'JS Journal', June 1998

Table of content

• Contents Page
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  Contents
  Company news including stories on:
  3 What happens if disaster strikes Blackfriars
  3 Winners of the competition to name the Stockwise owl
  3 The new guide to help colleagues coming up for retirement
  4 New designs for...

• From the editor
  02

  From the editor
  Like the rest of the world, the Journal team
  has football squarely on the brain this month.
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  latest from Cheadle on the Customer First
  Management...

• Business as usual if disaster strikes
  03

  Business as usual if disaster strikes
  A plan to keep the
  business running
  normally if the
  Blackfriars complex
  was put out of
  action has been
  tested at Fanhams
  Hall company
  training centre. Trefor Hales and the business...

• New guide for retirement
  03

  New guide for retirement
  Sainsbury's has recently issued
  the new Employee Guide to
  Preparing for Retirement.
  Bill Lappage from retail security,
  who will be retiring in the autumn,
  receives his retirement guide from
  Irene...

• Sci-fi store could neighbour dome
  03

  Sci-fi store could neighbour dome
  JS has announced plans
  for a state-of-the-art
  store for the year 2000
  to be built in sight of
  the Millennium Dome in
  Greenwich. The store, which aims to be
  up to 50% more energy...

• Stockwise Owl named
  03

  The results of the
  competition held in the
  March Journalto name the
  Stockwise owl are out and
  OSCAR is to be its name.
  OSCAR the Stockwise owl
  (aka Stockwise team member,
  Judy Kempshall) congratulates the
  two who gave it...

• Art students bag exhibiting space
  04

  Art students bag exhibiting space
  Sainsbury's has given
  young artists a chance to
  put their work on show to
  millions of shoppers,
  thanks to a competition to
  produce designs for four
  reusable carrier bags. Bags of talent...

• Cheers for Sainsbury's drinks suppliers
  04

  Cheers for Sainsbury's
  drinks suppliers
  Sainsbury's top drinks suppliers met with
  members of the drinks division to discuss
  business at London's Queen Elizabeth
  Conference Centre in May. Delegates were treated to a
  musical...

• News in brief
  04

  Bretton scores NVQ success
  Four colleagues at Bretton have
  achieved National Vocational Qualifications
  (NVQs). Helen Barrett (second left)
  and Jackie Sherriff (second right)
  gained their NVQ in administration level
  two, and...

• Drumming on empties
  05

  Drumming on empties
  Sainsbury's latest TV campaign features over 300 meals
  that are ready in under 20 minutes and won't keep you in
  the kitchen when you could be watching the World Cup.
  Xavier Da Silva (right) and his band...

• Flexosaurus pops in
  05

  Flexosaurus pops in
  Kids at London Colney Savacentre were shown how to fight tooth decay by
  Flexosaurus, a character from the children's toothbrush range. His visit was part of home
  and personal care's 'Everything
  Under the...

• Halifax sees the light
  05

  Halifax sees the light
  The new-style lighting design
  at Halifax store (featured in
  March's Journal) has won a
  Commended award at the
  Lighting Industry Federation
  national awards, held at
  London's Savoy Hotel.
  The JS team...

• News in brief
  05

  Incentive ad wins award
  An advertisement to promote the
  benefits of JS Group gift vouchers to
  other businesses has won an award.
  The ad was named 'Best Display Ad - vvonne west with the award - and
  the award-winning...

• AIR MILES cover the distance to you
  06

  AIR MILES cover the distance to you
  AIR MILES training teams are currently visiting stores to demonstrate the
  benefits of converting reward vouchers into AIR MILES awards. The more informed colleagues
  at the front end are...

• Girl Guides get around
  06

  Girl Guides get around
  The Wiltshire Girl Guides raised over £1,500 by bag packing
  round the county. They visited JS stores in Bridgemead, Stratton,
  Swindon, Melksham and Calne. They're pictured here with
  colleagues at...

