie
  expense of present buying. The Journal wants to heip!
  We have rounded up just a few examples of gifts
  for under a tenner (and quite a few under...

• PUZZLES AND POSERS
  26

  If you find it hard to reply to
  Christmas craclier riddles, or even if
  you Just feel a bit disappointed that
  you haven't yet uttered anything
  witty or wise enough to be recorded
  for posterity, perhaps you shoulda
  sharpen up...

• LONG SERVICE
  27

  LONG SERVICE
  Employees who have
  completed 25 years' service:
  GORDON CRACKNELL, meat
  replenishment assistant,
  Kingston. JEAN EGGLESTON, dry
  goods reduction, Balham.
  ROGER HOWELL, engineers
  supervisor, Charlton depot.
  DAVID...

• MESSAGES
  27

  MESSAGES
  RAYMOND REEVES, a work place
  student at Blackfriars;
  'A very big thank you to KATE
  WALKER, senior personnel, for
  all she has done in trying to
  secure a full time placement
  for me. It's not been easy for
  her and I...

• OBITUARY
  27

  OBITUARY
  Length of service appears in
  bracl ARTHUR DARTFORD, 63, general
  assistant at Balham, died
  after a short illness on
  November 4 1995. (18yrs).

• REGIONAL DIRECTOR RETIRES
  27

  REGIONAL DIRECTOR RETIRES
  DAVE SMITH, regional director
  South West, has finally given up
  the office agenda and taken up
  something a little more relaxing -
  retirement!
  After joining the company in
  1955 at the 115 llford...

• RETIREMENTS
  27

  RETIREMENTS
  DOROTHY BARBER, frozen food
  replenishment assistant,
  Ipswich (22yrs). JEAN BARKER,
  checkout replenishment
  assistant, Warrington (5yrs).
  MARGARET BRAUN, fish
  assistant, Fifth Avenue
  Harlow ( l l y r s ) ....

• SAINSBURY'S sound + vision review
  27

  SAINSBURY'S sound + vision review
  Out just in time for the Christmas rush is Universal's
  Junior, a riotous comedy where Terminator star
  Arnold Schwarzenegger finds himself pregnant.
  The film teams together Arnold, Danny de...

• WEDDINGS
  27

  WEDDINGS
  Love can be found in strange
  and mysterious places, as
  AMANDA BRAITHWAITE,
  Islington's grocery assistant
  manager and DEAN ROBINSON,
  a warehouse assistant at the
  store, discovered - they met
  over the roll pallets...

• SEASON'S GREETINGS FROM SAINSBURY'S
  28

  ARCHIVES
  SEASON'S GREETINGS
  FROM S A I N S B U R Y ' S
  By, now, many of us will have received
  season's greetings from friends and relatives
  near and far, and many a mantelpiece will be
  decked with multifarious Christmas...