'Sainsbury's Journal', July/August 2005

Table of content

• Contents Page
  02

  Inside..
  In the news
  3 Red Nose and Sport Relief deal
  Your news
  4 Awards galore
  5 Awardsfor Northern Ireland
  suppliers
  6 They learn while you shop
  7 Waste not, want not
  8 Leading the way
  9 Tackling underage...

• Up Front
  02

  M M Many congratulations to our colleagues
  M M at our Leamington Spa, East Filton
  and Hamilton stores who have come out as
  top store in recent surveys for the Grocer 33.
  This is great news and clearly demonstrates
  how we are...

• How low can you go?
  03

  Sainsbury's has lowered 2,000 prices since
  January - and we want everyone to know
  about it.
  Prices have plummeted throughout stores
  and more and more customers are seeing the
  difference in their shopping bills.
  Jamie Oliver...

• Quarter 1 figures show sustained growth
  03

  Sainsbury's first quarter
  trading statement gave
  colleagues encouraging
  news with total sales up
  5.7 per cent.
  Chief executive Justin King
  said: "We are encouraged by
  our trading performance which
  shows sustained...

• Red Nose and Sport Relief Deal
  03

  Following the success of this year's
  Comic Relief, Sainsbury's has
  signed a new six-year deal to
  support both Comic Relief and
  Sport Relief.
  The deal starts with Sport Relief
  in July 2006 and runs until 2011.
  This is the...

• Awards Briefs galore
  04

  SAFE AND SOUND
  Hot on the heels of the CTP
  awards came more success for
  Jacksons. The team won the
  British Safety Council
  international Safety Award for
  the third year running.
  • BOTTOMS UP!
  Raise a glass to...

• Awards galore
  04

  Sainsbury's trophy cabinet is
  bulging after a series of award
  wins across the business.
  In May, Convenience stores
  swept the board in the CTP
  (Convenience Tracking
  Programme) awards, winning nine
  out of 34 awards.
  Jacksons...

• Our hero
  04

  Andrew Stafford, from Arnold's
  night shift replenishment team,
  has received a Chief Constable's
  community award in recognition
  of his bravery.
  Andrew saw two young men
  trying to prise open the store's
  cigarette counter and...

• Fact
  05

  Sales of fresh
  coconuts
  soared in July
  because of the
  huge number
  of school fetes
  taking place
  across the UK.
  Vast nunnbers
  are being used
  for traditional
  coconut
  shy stalls

• Northern Ireland awarded
  05

  Sainsbury's has celebrated the
  success of its ongoing
  relationship with Northern Ireland
  food suppliers by honouring two
  local companies - Glens of Antrim
  potatoes and Tayto Crisps.
  Glens of Antrim was named
  small supplier...

• Retail Eye
  05

  • ASDA has cut 1,400 jobs at
  the retailers head office and
  among store management. 1,200
  jobs are to go from the
  company's junior management,
  with 200 going from Asda
  headquarters.
  • MARKS & SPENCER has
  signalled that...

• Value-added
  05

  Want to see how Sainsbury's is
  inq the values? Then log on
  www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/cr.
  This is Sainsbury's second
  corporate responsibility report
  highlighting the company's
  work with key stakeholders -
  colleagues,...

• Bringing you little bills
  06

  Sainsbury's Bank re-launched
  its car insurance in June with
  its first national TV campaign
  "Little Bill" an animated till
  receipt voiced by Rowland
  RIvron. Little Bill stands up for
  competitively priced car
  insurance and...

• The best possible start
  06

  Sainsbury's is giving a helping
  hand to the country's leading
  family support charity, Home-
  Start, by supporting Home-
  Start's national fundraising
  event between 7-20 September.
  The charity has 11,000
  volunteers helping...

• They learn while you shop
  06

  Sainsbury's has opened its very
  own nursery scliool at Castle
  point, Bournemouth, making it the
  first UK supermari^et to provide
  educational facilities for underfives.
  Unlike other typical in-store
  creches where children...

• Fact
  07

  Active Kids
  will boost the
  number of
  sports teachers
  in the UK by
  pledging
  £500,000 to
  the Youth
  Sport Trust

• Green is the colour
  07

  Salford has come up trumps i
  an environmental review of
  • " 1 retailers in the city. Salfori
  City Council's Waste Scrut .
  Committee asked Summerville
  Primary School to carry oi
  the assessments and sent
  along pupils from...

• Not just pretty faces
  07

  The twelfth SSA annual guiz >
  final was held at the Adelphi I
  Hotel, Liverpool in May.
  It proved a great SSA even
  bringing together members fr
  1 all areas of Sainsbury's with t
  • aim of having fun and...

• Waste not, want not
  07

  It's official - Ipswich colleagues
  are great with rubbish! The store
  threw away only 30 tonnes of
  waste last year - the least amount
  of any store, relative to takings.
  Duty manager Oliver Brown
  was delighted with the news....

• Cooking up a treat
  08

  At Leeds White Rose there was a
  real buzz following the awards
  presentation as word spread that
  they had won the bakery team of
  the year. Says bakery manager
  Jo Taylor: "It wasn't just the
  bakery where people were...

