'The Journal', December 1999

Table of content

• Contents Page
  02

  Contents
  features
  your flexible friend 8
  flexible-contract working at Dome
  Roundabout
  labels come to a sticky end 10
  no more sticky moments scanning
  reduced items
  the winners'gallery 12
  hotshots in the journal's 1999...

• If I were boss...
  02

  In the new-look journal's first-ever
  "if I were boss" column,
  senior customer services
  assistant Sue Hudson, from Water
  Lane, gives a view on what she
  would do if she ruled the world...
  FIRST OFF, I'd reverse the priority...

• Bites
  03

  bites
  TELL TEACHER
  Sainsbury's
  Virtual Museum
  has been named
  among Britain's
  top five
  educational web
  sites for the BETT
  2000 awards.
  A ballot of
  teachers will
  choose the
  overall winner.
  If you know a
  teacher, ask...

• First-half sales up 4.5% for Group
  03

  first-half sales up 4.5% for Group
  STRONG TRADING at both Homebase and Shaw's has increased Group sales
  by 4.5 per cent to £9.1 billion - but ongoing investment in programmes aimed at
  boosting the performance of Sainsbury's...

• Reporters required: apply within
  03

  reporters required: apply within
  the journal is looking for correspondents
  around the country to break stories in their
  neck of the woods. If you've always fancied
  yourself as a reporter, give the journal a call
  on 0171490...

• Vitamins packaging picks up award
  03

  Vitamins packaging picks up award
  SAINSBURY'S HAS picked up a highly
  commended award in the consumer
  responsiveness section of the 1999 Packaging
  Industry Awards.
  The award is for pots in the Sainsbury's
  Vitamin range, made...

• Beer sales froth over rugby
  04

  Beer sales froth over rugby
  BEER SALES exceeded all
  expectations during the recent
  Rugby World Cup.
  Sales were monitored
  throughout the tournament as
  part of a special competition
  designed to boost turnover.
  Stores were...

• Bites
  04

  bites
  PHARMACIES
  LOOK HEALTHY
  The new store
  which opened in
  Stirling on
  7 December
  includes a
  pharmacy, bringing
  the total number
  of pharmacies open
  for Christmas to
  53. This includes
  those which
  opened at...

• Familiar fund-raiser collects top award
  04

  Familiar fund-raiser collects top award
  A FAMILIAR face to many of
  you has won the Arthritis
  Research Campaign's (ARC)
  highest award available to
  volunteers.
  During the past 11 years,
  David Paterson has visited
  201...

• Healthy hearts to tour stores
  04

  healthy hearts to tour stores
  FOLLOWING THE success of
  Sainsbury's diabetes store
  tours, which have been running
  for the past four years, the
  company has decided to develop
  Healthy Heart tours in
  conjunction with Van den...

• Bites
  05

  bites
  WANT TO BE ON
  TELLY?
  Channel 4's
  Big Breakfast
  is looking for
  "families of the
  week". If your
  family has got what
  it takes-and can
  be available from
  Sunday through to
  Friday-please
  write...

• Eagerly awaited Huntingdon opens
  05

  eagerly awaited Huntingdon opens
  ONE OF THE latest stores to open in Sainsbury's new-stores
  programme is a 35,000 square footer in Huntingdon. It
  opened for trade on 26 October with a pharmacy, salad bar
  and the new-style...

• Enjoy a discount on your mortgage
  05

  enjoy a discount on your mortgage
  ALL COLLEAGUES within the
  Sainsbury Group can now get a
  discount of 0.25 per cent on the
  standard and preferential rates of
  Sainsbury's Bank's Options
  Mortgage.
  The mortgage combines...

• Well done Woking
  05

  well done Woking
  WOKING STORE came top in Graham Naylor's
  region by selling the most Ariel tablets during
  the September promotion. The prize was
  eight official 1999 Rugby World Cup and Ariel
  rugby shirts, and two tickets to...

• Bites
  06

  bites
  RIGHT TYPE OF
  WORKING
  When the son of
  Hereford's senior
  duty manager,
  Paddy Nugent saw
  a Typing Instructor
  CD at the store he
  told his dad it would
  be great for his
  school, Burghill
  County Primary.
  So, Paddy...

