'Sainsbury's Journal', March/April 2010

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• Contents Page
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  P4 JUSTIN TALKS
  About Sport Relief, Stars Awards and
  when the President of South Africa
  visited our Greenwich store.
  P5-7 OUR NEWS
  Find out what's been going on around
  the business.
  P8 START THE DAY
  Find out what Justin...

• What a result!
  03

  What a result! Over
  £5 million raised by Colleagues ah Customers dh things bigger and better than
  ever before!
  We've been amazed by the scale
  the challenges and...

• Guest Editor Karen Taylor
  04

  GUEST EDITOR
  KAREN TAYLOR
  Romiley Local
  I'm delighted to be guest editor of this issue, especially when it's packed
  with so much good news!
  And the news doesn't get much better than the announcement of this year's
  Big Cook...

• You make the difference
  04

  In the last issue of
  the Journal we saw
  how Comic Relief
  projects help those less
  fortunate than ourselves both
  in the UK and around the world.
  I'm glad that you found their stories
  s inspiring as I did and so far...

• Bee n' bee!
  05

  There's always a buzz when we
  open a new store but at Dursley in
  Gloucestershire there might be more
  of one than usual...
  Dursley is one of our new eco stores.
  Along with features like recycled
  rainwater, the site has also...

• Our toys are ECO friendly!
  05

  Our new range of children's toys
  should definitely put a 'spring' in the
  step of our colleagues' and customers'
  kids - and reassure parents who are
  keen to be green!
  The range, which has just launched
  instore, is called Eco...

• Searching for our stars
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  OUR STARS! We're on the search for this year's
  Stars and we need your help! Our Stars
  Awards celebrates our colleagues who
  really make a difference. We're looking
  for the individuals or teams who go
  above and beyond, and we...

• 90 and still scanning through
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  Retirement? What retirement? Gladys
  Smith, recently named one of Britain's
  oldest cashiers at the tender age
  of 90, was already eight years past
  the UK's retirement age for women
  when she joined Kempshott store
  in...

• Our newest, greenest store!
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  We're always looking for new ways to be green and our Westhoughton
  store near Bolton, which opened on 10th February, certainly fits the bill.
  It's the first store in Europe to be built with its very own biomass boiler!
  "Biomass...

• Pet Idol is here!
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  is Kere!
  ...as well as our latest instore event,
  'Happy Pets'! This means price cuts
  and special offers on hundreds of
  guality pet products, and to celebrate
  we have a very special colleague
  competition too!
  "It's all...

• Take a challenge and double it!
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  When our Commercial Team
  colleagues at Holborn store support
  centre wanted to do something
  extra special for their chosen
  charity, Cancer Research UK, they
  came up with a brilliant idea...
  "We enlisted the help of 12 of...

• The Big Cook Off is back
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  If you're great in the kitchen and
  love to cook, then this is the
  competition for you
  We want you to tell us about your
  favourite dish - that's the starter,
  main or pudding that you just love
  to cook! If your dish stands...

• You've 'Made the difference'
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  This year, we want our 'Make the
  difference' days to be bigger and better
  than ever before! That's why we've
  asked for your ideas right from the start!
  "In January we asked all our colleagues
  across stores, depots and store...

• Start the day with Justin & Roger
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  Start the day with Justin
  Region 27, Balham
  From filling out forms to not filling
  landfill, Justin and our colleagues from
  Region 27 had a lot to talk about!
  "I always really look forward to the
  Start the day sessions....

• By day, by night
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  Our colleagues have amazing talents inside and
  outside of work. This time we wanted to discover
  the secret life of Kelly Nason, who spends her
  nights as a part time cashier at Brookwood. It
  turns out she swaps cash for...

• How Convenient
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  Ever wondered why
  prices and promotions
  are different in our
  convenience stores
  compared to our
  supermarkets? Our customers
  are always looking
  for great value
  on products and
  promotions wherever
  they shop. Here's how
  we...

• Sports Relief: Rise to the Challenge!
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  Once again we've shown the UK that we
  have some of the most generous and
  dedicated fundraising colleagues in retail!
  As a business we've raised over £5 million
  - lets see how you did it! CROYDON'S ANSWER TO THE SUPREMES...

• Sports Relief: Charity begins with you!
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  ENFIELD COLLEAGUES, INCLUDING CHARLOTTE JONES AND KAREN RUMBLE,
  HELPED RAISE AT LEAST £6,000! COLLEAGUES INCLUDING THE REGION 32 YOUTH
  FORUM, JOINED JUSTIN ON HIS SPORT RELIEF MILE, WHILE NEARBY RENAULT LENT
  THE STORE A CAR...

• Get set for summer
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  Spring time is the perfect opportunity to get out into
  your garden and start getting it ready for summer.
  With some great new gardening
  products and special offers arriving
  instore, we decided to ask greenfingered
  colleague...

