'The Journal', June 2002

Table of content

• Contents
  02

  features
  great service delivers bonus 6-7
  a new bonus scheme came into effect in
  April - and it could mean extra cash for
  colleagues in your store
  Sainsbury's taltes 12-13
  on the World Cup
  Sainsbury's is the...

• Forward View
  02

  ...from group human resources and
  information systems director John Adshead
  Pensions are hot news at the moment. Nearly every day
  there's another report in the papers about them, many of
  them giving dire warnings about the...

• Bites - Star spotted in store
  03

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  STAR SPOTTED
  IN STORE
  Film star Gwyneth
  Paltrow was
  spotted doing a bff
  of top-up shopping
  in the Salnsbury's
  Local on Fulham
  Broadway, London.
  She was pictured
  in the Daily Mall
  sporting shades
  and a...

• Colleagues give help at rail crash site
  03

  AS SOON as colleagues at Potters
  Bar heard the horrific train crash
  just yards from the store they
  sprang Intoaction,doing
  everything they could to help
  victims and the emergency
  services.
  The store played a pivotal...

• If I were boss...
  03

  Jackie Church, groupcouncillorfrom
  East Mayne, Basildon, says communication is
  the l I would set up regional group councils to meet every three
  months with a different member from each store council...

• It pays to advertise
  04

  CHILDREN FRQMDarrick Wood junior
  school in Orpington, Kent, paid a trip to
  Locksbottom store to find out more about
  advertising and marketing.
  Stock control manager Andrew
  Bolland and in-store advertising manager
  John Pearn,...

• Sainsbury's rethinks rubbish
  04

  NINETY PER CENT of Britain's waste goes into
  landfill sites. In a bid to urge its customers to
  recycle more, Sainsbury's is backing the
  forthcoming national Rethink Rubbish
  roadshows.
  The joint initiative - organised by...

• What's on
  04

  dates for your diary
  ecial offers on
  football-related lines in-store.
  3-4 June: Queen's Golden Jubilee
  Expect sales of party products and barbecue
  lines to grow over the Bank Holiday weekend.
  6-8 June: South of England Show,...

• Banking on growth
  05

  SAINSBURY'S BANK is poised for massive growth. And
  't's tfie company's clieckout managers who are going to
  help make it happen.
  Ian Attwood of Sainsbury's Bank explained:
  "Responsibility for informing customers...

• Cash in with Coinstar
  05

  IF YOU have money stashed away in a piggy
  bank or jam jar, you can now cash it in at
  Sainsbury's thanks to a new service
  called Coinstar.
  Coinstar converts all that loose
  change into spendable cash in a matter
  of seconds...

• Fresh recipes on the radio
  05

  AN INNOVATIVE new radio
  campaign, featuring a series of
  tantalising recipes, is being
  brought to life by Jamie Oliver.
  The new ads occupy a regular
  afternoon slot, broadcast at 3pm
  Monday to Friday - on radio
  stations...

• Great service delivers bonus
  06

  A new bonus
  scheme came into
  effect in April
  2002-and it could
  mean extra cash
  for colleagues in
  your store. The new incentive scheme, which
  has top-level backing from the
  board, is the result of extensive
  consultation...

• What, no wheat?
  08

  Company nutritionist, Kate Arthur, provides help for people
  with food intolerance with Sainsbury's new Freefrom range. eat your way
  to better health
  The Freefrom range will be
  launched as part of the Eat Your
  Way to Better...

• Carrots go back to their roots
  09

  THE FIRST-EVER purple carrot
  grown in the UK will soon be
  available exclusively on
  Salnsbury's shelves. Named
  "Purple Haze", this vegetable will
  be followed with the introduction of
  a rainbow-coloured bunch of
  carrots -...

• In Season
  09

  Sainsbury's Magazine is celebrating
  the Golden Jubilee and World Cup in
  style this June - look out for Y2K
  Champagne Jeanmaire Cuvee Blanc
  de Blancs flying off the shelves.
  Salnsbury's and the Magazine are helping
  customers...

• Outdoors comes indoors
  09

  SAINSBURY'S IS stocking.forthefirst
  time, an exclusive range of outdoor
  toys and games to keep children and
  adults amused during the summer
  months.
  Croquet, cricket, and boom bat
  and ball, can all be enjoyed for under
  £4,...

• Bites - Salmon top of the pack
  10

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  SALMON TOP OF
  THE PACK
  Salnsbury's
  breaded Salmon
  Bites have won
  the title of Best
  Retail Packaging
  For A New Product
  in the European
  Seafood
  Exposition
  Brussels Seafood
  Prix d'Elite New
  Product
  competition....