• Check how Stockwise you are...and win £50
  06

  check how Stockwise you are...and win £50
  Awareness about the need to look after stock has
  been rising throughout Sainsbury's following the
  Stockwise campaign which began in March 1998.
  To see how aware you are of the issues...

• Cleaner fuel trials at Beckton
  06

  cleaner fuel trials at Beckton
  IN A UK first, Sainsbury's has joined
  forces with British Gas to bring
  liquefied petroleum gas to a
  supermarket forecourt.
  The new fuel, AutoGas, is a halfprice,
  cleaner alternative to...

• Recycling logo up and running
  06

  recycling logo up and running
  SAINSBURY'S HAS become the first supermarket to
  use the Buy Recycled logo, introduced by the Local
  Authority Recycling Committee (LARAC) to increase
  awareness of and demand for products...

• Bookstart spreads throughout the land
  07

  Bookstart spreads throughout the land
  AS ONE of the three Sainsbury Group millennium projects,
  Sainsbury's Bookstart is going from strength to strength.
  Bookstart is a national project sponsored by Sainsbury's
  which gives free...

• Meet the millennium martyrs
  07

  meet the millennium martyrs
  WHERE'S THE PARTY?.. Andy Nash (left) and John Perman won't be partying on New Year's Eve. They'll
  be at Buntinqf ord and Charlton distribution centres, coordinating the millennium checks for depots....

• Millennium Draw live on Business TV
  07

  Millennium Draw live on Business TV
  ALL EYES will be on
  Sainsbury's Business TV on
  Tuesday 7 December for the
  Millennium Colleagues Draw,
  with the top 22 prizes being
  announced.
  The draw forms part of
  the Sainsbury...

• Your flexible friend
  08

  The traditional working week is almost a thing of
  the past as today's lifestyle demands
  unrestricted access to goods and services. Sainsbury's is leading the way in
  adopting a more flexible approach
  to working time, and this...

• Lables come to a sticky end
  10

  The appearance of group chief executive
  Dino Adriano on BBC's Back To The Floor
  TV programme produced a mail-sack full of views
  from colleagues around the country, and the
  solution to a sticky problem - the reduction label....

• The winners' gallery...
  12

  ... in the journal's 1999 photo competition
  It wasn't the quintessence of camera
  craft depicting flamboyant
  juxtapositions of tonality and
  chromic intensity which made the
  prize-winning spots in the journal's
  1999 photo...

• Hidden talents
  13

  meat counter Michelangelo
  Dave Hammond, butcher at London
  Colney Savacentre.
  Dave Hammond has been at London
  Colney since it opened almost ten years
  ago and during that time he's developed
  his knife skills in an unusual...

• Express yourself
  14

  express yourself
  clear as day
  Julie Upton, BWS replenishment,
  Woking:
  I read with interest the claim in the
  October journal that day colleagues
  are paid at a higher grade because
  they are called, for example,...

• Badger Farm gets playful
  16

  Badger Farm
  gets playful
  UNIGATE DAIRIES filmed its
  end-of-year-video at Badger Farm
  store and, as a token of itsappreciation,
  donated a cheque for £250 to a
  charity of the store's choice.
  Gratefully accepting the...

• Bakers rise to the occasion
  16

  bakers rise to the occasion
  MEMBERS OF the bakery team at Ellesmere Port played their part in
  raising funds for the Romanian Relief appeal by baking three wheat
  sheaves which they then presented to Rev Ken Jones of The Whitby...

• Floral flourish
  16

  MAUREEN BURGESS, floral assistant at
  Kidderminster, made life taste better for
  two customers who needed flowers for a
  display they were planning to enter in
  their horticultural society's flower show.
  They were so impressed...

• Romanian fund-raising's still running
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  REMEMBER GRAEME Harker, asset marking manager based at Whitley
  Bay store, featured in the October journal? He's the man raising money
  to buy and maintain a home for mentally and physically handicapped
  Romanian orphans.
  Graeme...

• West Hove's bewitching hours
  16

  HALLOWE'EN WAS a scary business at West Hove with Carol
  Church (left in picture) and Rita Cager witching it up in the
  Adam's Childrenswear department. Also on the fun day
  menu were sweets and balloons for children, and...