• Have your cake...
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  ...and eat it! Safely!
  That's the great news
  for nut allergy sufferers
  as we are the first
  supermarket to launch
  two delicious children's
  birthday cakes instore.
  They've been made for
  us by the Just Love
  Food Company...

• What's in your fridge?
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  Almost a third of the
  food in the UK is thrown
  away each year, that's
  6.7 million tonnes...
  which is a lot of leftovers!
  In this feature, we take a
  sneaky peak inside our
  colleagues' fridges and,
  with the help of one...

• A well earned rest
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  We know we have the
  best colleagues in
  retail, so when the
  convenience Leadership
  Team set out over
  Christmas to find the
  store with that extra
  special something,
  they knew there would
  be almost too many to
  choose from!...

• Taking care of customers
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  Got a question or
  concern about our
  business?
  Our Careline teams are ready and
  waiting to handle everything from
  product gueries, to reporting an
  accident, to finding out a store's
  opening times. For both customers...

• DVD Review
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  ...a DVD box that is! Avatar is the biggest blockbuster of all time and is
  expected to be the biggest Blu-ray and DVD release ever! We invited some
  colleagues from Merton to watch the film and tell us what they thought. Avatar...

• Win a copy of 'Avatar'
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  We've got 10 copies of the DVD
  give away. Send us your answer
  the following question for a cha
  to win!
  What task has Jake been given b
  the humans?
  Text ENTER AVATAR with your
  name, location and answer
  to 60066, email...

• A president comes to Greenwich!
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  It's not every day that a real life President calls into your store,
  but that's exactly what happened when Jacob Zuma, President
  of the Republic of South Africa, took an official tour of our
  Greenwich store with Justin during...

• New Stores opening
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  We're opening lots of new stores all over the
  UK, so let's give them a warm welcome. We can't
  wait to see them in our regional news pages! Store manager: Mick Webb
  "We're really looking forward to
  getting involved with the...

• Local news round up: North
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  Colleagues celebrated Burns
  night recently in traditional
  style with haggis, neeps
  and tatties. After setting
  up a striking display of
  Scottish flags, the haggis
  was piped to the front of
  the store. Colleagues...

• Local news round up: East
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  BIGGLESWADE STAN WAY
  Customers and colleagues really love their leftovers in Biggleswade. Colleagues set up a special
  display encouraging customers to reduce, reuse and recycle their food by asking them to love
  their leftovers....

• Local news round up: South
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  family who were doing their
  weekly shop. The cheeky TV
  duo posed as a cashier and
  SOUTH HARROW
  news that she and her family
  were going to appear on
  their new game show, 'Push
  Colleagues recently wished Andrew Beeching a...

• Local news round up: West
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  own brand pro
  SHEWSBURY
  Joy Jones was wished a
  happy retirement by her
  colleagues recently. Joy
  worked at the store since
  its opening when she started
  in the coffee shop. She then
  went on to bakery before
  moving over to...

• Local news round up: Convenience
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  Colleagues grabbed their
  camouflage and dressed up
  army style to help raise funds
  for the Help Our Heroes
  charity. Customers loved the
  fact that colleagues got into
  the spirit of things, so much
  so that the collection...

• Local news round up: Logistics
  30

  HAYDOCK
  Congratulations to John
  Spencer, Janette Wood,
  Pauline Wood and Vicky
  Henderson for passing
  their National Vocational
  Qualification Level 2 in
  Cleaning and Support
  Services! They're all mem*
  of the depot's Office...

• Coffee Break Solutions
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• January/February Competition winners
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  Wheels of fortune
  We also heard from one of Charles's bicycling buddies, Paul
  Eifler, who sent us this email update...
  "The ride was set amongst beautiful surroundings, including
  rainforests, lakes and the stunning backdrop of...

• Your letters
  31

  You never know
  who you're going
  to bump into when
  you're raising
  money for good
  causes, as three
  of our colleagues
  discovered on a
  charity bike ride to
  South America...
  Charles Finch, from Holborn
  store support centre's...

• Coffee Break
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• RAC Competition
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  1897. And today they give assistance to
  over seven million motoring members.
  With RAC Breakdown Cover, if you ever
  run into trouble on the road they'll be
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• Win a fridge freezer
  32

  What's better than pizza? A fridge freezer full of pizza!
  Fancy a no fuss but tasty Italian night in? Well, our friends at Goodfella's have
  got just the answer with their new improved pizza range.
  Choices include Goodfella's...

• Win CenterParcs vouchers worth £500
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  Vouchers Worth £SOo!
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  biscuit...and we mean in
  a good way!
  Burtons Biscuits have teamed up
  with Cadbury to make three of the
  nation's favourite Cadbury chocolate
  bars into biscuits.
  Cadbury...