'Sainsbury's Journal', March/April 2012

Table of content

• Contents
  02

  NEWS ROUND-UP ................................................................. 4
  There’s Jubilee jubilation at the news of our Jubilee Woods
  project, and details of our fabulous Jubilee Family Festival.
  WE LOVE… THIS MONTH...

• Upfront
  02

  As I write, I’m looking forward to taking part in this year’s Sport Relief Miles,
  and all being well, by the time you read it I’ll have completed all 32 with the
  support of more than 1,000 of you along the way! On P16-17...

• Contributors
  03

  Bobby Curry,
  dungannon
  “Running.with.Justin.
  King.on.his.first.Sport.
  Relief.mile.was.really,.
  really.good.”
  • Read what else
  has been going on
  for Sport Relief on
  page 16
  Brenda Holden,
  Holborn...

• Freeze Frame
  03

  id you know £20 could train a teacher in the UK
  so that they can include disabled children in sports
  activities at school? Or just £3 could provide one
  occasion. See the special report on page 16 for our
  Relief mile.
  did...

• Guest editor: Shefa Miah
  03

  Guest.editor:.
  Shefa Miah,
  Balderton
  Guest...

• Jubilee jubilation
  04

  We’re celebrating The Queen’s
  Diamond Jubilee in regal style during
  the weekend of Saturday 2nd June
  and Sunday 3rd June with our
  special Jubilee Family Festival – and
  you can be there too.
  Our Jubilee Family Festival...

• 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... The king
  of spades
  Justin celebrated the new Jubilee
  Woods Project with the Queen by
  planting some trees!
  He joined Her...

• The king of spades
  04

  The king
  of spades
  Justin celebrated the new Jubilee
  Woods Project with the Queen by
  planting some trees!
  He joined Her Majesty, HRH The
  Princess Royal and local children at a
  special planting ceremony at the...

• Big Stats
  05

  STATS £109,000 1,000 15
  The amount donated to
  Sport Relief from our
  Christmas cards.
  The number of people
  who dressed up as pirates
  for the Plymouth Sport
  Relief Mile.
  The number of stores Helen
  Buck and Simon...

• How you have been Living Well For Less
  05

  Making soup from leftover fridge
  ingredients, growing your own vegetables
  and pretending to be pirates for the day
  – these are just some of the ways you’ve
  been able to Live Well For Less.
  We’re inviting colleagues and...

• Sharesave matures
  05

  Two of Sainsbury’s Sharesave plans
  matured on 1st March 2012; the 2008
  three-year plan and the 2006 fiveyear
  plan.
  This means that more than 11,000
  colleagues who signed up for these
  plans can now decide what to do...

• Your Journal gets a gong!
  05

  says that you’ve done a good job. And
  The Journal team is happy to report
  that your magazine has recently
  been voted the Best Magazine at the
  Institute of Internal Communications
  (IOIC) Central
  Region Awards.
  The...

• You’re filed!
  05

  You’re filed! You’re filed!
  Stylfile: Tom Pellereau with the new Stylfile.
  Many of you will have seen him fight tooth and
  nail in the boardroom before going on to win The
  Apprentice last year.
  Now, inventor Tom Pellereau...

• Ask, offer and swipe!
  06

  Make sure that every sale
  goes through checkouts with
  a Nectar card – that’s the idea
  behind our new SWIPE UP!
  store competition.
  Every three months, the
  store with the most improved
  Nectar swipe rate in your
  region...

• Gok’s new range is his favourite
  06

  released his third TU clothing range
  instore recently. And what a range it is!
  The collection features everything a
  woman needs to make her feel her best,
  including clever hidden support slips,
  tailored shoulders – and even...

• Nick nips in to Ladbroke Grove
  06

  Our Ladbroke Grove colleagues made headline news when they
  hosted a visit from Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
  He picked the store as a backdrop to a television interview
  urging George Osborne to introduce the £10,000...

• A quick word with… Jon Rudoe
  07

  Director of Online
  Easter is our second busiest time
  instore. Will it also be busy online?
  It’s always busy online with our fast yearon-
  year growth, but seasonal times are
  particularly busy. Easter is no exception!
  What...

• Healthy help for kids
  07

  Eating healthily is a key ingredient to an
  active lifestyle. So we’ve refreshed the
  Active Kids Get Cooking scheme to provide
  teachers and group leaders with new tools
  and inspiration to teach and encourage
  children to...

• One million kids sign up for sport
  07

  We’ve smashed through our target of
  one million kids signing up to try out
  Paralympic sports.
  The 1 Million Kids Challenge was launched
  last year. So far, we’ve seen more than 2.3
  million children sign up from almost...

• New Products
  08

  Having a super
  new silhouette Worry no more about those
  unsightly VPLs or ‘muffin
  tops’ ladies, our refreshed
  range of lingerie and
  hosiery is here for you.
  “Control is becoming
  increasingly popular as
  many ladies...

• Spotlight: Vision and Values
  10

  Great ideas
  make it simpler
  Great ideas
  make it simpler We are Making It Simpler is at the heart of everything we do as a
  business – and a key part of that value is to find out your ideas on
  the best way to go about it....

• Local News: North
  12

  York triumphs at Retail Awards ➔
  A dozen York colleagues joined hundreds of people from the city’s bars,
  restaurants and shops to celebrate the York Retail Awards 2011 – and ended up winning
  Supermarket of the Year! Our...

• Local News: Convenience
  13

  Love is
  all you
  need They’re all loved up at
  Hammersmith Local – new
  manager Pratik Patel is
  promoting teamwork and our Values with a
  special ‘love wall’.
  After moving to the store just three
  months ago, Pratik has...

