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    features
    an easy Act to follow
    how the Disability Discrimination Act
    affects you
    quality: the secret ingredient
    why Sainsbury's is still leader in the quality
    stakes
    fundraising fun helps hospices
    fundraisers for the Live...

  • If I were boss... 02

    Giving a view this month on what
    he'd do if he ruled the world is BWS
    assistant at Chaddesden, David
    Harrison...
    "ABOVE ALL, I'd devote more time to training. If staff are trained
    properly, particularly in specialist areas...

  • Banking centres go on trial 03

    SAINSBURY'S BANK has opened three instore personal banking
    centres, allowing customers to open accounts on the spot. The
    centres opened in Blackhall, Warren Heath and Pound Lane on
    6 December, with plans for another nine to...

  • Bites Christmas cheer at Thorley 03

    bites
    CHRISTMAS
    CHEER AT
    THORLEY
    Intherun-upto
    Christmas,
    Thorley provided
    extra cheer by
    prod ucing 5,000
    leaflets
    advertising the
    store's opening
    hours-and the
    times of Father
    Christmas'visits -
    and placing...

  • Long and short of SHORT survey 03

    RESULTS FROM the second phase
    of the Store and Head Office
    Relationship Tracker (SHORT)
    survey, revealed that significant
    improvements in key areas have
    been achieved in five of the 11
    central departments...

  • Security awareness week on the way 03

    NATIONAL RETAIL Security
    Awareness Week is being launched
    on 30 January. The week is intended
    to raise security awareness in stores
    by educating and informing
    colleagues on security issues.
    As part of the awareness week,...

  • New-look confectionery sweetens sales 04

    A RADICAL new look for the confectionery aisle is to be rolled Out at
    more than 200 stores this year, following a highly successful ninestore
    trial. The visually appealing aisle, designed to attract customers
    into the...

  • Openings boost Christmas trade 04

    TWO NEW Scottish
    Sainsbury's stores and one
    London Local opened for
    business in time forthe
    busy Christmas trading
    period.
    First to open, on 20
    November, was Linlithgow
    - a Country Town format
    store with an...

  • Safety is just a phone call away 04

    IN COMING months, all colleagues
    will receive a leaflet on the new
    Group Safety Helpline.
    This will ensure colleagues who
    previously raised a safety issue, and
    believe it has not been properly
    addressed, have the opportunity...

  • Bites - Allez a Calais 05

    bites
    ALLEZ A CALAIS
    A BWS store will
    open in Calais,
    France, on
    25 January
    replacing the
    existing storewhich
    accounted
    for about 12 per
    cent of Sainsbury's
    total BWS sales
    volume last
    quarter.
    The new store,...

  • Charities enjoy central support 05

    the journal's Blackf riars
    correspondent, Lin Holdeman,
    reports on what's been happening
    at central departments. If you
    have a story for Lin, call her on
    0207695 6382 ore-mail LINK
    IT MIGHT seem immodest, but I'd like to...

  • E-commerce boots up with a great deal 05

    SAINSBURY'S HAS joined up with one of the
    UK's fastest-growing Internet service
    providers, LineOne, to offer customers and
    colleagues free access to the Internet.
    The new e-commerce division is also
    currently working on major...

  • Hazel draws millennium car 05

    HAZEL MARGINSON, from Wilmslow store, was the lucky winner of the
    £20,000 car in the Millennium Colleagues Draw, announced on Sainsbury's
    Business TV in December.
    Timothy Wilkins, from Reading, won £15,000 for second place,...

  • Bites - Hedge End on air 06

    bites
    HEDGE END ON
    AIR
    Karin Mills, from
    Southampton, won
    two minutes of
    fame and fortune
    on SouthCity FM as
    winner of the
    Sainsbury's trolley
    dash at Hedge End
    store. The dash
    took place shortly
    before...

  • Careline transfers to Cheshire 06

    THE TRANSFER of Sainsbury's
    Customer Careline from
    Altrincham to Birkenhead has
    been successfully completed -
    mainly thanks to Karen Almond
    (below) from customer relations
    atBlackfriars, who was
    seconded to Cheshire to...

  • Now do the blue congo 06

    BLUE CONGO potatoes are unlike any spuds you've ever
    seen before. For starters, they're blue. They originate
    from the Bolivian Andes, and they're now grown in
    Karijoki on the west coast of Finland.
    Blue Congo potatoes are sold...

  • Taste tests take to the road 06

    TASTE TESTS, in which customers were asked to sample two versions of a product
    "blind" then say which they preferred, were held in 18 stores across the UK shortly
    before Christmas.
    The instore tests dramatise to
    customers...

