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features
no substitute for experience 8
meet the colleagues on loan to the
community
pressure points 10
some points on stress and how to deal
with it
charity champions 12
fab fundraising stories from around
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If I were boss...
02
Putting himself in the boss's shoes
this month is James Gibb, warehouse
assistant at Aberdeen store...
First, I'd try my best to make all employees happy - both on and off the
job - by organising extra team-building exercises... -
Bank announces award winners
03
The third Sainsbury's Bank awards saw four stores pick up the
£1,000 prize for the second consecutive time!
The double-winning four are Coleraine, Straiton, Surbiton and
Wantage who will once again be able to top up their SSA... -
Bites - Sainsbury's best for healthy eating
03
bites
SAINSBURY'S
BEST FOR
HEALTHY EATING
Sainsbury'shas
won the Healthy
Eating Award
at the Best
Supermarket
awards, sponsored
by Best magazine.
Readers of
Best were asked
to nominate
their favourite
supermarket... -
Cat-man to make sales purr
03
Category-management plans are soon to be implemented
for several more product categories, following the success
of the cat-man process in lifting sales by over £45 million
on beers, ready meals, tobacco and convenience... -
Wandsworth's refit's a knockout
03
Former heavyweight boxing champion Frank Bruno did
the honours at the reopening of Wandsworth store last
month, after its £7.5 million extension and refit.
He signed autographs for customers and colleagues
and helped serve... -
Bites - Colleagues worth a mint
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COLLEAGUES
WORTH A MINT
If you feel you
deserve a medal
for working at
Sainsbury's,
perhaps you
should work at
Alphlngton Road.
To celebrate the
success of
colleagues'efforts
In establishing the
store,... -
Pancake competition is anytning but flat
04
Shrove Tuesday may have come and gone, but
entries are still coming in for the Design A Pancake
Competition.
With a closing date of 20 March, the competition
invites children to design their own special pancake
recipe then... -
Sales competition springs into action
04
With spring now sprung, the Spring Clean event is up and running to boost
sales on household products such as polishes, cleaners and cloths.
To help with the event, a special competition is also being run - based on
sales... -
Training helps with a fishy business
04
The first-ever Advanced Fish Supermarketinq
Workshop for fish-counter colleagues has taken place
in Grimsby, run by Sainsbury's in conjunction with
supplier Youngs Bluecrest.
The workshop is the first of its type... -
Bites - Better Homebase sponsorship
05
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BETTER
HOMEBASE
SPONSORSHIP
Research shows
Homebase's
sponsorship of the
hit TV shows
Better Homes and
Better Gardens
is paying off.
When asked
whether Homebase
provided new and
interesting ideas
for their... -
Development programme keeps developing
05
The store opening, extension and refurbishment
programme has switched into overdrive in recent
we^ks with seven new UK stores opening since
the new year, six extending and a further five
undergoing refurbishment. A BWS store... -
Director drives E&D steering group
05
Sainsbury's Supermarkets held its first Equality and Diversity (E&D) steering
group meeting late last year, chaired by finance director Hamish Elvidge.
The group set out its aims as being to develop and oversee all E&D... -
Bites - Save scheme growing
06
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SAVE SCHEME
GROWING
The Sainsbury's
Assisting Village
Enterprises (SAVE)
scheme, which
allows independent
village shops or
post-office stores
to buy nonperishable
products
from Sainsbury's to
sell with a... -
Prestwich gets bread sales to rise
06
Prestwich's bakery team increased sales by 666 per cent to finish top of
the district during a trial of a speciality range of bread late last year.
The team was also runner-up in the district's increased sales drive
and won... -
Revitalised organics
06
New from Organics this year are two additional
ranges of shampoos and conditioners, now
available in most Sainsbury's stores.
Organics Color Act iv' is the first-ever
mousse shampoo and revitalising conditioner
for coloured... -
Schools to benefit from more equipment
06
This year's schools scheme was launched on 1 March and is
called Equipment For Schools. The name highlights the fact that
Sainsbury's is offering a wide range of equipment for schools
who register, including science and sports... -
A day at the dome
07
SSA members and their families now have a chance to spend a cut-price day at
The Greenwich Millennium Dome.
Explore the 14 different, interactive zones which take you into the worlds of
work, learning and play. Take in the... -
Away to Calais
07
Sainsbury's new, bigger and better wine store in
Calais, France, is now open for business. To celebrate,
the journal, together with P&O Stena, is offering one
reader the chance to win a fantastic day trip for two to
the store... -
Bites - Firework sales rocket
07
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FIREWORK SALES
ROCKET
Fireworks were
soldinSainsbury's
as well as
Savacentre stores
for the first time
last year.
Inthe121
participating
stores, sales
exceeded £2
million, with more
than £600,000
being sold... -
Stationery moves in new direction
07
The stationery range has gone through an eye-catching redesign,
with the aim of taking a bigger annual share of the
£548 million market, and increasing sales by at least
15 per cent.