• Fundraising is plain sailing for Local Heroes
  10

  FRANCES LILLEY is a real heroine - not only does she spend her
  spare tiine teaching disabled people to sail, but she has also raised
  £200 for a sailing centre through Sainsbury's Local Heroes scheme.
  Frances, from Warren Heath...

• Grand effort all round
  10

  WHEN HARROGATE'S Joyce Patterson is
  not working as a checkout assistant, she
  can usually be found either f undraising
  or giving talks to raise the profile of the
  Hearing Dogs for Deaf People charity.
  Joyce, who is almost...

• Shopability matters
  10

  DISABLED CUSTOMERS at Alton are
  f indinq shopping much easier, thanks
  to Sainsbury's shopability. The store
  has adapted two shopmobility
  scooters to give disabled shoppers
  more independence.
  The scooters have been...

• £35 of vouchers for every colleague!
  11

  DON'T FORGET, Sainsbury's to You is offering every colleague
  the chance to claim £35 worth of Sainsbury's vouchers this
  month.
  All you need to do is encourage three customers to place
  their first order with Sainsbury's to You...

• Bites - Eggsclusive
  11

  bites
  EGGSCLUSIVE
  Sainsbury's is
  introducing eggs
  from the
  Plymouth Black
  hen, an exclusive
  breed reared on
  family farms in
  Kent and
  Somerset. This
  unlguehenhas
  taken four years
  to breed and
  produces
  beautiful...

• Healthy message in trim on-line
  11

  LOG ON to sainsburys.co.uk web site
  for a whole host of foodie ideas and
  offers.
  Try the recipe section and checl<
  out over 6,000 recipes developed by
  Sainsbury's development chefs and
  Jamie Oliver.
  There are also more than...

• Like father, like daughter
  11

  GIRLS ARE being given the
  opportunity to learn more about the
  world of work and try their hand at
  jobs outside the traditionally
  perceived female roles, as part of a
  national Take Our Daughters to Work
  initiative.
  Take Our...

• Sainsbury's takes on the World Cup
  12

  Football fever is sweeping
  Britain as the World Cup
  competition kicks off and
  Sainsbury's is clearly the
  place to shop whichever
  team you support. If you're looking for the best offers
  on beers, ready meals, crisps,
  snacks...

• Competition - Win an England Football Shirt
  13

  competition
  As part of Sainsbury's celebration of all
  things football during the World Cup,
  journal readers have the chance to win an
  England football shirt signed by several
  England players.
  For your chance to win the...

• World Cup Bonanza
  14

  To continue the football
  celebration, the journal
  has a bumper World Cup
  competitions page for you.
  Sainsbury's three World Cup
  partners - Coca-Cola, Walkers and
  Budweiser- are offering some
  great prizes for readers - and...

• New president for Shaw's
  15

  Shaw's has announced the appointment of
  Paul Gannon to president and chief
  operating officer. This move, effective
  immediately, reflects a transition of
  responsibility in anticipation of president
  Ross McLaren's retirement....

• Sister cities
  15

  This month, the journal
  travels to Shrewsbury
  in its look at towns and
  cities in the UK and US
  with Sainsbury's and
  Shaw's stores. Shrewsbury, Shropshire
  Shrewsbury colleagues are a committed bunch -
  they're at the...

• Staking your future on sound finance
  16

  Sainsbury's is helping colleagues plan for retirement by
  remodelling its retirements benefits package with the
  introduction of the J Sainsbury Stakeholder (JSS) pension plan. what is a
  stakeholder?
  • a variety of pension...

• Get a good flight's sleep
  18

  Most of us have struggled to sleep at some point on our
  travels, whether by plane, train, coach or car. So with
  summer holidays almost here, the journal and The
  JetRest have joined forces to offer you the chance to put
  those...

• March competition winners
  18

  Winning the £25 crossword is R Reid at West Hove. The £10 wordsearch goes
  to P Ashby, a veteran.
  For a list of the winners in the rest of the competitions featured in the March
  issue, please send an SAE to the journal at the...

• Quick crossword
  18

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  21. Dennands(6)
  22. Lay down (7)
  23. Engraver (6)
  24. Communication (7)
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• Solutions to May wordsearch and crossword
  18

  Across: 1 Manufacture; 9 Arm;
  10 Harbinger; 11 Trier; 13 Awl 14 Canopy; 16 Heroic; 18 Parvenu;
  19 Press; 20 Tenseness; 21 Ado;
  22 Reverberate.
  Down: 2 Aim; 3 Uslner; 4 Abroad;
  5 Twinkle; 6 Rigmarole;
  7 Participate; 8...