  • Win on an Impulse 06

    IMPULSE SOLAR body spray, available from
    this month, exudes optimism, radiance and
    energy, conjuring up the vision of brilliant,
    bright, white sunlight on a crisp spring
    morning!
    It is a new sensation of positive
    refreshment...

  • Bites - Greenwich throws down gauntlet 07

    bites
    GREENWICH
    THROWS DOWN
    GAUNTLET
    Greenwich
    students were
    invited to take part
    in the Sainsbury's
    Business
    Challenge shortly
    before Christmas,
    when sixthformers
    from 11
    local schools were
    asked to describe
    how...

  • Happy birthdays for parents 07

    NEW MATERNITY and parental leave regulations came into effect just before
    Christmas for all colleagues who have a child born on or after 15 December 1999.
    The regulations also affect those adopting children or acquiring...

  • Look after your millennium baby 07

    THIS BEING the first issue of tne new millennium,
    the journal thought you'd like to see how
    Sainsbury's is going to provide for all those new
    millennium babies.
    What to clothe them in is easy. The "I'm a
    Millennium Baby"...

  • Pasta and Oscars win 07

    SAINSBURY'SH
    Pizza, Pasta & Ita
    ncludes Sainsbi
    Organic Dried Pa
    Sainsbury's
    behind. Pictured
    product develop
    And at the 0
    categories at the
    Organic-for Org
    andtheJuniorQ
    and Buns.
    <\S won the VJS Pasta Retailer of the...

  • An easy Act to follow 08

    With 8.5 million adults in the UK having
    some form of disability, the Disability
    Discrimination Act would appear to
    be a useful addition to the statute books.
    But what exactly does the Act mean
    for the Sainsbury Group? Giving...

  • Quality: the secret ingredient 10

    Sainsbury's reputation for quality, despite stiff
    competition, has never been bettered. To
    understand why, the journal and two store
    colleagues visited the manufacturer of a
    Sainsbury's product which has been wowing
    consumers...

  • Fundraising fun helps hospices 12

    From the catwalk to mountain walks, colleagues from
    stores, depots and central departments, as well as
    customers, pulled out all the stops to raise cash for
    Sainsbury's special charity for 1999 - the Live Every
    Moment Appeal....

  • Express yourself 14

    let the music play
    Robert Robinson, BWS
    assistant, Bishop's Stortford:
    Would it be possible to have piped
    music of a classical or atmospheric
    nature, playing throughout the
    store? Especially on the wine
    section. This could...

  • Cartoon 15

    This end, Wayne!!

  • Salient points 15

    bank statement
    Pauline Hiton, fresh foods, Chester:
    After joining the Christmas Saver Scheme
    Sainsbury's Bank offers, I found the bank
    changed it to an instant access account.
    I was not asked about this and I asked for
    my...

  • Bob beats Basingstoke's best 16

    BASINGSTOKE DRIVERS held their
    annual golf championship at
    Basingstoke Golf Club on a fine but
    blustery day. But pre-tournament
    favourite Terry Collins, and "Seve" Dibley
    and "Tiger" Coleman did not match up to
    their...

  • Brenda braves desert 16

    BRENDA BOULTER, personnel assistant at Elstree depot, has completed a gruelling five-day
    charity trek across the Sinai Desert for Haringay Mencap, raising about £2,200 in the process.
    During the trek, Brenda climbed to the top...

  • Doncaster stalwarts celebrate 25 years 16

    DONCASTER CELEBRATED its 25th anniversary in October, as did ten loyal colleagues who
    have been with the store since it opened in 1974. They are Pat Flanagan, Elaine Hall, Betty
    Copley, Marqaret Blenkiron, Pauline Waller,...

  • He shoots, he scores 16

    DARNLEY GROCERY manager Brian Cassidy
    (pictured below) does what his fellow Scots
    struggled to do against England and smashes
    home yet another goal as his team marched
    on to victory. Not a Euro 2000 play-off in
    this case, but...

  • Dulwich's diamond customers 17

    TO CELEBRATE the diamond wedding anniversary of customers Edward
    and Winifred Rhodes, Dulwich store manager Terry McGinty presented the
    happy couple with a selection of goodies worth the diamond sum of £60 -
    including...

  • Golders Green turns 25 17

    GOLDERS GREEN is busy planning its
    25th birthday party on 11 March and is
    searching for former colleagues to join
    in the fun. The store will be holding a
    dinner and dance at Brent Cross
    Banqueting Centre. If you would like...

  • Preston cuts a dash 17

    IN A special promotion to encourage customers to
    become Reward Card holders, Preston store held a
    trolley dash competition. The lucky winner was Mrs
    Martin (pictured), from Fulwood, Preston. The
    Deepdale Duck, mascot of local...

