'JS Journal', August/September 1995

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• Contents Page
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  HEADLINES
  WRITELINES
  I I T H SAVACENTRE
  OPENS
  WOLVERHAMPTON
  HOMEBASE OPENING
  ANNUAL GENERAL
  MEETING
  TALKING TECHNOLOGY
  GROUP FISHING DAY
  PROFIT SHARING
  EXPLAINED
  CHECK THIS OUT
  STORES AT LARGE
  SSA OFFERS
  LOVE...

• Frontline
  02

  Hypermarkets and cyberspace
  With only ten hypermarkets in the country, the opening of an eleventh is very big news. Savacenti
  certainly made a splash when they opened number eleven in Sydenham. Spiderman was just one of
  the...

• JS Journal Photographic Competition
  02

  JS Journal Photographic Competition
  Nick will be the judge
  If you have just returned from your summer holidays, don't put the
  camera away. It's open season for the JS Journal photographic
  competition so get out there and hunt...

• Marques of good taste
  02

  Marques of good taste
  Several own brand products have
  scooped prestigious accolades. JS products took two of the top
  honours in the 13 categories of the
  SuperMarketing Quality Awards.
  Dry Cure Bacon was praised for...

• Chairman honoured by University
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  Chairman honoured by University
  Loughborough University vice
  chancelior David Wailace
  confers an honorary degree
  upon David Sainsbury. Chairman David Sainsbury
  was recognised for his
  outstanding contributions
  to retailing'...

• Degrees of success
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  Degrees of success
  Chairman David Sainsbury witli tlie graduates at the
  Victoria and Aibert Hotei.
  The first graduates of the Sainsbury's sponsored
  Manchester Metropolitan University BA Honours
  Degree in Retail Marketing were...

• Milk marketing billboard
  03

  Tony Suilivan, dairy senior
  manager, outside Cromwell
  Road store in London where a
  giant mechanical carton on a
  hoarding was used to
  promote the new Tetratop
  milk cartons. A motor
  opened and closed the lid of
  the model but...

• Schools' equipment in the bag
  03

  Schools' equipment in the bag
  Customers can now choose between benefiting a local
  charity or their local school when they re-use their
  carrier bags. From September 10,
  customers will be offered
  the choice between a penny
  or...

• Bound to succeed
  04

  Bound to succeed
  Ripley store have been awarded a £500 incentive prize
  for coming up witli a brilliant new product now selling
  in all stores.
  The Ripley Action Team with the result of their idea and
  hard work. An Action Team...

• Feel me, touch me, sell me...
  04

  Feel me, touch me, sell me... The courses include visits
  to see how depots handle
  produce, tours of fruit and
  veg suppliers and seminar
  sessions led by representatives
  from the Ministry of
  Agriculture, Fisheries and
  Food....

• Hampden Park goes dotto
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  Hampden Park goes dotto
  Hampden Park, under a
  sponsorship deal with
  Eastbourne Borough
  Council, has a mobile
  advertisement in the form
  of the Eastbourne DOTTO
  Trains, which transport
  tourists and local residents
  to...

• Oldbury joins the new style set
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  Oldbury joins the new style set
  The two Barbaras (Abbey on
  the left and Floyd on
  the right) hold the
  ribbon for Savacentre
  chairman David
  Quarmby (left) and
  store director
  Alan Birbeck. David Quarmby was
  accompanied by a...

• Christmas comes but three times a year
  05

  Christmas comes but three times a year
  Special Selection buyer
  Bridgette Hardy with buying
  director Robin Whitbread.
  Sixty nine journalists
  from women's consumer
  media enjoyed
  Christmas in July.
  It may be an odd...

• Discount card D-day
  05

  Discount card D-day
  JS stores in Woking,
  Brookwood and Basingstoke;
  Woking Homebase
  and Calcot Savacentre,
  began putting the card
  through its paces for the
  first time on August 14.
  We outlined in the June JS Journal how...

• Ipswich has it covered
  05

  Ipswich has it covered
  Ipswich customers have
  found a solution to the
  age-old town centre store
  problem of how to get
  those heavy carrier bags
  from the checkout to the
  car.
  A new service allows
  customers to leave...

• Merton's bank opens our oil recycling account
  05

  Representatives of the Group's project team, the National Rivers Association and the recycling company. We highlighted the dangers of oil pollution in a
  previous article (JS Journal, plO, April 1995), now
  Merton Savacentre are...

• Writelines
  06

  HALF BAKED
  IDEAS
  June Wilson, meat
  replenishment assistant,
  Oldham
  My colleagues and I are
  taking this opportunity to
  bring to your attention a
  recent change in the
  provision of fresh bread
  that is causing a...