• Wordsearch
  18

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  of tinne described below?
  1. 3,600 seconds
  2. 1/120thofadecade
  3. One-tenth of a century
  4. 168 hours
  5. 1/86,400thofaday
  6. 100 decades
  7. 5,200 weeks
  8. 1,440 minutes
  9. 365.25 days
  10....

• Fare comment - have a go with this recipe...
  19

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• Let the games commence
  19

  let the games
  commence
  The XVil Commonwealth Games will be
  heldin Manchester from 25 July to
  4 August 2002. It will be the biggest
  multi-sport event ever staged in the UK
  attracting 4,000 competitors from 72
  nations, one...

• Win a walking break for two
  19

  Do you long for a refaxing short break, beautiful seen
  and the chance to walk In stunning countryside?
  To celebrate the launch of the new guided walking
  breaks company, Foot Trails is offering you and a partner
  the chance to...

• Cartoon
  20

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• Express yourself
  20

  wobbly wine
  Neil Smith, customer service
  assistant, Wandsworth:
  I notice wine bottles wobble, and
  often fall, on the shopping conveyor
  belt. Some fall to the floor and
  smash, upsetting customers and
  causing delay for...

• Nutrition issues
  21

  Dietitian Kate Arthur - with a little help from her friends - has kindly provided answers to several letters the journal
  has received regarding nutrition gueries. For more information on how Sainsbury's deals with nutrition...

• Appeal for Uganda
  22

  LUCY WHITE, payroll clerk at
  Exeter, needs your help in raising
  £3,000 to finance a trip to
  Uganda next month.
  Lucy is hoping to join
  Hospice Uganda, which offers
  clinical care to patients
  suffering from AIDS and...

• Back to the future
  22

  NEWBURY COLLEAGUES
  went back in timeto -^
  welcome the mayor,
  mayoress and the town crier
  to their store's reopening
  after reinvigoration.
  The visitors arrived on
  an old-fashioned brewer's
  dray pulled by two
  impressive...

• Flowers for Flo
  22

  HORNCHURCH MADE one couple's day
  when colleagues presented them with a
  bouquet on their 60th wedding
  anniversary.
  Flo and Les Ware have been shopping
  at the store ever since it opened, and love
  to see and praise their...

• Safety first
  22

  DEPOT AND store colleagues from
  Bristol put safety first when they
  visited a school to teach children how
  to keep safe on the roads.
  Emerald Park depot colleagues
  held the safety day at Rockford School in Yate. Alan
  Wingf...

• Stafford wins at leisure
  22

  A SALES increase of 180 per cent saw the girls
  on Stafford's Jeff & Co department come out
  on top in a national competition - and win
  £1,500 in leisure vouchers. The team of 17
  members have shared the vouchers and are
  hoping...

• Take notice!
  22

  CHADWELL HEATH store
  managerJohnBracketthas
  a great idea for TalkBack on
  how to get colleagues to
  remember things that the
  store has achieved over the
  year - put them on a notice
  board! The notice board,
  which also shouts...

• Birthday gift
  23

  HELPING
  HOLBORN...
  Holborn Central
  colleagues hand
  over the cheque. HOLBORN CENTRAL celebrated its first
  birtliday in style - presenting a fund-raising
  cfieque of £1,043 to nearby Great Ormond
  Street Children's...

• Braintree gains praise
  23

  BRAINTREE EARNED newspaper coverage
  and a letter of thanks from its local library after
  the store donated £100 worth of toys at a
  special Bookstart session.
  The library advertised its usual story-time
  session with the...

• Feasts from the east
  23

  COLLEAGUES AT Wolverhampton raised £345 for charity following
  an Asian evening held at the store. The money was donated to Write
  Away, a charity which uses writing and communication to help
  children and adults with...

• Margo banks cash
  23

  MARGO REID, Sainsbury's Bank call
  centre assistant at Teviot House, has
  won £500 in a colleague prize draw
  held in HBoS call centres during a
  promotion for Sainsbury's Bank's
  personal loans on healthy...

• Swanning Around
  23

  STRAND ROAD colleagues in i
  Northern Ireland received an "
  unexpected visitor when they found a
  swan, separated from its flock, taking
  shelter in their delivery yard.
  Affectionately named "Brian's
  Baby" after Brian Warke,...

• Wanted: more Local Heroes - £5,000 reward
  23

  THERE'S STILL time to apply for this year's Local Heroes schei^™th
  for teams and Individuals. If you've held a charity event at your store since
  October 2001, why not apply? See your PTM for a form or contact Sue
  Mercer on...

• Checkout great service
  24

  This month, fhey'ouma/focuseson
  great service at the checl ': back for Pat
  J Selby Road colleagues pride themselves
  * on their great service-but it w/as Pat
  " Brennan (left) and June Worsnop (right)
  who...