'Sainsbury's Journal', January/February 2012

Table of content

• Contents
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  NEWS ROuND-uP ................................................................. 4
  Getting active at Holborn, and we have a quick word with Jon
  Hartland from Coventry store support centre.
  WE LOVE… THIS MONTH...

• Upfront
  02

  Welcome to the first Journal of 2012 – a year that promises to be a really
  busy and exciting one for our business. I know lots of us make New Year’s
  resolutions to get ourselves healthier and also that by now, many of...

• Contributors
  03

  Contributors
  Jon Hartland
  Coventry store
  support centre
  Always to be a better
  me. Whether that’s as
  a leader and colleague
  in Sainsbury’s or a
  father, husband or
  brother – and to eat
  my crusts!
  • We talk to Jon...

• Freeze Frame
  03

  Meet Mr Wells! We recently launched The Wells
  Challenge to see how our pharmacists can help
  improve the health of UK families over the
  course of a year – and to highlight some of the
  great services we have to offer the ten...

• Guest editor: Tom Theedom
  03

  Guest editor:
  Tom Theedom,
  Oswestry
  Guest editor:
  Having been a keen contributor to my
  student newspaper at university and
  now committed to Sainsbury’s, what
  better way to combine the two than
  be guest editor in the only...

• Gongs for glamour at Beauty Awards
  04

  Gongs for glamour at Beauty Awards Hollywood Glamour was the rather appropriate
  theme for our recent 2011 Beauty Awards ceremony.
  The category winners were voted for by
  thousands of our online customers. They received
  their...

• News Round-Up
  04

  A look at what we’ve been up to recently,
  what’s new and what’s coming down the line soon... Who do
  you love?
  Who’s Living Our Values
  Every day? • All will be
  revealed from 14th Feb
  • You could win...

• School sports support
  04

  Young students from the City of London
  Academy recently joined Justin and Jeremy
  Hunt (Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics,
  Media and Sport) at Holborn store support
  centre for a spot of table tennis and netball.
  The...

• Who do you love?
  04

  you love?
  Who’s Living Our Values
  Every day? • All will be
  revealed from 14th Feb
  • You could win your
  colleague a once-in-alifetime
  opportunity

• A quick word with… Jon Hartland
  05

  The Journal catches
  up with Jon Hartland,
  Director of Non Food Operations
  tell us about our next important
  milestone.
  We want our General Merchandise sales to
  reach £1billion for the first time. They’re
  currently just...

• Online shopping – check it out!
  05

  Our online grocery shopping
  offer is stronger than ever. And
  we want colleagues to take
  advantage of it too!
  Only the freshest goods are
  selected and delivered to your
  door. Other fantastic benefits
  include one-hour...

• We’re really motoring!
  05

  Since we joined forces with fuel
  supplier Greenergy last year,
  they’ve delivered a whopping
  100,000 tankers worth of fuel –
  that’s four billion litres!
  And with 265 filling stations
  currently in our growing...

• 1,000th Remploy colleague
  06

  1,000th colleague to join us through Remploy.
  The charity helps those with physical,
  sensory and mental disabilities to find jobs
  in mainstream employment, and we’ve been
  working with them successfully since 2009.
  To mark...

• BWS Forum
  06

  You can now get expert advice on Beer,
  Wine and Spirits (BWS) on tap, thanks to
  the relaunch of the BWS page on Connect
  (available from the home page).
  The new-look BWS page and
  forum will give you direct access
  to...

• Happy 30th birthday to Sharesave
  06

  Happy 30th birthday to Sharesave
  One of our ‘20 by 20’ corporate
  responsibility commitments is to
  increase the number of colleagues
  owning shares in our business by 25%
  by 2020, including those with share
  options under...

• Get Active
  07

  The collection for Active Kids vouchers
  starts on February 15th, so let’s all
  encourage the nation’s children to live
  healthier and more active lives.
  With the help of our Active Kids
  ambassadors David Beckham and...

• In Brief
  07

  Food FoR tHougHt
  How MAny STepS Are you TAKing
  For FAirTrADe?
  Five years ago, we decided only to sell
  Fairtrade bananas. To mark the anniversary
  we’re encouraging colleagues and
  customers to take part in the...

• The best thing since Tiger Bread!
  07

  The best thing since Tiger Bread!
  In our July edition, we reported on colleague Chris King’s reply to three-and-a-half-year-old Lily
  Robinson, who wrote to us saying that our Tiger Bread looked more like Giraffe Bread. Since...

