'Sainsbury's Journal', September 2005

Table of content

• Contents Page
  02

  Inside...
  In the news
  3 Active Kids has been a huge
  success
  Your news
  4 Setting up camp for the Scouts
  5 Camden colleagues star in Jude
  Law movie
  6 Safety boost for Oldbury
  7 Football champs up for the...

• Up Front
  02

  M MI hope you have had a great summer
  M M and you enjoyed yourself! I am pleased
  that so many of you took advantage of the extra
  15 per cent colleague discount and some of the
  great deals we had in store this summer.
  Although...

• Active Kids is in great shape
  03

  Schools across the country are
  gearing up for delivery of their
  new Active Kids equipment this
  month.
  Active Kids has been a huge
  success. Over 80 per cent of the
  total number of primary and
  secondary schools in the...

• Kelly gets active in Urmston
  03

  Six-year-old Sarah Case from
  Urmston near Manchester got
  a very special PE teacher for
  her school when Kelly Holmes
  visited Highfield Primary
  School in July.
  Sarah was the lucky winner
  of a CiTV competition and
  Kelly came...

• Sainsbury's acquires nine stores from Morrisons
  03

  Sainsbury's has acquired a
  further nine Safeway-branded
  stores from Morrisons. Eight
  are located in the south of
  England and one is in
  Scotland.
  These stores give over
  175,000 sq ft of new space.
  and have an average size...

• In case of emergency
  04

  The store business continuity plan has been \
  relaunched in the light of the recent terror
  attacks, providing an action list for management
  to use following major incidents. It also gives all
  colleagues access to a freephone...

• Learning's a matter of course
  04

  Colleagues at Rugby depot have
  been brushing up on their skills
  for life with two lifelong learning
  schemes.
  The programme was started
  thanks to a unigue partnership
  between Sainsbury's, IDG,
  Warwickshire College and...

• Super-Marquee
  04

  Springfield store and
  colleagues from stores
  around the region worked
  around the clock to make the
  2005 Scouts EuroJam (29
  July to 10 August) a success.
  Sainsbury's built a huge
  tent stocking over 700
  products, from milk...

• Hot off the Press - Sainsbury's Magazine
  05

  Check out the new-look Sainsbury's
  Magazine. The October issue has a
  fresh new look - and it's still full of
  delicious recipes and quick and
  easy meal ideas to suit every
  purse and palate.
  Featuring lots of your
  favourite...

• Pupils get active and get cooking
  05

  Thirteen schoolchildren cooked up a treat for colleagues when they
  celebrated their wins in the Taste of Success, 'Get Active - Get
  Cooking' challenge. This year's challenge was open to ail schools
  throughout the UK and...

• Sainsbury's Swoons
  05

  Colleagues at Camden were
  turned into movie stars for the
  day when Jude Law, Juliette
  Binoche and Anthony
  Minqhella used their store as a
  film set.
  Sainsbury's tightened
  security for the filming,
  checked bags for cameras...

• Customer Corner
  06

  QWhy are your boxes of
  washing powder getting
  smaller?
  AThere is a Europe-wide
  initiative to reduce the
  amount of chemicals and waste
  packaging released
  into the
  environment. We
  have made the
  powder more
  concentrated,...

• Nectar programme is still growing
  06

  Talk Talk and Dollond & Aitchison
  (D&A) are two of the latest
  companies to join the Nectar
  programme.
  From September you'll be able
  to earn two points for every £1 you
  spend with Talk Talk, the landline
  company from the...

• Safety boost in-store
  06

  Oldbury customers can now get safety advice along with their
  shopping thanks to a new community safety centre which has
  opened in the local Sainsbury's store.
  The safety centre has been set up jointly between Sainsbury's,
  the...

• Trolley good idea
  06

  What do you do with old
  shopping trolleys? Well, if
  you're design student, Colin
  Lovekin, you turn then into
  furniture!
  Colin came up with the idea
  of making furniture from scrap
  trolleys for his final year
  project and...

