'JS Journal', July 1995

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• Classic strawberry season in full swing
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  Classic strawberry season in full swing
  Classic FM radio's Michael Barry
  celebrated the start of the
  strawberry season on air with a
  delicious new recipe, Strawberries
  and Ginger Creams.
  To coincide with the launch...

• Contents Page
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• Frontline
  02

  EXPOSE YOUR TALENT
  Find fame and fortune by entering tlie
  JS Journal Pliotograpliic competition.
  Not only will the winning photographs
  appear in the December Journal but
  there are cash prizes including £150
  for the overall...

• In the firing line
  02

  In the firing line
  One false move... The toggle button on a SABRE handset can
  seriously affect the orders your store gets so the SABRE team have
  come up with a striking reminder to use it properly.
  The 'Toggle - And make my...

• Countdown to new Savacentre launch
  03

  Countdown to new Savacentre launch
  , 4 , 3 , 2 , 1 , Sydenham
  Savacentre is go.
  At least the petrol station
  is. It opened on May 23
  and store director Jon Hartland
  hardly raised an
  eyebrow when the famous
  pink car, FAB 1,...

• Customers won't be at sea over cooking fish
  03

  Customers won't be at sea over cooking fish
  Twenty fish counter stafl' have tipped the scales of
  service to Sainsbury's advantage. They have qualified as the
  first members of the Sainsbury
  Guild of Fishmongers.
  The course is...

• MBA scheme graduates now number 16
  03

  MBA scheme graduates now number 16
  Five more managers have
  graduated from the Management
  MBA scheme.
  Two of them, Sue Donoghue
  and Colin Rye, passed with
  distinction.
  This brings to 16 the
  total graduates of the
  scheme...

• Pudsey pays a visit
  03

  Pudsey pays a visit
  Pudsey Bear and BBC's
  Sue Cook got more than a
  teddy bear's picnic when
  they went down to
  Wandsworth JS.
  Joint managing director
  David Quarmby presented
  them with a cheque for
  £200,000 raised by...

• Buyers and suppliers meet in Scotland
  04

  Buyers and suppliers meet in Scotland
  The four Scottish JS
  stores may soon be
  stocking more locallyproduced
  lines thanks to
  a conference organised
  by Blackball store
  manager David Parker.
  Last month, David...

• Disabled people gain access to top training
  04

  Disabled people gain access to top training
  People with disabilities will soon be participating in courses alongside JS staff in a
  scheme designed to open up the best in management training to disabled people. JS has signed up...

• New generation petrol station is open all hours
  04

  New generation petrol station is open all hours
  The new petrol station at
  Hadleigh Road, Ipswich, is
  the first to have a life of its
  own. In addition to a
  conventional forecourt for
  JS customers, it has a
  separate forecourt...

• Stores will drive their own sales
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  Stores will drive their own sales
  A new department just set up will have a short but
  glorious life. The retail sales coordination
  department will
  be around for less than a
  year but its effects will be
  long lasting, as it...

• News in brief
  05

  Sir Tim Sainsbury
  back on board
  Two new non-executive
  directors have been
  appointed to the board.
  The Rt Hon Sir Timothy
  Sainsbury MP rejoins the
  board after leaving the
  company in 1983 to
  become a member of...

• Queen honours JS director
  05

  Queen honours JS director
  Angus Clark CBE
  Angus Clark, who retired
  in April as board director
  in charge of distribution
  and logistics, has been awarded a CBE in the
  Queen's 1995 Birthday
  Honours List. Chairman
  David...

• Vintage Lagondas rally at Staines for anniversary drive
  05

  Vintage Lagondas rally at Staines for anniversary drive
  The Staines car park is more used to Volvos than
  vintage cars. But on June 14 it was graced with 119 old
  Lagondas. The store is built on the
  site of the old Lagonda...

• Over the water JS into Northern Ireland
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  Over the water JS into Northern Ireland
  'The move into Northern Ireland may well be a small step for
  mankind, but it is truly a giant step for Sainsbury's', said chairman
  David Sainsbury.
  Plans to open the finest food chain in...