• Taking control
  08

  For Henry Forster, stock control
  and warehouse manager at the
  warehouse of the year in Finchley
  Road, success is about
  empowerment. "All the team
  members have the skills and
  knowledge to deal with anything
  that crops up....

• Think 21! If in doubt ASK for ID
  09

  Underage drinking is an ongoing
  problem for retailers to address.
  The responsible sale of alcohol is
  high on the Government's agenda
  and local
  authorities and
  police forces
  have been
  targeting
  supermarkets -...

• Shelf confident
  10

  There's a new
  inventory
  management
  system coming
  to stores. Called
  retail stock
  system (RSS),
  it's set to
  revolutionise life
  for store
  colleagues Goodbye SABRE, hello RSS. In
  come new handsets and hip
  printers and less...

• "Customers are at the heart of our business" - Customer director Gwyn Burr
  12

  Customer director Gwyn Burr is determined to bring back focus
  and improve colleague engagement with schemes like Tell Justin QHi Gwyn, you've been with
  Sainsbury's for about a year
  now. What are your impressions
  of the...

• A wizard promotion!
  14

  All over the country kids h
  gone potty for Potter as th
  latest Harry Potter book hi
  shelves.
  Harry Potter and the Half
  Blood Prince launched in
  stores at midnight on 16 July
  and the book flew off the
  shelves faster than a...

• Cool summer deals
  14

  Sainsbury's cool bag promotion is proving to be
  summer's hot deal. Customers can get a free cool
  bag worth £4.99 when they buy any five stickered
  products from the cold convenience range.
  There are more than 200 cold...

• End of the stone age for avocados
  14

  A new stoneless avocado is now
  available in stores.
  So soft is the fruit that, with
  the top sliced off, it can be eaten
  with a spoon -just like a boiled
  egg. And the small seedless
  cocktail avocados have the same
  rich...

• World first for whisky
  14

  The world's first organic whisky
  went into stores in June.
  Highland Harvest Organic
  Blended Scotch
  Whisky is exclusive ^
  to Sainsbury's. I
  Light gold in I
  colour. Highland 1
  Harvest has an
  aroma of toffee
  and vanilla...

• Summer is here!
  15

  Keeping cool
  in Kingston
  Colleagues at Sury Basin, near
  Kingston, know how to stay
  chilled. We set them the task of
  trying out the latest range of
  Sainsbury's ice creams, just to let
  you know what's hot this summer.
  The...

• Briefs
  16

  ABERDEEN supported a local
  school with their "Cookie
  Challenge" for the third year in a
  row. The pupils worked in teams
  to produce a business plan to
  design and market cookies. The
  teams then had to produce their
  cookie and...

• "I help produce pack a punch"
  16

  Sainsbury's is recruiting 10,000
  over-50 colleagues. The Journal
  talks to Nick Gargano at Burpham Burpham's secret weapon on the
  produce section is 70-year-old
  colleague Nick Gargano an ex-
  Olynnpic boxing gold...

• Anyone for rugby?
  17

  Sainsbury's Rugby Club had
  a fantastic finish to its
  04/05 season by winning
  the City League trophy and
  Tetley's Company Day
  tournament, beating Asda,
  Somerfield and two of
  Tetley's own teams to claim
  the...

• Enabling Workers
  17

  Shrewsbury has been awarded a certificate of
  recognition from Shropshire County Council
  for being a good employer of disabled people.
  Adrian Bowyer, who has learning difficulties,
  gained a permanent job at the store...

• Fallen on hard times?
  17

  If you know an ex-grocery
  industry worker struggling witti
  physical, emotional or financial
  hardship, help may be at hand.
  Caravan is an occupational
  benevolent fund set up to assist
  former grocery workers who have
  fallen...

• Healthy eating made fun
  17

  Dome Roundabout store held a fruit taste
  challenge for pupils from two local schools.
  The event was organised by graduate trainee,
  Adrian Rafferty, to highlight the importance of
  ^^ealthy eating to children and to coincide...

• Local Heroes
  17

  Thank you to everyone who
  has applied to Local Heroes,
  either for volunteering or
  fundraising activities. Here
  are some of the hundreds
  already received:
  • Natasha Cole, Rye Park
  RDC (Brownies)
  • Lisa Irwin,...

• Shining stars
  18

  Justin King tias sent Sue Francis paci on the holiday of a lifetime -just
  fordoing her job.
  Sue, general merchandise
  manager at Bridgwater is the
  lucky...

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  19

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• Get lustrous locks - every day
  19

  For the first time, Sainsbury's
  is expanding Its designer range
  into health and beauty with bY
  Phil Smith haircare.
  The new and exclusive Phil
  Smith range features 11
  products, all designed to give
  you beautiful manageable...

• Close Shave
  20

  Following the success
  of Gillette M3 Power.
  Gillette is launching an
  extension to the M3
  Power family - M3 Power
  Nitro and M3 Power
  Nitro Gel. The products
  launch in Sainsbury's
  this summer and
  are expected to
  deliver...

• Promise yourself a little indulgence
  20

  Galaxy is launching an
  innovative new range aimed
  at chocolate lovers who w ~
  something a little more
  special. -^
  The new block cho
  range called Promises is
  set to create a new category
  of "everyday luxury".
  Available in...