• News in brief
  06

  Sheffield customer wins national prize
  A customer at Sheffield Savacentre,
  a Mrs Wrigglesworth, has been
  chosen as the outright winner of the
  competition to win half a million
  reward points.
  The competition was held at all...

• Penny Back pays
  06

  Penny Back pays
  Sainsbury's Penny Back scheme is benefiting registered charities across the
  country. Last year £750,000 was given back, which equates to a saving of 900
  tonnes of plastic. Here are
  a few examples of the...

• Keeping the beautiful game clean
  07

  Keeping the beautiful game clean
  Making sure England's and
  Scotland's footballers look
  immaculate when they play
  the beautiful game is the
  responsibility of official kit
  washers Clive Jones and
  Bernie Curran.
  Both men were...

• Low Hall life-saver
  07

  Low Hall life-saver
  Sharon Slater, assistant admin manager at Low Hall Chingford, put her
  first aid training into practice when she resuscitated a two-year-old boy in
  the store who had stopped breathing. Sharon, a first aider...

• News in brief
  07

  Spurs star launches National Diabetes Week
  Sainsbury's held a series of diabetes
  store tours over National Diabetes
  Week (7-13 June), as part of a nationwide
  initiative with the British
  Diabetic Association (BDA) to...

• Group-wide
  08

  Group-wide
  Here's our regular round-up of what's been going on across the Group.. SAtNSBURY'S
  SUPERMARKETS
  GIANT STAKE SOLD
  J Sainsbury pic has announced its
  decision to sell, subject to contract, its
  entire position in...

• Let them cheeses roll
  08

  As reported in last month's Journal, four managers from Peterborough store, called The Smelly Cheeses', challenged the winners of the 1998 Stilton
  Cheese Rolling competition to a race in
  the village of Stilton, Cambridgeshire...

• Tell the world about the Bank
  08

  Tell the world about the Bank
  Sainsbury's Bank is on the lookout for satisfied customers. It's looking for personal-interest
  stories about why taking out a Sainsbury's Bank product has improved your financial position. Ideally,...

• Side By Side
  09

  Wigston pools together
  South Wigston Club for Young People is the proud owner of a new pool table thanks to colleagues at Wigston
  store
  Young club members show
  off their new pool table
  with Mo Langton
  (third left), club...

• Ready to Order
  10

  As ordering manager, former admin manager Jane Baker is now
  responsible for managing stock control. The Customer First Management trial has now been going for over nine weeks and managers in
  the seven trial stores are getting...

• Writelines
  12

  Have your say
  What's our
  share of
  the profits?
  Fiona Matthews,
  community affairs,
  Blackfriars:
  w e were told that profit
  sharing had increased this
  year by 19%. This seems to be
  right as the overall amount
  available for...

• Mastering the art of food
  14

  Mastering the art of food
  Sainsbury's training has always
  been greatly respected in the
  retail industry. Between the world
  wars, rival retailers even advertised
  for 'Sainsbury-trained men'.
  To keep up the company's...

• A categorically better way to trade
  16

  A categorically better way to trada
  If a corporate body is to keep fit, its left hand must know what the right is doing. Category management is a new
  way of working which unites colleagues from every part of the corporate body...

• Football, Football, Football
  18

  Ince the midfield maestro during England's
  2-0 win against Georgia at Wembley in last
  year's World Cup qualifier. lidfield maestro masters acting role
  th a few of the Hod-squad indulging in late-night rave-ups in the run-up to...

• Fair treatment for all
  20

  This month marks the launch of
  Sainsbury's Supermarkets' new Fair
  Treatment policy. The company is
  taking practical steps to ensure that JS
  is a fair place to work. The JS Journal
  finds out more.
  If you've ever felt unfairly...

• Feast fit for football fans
  22

  Feast fit for football fans
  Essential footy foods for making the World Cup even
  more enjoyable (as if that were possible) are now
  available in most Sainsbury's stores Part of the
  range includes frozen American Style Deep...

