'JS Journal', April/May 1999

Table of content

• Contents Page
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  Contents
  Company news including stories on
  The lower-fat range on the way
  Bankwows'ematOlympia
  Discounted arts and entertainment
  JS ideas make Millennium Products
  Exhibition dates for your diary
  Facelifts for four...

• From the editor
  02

  From the editor
  You can probably tell from
  my inability to write proper
  sentences that I didn't read
  much as a child. But thanks
  to the Bookstart Millennium
  Project (page 18) I've
  been catching up on some
  of the reading I...

• A taste of things to come
  03

  A taste of things to come
  Sainsbury's is launching a
  huge campaign to support its
  new range of over 200 ownlabel
  products which enable
  you to reduce the fat in your
  diet without compromising
  on taste. The campaign...

• Bank stand delivers results
  03

  Bank stand delivers results
  Olympia's Homebuyers'
  Exhibition had a new
  attraction this year - a stand
  from Sainsbury's Bank. Six
  staff, seconded from Bank of
  Scotland, which helps
  operate Sainsbury's Bank,
  provided...

• Comically relieved
  03

  Comically relieved
  Sainsbury Group colleagues
  and customers helped raise
  a record-breaking £4.1
  million for 1999's Comic
  Relief appeal - the largest
  single donation ever made.
  The Sainsbury's Bank
  cheque - which,...

• Group board regroups
  03

  Group board regroups
  Group chairman Sir George
  Bull has announced changes
  in responsibility for
  Sainsbury Group board
  members, establishing a clear
  distinction of responsibilities
  between the Group and
  operating-company...

• Access all areas
  04

  Access all areas
  fl I »Jm Production
  ptdS^The Nightingales
  Stage Pass, a unique
  national arts card for
  16-29 year olds offering
  discounts of up to 70%
  on the best arts and
  entertainment events
  across the UK is...

• High-tech tagging bags big award
  04

  High-tech tagging
  bags big award
  Mark Gillott (left) RF tagging project manager and business analyst Darren
  Ratcliffe (centre), receive the Millennium Product award from chief executive
  of the Design Council, Andrew Summers....

• Paying with plastic
  04

  Paying with plastic
  Showing off an enlarged version of the new money are
  Fran Berry (seated) and (from the left) Hansa Lad, Veena
  Patel, Dorothy Beeching and Clare Duckenfield. Trainee cashiers have always
  been thrown in at...

• Merton makes double figures
  05

  Merton makes double figures
  Happy birthday to you gets a jazz swing - store director Steve Potts (dark suit)
  joins Merlon's mayor and young guest Anne Marie in the cake-cutting ceremony. The week-long celebration of
  Merton...

• REFIT ROUND-UP
  05

  REFIT ROUND-UP
  The four latest stores to get a facelift are:
  Warrington
  The store's extension to 49,600 sq ft makes it into one of the biggest in the
  company. Warrington now boasts a new salad bar, new Food to Go, meat
  and...

• Show time
  05

  Show time
  Sainsbury's exhibition programme got under way in February with the
  HortEx International trade show at Harrogate, the UK's major event for
  fruit and vegetable growers.
  Just so you can make sure you free up your...

• News in brief
  06

  Bridgwater boosts IIP numbers
  Bridgwater has joined the growing ranks
  of stores to be accredited as an Investor
  in People. After 11 months of preparation
  the Store was assessed as being well up Enjoying their IIP status...

• Prize cheers new wine masters
  06

  Prize cheers new wine masters
  Two newly-qualified Masters
  of Wine have been awarded
  £2,000 by JS for their
  outstanding dissertations.
  Sainsbury's sponsors the
  dissertation prize as part of
  its overall support for...

• Trolleys for triplets
  06

  Since JS's first triplet trolley
  went into service at Pound
  Lane a year ago, trolleys for
  triplets have become all the
  rage. Tamworth and
  Fairfield Park stores now
  have customers with triplets
  in the family who are
  jumping...

• Group-wide
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  Group-wide
  Here's our regular round-up of what's been going on across the Group... VETERANS MEET
  Four hundred and thirty Sainsbury
  Group veterans attended a
  veterans reunion in Bristol in
  March. Trading director...

• News at ten
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  NEWS AT TEN Ten bite-sized stories to get your teeth into. NOT-SO-SANE JANE
  Jane Asher did her bit for Comic Relief when
  she visited Islington store to sign copies of the
  Comic Relief recipe book, Five Go Mad in the
  Kitchen....

• Writelines
  09

  Have your say
  Whirlybird
  worry
  Gwen Foster, fresh foods
  replenishment assistant,
  Bexhill:
  On arriving at work recently,
  I was very surprised to see a
  Budgie helicopter ride situated
  about eight feet from our busy
  car...

• Wind of change blows in JS's sails
  12

  The most face-changing conference in Sainsbury's history took place in Brighton in February. It talked about the
  programmes currently transforming JS into a moj^j|acitfus/customer-first business, and highlighted the...