• All credit to you
  07

  There's a new credit card
  available from Sainsbury's
  Bank - and it offers 0 per cent
  on purchases for 10 months
  plus discounts in Sainsbury's.
  The offer of 0 per cent on
  Introductory purchases for 10
  months is one of the...

• Analyse this
  07

  Hams Hall depot and Cantey
  store played host to members
  of Sainsbury's operating board
  and 42 analysts and fund
  managers in July.
  It was a chance for them to
  availability in action and
  actually to see the
  improvements made...

• Football champs are up for the cup
  07

  Sainsbury's gave four young football teams the chance
  to emulate Premiership champions Chelsea with a
  triumphant open-top bus tour of their home towns.
  The youngsters were all winners in the Under lis
  England Schools Football...

• Looking good in Oldham
  08

  Immaculate standards are also
  critical to success for the general
  merchandise team of the year at
  Oldham. Department manager Jo
  Hayes insists that customers
  shouldn't have to walk around a
  store that looks cluttered and...

• Setting great store by communication
  08

  on Holmes, personnel and
  ing manager at Worksop, is
  lant that the HR & Admin
  I of the year award won by
  itore was as much a tribute
  je store's management as it
  |o the behind-the-scenes
  It she and the admin
  iager put...

• After Hours
  09

  Three of the senior
  management
  team went back
  to the floor at
  Sydenham to find
  out what life is like
  on the night shift Night shift colleagues at
  Sydenham, Springfield and
  Stanway got a surprise when three
  new colleagues...

• Values mean business
  10

  Sainsbury's has been named as the most responsible retailer
  in Britain - and now there are 12 priorities for the future Did you know that Sainsbury's is
  one of the world's 100 most
  sustainable companies? And it's
  the only UK...

• Fresh look for Organics
  11

  Sainsbury's
  organics now
  has a new look
  -and more
  products available
  in every store
  Did you know that the organics
  market is growing at 15 per cent?
  Customers are asking for more
  organic products and Sainsbury's
  has...

• Tell Justin
  12

  When Tell Justin launched, chief executive Justin King knew that colleagues
  were just brimming with good ideas. One year on, here's the proof It's a year since Tell Justin was
  launctied back in September
  2004. In ttiat time,...

• Tell Justin: Full of bright ideas
  13

  John Clive (right) from Brighton's
  Lewes Road store is never short of
  good ideas. He's constantly
  thinking if things could be done
  better. So far, he has sent more
  than 80 suggestions in to the Tell
  Justin scheme - and...

• Metallic magic
  14

  The new general merchandise homeware range has something for
  every home this winter - all in glamorous metallic shades.
  Organic bronze ceramic vases (left) make a stylish statement.
  And at only E5.99/E9.99, why not add a couple...

• New dawn for English apricots
  14

  The very first crop of apricots to
  be grown commercially in
  England has already gone on
  sale at Sainsbury's.
  The announcement could
  herald the start of a new apricot
  industry in Kent, reducing the
  amount of fruit imported...

• Solving a thorny problem
  14

  A specialist team of plant breeders has finally
  solved a thiorny problem in the world of roses.
  They've become the first growers to develop a
  spray rose with a reliable vase life - and in a wide
  variety of colours other than...

• "We went organic"
  15

  The new look
  organic range
  gets taste tested
  The Tell Justin scheme celebrates
  its first birthday this month. To
  celebrate, we asked members of
  the team to try out products from
  the relaunched Sainsbury's's SO
  Organic...

• Shining stars: Adding even more shine to the scheme
  16

  Following feedback from
  colleagues. Shining Stars is
  set to get even better. Retail
  director Ken McMeikan
  recently announced
  improvements to the scheme
  in time for its first birthday in
  September.
  Chequebooks
  More...

• Shining stars: Carol's a shining example
  16

  Life got very busy for
  Haydock's Carol Birmingham in
  August. Within five months of
  starting as HR assistant at the
  depot, two of her colleagues
  went on holiday and another
  went on maternity leave. That
  left Carol manning...