• Peter's private view
  07

  Peter at work in his studio in London's National
  Gallery.
  .eter Blake is probably best known for creating
  the cover of The Beatles' concept album
  Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. As
  such, his image, is firmly rooted...

• Writelines
  08

  LIGHT RELIEF
  Bob Cheek, Campaign for
  Dark Skies, Suffolk.
  Your effort and understanding
  of the light pollution
  problem at Warren
  Heath has been much
  appreciated and has been
  concluded in a very satisfactory
  manner. How...

• Market Report — Potatoes
  09

  You may consider the humble spud as a stable-priced staple
  but recent months have seen the price go through the roof.
  Visits to the local chippy will no doubt have borne witness to the price
  changes. The price per tonne for...

• Good food still costs less at Sainsbury's
  10

  Good food still costs less at Sainsbury's
  Two piles of shopping of directiy
  equivalent products bought at
  JS and Tesco.
  Which costs less?
  If you said the Tesco products then you
  may be surprised to hear that the total
  cost...

• Jane judges your cake creations
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  Jane judges your cake creations
  This competition was no piece of calie so all credit to the creative cooks who came up with some wonderful designs.
  Jane Asher and Rachel Kingsley, product development, cake,
  bakery and biscuit...

• The ingredient for success... ...is you
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  The ingredient for success... ...is you
  ledaes
  ents to Ci
  They are based on customer research -
  the Problem Detection Study - conducted
  18 months ago and acted upon,
  particularly with training. These prompted
  various new...

• Long may they help us
  14

  The name may be new but the
  idea is tried and tested, and
  certainly trusted. The
  departmental district advisers,
  whose role evolved from the
  Centres of Excellence set up in 1994, now
  number 586 across the country.
  The...

• Get into the theme
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  Get into the theme
  The Journal has come up with offers and competitions to help the
  family fun along over the summer holidays. You have a chance to
  win trips to two family theme parks and you can take advantage of
  specially...

• And now for the sports report
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  KNOWING THE GROUND RULES
  • 1
  Most people's out-of-work
  relaxation involves using a knife
  and fork, and Buntingford
  depot's Andy Gilder is no
  exception. But he uses his
  dinner knife to scrape dirt off a
  giant roller, and...

• Baby direct
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  Baby direct
  Malcolm w i th Baby Robert.
  Malcolm Bull, meat manager at
  Lordshill, proved his talent at
  home delivery when he acted as
  midwife for his own baby.
  Malcolm delivered Robert 9lbs
  7oz unaided when his wife
  Fiona...

• Deaf and determined
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  Deaf and determined
  Congratulations are due to all staff
  who achieved NVQ certificates but
  special congratulations are in
  order for Andrew Readman, meat
  assistant at Middlesbrough.
  Andrew is totally deaf and is
  unable to...

• Hearty congratulations
  18

  Hearty congratulations
  Three stores have been awarded
  for fighting the good fight - battling
  against the killer heart disease
  and wiping out germs in their
  coffee shops and staff
  restaurants.
  Torquay scored a hat-trick...

• When you need a cunning plan
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  When you need a cunning plan
  Tom Browne, space allocation
  manager, Blackfriars, faced the
  ultimate executive challenge
  recently on a Territorial Auxiliary
  'executive stretch' weekend.
  The course involved 100
  representatives...

• Big Breakfast is good for everybody
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  Big Breakfast is good for everybody
  JS staff across the country
  raised thousands of pounds for
  cancer research when they
  tucked into Big Breakfasts.
  Kettering was typical of the
  kind of involvement. There the
  Big Breakfast...

• Follow the green and purple road
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  Follow the green and purple road
  Customers in
  Exeter need no
  longer squint at
  approaching buses
  to ensure they
  catch the right
  number bus for JS.
  They have a
  new fleet of colourcoded
  buses and
  all routes led to
  Pinhoe...