• Millennium projects move on apace
  18

  As we move closer to
  2000, development of the
  millennium projects
  announced in the Jan/Feb
  Journal is gathering
  pace. This month, two
  Olympians hurdle into the
  limelight to launch
  Bookstart schemes in
  Portsmouth and...

• Quiz: Does your energy awareness make you an energy angel or a vandal?
  19

  Quiz: Does your energy awareness make you an energy angel or a vandal?
  So far around 400 colleagues have attended energy-awareness courses run by the JS Group energy
  team, led by Ian Taylor. All the attendees are now energy...

• The arts of conversation
  20

  What would you expect Sue Hopkinson to be
  talking about by the Melba toasts but wheat'. Look who's talking - Samantha Williams signs
  the word 'talk'. Life at JS can be demanding at the best of times, but imagine how you'd cope...

• Branch opening—Chesham
  22

  Chesham
  Chesham is Sainsbury's 400th store, and it's twice the size of the old Chesham which closed
  last year. Around 80 staff who had been working at nearby stores have now returned to the
  new Chesham.
  The new store is part...

• Homebase opening—East Grinstead
  22

  East Grinstead
  East Grinstead Homebase opened officially on 26 February after a 'soft' opening on
  5 February - meaning the store is trading but not advertised until the official
  opening date.
  The store was trading only seven...

• Branch opening—Fallowfield
  23

  Fallowfield
  The site for Fallowfield was previously occupied by a British Rail
  goods yard that was closed in 1958. It's now a major student area of
  Manchester, with 1,400 student flats around the store. As a result,
  50% of the...

• Branch opening—Meadowbank
  23

  Meadowbank
  As Meadowbank backs onto Edinburgh's basketball stadium, two players
  from the Edinburgh/Rocks basketball team laid up on opening morning to
  give the occasion a bit of slam-dunk appeal.
  The new store has revitalized...

• Chinese crackers
  24

  Chinese crackers
  For a taste of the Orient, try Sainsbury's authentic new range of Chinese ready
  meals. Each dish has been specially created using traditional Chinese recipes and
  ingredients.
  The new lines include Crispy Fried...

• Go stir crazy
  24

  Go stir crazy
  Four new vegetable stir fries have
  been launched in the frozen foods
  section. They are: Oriental Style Rice,
  Oriental Style Vegetables, Chinese
  Style Vegetables, and Cantonese Style
  Egg Fried Noodles. The four...

• Hot stuff
  24

  Sainsbury's Hot Cakes range has recently increased by two.
  The new products are Double Toffee - a toffee-flavour sponge
  with fudge pieces, filled with a toffee sauce; and Passion Cake
  - a moist carrot-and-sultana sponge with a...

• Pasta with a local flavour
  24

  Specially packed
  for Sainsbury's in
  Genoa, the Regional
  Pastas of Italy range
  includes four
  products all made
  using authentic pastamaking
  techniques:
  Orecchiette - from
  Puglia; Malloreddus
  -from Sardinia,
  dating back to...

• Fresh creations coming your way
  25

  Fresh creations coming your way
  The roll-out of Sainsbury's Fresh Creations range is now well under
  way. The range includes 12 complete meals, all made with fresh
  ingredients and ready in under ten minutes. Don't worry about...

• Take care of yourself
  25

  Take care of yourself
  People who like to take good care of themselves will be delighted with
  the reformulation of the Vitamin E cleansing range and the
  Aromatherapy bathroom accessories. The Vitamin E range has been
  designed...

• Veggie good ideas
  25

  Veggie good ideas
  Fresh new veggie ideas ready for you to try include the Five
  Vegetable Medley (£1.49), which contains broccoli, carrots,
  red peppers, courgettes, and baby sweetcorn; Bistro Style
  Salad (£1.29) - a sweet red...

• Aid worker needs help
  26

  Aid worker needs help
  Anita Hardcastle from
  I lampion store has been
  Abroad to help build schools
  and clinics in Tanzania for
  three months. Before her
  departure in June, Anita musl
  raise £3,000 to fund her trip.
  If you...

• Jake and Elmo get down in Durham
  26

  Jake and Elmo get down in Durham
  Durham's Blues Brothers go a little
  bit country with Alan Gilbert (left -
  we think) and Joe Thurley.
  Durham's store manager
  Joe Thurley and senior
  deputy Alan Gilbert were
  obviously not...

• Morocco Mel
  26

  Morocco Mel
  Mel Pidd from retail finance at
  Streatham office completed a
  65-mile trek across the Sahara
  November. The trek took five
  days and Mel raised £9,000 for
  Macmillan Cancer Relief. Mel
  would like to sav a bill...

• New car for SSA raffle winner
  26

  New car for SSA raffle winner
  Amanda Shelley, part-time checkout/replenishment assistant at Calne store, was singing in the rain
  after winning a new Peugeot 106 in the SSA Christmas raffle held on Gordon Silvester's...