• Savacentre opening—Sydenham
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  SYDENHAM
  Opening date: August 15, 1995
  Address: Perry Hill, Bell Green,
  Sydenham, London
  Opened by: Savacentre chairman
  David Quarmby
  Store director: Jon Hartland
  Project manager: Chris Isherwood
  Staff: 1,077 (800 new...

• Homebase opening—Wolverhampton
  09

  WOLVERHAMPTON
  The spanking new Homebase in Wolverhampton is
  a far cry from the ten-year-old Walsall store seven
  miles up the road that it replaces, and trade press
  have even been seen lurking around with their
  cameras....

• Our business Annual General Meeting
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  Our business Annual General Meeting
  Unlike M&S, Sainsbury's a t t r a c t e d n o bikini-clad m o d e l s or b l o w - u p plastic whales
  t o its Annual General Meeting.
  Almost 5 0 0 s h a r e h o l d e r s g a t h e r e d o n...

• BOARD MOVES
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  TWO NEW NON-EXECUTIVE
  DIRECTORS WERE APPOINTED
  AT THE MEETING. The chairman expressed his pleasure at
  having secured the services of Clive
  Thompson, chief executive of Rentokll
  Group PLC as a non-executive director.
  Under...

• Information at the speed of light
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  Information at the speed of light
  As computers become more powerful, and more information is flowing around the company, the links between
  terminals, and between terminals and mainframe, are straining with the load. One of the...

• CORRECTION:
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  CORRECTION:
  The caption to our picture on page 3 of the July issue
  regarding the MBA graduates incorrectly named
  Colin Rye and Rick Beazley. Rick is on the far left
  and Colin second from left.
  Colin Bartleet of Plymouth Texas...

• FISHY GOINGS ON
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  FISHY GOINGS ON
  Few fellow competitors suspected Barry Dymond' s cunning plan to win the SSA fishing
  competition, and by the time they did it was too late.
  Basingstoke depot's Barry eventually took pole position at...

• News in brief
  14

  Tesco to build in
  Northern Ireland
  Tesco has announced that
  its first store in Northern
  Ireland will be a Tesco
  Metro town centre shop. It
  has acquired the Allied
  Irish Bank site at Castle
  Junction and the chain said
  they...

• SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE
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  SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE
  Almost all of you will have received recently the v/elcome bonus of the profit
  share in your pay packets. And a lot of you now participate in the Save As
  You Earn scheme (SAYE) as well. After initial...

• In memory of a son
  16

  District manager Mike
  Goodman's Penny Back
  presentation on July 1 was no
  ordinary JS donation.
  Almost £15,000 was raised by the
  district's fundraising activities and
  Penny Back donations for the John
  Penfold Memorial Fund....

• Rub a dub dub
  16

  Rub a dub dub
  Newbury JS took part in the
  annual Newbury Craft Race
  along the River Kennet and this
  year trounced arch rival Tesco's.
  The team of 12 took to the
  water in their homemade craft -
  a few empty oil drums...

• Whitley Bay goes radio ga ga
  16

  Whitley Bay goes radio ga ga
  Debbie and Darren as
  Minnie and Mickey.
  Whigfield's song
  Saturday Night will
  never be the same
  for staff at Whitley
  Bay after store
  manager Alan
  Gilbert gave his
  own rendition of
  the song...

• He's been to the palace to see the Queen
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  He's been to the palace to see the Queen
  Len and his wife Jessie at
  Buckingham Palace.
  Len Rudman, customer service
  assistant at Kidlington, enjoyed a
  right royal occasion recently when
  he was invited to the Queen's
  Garden...

• Ice cream is good for chiidren
  17

  Ice cream is good for chiidren
  American Independence
  Day and National Ice
  Cream Week kept three
  stores very busy
  promoting products and
  entertaining customers.
  At Arnold, customers
  could buy
  Indulgence ice
  cream...

• Netball challenge
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  Netball challenge
  Stand back new World Champions
  Australia - here come the Alton
  netball team!
  Runners-up in the 4th division
  of the Basingstoke netball league,
  V. m ' 1 ^ ^, , ^ ^ ^ J the Alton team have only...

• The main attraction
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  The main attraction
  They're a wild bunch at
  Whitechapei. Customers were
  bowled over when they first
  caught sight of the Indiana Gold
  promotion during July. Parked
  right in the middle of the foyer
  was a 1976 Harley...

• Tickled to eat you
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  Tickled to eat you
  The opening of East Prescot
  Road's new Shopper's
  Restaurant was a tattifalarious
  event when local celebrity Ken
  Dodd brought along his tickling
  stick. Ken, who joked with
  customers and staff on July...