• Shining stars: Organics sales competition
  16

  Don't forget, the store with the biggest percentage sales uplift on
  organic products between 31 August and 12 October (against 22 May and
  2 July 2005) will receive 100,000 Shining Stars. There will also be four
  prizes of 50,000...

• Shining stars: Stop, thief!
  16

  Trolley collector Barry Cheeton was
  just doing his job in Denton store
  when he spotted someone acting
  suspiciously at the other end of the
  carpark.
  Barry explained: "I saw a young
  lad pushing a trolley. He seemed to
  be in a...

• Go team Sainsbury's
  17

  Two teams, one male, one female, took part In the Microsoft
  Challenge which involves teams from 122 companies taking part
  in activities including runs, kayaking and solving puzzles all
  against the clock. Karen Kirner, senior...

• "I've got the knowledge"
  17

  Harringay
  colleague Lilian
  Juliet travels
  in style Lilian Juliet knows exactly where
  she's going. She needs to: the
  Harringay admin manager owns
  her own London taxi and has been
  a licensed cabbie for four years.
  She's so...

• Simply the breast
  17

  Mansfield checkout operator Julie Ward
  completed the 26.2 mile Moonwalk on 18
  June. She started at 11.40 pm and arrived
  back in Hyde Park, at 9.05 am raising
  around £900 for Breast Cancer Care, and
  sponsored by Local Heroes....

• Cycle for Bryn
  18

  When drivers at Stoke depot heard that their colleague Bryn
  Morse was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease they cycled
  50 miles around the Peak District for the Motor Neurone
  Disease Association on 3 July and raised over...

• Left, right, left, right, left!
  18

  Burpham night shift assistant James Johnson
  has a double life. While at Sainsbury's he may
  be replenishing shelves by night, at the
  weekend he is training to defend the country.
  Private James Johnson started his...

• "We all get old some time"
  18

  Gloucester
  colleagues show
  how to look after
  your elders Colleagues at Gloucester are
  campaigning to keep The Raven
  Centre, a local meeting place for
  the elderly, open. The centre,
  which provides lunches and teas
  to...

• Briefs
  19

  • SHOW TIME FOR LAURA
  Newcastle-under-Lyme deli CIS
  Laura Harvey has landed the lead
  role in the UK premiere of Jane
  Eye The Musical, at the Regent
  Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent, from
  September 20-24
  • TAKING A LOAD...

• Doing the Wight thing
  19

  Isle of Wight colleagues took part in the "Walk the
  Wight" challenge raising over £1,000 for the Earl
  Mountbatten Hospice and walking over 13 miles.

• Good sports
  19

  Red Bank Road colleagues Karen Pearce, Frances
  Burke, Jean Hamilton, Ann Hopwood, Kathleen
  Wilkinson and Teresa Hodgkinson raised £1,000
  for the Brian House Children's Hospice by taken
  part in a 10k fun run for the third year...

• Race of their life
  19

  Lyons Farm colleagues, Jean Francis, Joyce
  Bartlett, Carol Poole, Louise Lyons, Janice
  Courtnage, Pauline Lenton, Helen Brooks, Julie
  Rogers, Sue Foote and Christine Wenham, took
  part in the Race For Life in aid of Cancer...

• Starting them early!
  19

  Colleagues at Bagshot Road
  invited children from a local
  nursery to a tour of the
  store. The children were
  working on a project called
  Food from Source to Plate.
  The day consisted of a
  talk on "Five a Day", a look
  at some...

• Dog's dinner
  20

  Masterfoods is launching new Pedigree^
  Complete! The recipe has been specially
  improved which means dogs will love it even
  more! Look out for pictorial fins and barkers,
  features in Sainsbury's Magazine, sampling
  and a...

• Win one million Nectar points
  20

  To celebrate the launch of
  three new sponsors to the
  Nectar programme, Journal
  readers have the chance to win
  one million Nectar points to
  spend on whatever you wish.
  To win, just answer this
  question on the entry...