• Rayleigh Weir cheers children
  26

  Rayleigh Weir cheers children
  Colleagues at Rayleigh Weir
  store, brought smiles to the
  faces of children at Southend
  Hospital when they presented
  them with a video recorder,
  videos and CDs, purchased with
  the proceeds from...

• Street villain earns honest living at Burpham
  26

  Street villain earns honest living at Burpham
  Fans of Coronation StreetmW
  know the faces in the photo as
  those of nurse Martin Piatt and
  the more recently-introduced Mr
  Lickley. But you may not know
  that Mr Lickley,...

• Trooping the cake
  26

  Trooping the cake
  Archer Road invited its local
  scout troop to bag pack at the
  store and help sell tickets for a
  guess-lhe-weight-ol-the-cake
  competition. The cake was
  baked by bakery manager Andy
  Clayton, and the prize was...

• Cheers at Fanhams
  27

  Cheers at Fanhams
  Colleagues at Fanhams
  Hall raised their glasses
  together recently in aid
  of Cheers Day. Margaret
  Nash in the bar ran a
  social drinking night in
  support of the charity
  which benefits the
  young, sick and...

• Fairfield Park does the business
  27

  Fairfield Park does the business
  Fairfield Park store has been sharing the secrets of its success at
  a local school's business week. Change management coordinator
  Kirsty Blainey and store trainer Norma Arnese spent three days...

• Presents for pre-school
  27

  Presents for pre-school
  Hedge End's store manager Terry Brown made the children of Priory Park Preschool's
  day when he popped in to present a cheque donated through Sainsbury's
  community affairs department. The pre-school used...

• Stanway's favourite fairy flies the coop
  27

  Stanway's favourite fairy flies the coop
  Stanway store has just
  been deprived of one of
  its main attractions.
  Josie Heinson, 62,
  retired on 17 April after
  15 years on grocery
  and checkouts. While
  Josie has a...

• ARE YOU A REAL TEA LOVER?
  28

  ARE YOU A REAL TEA LOVER?
  To ensure you enjoy your favourite cuppa
  in style, the Journal has linked up with
  Twinings, to offer six readers the chance to
  win a beautifully hand-painted and limitededition
  Tea Lover's tea set,...

• Join the party with L'Oreal kids
  28

  Join the party with L'Oreal kids
  L'Oreal Paris is launching a fun new range of * • ly/^O I IZ^I ^1 C
  hair products designed exclusively for kids, -*— • ^ ^ •*• ^ ^ • • A - 1 * ^ V I . K J
  called L'Oreal Kids....

• Win a bread-making machine with Allinson's
  28

  Win a bread-making machine with Allinson's
  Allinson's Flour is offering JS colleagues the chance to win
  one of five Panasonic bread-making machines in return for
  some help. One of the major customer complaints regarding
  flour...

• CHRISTMAS COMPETITION WINNERS
  29

  Winning the £25 crossword prize is GERAINT EMES at Cheadle.
  The £10 wordsearch prize goes to RON HILYARD, a veteran.
  Hiding behind Leonardo DiCaprio's mask is GARY MINCHIN at
  Merton Savacentre.
  Keeping their kids happy with...

• The £25 crossword and £10 wordsearch
  29

  CLUES
  ACROSS:
  1. This ship's demise led to many Oscars (7)
  5. Film where a bus has to keep moving or
  blow up (5)
  8. 1980 film parodying many disaster
  movies (8)
  9. Bend or corner in a road (4)
  10. Helicopter blade (5)
  11....

• SSA OFFERS
  30

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  a great trip
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  Jersey Tourism in association with Southern Hotels, British Airways and...

• Long service
  31

  Employee who completed 40years' service:
  MARGARET WEBB chief display assistant, Bishop's Stortford
  Employees who completed 25 years' service before April
  JEAN BAKER deli counter assistant. Portsmouth RICHARD BEAGLEY
  business...

• Obituaries
  31

  Obituaries
  HARRY GRABHAM 75, packer at Lee Green, died on 12 March after a short illness (9yrs) MAURO FERRARA 40 part-time checkout operator at
  Stratham Common, died on 28 March after a short illness (lyr) JEAN PERKINS 50,...

• Retirements
  31

  Retirements
  ANGELA ARCHER cneckout/replenishment assistant. Hampden Park
  (4yrs) LOUISA BAYMAN checkout/replenishment assistant, New
  Barnet (3yrs) ALBERT BROWN evening warehouse assistant, King's
  Lynn (3yrs) PATRICIA BROWN...

• Tricky trivia
  31

  Tricky trivia Let's see how
  you do in this
  month's Tricky
  Trivia

• The weighty problem of metrication
  32

  When Napoleon invented metric weights and measures, he probably didn't imagine they'd still be making extra work for shopkeepers
  some 200 years later. Before the curtain comes down on the old ounce and pound at the end of this...