The range, which includes ownlabel
and... -
No substitute for experience
08
Meet five colleagues giving the
benefit of their experience to
community projects and learning
that life outside Sainsbury's can
be a challenge. i i
Giving money to worthy causes is something
Sainsbury's has always believed... -
Pressure points
10
Whether working in
a store, central
department or
distribution centre,
meeting the needs
and values of
Sainsbury's customers
can have its stresses.
But there are
measures you can
take to relieve... -
Paul goes baldly into retirement
12
SWANSEA STORE manager Paul Cox boldly took on the challenge
of losing his locks in order to raise £1,000 for the local Macmillan
Nurses Ty-Olwen Hospice Appeal.
Audrey Ranford collected the money while Donnalee... -
Picture of happiness as Walsall's Sister act boosts Appeal
12
WALSALL HAS now raised more than £10,000 during the past year for the
Sister Dora Hospice Appeal. Deli assistant Lesley Rickhuss-Sly's watercolour
painting of St Matthew's
Church as it looked in 1900 was
reproduced as a print... -
Sheila's spin for charity
12
A 50-foot Sainsbury's
Living Orange articulated
lorry was the star
attraction at the
1999 Ladies' Driving
Challenge in aid of Marie
Curie Cancer Care.
The lorry was driven by
more than 80 women
under the watchful eye... -
Stockton signs hospice support pledge
12
By the journal's North East correspondent,
Barbara Stoneman (left), from Stockton
Savacentre's personnel department.
| OUR STORE has signed a pledge to raise £2,000
' for the local Children's Hospice as part of its
special... -
Worle puts fizz into fundraising
12
A Buck's Fizz breakfast held at Worle store as part of its Live Every
Moment appeal helped raise £1,070 for Weston Hospicecare.
Raising a toast to the hospice are: (I to r) training co-ordinator Kay
Smith; bakery manager Andy... -
Join Inn
13
HARROGATE STORE'S David
Fairclough and Stuart Snell are
to take part in The Inn Way-a
charity walk in aid of Marie Curie
Cancer Care.
Sainsbury's is sponsoring the
campaign and posters and
application forms will be... -
Raise your glasses
13
SAINSBURY'S customers set their sights
on a good cause recently, to help blind and
partially sighted citizens of Zimbabwe.
Customers were encouraged to dig out
old pairs of sunglasses and spectacles and
bring them in to... -
Region 22 aids multiple sclerosis
13
HOMEBASE'S region 22 has presented a cheque for a
whopping £29,033 to the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
The region raised the money in a variety of ways,
including head shaves, parachute jumps, a car rally
calling on all 20... -
Rob's dune it all
13
ROB WINCHESTER, clerk at Golders
Green, has returned from his walk
through the Sahara Desert in aid of
Macmillan Cancer Relief and would
like to say a big Thank You to all the
stores who gave a donation from
their Penny Back... -
Tracey's sparkling performance
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Tracey's sparkling performance
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Express yourself
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Smartcard on the cards
Helen Tweed, senior petrol station
assistant, Pound Lane, Norwich:
Many customers are also
Sainsbury's Bank customers, using
their credit cards to gain extra
loyalty points on their shopping in
our... -
Cartoon
15
Sainsbury's Pet Club
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Salient points
15
Paul Mitchell, DIY supervisor, Homebase
Penge:
I thought Sainsbury's had a contract with the
A A, whose staff will come to the store and fix
the car on site if possible. Is this service still
available?
Nigel Wade, senior... -
Blackfriars quizzers
enjoy the taking part
16
More than 230 staff took part in the Blackfriars round of the national SSA quiz last
month. The evening was compered by central retail operations director Ken Barden
and the two top-placed teams are to go forward to the final... -
Denise is Big Apple winner
16
Dave Robb's district held
a special millennium SSA
raffle for colleagues to
win a weekend for two to
New York with £250
spending money.
The lucky winner was
Denise Henton from
Kimberley store who took husband Mick on the... -
Grace in a lather
16
After buying three
Radox bottles for
the price of two,
nine-year-old
Grace,
granddauqhterof
veteran P Walker,
decided to go
bubble crazy In her
bath and create a -
Grand prize for David
16
DAVIDAINSWORTH.who
works on the evening shift
atThornhill.hasbeen
presented with a £1,000
cheque following his win in
the Millennium Colleagues
Draw.
Not quiteas lucky as
Hazel Marginson from
Wilmslow, who claimed... -
Payroll's footy training pays off
16
By Keith Simson (below), company payroll
manager and the journal's correspondent
from Bromley business centre - the home of the
company payroll department as well as a base
for district manager Ray Hayne
and a number of... -
Club together
17
The JS Head Office Golf
Society (JSHOGS) has
five events this year all
based round the M25.