• Bags fly Sainsbury's flag in Germany
  17

  bags fly Sainsbury's flag in
  Germany
  OLDBURY SAVACENTRE was asked by
  local Glebefields Primary School to supply
  a bag for life for each child to carry their
  belongings on a trip to Germany. The store
  gladly obliged and the...

• Feast of festive products
  17

  feast of festive products
  PRODUCTS THAT should be sneaking into your
  shopping trolley as we head towards the last
  Christmas of the millennium include
  the Giggle Snowball with Chocolate
  Novelties (£3.99) and the
  A Reindeer...

• Stockport pools its resources
  17

  Stockport pools its resources
  STOCKPORT HAS started an annual pool
  competition, helping build team spirit at the
  store. About 4 0 colleagues took part in the
  inaugural event, which was won by security
  guard Keith Bass. Keith,...

• The right ingredients
  17

  the right ingredients
  THOUSANDS OF parents and
  customers signed up for this year's
  nationwide School Rewards scheme
  to help around 5,850 schools,
  and in return Sainsbury's stores
  provided free ingredients so pupils
  could...

• Prize crossword and wordsearch
  18

  Chrissy crossy
  up
  4. Puzzling (3)
  Senior members (6)
  Nuts (7)
  Winter bird (5)
  Short form of Christmas (4)
  13. Flare (5)
  14. Confection (4)
  17. Child's word for "Mother" (5)
  18. in the Wood pantomime (5)
  21. Desert...

• Visit fabulous Dubai
  18

  11 January 31 March 2000
  The sunshine capital of the
  world, Dubai is an ideal base
  for starting a desert safari.
  Visit the camel races or just lie
  on the beach and soak up the sun.
  It's also a haven for duty free shopping...

• Fare comment
  19

  If you're worried what to do with any turkey leftovers this Christmas, why not try this quick-and-easy recipe... fare comment

• Princely prize
  19

  princely prize
  P m W
  Out now on video, is the epic animated adventure The
  Prince of Egypt. It's a tale of two brothers, one born of
  royal blood, one an orphan with a secret past. Growing up
  the best of friends, the truth will...

• September competition winners
  19

  September competition winners
  Winning the £25 crossword prize is
  Julia Kneveit at Bromley.
  The £10 wordsearch prize goes to
  Karen Sandell at Chislehurst.
  Off shopping with their ten Reward
  vouchers are: Steve...

• The great millennium quiz
  19

  the great millennium quiz
  To end off the millennium, the journal has put
  a few questions together to see just how much
  you've learned of the previous 1,000 years!
  Let's see how you do...
  History
  1. Who was Israeli prime...

• A real star
  20

  a real star
  WHEN ONE young lad saw the star
  fighter hanging from the ceiling of
  Victoria store as part of the recent
  Star Wars promotion, he fell in love.
  So mum had to ask if he could have the
  model when the promotion was...

• Bott a service
  20

  Bott a service
  DELIVERINGA
  basket of fruit in
  South Yorkshire
  was the challenge
  customer Mrs Bott
  gave to colleagues
  at Loughborough
  when she wanted
  tocheerupasick
  workmate who
  lives in Doncaster.
  Enter...

• Catering for every need
  20

  catering for every need
  WINCHMORE HILL'S Tony Redgrave and Greg
  Hutler are also full of praise for Derek Benjamin
  in fruit buying for helping when an order was
  accepted at the store from a professional caterer
  for five cases...

• Hill's on top
  20

  AT WINCHMORE HILL, store manager
  Tony Redgrave was told a good
  customer was so upset when she
  heard Sarsons Lemon Vinegar had
  been discontinued that she was
  threatening to stop shopping with
  Sainsbury's.
  So Tony got on the...

• Motoring to the rescue
  20

  motoring to the rescue
  THE HEROES at Kempshott are duty
  manager Berin Jones and checkout support
  Ruth Blower who took care of a real panic
  situation when a young mother accidentally
  locked herself out of her car with her...

• What the customers are saying
  20

  what the customers are saying
  feeling warm
  inside
  Farlinqton customer
  Barry Collyer writes:
  Please convey my thanks to your
  advertising department for the TV
  commercial showing the little boy
  leaving his mother and going...