• Lolly good
  22

  Lolly good The perfect summer treat of ice-cream and yogurt lollies is now available. Bananatastic Lollies
  (£1.79) includes four banana and toffee ice-cream lollies with a toffee-flavour coating
  Bubbletastic Lollies includes...

• Perfect paper products
  22

  Perfect paper products
  In a new design for summer, JS has launched Extra
  Thick Kitchen Towels (£1.32). The two designs - kites
  and barbecues - are bubble bonded for extra
  thickness. Also launched is Sainsbury's Ultra...

• The taste test
  22

  The taste test
  The Journal's taste test visited Camden store to
  sample Organic Ice Cream - the latest addition to
  Sainsbury's expanding range of organic
  products. Fully approved by the Soil Association,
  Organic Ice Cream...

• Timberrr!
  22

  Timberrr!
  The Homebase own brand range of stick
  timber and pine board has been relaunched
  with improved label design to reflect the
  quality, and to differentiate the product from
  the rest of the market. The labels have...

• Cakes galore
  23

  Cakes galore
  On the cake front, Sainsbury's is offering three new lines.
  They include the Grand Prix Car Cake (£9.99), a light
  sponge cake designed exclusively by Jane Asher with
  a butter-cream and raspberry-jam filling...

• Moghlai manna
  23

  Moghlai manna
  Sainsbury's travelled to Delhi, Agra and Jaipur in India
  to find an exciting style of Indian cooking that until now
  has been virtually untasted in the UK. The result is the
  launch of the Moghlai range-twelve...

• Salad days
  23

  Salad days
  The perfect partner to every summer
  meal is a fresh, crisp salad. Even better
  if it's washed and ready to eat, like
  Sainsbury's four new prepared salads.
  St Clements Salad 200g (£1.39) comes
  with a sachet of...

• Vintage vinegar
  23

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• Action for autism
  24

  Action for autism
  A team from Southport store
  entered a Wacky Pancake
  Race in aid of Action for
  Autism. The race was held
  outside the store and was
  started by comedian Ken
  Dodd. Southport's team,
  which was narrowly...

• Barnstaple man on trail of Incas
  24

  Barnstaple man on trail of Incas
  David Lee, warehouseman at
  Barnstaple, recently took on
  the gruelling four-day trek of
  background is Intipunku (The
  Sun Gate) overlooking Machu
  Pichu. David, wearing
  everyone's favourite...

• Check it out
  24

  Check it out
  Pictured below is Kevin While,
  store manager of Kingsway,
  undertaking his checkout
  training. Customer Rosemary
  surprised that Kevin passed his
  training with flying colours.
  Kevin says thai he found it
  quite an...

• Chippenham starts 'em young
  24

  Chippenham starts 'em young
  Cyn Mahon (centre), store
  trainer at Chippenham, had a
  new bunch of four-year-old
  recruits to guide round the
  store the other day. Working on
  a high-level and confidential
  project involving bread...

• Chocolate heaven at Heyford Hill
  24

  Chocolate heaven at Heyford Hill
  A customer focus evening
  held recently at Heyford Hill
  store, sponsored by Cadbury's,
  saw one lucky customer walk
  away with a year's supply of
  chocolate. Based on the
  average intake, this...

• Cowley donates trolley
  24

  Cowley donates trolley
  Bruce Allcock, store manager at
  Cowley, is seen here presenting Luke
  Bardennean, accompanied by his
  mother, with his very own customsized
  trolley. Luke, who is disabled,
  attends a local special needs...

• United we fall
  24

  United we fall
  To celebrate Newcastle
  United reaching the FA
  Cup Final, Durham store
  held a face-painting event
  for children. David Slater,
  checkout assistant, is
  pictured above with an
  appropriately-decorated
  young...

• Bag packing towards new headquarters
  25

  Bag packing towards new headquarters
  Lee Green store was presented with
  a Scouting 'With Thanks'
  shield for helping various
  scouting groups in the
  Lewisham North district bag
  pack over Easter and
  Christmas for the
  past two...

