'Sainsbury's Journal', September/October 2010

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• Coming Up...
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  »0CT
  Scare us silly with your
  spooky costumes over the
  Halloween weekend 29th,
  30th and 31st October.
  Make sure you send us
  your pictures and the
  best costume will win a
  fantastic prize.
  »NOV
  Come November we'll
  be...

• Contents
  02

  content
  NEWS ROUND UP
  Delve into great stories from around the business, includn
  your chance to pick up tips from professional chefs at our U,»t
  Cooking event, and follow the Try Team at this year's X Factor.
  TASTE THE...

• Upfront
  02

  -M It was great to see so many of you at our Conference last month and hopefully
  the photos in this special Conference issue of the Journal will bring back all
  those memories of the day - or, if you weren't there, give you a...

• Contributors
  03

  Susi Richards:
  Susi, Holborn
  store support
  centre, takes
  the lead with
  a team of over
  30 colleagues
  working to make
  sure every single
  one of our own
  brand products
  tickles the taste
  buds - from
  basics to Taste
  the...

• Freeze Frame
  03

  The cauldron is bubbling away
  ready for our fantastic range of
  Halloween products, which is
  spookier than ever this year - in
  fact, colleagues at West Belfast.
  including Philip Ennis (pictur
  couldn't wait to get ghou
  to...

• Guest editor: Lauren Wright
  03

  No matter where you
  work or what job you do,
  you know you can always
  pick up your latest issue
  of the Journal and find
  out what's going on up
  and down the country.
  I'm a Journalism student
  and work part-time at
  Ash Road...

• 15 seconds of fame
  04

  heard in a series of TV adverts
  celebrating our partnership with
  the London 2012 Paralympic
  Games.
  As a sponsor of programmes
  relating to the Games on Channel
  4, our idents - mini TV ads at
  the start and end of ad breaks...

• Become a Celeb!
  04

  We're launching our very own beauty awards' The
  annual event will highlight the very best beauty products
  avartabte in our stores. What's more we're giving all colleagues the
  opportunity to be a celebrity for the night at the...

• The Big Knit
  04

  Dust off those knitting needles
  because we're supporting Innocent's
  Big Knit again this year.
  We're aiming to make 20,000 hats
  to top the bottles sold in our stores
  this winter. And for each bottle sold,
  Innocent will donate...

• Winning stroke for Active Kids
  04

  Elite Simmonds is an inspiration to us all - aged
  just 13, she won two gold medals at the Beijing
  Paralympic Games in 2008. And recently
  she broke two world records and picked up
  four gold medals at the IPC World...

• Its all 'Appening
  05

  It's what all our technology savvy
  colleagues and customers have been
  waiting for... our very own iPhone
  App that can be downloaded for free
  from the App Store. Great features
  include our handy store locator,
  latest store...

• Kempshott rolls out the red Carpet
  05

  Lord Sainsbury joined colleagues to celebrate the
  reopening of his local store, Kempshott, which has
  just had a fantastic refurbishment and now covers
  70,000 sq ft. More than 500 colleagues, including
  100 new starters, will...

• Toy Story
  05

  We marked two years to go until
  the London 2012 Paralympic
  Games with the arrival of a soft
  toy version of Mandeville, the
  Games mascot, in 125 of our
  stores. The mascots went on sale
  on 29th August and as well as...

• TV taster whets the appetite
  05

  Spirits were high when Jamie Oliver took to
  the streets to film his latest advert for our
  re-launched Taste the Difference range.
  Even wet weather on the first morning of
  two days' filming in Hastings didn't darken
  the mood....

• Fall in love With Cooking
  06

  Those of you who love
  cooking are invited to
  pick up some tips from
  Britain's favourite chefs
  at our very own event, I
  Love Cooking.
  Colleagues can get
  their hands on the
  hot tickets for half price,
  and we're giving...

• Service not to be sneezed at
  06

  If you're in Holborn store support
  centre, you can now drop off and
  collect prescriptions from a special
  vending machine. Colleagues and
  customers can also take advantage
  of the same machines being piloted
  at Haywards Heath,...

• This little piggy
  06

  One of our values is Sourcing with integrity. As part of this we
  are always looking for ways to improve animal welfare. That's
  why we've designed a brand new type of pen to help improve
  living conditions for pigs. Clare Smith,...

• Fast Facts...
  07

  100% of our
  pumpkins are British.
  And this year's warm, sunny
  summer has made their
  skins even more orange
  than ever!
  We're donating
  around 14 tonnes of old
  colleague uniforms to be recycled
  and sold as scrap material....