• What a lotto good news!
  07

  Our customers have been feeling
  lucky! And as a result, they’ve raised an
  amazing £1 billion for National Lottery
  Good Causes since it all started in 1994.
  To celebrate our billion-pound
  milestone, Dianne Thompson,...

• New Products
  08

  A month-long instore cookery event is inspiring our
  customers – and colleagues – to get in the kitchen and get
  inventive. Hundreds of products in the cookware and kitchen
  electrical ranges will be a third off, with new...

• Vision and Values
  10

  Trust is the foundation
  behind all our new
  values. We’ve been
  working on trust and
  things are definitely
  star
  ting to happen.
  Trust is the foundation WHEn YoU folloW the journey of a
  product – from development into the...

• Local News: North
  12

  Newcastle-under-Lyme ➔
  It’s been an exciting time recently for Newcastle-under-Lyme’s Sharon Fieldhouse.
  A well-known face locally, she picked up an award on behalf of Sainsbury’s for
  ‘Business in the Community’ at...

• Local News: Convenience
  13

  Region 67
  Region 67
  raises a smile
  The management team from Region 67 put
  on some colourful wigs and set off through
  the streets of London with the challenge of
  making as many people smile as possible.
  It was all part of...

• Local News: West
  14

  Star PR Ambassador award: national winner ➔
  Congratulations go to Brenda Lamb who works at Bitterne and Bitterne
  West – our first Star PR Ambassador of 2012. In just one year Brenda
  has managed to get 260 pieces of media...

• Brand Match
  15

  Match Point Brand Match has been an amazing
  success since its launch in our
  supermarkets last October, so much so
  that we’ve extended it into 2012.
  In December alone, we gave out 20.7
  million coupons and over 50%...

• Spotlight: by Sainsbury’s
  16

  Magic
  moments We’re more than half way through the rollout
  of our by Sainsbury’s range with over 3,500
  products now on the shelves, and many more to
  come. To keep spreading the message that our
  core products are fantastic...

• Local News: Logistics
  18

  Daily Mail visits our unsung heroes ➔
  We know they did a great job – and now Daily Mail readers know it, too.
  The national newspaper ran a feature about our Waltham Point depot and
  how colleagues were fulfilling the...

• Local News: East
  19

  Hoddesdon colleagues Ben
  Pearce and Vicky Peck will
  both have a big part to
  play in the London 2012
  Olympic Games.
  Ben is to join the
  England Basketball Squad,
  while Vicky has been
  chosen to dance in the
  opening...

• London 2012 Paralympic Games
  20

  2012 has finally arrived! The London 2012
  Paralympic Games will soon be upon us,
  so our Paralympic reporter Holly
  Jackson caught up with three
  more hopefuls as they step
  up their shooting and
  table-tennis training.
  Sure...

• Sport Relief
  22

  Go the extra mile We’ve supported the charity Comic Relief
  through Red Nose Day and Sport Relief
  since 1999 and have raised over £60
  million to date. From 23rd to 25th
  March, the nation will be uniting
  to raise money for...

• Local News: SSC
  24

  Community Chest
  Community Chest
  Colleagues from Coventry
  have helped a local school
  reward pupils for good attendance.
  They donated a new laptop and
  toys to Stoke Heath Primary, to
  reward the kids who registered...

• Local News: South
  25

  Colleagues at Wickham High Street
  have been celebrating the store’s
  fifth birthday with three cakes, a lot
  of balloons and a bit of bucks fizz!
  Customers also joined the party and were
  offered champagne and orange juice...

• Art support
  26

  Art support
  This fantastic watercolour from Matlock colleague
  Simon Hollings is not only a great painting, but it’s
  supporting a great cause.
  By selling prints instore Simon hopes to raise
  money for their Local Charity –...

• Take a Break
  26

  We love doing a bit of celebrity spotting at the Journal,
  thanks to colleagues who’ve been sending in their snaps.
  Actress Tilda Swinton (The White Witch from the
  recent Narnia films) visited our Nairn store just...

• Watch out! Celebs are about! Celebs are
  26

  We love doing a bit of celebrity spotting at the Journal,
  thanks to colleagues who’ve been sending in their snaps.
  Actress Tilda Swinton (The White Witch from the
  recent Narnia films) visited our Nairn store just...

