'Sainsbury's Journal', September/October 2008

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• Contents Page
  02

  contents TIN TALKS
  bout his highlights of our conference.
  5 OUR NEWS
  nnd out what's been going on around
  the business.
  P8 START THE DAY
  WITH DIDO
  art the Day with Dido and
  ur colleagues.
  9 LOVE YOUR
  EFTOVERS
  id out how...

• GUEST EDITOR Kieran Dormer
  04

  As always, this issue of the Journal is packed with great stories from around
  the business.
  I'm sure you'll want to find out what tasty treats store managers and colleagues
  tried at this year's conference at the Birmingham NEC....

• Justin talks: You make the difference
  04

  conference and it was a
  huge success. By now your
  managers have had a chance
  to catch up with you and talk
  about all the great things they saw.
  It was a fantastic few days and I really
  enjoyed seeing colleagues from...

• Get knitting
  05

  Last year lots of you got
  involved in innocent's Big Knit
  competition and knitted lots
  of little woolly hats to go on
  innocent smoothie bottles.
  Thanks to all your hard work
  you knitted over 22,000 hats
  for Age Concern...

• Get set for Good Food
  05

  The BBC Good Food Show
  returns to Birmingham,
  Glasgow and London in
  November and colleagues
  can apply for tickets and
  get £3 off the cost of
  general admission.
  Over 600 exhibitors will be
  there with the widest variety
  of...

• Making our Community Mark
  05

  Business in the Community
  works with companies that
  are committed to making a
  positive impact on their
  communities and the
  environment. The
  CommunityMark recognises
  companies they believe are
  the best community...

• Bexleyheath bags 'Local' opportunity
  06

  We've just opened a new
  convenience in Bexleyheath,
  London, creating 16 new jobs
  in the area. The store is
  ideally located next to the
  station. We're sure it's going
  to be really popular with
  busy commuters, making it
  even...

• Fundraising Superstars
  06

  local charity, Bluebell
  Wood Children's Hospice.
  So far this year they have
  raised £4,000 and are
  hoping to raise £10,000 by
  the end of the year, which
  would be an amazing
  achievement. They have had
  loads of great...

• Local Heroes see Fairtrade in action
  06

  We sent our Local Heroes
  award winners on the trip of
  a lifetime to St. Lucia to see
  first hand Fairtrade in action.
  Our Local Heroes are
  colleagues who have really
  made a difference to their
  local communities...

• TURN UP THE VOLUME ON SIMPLE
  06

  The Simple programme
  helps to make the lives of
  our customers and
  colleagues simpler and
  easier through more
  straightforward processes
  in stores and depots.
  So it really supports our
  colleague values of Keep
  it simple and...

• Dartmouth goes greener
  07

  We have recently opened
  Dartmouth store to be our
  greenest store yet!
  The store has been built with
  lots of features that make it
  kinder to the environment
  than other buildings. It plans
  to save up to 40 per cent of
  its...

• New TV dinners
  07

  Hopefully, you've seen our
  new 'Feed Your Family For A
  Fiver' TV ads.
  The ads feature working mum
  Sarah, played by actress
  Tracy Brabin. In the first ad
  we see Sarah on her first day
  instore when she meets
  colleague Lisa,...

• Our very own Olympian
  07

  Newbury Park colleagues are
  bursting with pride for their
  colleague - and now Olympic
  heroine - Sarah Claxton!
  Sarah went to Beijing with
  Team GB to compete in the
  100m hurdles and reached
  the final. She came eighth - a...

• RUNNING ON RUBBISH
  07

  We're proud to announce that
  we're the first UK retailer to
  make daily food deliveries
  using a lorry powered by fuel
  from waste products.
  When waste food, garden
  cuttings and paper rot in
  landfill sites methane gas
  is...

• Top fundraisers to head for Africa
  07

  We're sending our topfundraising
  colleagues to
  South Africa to see how the
  money they helped raise for
  Sport Relief and Red Nose
  Day is helping people less
  fortunate than others.
  Colleagues from Cromwell
  Road, Romney,...

• Udder Madness at Hams Hall
  07

  Colleagues at Hams Hall
  depot became modern day
  shepherds recently when a
  herd of cows escaped from a
  local nature reserve and
  found their way onto Hams
  Hall Depot land!
  "Not one of them had a
  booking reference and...

• Start the day with Dido
  08

  With her feet firmly
  under the table as
  Convenience Director,
  Dido has been out and
  about meeting store
  colleagues. A recent
  trip took her to
  Manchester, where
  colleagues jumped at the
  chance to talk about
  some meaty...

• Love your leftovers
  09

  le
  Our recent Love your
  leftovers 'Make the
  difference' day really
  caught the imagination
  of colleagues and
  customers. The war on
  waste has never been
  so tasty!
  We wanted to see 'Love your
  leftovers' in action, so we...

• Giving customers more
  10

  We've all seen reports
  in the papers and on
  TV that customers
  want to get more out
  of their weekly shop.
  So how are we giving
  customers what
  they want? On TV, radio and in the press all the
  major retailers are shouting...

• Who's got the S factor?
  12

  The live final!
  The big day had arrived! The
  atmosphere back stage was electric as
  the finalists put the final touches to
  their performances and an expert
  beauty team from Selfridges turned
  them into stars.
  Sarah Walklett...