The events are:
• 7 April - Bletchinqley,
Surrey
• 18May-
Surrey
Duke's Dene,
• 15June-Romford,
Essex
• 21 July-... -
Duo suspends belief
17
Duty manager Gavin Smith (left - honestly!) and grocery
manager Tim Dearing from Hull store, risked being
suspended after they were caught in the drag act at a recent
party at the store. Gavin and Tim were actually the... -
Hull Homebase raises hospice cheer
17
Hull Homebase raised
£57 for the Dove
House Hospice Appeal
when colleagues
Arthur Hall and Eddie
Sinclairwere
sponsored to dress up
as Father Christmas to
highlight Hull's
excellent takings on
its Christmas
department. -
Kerry cooks up a perfect match
17
Just to prove that Calcot Savacentre's demonstration chef
Kerry Clark takes his work
home with him, here he is in
full uniform at his wedding to
Lorraine!
Kerry is quite the celebrity |
in Swindon, with his own
monthly... -
Shorehead teams up with the Town
17
Shorehead store's strong links with HuddersfieldTown
Football Club helped raise funds for a local charity and
advertise a special Carling promotion.
In an instore event organised by dry goods
manager Alistair Grant and BWS... -
Twenty up for Winton
17
Winton store marked its 20th anniversary with a
celebratory lunch where store manager Ian Wateridge
presented all colleagues who have been with the store
since it opened with a bottle of champagne.
The colleagues who collected... -
Free fall for you
18
The National Grocer's Benevolent Fund (NGBF) is offering
one lucky journal reader the experience of a lifetime - a free
tandem skydive in the Tandem Skydive Experience 2000
fundraising event. It takes place on 16-24... -
Quick crossword
18
ACROSS
I. Diversify (4)
3. Muster (8)
9. Generous (7)
10. Lock(5)
II. Break up (12)
13. Pang (6)
15. Strip (6)
17. Temporariness (12)
20. Tapestry (5)
21. Object (7)
22. Mirth (8)
23. Narrate (4)
DOWN
1. Ratify... -
Solutions to February's wordsearch and crossword
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Across: 6 Develop;
7 Delay; 9 Scrap;
10 Artiste;
12 New Year's Day;
14 Genealogist;
18 Present; 19 Court;
21 Caper; 22 General.
Down: 1 Bench;
2 Relate; 3 Top;
4 Begins; 5 Partial;
8 Arrange; 11 Cyclone;
13 Hearsay; 15... -
Wordsearch
18
j CAN you identify the
I instruments associated
J with the musicians
I listed below? Words are
I written horizontally
I and vertically, not
I diagonally or
I backwards.
musicians
1. James Galway
2. Buddy Rich
3. Johnny... -
December competition winners
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Winning the £25 crossword is
Graham Dunn at Battersea Homebase.
The £10 wordsearch prize goes to
R Box, a veteran.
Sitting down to The Prince of Egypt
video are: Carl Magro, Alperton;
Gill Taylor, Alphfngton Road;
Alison... -
Fare comment - Wiener Schnitzel
19
Try a slice of European cuisine with this classic German dish... Wiener Qchnitzel
\-SPORK STEAK
PER PERSON
WRAP EACH IN
CLINGFILM AND
TENDERISE WITH
STEAK
HAMMER
A
E>AN-FRV fjjUP OVER,
ADD AUTTLE
BUTTER
AND... -
Get into the Internet age
19
the journal and Creative Labs have teamed up to give you the
chance to join the Internet age with two great products - the
ModemBlaster External Flash 56 and the Webcam Go.
modem
The ModemBlaster External Flash 56 is the ideal... -
The return of Indiana Jones
19
The Indiana Jones movies,
responsible for the huge
increase in students of
archaeology, are now
| available as a box set,
tf.r' digitally remastered for
superior sound and quality.
I Released underthe
banner "The... -
Bubbly service
20
A CUSTOMER at
Cambridge's
Coldham's Lane
store, who wished to
make a gift of
champagne for a
friend in Edinburgh,
was delighted with
the service she
received from duty
manager Steve
Chadwick.
He enabled her to pay for... -
Customer comments
20
kindness eases
our worries
Chesterfield customer Doreen Love
writes:
I wish to express our appreciation of
the kindness shown by staff at your
Salford branch when my husband was
taken ill after we called in on our way
home... -
Hands across the water
20
BRENTWOOD trainee manager
Matt Holland didn't let the
Atlantic Ocean stand in the
way of making life taste better
for a New Yorker who wanted to
know how she could buy gifts
for relatives in Essex.
He gave her information... -
Ring search rings true
20
TER LANE customer Sheilagh Birmingham s wedding ring holds great
itimental value, so she was understandably upset when it and another
ring slipped off her finger while
, shopping.
/ A task force at the storei
including... -
Snatched purse has silver lining
20
WHEN 93-YEAR-OLD Rosie
Stickler had her purse snatched,
she was naturally shaken. She'd
been shopping at Greenford for
25 years - and long before, at the
town's former store - without
anything like that ever
happening... -
Steve sets set up
20
TUNING IN a television purchased at Prestwich proved
troublesome for an elderly couple when they got the set
home. So they rang stock control manager Steve Norwood
for help.
But as the couple seemed confused by...
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