• Making more of milk
  07

  We're leading the way for bagged
  milk with our fantastic new range. We are the first UK retailer to launch
  a full range of milk bags after
  weekly sales of semi-skimmed milk
  bags reached 120,000 - that's one
  in every 10...

• Taste these winter warmers
  07

  Look out for our great new cookbook
  that's set to hit the shelves of more than
  400 stores this October. Our Winter
  recipe collection contains 100 tried and
  tested recipes for tasty, easy to make
  winter warmers and is...

• We're the Cheese Champions
  07

  It's official, we've got the tastiest cheeses!
  In fact, they're so tasty we won more
  than 75 awards at the International
  Cheese Awards, Nantwich this July.
  Beating off strong competition from
  around the world, we scooped...

• X Factor challenge
  07

  Our exclusive online food partnership with
  ITV's The X Factor last year was an amazing
  success, so we are pleased to be embarking on
  year two this autumn.
  As the nights get colder and darker, we
  all watch some extra TV in the...

• Spotlight: Taste the Difference
  08

  We've just got a whole lot tastier. September saw the relaunch of our Taste the Difference range, with
  more than 1,000 products on offer and many of them new and improved, so we offer something to tickle
  everyone's taste buds....

• Local News: South
  10

  Fairfield Park -»
  Amazing what you can do with a bit of old
  decking! Fairfield Park colleagues added rope and
  barrels to make a raft to enter the Bedford River
  Festival raft race. Cheered on by colleagues, they
  came 13th out...

• Local News: Convenience
  11

  Thanks to sponsorship from Cheam Local, 250
  children in Sutton enjoyed a we.ek-long football event.
  Teaming up with the Met Police, colleagues used
  their community grant of £400 to support the Safer
  Neighbourhoods football...

• London 2012 Paralympic Games
  12

  sponsor and we want to make this the nest .
  Games ever with your help! By partnering with
  2012 Paralympic Games we are not only able to
  customers about our commitment to promoting a healthier
  lifestyle across all ages and...

• Local News: East
  14

  Banbury -»
  Banbury is looking more than a million dollars - try
  £13 million after a major revamp! Our new extended store
  has reopened with an extra 30,000 sq ft, and now boasts
  a coffee shop, bakery, new fish and meat...

• Start the day with Helen & Mike
  16

  1 caught up with colleagues at two Start the day sessions held in
  -astle Boulevard and Islington. Nectar, self checkout and product
  icing wer Colleagues from region
  (pictured above) tucked ir
  Difference breakfast and saw some...

• Proud of our Conference
  17

  4,500 colleagues and one amazing
  day! This year's conference theme was
  everything we have to be proud of as a
  business and there was certainly a huge
  amount to be proud of at the end of the
  action-packed and inspirational day...

• Our Conference: Enchanted Christmas
  18

  Having a ball...
  Some early 'snowballing' was the order
  of the day as colleagues took part in the
  _stive Favourites game to" get behind the
  Operating Board's sponsored lines this
  year. Who will win? Sampling the...

• Our Conference: Reasons to feel proud
  20

  Shooting hoops, speedy bedmaking,
  meeting the London
  2012 Paralympic Games mascot
  Mandeville and taking a starring n
  in the Conference Monthly Briefini
  It sounds exciting, but there was
  even more to try out in the...

• Our Conference: Star Awards
  22

  James received an
  overwhelming number
  of nominations for
  inspiring colleagues,
  said Justin.
  "I simply get on well with people and treat
  them with respect," said James. "To be
  nominated by people who work with me
  every day...

• Our Conference: Big Cook Off final
  24

  After months of perfecting their cooking skills, it all
  came down to an exciting 20 minutes on stage in front of
  thousands of colleagues. The seven Big Cook Off finalists,
  assisted by members of the Operating Board,...

• Our Conference: Roundup
  26

  "This is amazing. I
  believe that taste is more <
  important than anything OfJ
  and if we build on our
  reputation then customers
  (ill keep coming back."
  arnham Common Local "This is far more than I ex
  I thought we would just...

• Active Kids
  27

  Active Kids has donated over £100 million
  worth of equipment and experiences to
  more than 40,000 schools and groups,
  encouraging children to live a healthy
  lifestyle, whatever their age and ability.
  We're helping young...