• Dropping in for PHAB
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  Brendan Glyn, Lee Green manager, steps over the
  edge of Drury House as the other abseilers watch. JS would not normally
  condone staff throwing
  themselves from the top of
  11 storey buildings, but on
  July 31 it was all in aid...

• One and a half million pennies bring sunshine
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  One and a half million pennies bring sunshine
  Take the dedication of 12
  branches and the
  enthusiasm of district
  manager Bryn Page, a
  worthy cause and a Penny
  Back scheme and what do
  you get? One and a half
  million...

• Some holiday!
  18

  When vegetable buyer Colin
  Hill was asked to go on a
  cycling holiday with four
  friends, he didn't realise
  what he was letting himself in
  for. What followed was a 954
  mile trek from Land's End to
  John O'Groats over one...

• SSA OFFERS
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• Send us your love story
  20

  Send us your love story
  Love is everyone's favourite ingredient. And everyone remembers the
  bitter sweetness of their first love or their first liiss. Now is your chance
  to share your romantic story with the rest of the world....

• By special arrangement
  22

  By special arrangement
  If your roses are round the bend, your chrysanthemums are
  crooked and your daffodils are all in a bunch,
  rearrange your floral display using Homebase
  Floral Foam. Available in discs or bricks,...

• Deep freeze
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  Five new lines have been introduced to
  revive interest in frozen fish, namely:
  Isle of Skye Scottish Salmon Fillets
  (300g), Scallops (227g), Jamaican
  Red Tilapia (250g), Greenland Halibut
  fillets (250g), and Scottish...

• Nature's finest
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  Nature's finest
  The name may be familiar but the
  Nature's Compliments range now
  comprises 56 brand new products. The
  sophisticated toiletries are formulated
  with natural extracts renowned for their
  beneficial properties in...

• No pain wood stain
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  No pain wood stain
  Always keen to encourage
  environmental friendliness,
  Homebase has launched Quick
  Drying Woodstain, a water
  based formulation which is
  kinder to the environment as
  well as drying in half the time of
  a...

• On the case
  22

  New in the cake aisle are two more selections for the existing pie range.
  Summer Selection and Fruits of the Forest join Bramley Apple Pies and Apple &
  Blackcurrant Pies.
  Each box consists of six pies made with
  shortcrust...

• Two's scrumptious, forget the crowd
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  Two's scrumptious, forget the crowd
  Ever had friends round to dinner
  just so you could indulge in
  buying a whole gateau? The new
  Sainsbury's Two Portion Gateau
  will be welcomed by those who
  want something special all...

• A REMINDER:
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  A REMINDER: The
  retirements and long service
  sections are compiled from
  information received
  centrally. You should notify
  the JS Journal direct if you
  would like us to feature a
  wedding (both partners must
  work for JS), an...

• LONG SERVICE
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  LONG SERVICE
  Employees who have
  completed 40 years' service:
  DON HAWKINS, store manager,
  Farnborough. GEOFF WHILLOCK,
  fish counter, North Cheam.
  PATRICIA NEWMAN, meat
  preparation assistant,
  Streatham Common. JOHN
  DINES,...

• MESSAGES
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  MESSAGES
  HAPPY 1 0 0 TH BIRTHDAY TO
  MARGARET HADEN from STEVE
  NuTE, LEATHERHEAD store
  manager. Margaret has been
  shopping at Leatherhead
  since it opened and has been
  loyal to JS for half a century.
  Margaret's...

• Mixed doubles
  23

  Mixed doubles
  Sainsbury's has served up
  three ready-to-drink cocktails
  called JS Doubles for t h e
  fast growing ready-to-drink
  market.
  The varieties are: whisky
  and ginger, white rum and
  Classic Cola, and gin...

• OBITUARY
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  OBITUARY
  Length of service appears in
  brackets.
  ALAN CHEESMAN, a warehouse
  operative in the returns and
  empties department at
  Basingstoke depot, died after
  a long illness on July 2 1 . He
  was S2 years old....

• RETIREMENTS
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  RETIREMENTS
  JEAN ANGEL, checkout/replenishment
  assistant,
  Dagenham (21yrs). CATHERINE
  APPERLEY, fresh food code
  control, Warren Heath
  (lOyrs). MICHAEL ARNOLD,
  Trident warehouse clerk,
  Hoddesdon depot (26yrs).
  JOAN...

• ALL THE FUN OF THE FAMILY
  24

  ARCHIVES
  Jean Jeapes deals a giant joker at Dulwich, 1978.
  ALL THE FUN OF THE
  FAMILY
  Spring of 1978 saw a mammoth operation
  to prepare for the first national
  Sainsbury's Family Day on June 18. D he event was to be organised...