• Wordsearch
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• Family Values
  27

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• Fit for action
  27

  1. What
  tell their
  than their
  a. One
  b. One
  c. One
  2. Is the
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  awake
  a. True
  b. False
  If 2012 is the year when you plan to
  get fitter and healthier, then you may
  want to get things off to a flying start
  by...

• Last issue’s winners
  27

  Congratulations to Vera Potter
  from Stroud store, who won our
  Virgin Experience competition.
  Also well done to P Wickham
  from West Green Store, for
  winning our Gok Wan voucher
  competition.
  Last issue’s winners...

• Our People
  28

  Keeping you up-to-date
  with your colleagues
  Ourpeople
  When the new Welwyn Garden
  City store opened last year,
  the team was joined by
  Sainsbury’s retirees Bernard
  and Sylvia Worron, who had a
  special story to...

• Our People: A match made in Essex
  28

  When the new Welwyn Garden
  City store opened last year,
  the team was joined by
  Sainsbury’s retirees Bernard
  and Sylvia Worron, who had a
  special story to tell.
  “Sainsbury’s holds many
  great memories for my wife
  and...

• Our People: A big win for Barbara
  29

  Archer Road colleague
  Barbara Clack admits
  she was stunned after
  discovering she’d won more
  than £100,000 on the
  lottery.
  Every Saturday morning,
  Barbara would buy a lottery
  ticket from the kiosk before
  work and get...

• Our People: Exceptional Colleagues
  29

  Exceptional
  colleagues
  Mark Jones, Plymouth. Susan
  Timms, Farnham. Valerie Illman,
  Leatherhead. Anjay Arish, Fosse
  Park. Jessica Woolen, Archer
  Road. Joe Martin, Tadley. Dot
  Galloway, Dundee. Keith Glashen,
  Croydon....

• Our People: Long service 25 years
  29

  Long service
  25 years
  Christine Allman, Chester. Janice Anson, Edgware. Gaye Bain, Great
  Yarmouth. June Barton, Dorking.
  Jane Biggs, Chesham. Susan
  Bull, Derby. Clive Burrow, Holborn
  store support centre. Lorraine
  Calixte,...

• Our People: Long service 40 years
  30

  Long service
  40 years
  Marie Bird, Haywards Heath.
  Simon Keeffe, Newton Abbott.
  Anita Pickard, Andover.
  Mike Powell, Broadcut.

• Our People: Promotions
  30

  Knight,
  Promotions
  Carla Ashmore, Holborn store
  support centre. Gemma Beeney,
  West Hove. Kirsty Broad, Holborn
  store support centre. Charles
  Cox, Holborn store support centre.
  Stephen Dickinson, Farlington.
  Michelle Dix,...

• Our People: Retirements
  30

  support centre.
  Retirements
  Dolores Arrojo, Macclesfield
  (19 yrs). Judith Bailey, Milton
  Keynes (3 yrs). Stella Banham,
  Leatherhead (25 yrs). Ann Baron,
  Macclesfield (28 yrs). Patricia
  Barton, Bramingham Park (27...

• Share your Live Well for Less moments
  30

  Share your Live Well
  for Less moments
  Did you know we’ve got our own
  special app on Facebook where you and
  our customers can share ideas on how to
  Live Well for Less. We’re changing the topic
  every two weeks – one of...

• Our People: A fond farewell for Bridie
  31

  West Ealing colleagues
  have bid a fond farewell
  to Bridie Fitzgerald,
  who after starting with
  Sainsbury’s in 1989, has
  recently retired just a few
  weeks short of her 92nd
  birthday.
  “She’s been a real
  character in...

• Our People: Obituaries
  31

  Obituaries
  Graham Allen, 70, Stoke on Trent
  (8 yrs). Chantel Bateman, 53,
  Fairfield Park (9 yrs). Arthur Biles,
  66, Witney (8 yrs). Jacqueline
  Brewer, 50, Denton (17 yrs).
  Marilyn Bryant, 61, Boscombe
  (21 yrs). David...

• Our Values: Tell Justin
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  Tell Justin and go
  to the London 2012
  Paralympic Games!
  REMEMBER, THERE ARE FOuR
  WAyS TO TELL JuSTiN:
  CONNECT:
  go to the Tell
  Justin page
  TEXT:
  TJ to 80800 (it’s free! Don’t forget to tell us your
  employee number so...