• Local News: North
  28

  North
  "Everyone had a great
  day. And not only was
  it a lot of fun. but we
  raised £200 for DebRA
  Darren Barnes
  Hamilton
  ood time
  Just because you're in the middle of an £11 million
  refit doesn't mean you can't have...

• Local News: Logistics
  29

  Talk about a hive of activity! One pf the gates at Bedford depot
  is now home sweet home to 200 honey bees. "We called in a
  bee-keeper who said the bees will move on eventually and
  advised us to just leave them be," said...

• Halloween 2010
  30

  Mary Spence wears our Rose witch
  costume (£17), Glow in the dark fingers
  (99p) and Character witch's nose (99p).
  Joe Jordan wears our Metallic mask
  (E3.49) and Skeleton hands (£1.99).
  Joyce Doherty wears our...

• Local News: West
  32

  We're always looking to include lots of
  fantastic colleague photos in every issue!
  So to make sure your photo can be
  included - here are a few tips. For more
  » The higher the resolution the better - aim
  for a file size of at...

• Last issues winners
  34

  Summer A Lift competition, and to runners up Andra Slann, Denton, Kathleen
  Billinqsley, Brentwood, Matthew Lee, Wombourne, Andy Bull, Canley, and Dawson
  Mason, Thetford, who won brand new barbecues! Congratulations also go...

• Sudoku
  34

  Fill in all the
  squares In the grid so
  ach column a nd each

• Win an Olympus EP-1 Pen Camera
  34

  be a star. We know that every parent is looking
  for the perfect lunchbox filler, so
  look no further than Muller Little
  Stars Fromage Frais and Smooth
  Yogurt - with 100% naturally sourced
  ingredients, ideal for kids.
  What's...

• Dead ringers
  35

  Jack Dee is an English comedian
  famous for being miserable and
  the only person to have ever
  escaped the Big Brother house by
  climbing over the garden wall!
  Rick Davis is a Shift Manager,
  working with Charlie Parkins
  and the...

• Family Values
  35

  Its conference time at the Taylors'
  none arvi their +he»ie is 'ProuxJI
  I'v< divil«« the house int. eisht }
  different ione$ with 4iSierer\t activities
  in each of them,. J"
  — P 7 ~
  f It's a are-at ofP*rtvnity t i tr»*...

• Spot the difference
  35

  Spot the difference

• Vegging out
  35

  Aubergine!
  aubergines, one of our customers noticed that
  one of them had a huqe nose! It resembles
  Mr Nosey from the Mr Men so much
  that he's looking to put it on
  eBay rather than in his dinner!

• Our people: Promotions
  36

  Promotions
  Michael Adenmosun, Regional
  Operations Manager, Holborn store
  support centre. Louise Allison,
  Merchandiser, Coventry store support
  centre. Emily Annable, Property
  Manager, Holborn store support
  centre. Andrew...

• Our people: Long service 25 years
  37

  Theophilus Acquaye, North
  Finchley. Lynn Alder, Newcastle
  Under Lyme. Lynne Allen, Bagshot
  Road. John Anderson, Lancaster.
  Jonathan Annis, Molborn store
  support centre. Michael Ashcroft,
  Team Valley. Barbara Atkins,...

• Our people: Long service 40 years
  37

  Linda Blackham, Thetford. Linda
  Clarke, Poole. Roger Hanney, Bath.
  Joyce Marsh, March. Peter Murray,
  Holborn store support centre.
  Angela Newcombe, Kings Heath.
  Trevor Todd, Pound Lane. Graham
  Wade, Great Yarmouth....

• Our people: Retirements
  37

  Barry Adams, Longwater (1 yr).
  Sheila Adcock, Beeston (14 yrs).
  Anne Ahmet, Thanet (11 yrs). Gloria
  Allen, Wolverhampton (2 yrs). Diane
  Amstead, West Green (9 yrs). Phillip
  Andrew, Warwick (5 yrs). Russell
  Andrews, Longwater...

• Our people: Obituaries 2009/2010
  39

  Donald Adams, 61, Guildford, died 7
  November (4 yrs). Robert Arnold,
  69, Hampden Park, died 11 October (8
  yrs). Jennifer Bartlett, 54, Bitterne,
  died 12 September (20 yrs). Ernest
  Barton, 62, South Woodford, died 16
  August...

• My Favourite
  40

  With loud bangs in the sky and cries
  of 'oooh' and 'aaah' from onlookers,
  ' it must be Bonfire Night. Mum-off
  two Nicola Burton, Stoke depot, tells
  us what treat completes her family
  Bonfire Night parties.
  My favourite...