• Past and present
  25

  Past and present
  Barbara Voice recently retired from Haywards Heath store after 28
  years with the company. Barbara started at London Road store in
  Brighton in 1954 patting the butter, and over the years worked at
  Haywards...

• Princely fence
  25

  Princely fence
  Lianne Swinburn, cook at Durham, recently completed a 20-week placement with the Prince's
  Trust. The result of this dedication is a unique pencil fence for pupils of Beamish Primary School
  pictured above.

• Waddle helps Burnley, again
  25

  Waddle helps Burnley, again
  Chris Waddle, manager of Burnley Football Club, found
  time during his eventually successful battle to save his
  team from relegation to present prizes to the winners
  of the Sainsbury's/Warburtons...

• Won by a street
  25

  Won by a street
  Street was the winner of the female five-aside
  football competition held at Chilton
  Trinity Sports Centre, Bridgwater for Ian
  Elkins' district. The team from Street beat
  Hankridge Farm in the final. Paignton...

• The £25 crossword and £10 wordsearch
  26

  Sport crossword
  it
  CLUES
  ACROSS
  Maradona's World Cup-winning
  country (9)
  Bafana Bafana is the name given to
  the football team of South _ _ _ _ (6)
  One of the swords used in Olympic
  fencing (4)
  Zubizarreta is this...

• Footy trivia
  27

  Footy trivia
  To celebrate the World Cup, all this month's Tricky Trivia questions relate to teams
  playing in the France '98 tournament.
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  o/rivia
  Which team is nicknamed Bafana Bafana?
  Which is the only...

• Reward card helpline helps two million
  27

  Reward card helpline helps two million
  Mike Robinson of HSL
  juggles callers to the
  Reward Card helpline.
  Sainsbury's and Handling Solutions Ltd
  (HSL) ended the financial year on a
  high when the two millionth call...

• Will you change the way you wash forever?
  27

  Will you change the way you wash forever?
  Oil of Ulay has used its skincare expertise to formulate a revolutionary
  Moisturising Body Wash system. It contains 75% Ulay moisturisers and leaves
  your skin feeling soft and smooth,...

• Make hay with the SSA
  28

  Rumour has it that there should be
  more to life than work. That's why the
  leisure-loving Sainsbury's Staff
  Association (SSA) was set up 51 years
  ago. At Plymouth JS, 87.5%
  of colleagues have jumped on the
  leisure bandwagon...

• SSA OFFERS
  30

  SAINSBURY'S STAFF ASSOCIATION
  Sign up with the very,
  very nice men You never know when or where
  you're going to break down, so complete confidence in your breakdown organization is essential.
  The AA, with its army of...

• Long service
  31

  Long service
  Employee who has completed 40 years' service:
  BRIAN LINCOLN Butcher, Hampton.
  Employees who have completed 25 years' service:
  RUTH BAKER, meat assistant, Muswell Hill BERVL BARDWELL kiosk assistant, Harlow ARTHUR...

• Obituary
  31

  Obituary
  RONALD DAVIS, 59, a trolley collector at Bath, died suddenly on 22 April (12yrs) PENNY DUNNE, 53, a
  checkout/replenishment assistant at Bretton, died on 1 May after a short illness (13yrs). JILL GARDNER,
  47, a SABRE...

• Retirements
  31

  Retirements
  Length of service is in brackets
  JEAN APPLEBY, kiosk assistant, Bromley (18yrs). BERYL AUSTIN, checkout/replenishment assistant, High
  Wycombe (26yrs). SYLVIA BAIN, checkout/replenishment assistant, Northwich...

• Sound and Vision
  31

  Leading our video review this month is the witty, dark comedy
  Grosse Pointe Blank, starring John Cusack and Minnie Driver.
  Cusack plays a hit man returning to his home town, Grosse
  Point, to attend his ten-year high school...

• From our door to yours we deliver
  32

  From our door to yours we deliver
  This year's trial of home delivery from 32 larger Sainsbury's stores is one example
  ofhowJS is tailoring its services to customers' lifestyles. In the busy, modern world
  home delivery saves...