• Let there be Lighting
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  Let there be Lighting Brownies, Scouts, Guides and
  Beavers at Panfield, Essex, as
  they get switched on thanks to
  lighting equipment donated by
  Braintree. The lighting, to be usea in a new scout nt
  being built in the village,...

• Life-saving pennies
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  Life-saving pennies
  Customers at Middlesbrough can
  now buy life saving equipment -
  by donating Penny Back cash.
  The store's chosen charity is the
  Cleveland Ambulance CARE
  appeal, which will use the cash to
  update equipment...

• HIGHLIGHTS FROM SHAW'S
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  As global Internet surfers keep
  reminding us, the world is becoming
  ever smaller and nations are getting closer. With
  this ocean-evaporating thought In mind we offer a few
  highlights from Market Action, the newspaper for...

• SSA OFFER
  20

  Beat a path to the Cdinburgh Jlilitary l^attoo
  Friday August 25 to Sunday August 27
  If you like your pomp and splendour complete with a sporran then head north of the
  border with the SSA. Following the success of last year's...

• Everything under the sun
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  Everything under the sun
  It's barbi time and, rather than
  being swamped with sausages or
  bombarded with burgers, many of
  us prefer a little of everything on
  the griddle. The new Sainsbury's
  Barbecue Party Pack contains...

• Getting this lolly business licked
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  Getting this lolly business licked
  Classic Cola on a stick? Yes, Sainsbury's Classic Cola and Gio
  continue their expansion, this time into the ice lolly market. Gio and
  Classic Cola lollies have been introduced into stores in...

• Going by the book
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  Going by the book
  If you want some ideas on cooking the contents of
  the Barbecue Party Pack, look no further than the
  new Sainsbury's book. Barbecues (£1.95) by Jim
  Marks. Also new are Sainsbury's Special Diets
  (£2.25)...

• Net value
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  Net value
  We like nothing more than fishy in a
  dishy but the best fish dishes are a
  bit time-consuming to prepare. Now
  we've fallen hook, line and sinker for
  a new range of four frozen ready
  meals. Fish crumble
  (99p),...

• Novon image has come up like new
  22

  Novon image has come up like new
  Novon is now the country's fifth largest detergent brand
  To maintain this phenomenal success, the current
  concentrated powder range is being replaced (except
  for 2kg bags which will continue)...

• Pick your own
  22

  Pick your own
  Summer fruits have just been delivered to stores with the addition this year of the
  summer berries selection including strawberries, blueberries and raspberries. Other
  selection packs are Mixed Currants, Mixed...

• LONG SERVICE
  23

  LONG SERVICE
  Employees who have
  completed 40 years' sen/Ice:
  Derek Macaree, perishable
  warehouse assistant,
  Buntingford depot.
  Employees who have
  completed 25 years' sen/Ice:
  WILLIAM ARNOLD, store
  manager, Lordshill....

• OBITUARY
  23

  OBITUARY
  Length of service appears in
  brackets.
  JEANN ELLISS, a customer
  service assistant manager at
  Stockport, died after a short
  illness on June 5. She was
  49 years old (lOyrs). LYN
  BRYNLEY PRITCHARD, a packer
  at the...

• RETIREMENTS
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  RETIREMENTS
  RITA ALLEN, checkout/
  replenishment assistant,
  Kidlington (4yrs). EMMANUEL
  ATU, fresh food replenishment
  assistant, Camden
  (7yrs). BERYL AUSTIN,
  checkout/replenishment
  assistant, Haywards Heath
  (21yrs). JEANNE...

• WEDDINGS
  23

  FAMILY AFFAIR
  Congratulations to ALISON
  CARVELL, wages clerk at
  WEST HOVE, and PETER
  MARSHALL, resident technician
  at WEST GREEN and
  CRAWLEY town centre
  branches, who were
  married on May 20. The wedding in...

• ACROSS THE NATION
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  ARCHIVES
  ACROSS THE NATION
  Back in 1869, when John James and Mary
  Ann Sainsbury set up their little shop in
  Drury Lane, London, their sights were set
  not upon establishing a world-class
  business, or even a national multiple,...