  • Riding the rapids 17

    TAMMY WARD of the western
    systems team, together with Lisa
    Tyler (pictured), from internal
    comms, is to join the Nepal 2000
    White Water Rafting event in aid of
    charity, Disability Living Awareness.
    Each needs to raise...

  • Stacey swims to success 17

    STACEY JOHNSTON, staff
    restaurant assistant at Wandsworth store, swam her
    way to two medals at a Special Olympics gala held in
    Germany. Stacey won silver in the 50 metres
    backstroke and bronze in the 50 metres freestyle....

  • Theatre worth checking out 17

    HARROGATE STORE is sponsoring the Young Persons' Theatre Card,
    which offers youngsters half-price entry to the Harrogate Theatre for
    12 months. To launch the card, the cast of From A Jack To A King
    (pictured) played rock 'n'...

  • Answers to Christmas Cracker Crossword 18

    up: 4. Rum 6. Elders 7. Brazils 10. Robin H.Xmas 13. Blaze 14. Cake
    17. Mummy 18. Babes 21. Camel 22. Tide 25. Forth 27. Steam
    28. Gingerbread 30. Gold 33. Tower 34. Corps 35. Dates 38. Blue
    39. Fudge 41. Ever 44. Green 46....

  • Race to win British Grand Prix tickets 18

    The race is on for four readers to win tickets to Formula
    One's British Grand Prix weekend at Sil verstone. The
    weekend takes place 21-23 April, with the actual Grand
    Prix going under starter's orders on the 23rd.
    the...

  • Sportsword 18

    ACROSS
    Nationality of
    Newcastle United's
    NikosDabizas(S)
    Illegal deliveries in
    cricket (2-5)
    Famous Berkshire
    racecourse (5)
    Joe, 200m goldmedallist
    at the
    1988 Olympics (2,5)
    Marc, Austrian-born
    skier...

  • Wordsearch 18

    Ten famous landmarks
    are listed below. Can
    you find the cities
    where they are sited in
    the word grid? Words
    are written horizontally
    and vertically, not
    diagonally or backwards.
    landmarks
    1. Eiffel Tower
    2. Little...

  • Fare comment - Banana Banoffi Pie 19

    fare comment
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    OF BOILING WATER,
    ANPSl/WIER FOR
    3*1HR$> (MUX WILL
    TX/RNINTO TOFFEE).
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  • Get lucky with Lynx 19

    Lynx Phoenix is the exciting new fragrance for 2000 and is
    available as a bodyspray, Shower Gel, Roll On, Deo Stick and
    Aftershave. It is a fragrance inspired by the mythical bird, the
    Phoenix, rising from the ashes of...

  • Ghostly reminder 19

    Can you believe it's ten years since you first saw Ghost on
    the big screen? To celebrate the anniversary, Ghost is
    being re-released on video on 31 January and the journal
    is offering ten readers the chance to own the movie....

  • October competition winners 19

    Winning the £25 crossword prize is N Gaqen at
    New Barnet. The £10 wordsearch prize goes to
    Cath Dawes at Arnold.
    The lucky winner of the weekend for two to
    Vienna courtesy of Birds Eye's Simply Fish is
    Gillian Monteith at...

  • Crime and nourishment 20

    HEN 76-year-old Margaret Reynard had her wheeled
    lopping bag stolen from outside her Kent home by an
    pportunist thief, she was particularly distressed.
    The bag contained shopping she'd just bought
    om Canterbury store -...

  • One Stop Shop deserves a medal 20

    A BURTON-ON-TRENT customer wanted to send her
    grandchildren-living in Canada-a full set of Millennium
    Medals in time for Christmas.
    But despite her best efforts, by November, she was
    still three medals short, and knew the...

  • Saying it with flowers 20

    S STEVENS from Rochester, Kent, wanted
    send a basket of fruit and flowers to a blind
    end, who was ill, living in Ongar, Essex. She
    is at her wit's end until she
    ntacted the nearby
    entwood store.
    Brentwood...

  • Teamwork wins sale 20

    DAVID BROOKS' role in the procurement
    department doesn't often bring him faceto-
    face with customers - but when a
    player from his hockey club said he was
    interested in a PC he'd seen Sainsbury's
    advertising, David sensed a...

  • What the customers are saying 20

    "brilliant staff"
    help with shock
    absorption
    Northwich customer R Lawson
    writes:
    AN INCIDENTinthe carpark of
    Northwich left my wife in severe shock.
    Our car was severely damaged along
    with four others, and the woman...