• LOOKING AFTER OUR FUTURE
  14

  We know our customers care about where their food comes from, that's why
  two of our company values are 'Sourcing with integrity' and 'Respect for the
  environment'. From palm oil to eggs, fish to recycled kitchen rolls, they...

• Conference Special
  16

  This year our conference
  was bigger and better
  than ever! It was all
  about how you can make
  the difference to our
  customers everyday.
  Colleagues joined
  managers on Day One at
  our "Know your stuff
  exhibition to see...

• Check out my basket
  19

  new term starts, students need to budget
  eat! Lots of them work with us part time
  and want to make the most of their money, just like
  the rest of our colleagues and customers.
  We invited Sana Waifa, Lower
  Richmond Road, who's...

• Nothing fishy going on! Apprenticeship update.
  20

  Meanwhile, our apprenticeship schemes
  continue to go from strength to
  strength. The apprenticeships began
  with bakery, but have now expanded to
  fish and meat. The chance to study for
  an NVO Level 2 (equivalent to five
  GCSEs...

• We've all got talent: 'You Can'
  20

  One of our company
  values is about beinq
  'A great place to work'
  which is why we want to
  make sure that new and
  existing colleagues have
  the opportunity to gain
  valuable skills and make
  the most of their
  careers with us....

• London Employer Accord, Mencap and us
  21

  Raquel Weald, Muswell Hill, works part
  time in the bakery and has become a
  much loved member of the team.
  "I make sure that the shelves have
  enough cakes, bread and buns. I also
  slice bread and help customers and
  colleagues...

• Get set for Halloween
  22

  Another chance to have fun
  instore and help promote to
  customers our scariest range
  of Halloween p roducts yet!

• GET SET FOR SUMMER
  22

  Have a look at some of the pictures
  we got and see how your colleagues
  got set for summer!
  This summer we asked you
  to send us your pictures showing us
  how you and your store colleagues
  were 'getting set for summer.'
  We had...

• Jay'll Fix It
  23

  How could we refuse? We wanted to
  make sure Blossom had a fantastic trip
  from start to finish so we collected her
  from her home and drove her to the
  nearby Elstree Aerodrome in
  Borehamwood.
  "I was so excited," said Blossom....

• Local news round up: London
  24

  Lynn Cummings has
  raised over £200 for
  Cancer Research by
  joining thousands of
  women in this year's 'R~~
  for Life' completed at
  Blackheath. The race was
  5kms and took Lynn 55
  minutes. She would like
  to thank everyone...

• Local news round up: South
  24

  PURLEY WAY
  Colleagues Tracy Lamprell
  and Mark Styles were
  recently married. It was a
  'i Sainsbury's affair w "
  • contributions from
  is colleagues to help
  the day a very speci
  One of our bakers made
  ike, another...

• Local news round up: East
  25

  Colleagues were very
  pleased to provide two
  football strips for
  Mulbarton Wanderers and
  Belles Girls football clubs
  near Norwich. Money was
  raised by encouraging
  customers to cut down on
  disposable plastic shopping
  k-gs...

• Local news round up: North
  26

  h sandwich week colleagues ran a
  sign a sandwich and create some yummy
  fillings! Colleagues, including Claire Kirk and Donna Walsh,
  sssed up as sandwiches and raised £80 for their local
  ildren's ward. Well done!

• Local news round up: Supply Chain
  26

  WALTHAM POINT BASINGSTOKE
  Even though bad weather
  meant that the Hitchin
  Helping Hands annual picnic
  had to move indoors
  to a pavilion, depot
  colleagues helped to make
  sure that everyone was well
  looked after.
  The...

• Local news round up: West
  26

  thank you to colleagues for
  collecting Active Kids
  vouchers. They also brought
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  this summer when the petrol
  station re-opened after a 12
  week refit. The first
  customers...

• Coffee Break Solutions
  27

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  o 1...

• Room with a new view
  27

  Way back in April this year, we invited
  you to write in and tell us in 20 words
  why a bedroom in your home could
  really use a makeover.
  The prize for revealing your bedroom
  nightmares was a makeover by our
  Home team using...

• September/October competition winners
  27

  ITV visit
  Mrs J M Gowlett, Ferndown
  Phil Smith goodies
  Mrs J E Sewell, Lincoln
  Camping competition
  Mike Cobbold, Bury St Edmunds

• Coffee Break
  28

  Wordsearch
  Have a go at our autumn-themed
  wordsearch just fo
  Acorn
  Apples
  Berries
  Bonfire night
  Brown
  Colours
  Fireworks
  Getting cold
  Halloween
  Harvest
  r...

• MAKE A MEAL OF IT
  28

  MAKE A
  MEAL OF IT!
  Our new Meal Ticket is ideal for students
  going off to college.
  The Meal Ticket comes in two card
  parts - one card for the student to
  use instore and one for the parent
  to keep to add money to.
  Parents...

• Tuck into some great prizes!
  28

  Our friends at the BBC Good Food Show
  are offering three colleagues three
  pairs of tickets to the remaining
  shows in Glasgow (31st Oct - 2nd Nov),
  London (14th - 16th Nov) and
  Birmingham (26th - 30th Nov).
  The prize...

• Win a month's supply of Copella!
  28

  Homes and Gardens Magazine are
  offering a free 330ml bottle of Copella
  exclusively to our customers and now
  we'd like to invite colleagues to enjoy
  some free apple juice too!
  We're offering a month's supply of
  Copella to 10...