• Easter special
  14

  N
  ext to Christmas, Easter is our
  busiest time instore. It’s also
  another wonderful opportunity to
  get the whole family together for a
  big feast and fun quality time.
  But, unlike the festive season, we don’t
  tend to...

• Sport Relief
  16

  Team Sainsbury’s! For over a decade, we’ve been helping those in need by raising money for
  Sport Relief – and this year, we made it bigger and better than ever.
  Sport Relief – and this year, we made it bigger and better...

• Local News: West
  18

  Hedge End ➔
  Meet Robert George, a true Hedge End ‘Hero’. He was nominated for
  a Local Hero award on behalf of a children’s cancer charity. When his
  best friend’s son passed away from cancer, Robert discovered how...

• Day in the Life
  19

  Packed day!
  Packed day! Less is definitely more for Stuart Lendrum. Based at Holborn store support centre,
  he’s driving our efforts to reduce our packaging by half by 2020. As we approach
  Easter, our second busiest time of...

• Home Refresh
  20

  Sparkling ideas Sparkling ideas Spring has definitely sprung, so it’s that time when thoughts
  inevitably turn to spring cleaning and refreshing our homes. We
  sent our team of experts to help busy mum-of-two Phillipa...

• Local News: East
  22

  Star PR Ambassador award: national winner ➔
  Fantastic PR work by Claire Mcinally at Luton store has earned her
  recognition as this issue’s Star PR Ambassador. Not long into the role, Claire
  has generated great media...

• Local News: Logistics
  23

  When Ray Hearnden went to pick up his son at Stansted Airport, he
  had no idea that he’d end up saving someone’s life.
  Ray, a Hams Hall Depot colleague and trained first aider, spotted
  a crowd surrounding a man who’d...

• Fairtrade
  24

  Going bananas
  for Fairtrade We’re the number one
  retailer of Fairtrade
  products, so bananas
  are big business for us – and
  for the Windward Islands
  farmers who produce them.
  Since July 2007, we’ve
  only sold Fairtrade...

• London 2012 Paralympic Games
  26

  Riding high Have you got your ticket yet? We’re already into spring 2012 so before we
  know it the Games will be upon us. By now, many of you will have met and
  got to know your very own regional Paralympic athlete and will be...

• Local News: South
  28

  Wax on – wax off!
  Andy Long from Islington is one smooth character. He bravely offered to have his legs
  waxed in return for donations to his store’s Local Charity. Colleagues dug deeply into
  their pockets and managed to...

• Local News: SSC
  29

  You don’t have to battle away on your
  own to lose a few pounds. That’s what
  groups like the Coventry store support
  centre Lunch Club are for.
  Founded in January, around 20
  colleagues get together to get measured
  and talk...

• Good enough to touch
  30

  Like to look good while playing hard? With LYNX and Amazon’s Kindle you’ll
  have an easy time doing both.
  LYNX’s brand new shampoo range will give
  you “touchably clean hair,” and their slick
  cream gels “give you...

• Take a Break
  30

  Win tickets to see
  Madonna in Paris! Thanks to our friends at Smirnoff, we’re giving away a VIP concert package for
  you and a friend to see the Queen of Pop on 14th July that includes return travel
  to Paris, overnight...

• Win tickets to see Madonna in Paris!
  30

  Thanks to our friends at Smirnoff, we’re giving away a VIP concert package for
  you and a friend to see the Queen of Pop on 14th July that includes return travel
  to Paris, overnight accommodation plus breakfast at the Hotel Duo...

• Clean up with Hotpoint!
  31

  Clean up with Hotpoint!
  Which of these isn’t a
  P&G product?
  1) Fairy 2) Ariel 3) Pixie
  On pages 20 and 21, you will have seen our home refresh
  feature, where we looked at some useful tips and great
  products that make...

• Family Values
  31

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• Last issue’s winner
  31

  Congratulations to…
  Chris Gray
  from Greenford Depot.
  He won our Fit For Action
  competition last issue, and will
  receive a new Nintendo Wii and
  Wii Fit.
  Last issue’s winner...

• Mailbox
  32

  Dear Journal, Recently at Hereford,
  we were visited by
  TV celebrity John
  Challis, but we all
  recognised him as
  Boycie from Only
  Fools and Horses!
  He lives locally,
  so came in to sign
  copies of his new
  book Being...

• Our People
  33

  Keeping you up-to-date
  with your colleagues y special happy bir
  thdays birthdays recently.
  Firstly, Olive Stear
  from Burpham turned 90,
  marking her 25th year with
  Sainsbury’s.
  “She’s ever so lovely,” said
  her...

• Our People: Very special happy birthdays
  33

  birthdays recently.
  Firstly, Olive Stear
  from Burpham turned 90,
  marking her 25th year with
  Sainsbury’s.
  “She’s ever so lovely,” said
  her colleague Gillian. “She’s
  made lots of friends with
  the customers, and...

• Our People: Obituaries
  34

  Obituaries
  Geraldine Baxter, 53, Hampton
  (30 yrs). Louisa Boulahlib, 24,
  Hornchurch (3 yrs). Marion Callaby,
  58, Hunstanton (4 yrs). Harold
  Cook, 64, Taunton (3 yrs). derek
  dwight, 60, Elstree Depot (21 yrs).
  George dyer,...

• Our People: Retirements
  34

  retirements
  Audrey Anteney, Melksham (13
  yrs). Margaret Arnold, Dunstable
  (22 yrs). Jenny Ash, Stratton (13
  yrs). patrica Ashley, Huntingdon
  (10 yrs). Angela Ashworth, West
  Park (17 yrs). Christine Atkinson,
  Blackheath (14...

• Our People: Women started to join in World War One!
  34

  Women started to join
  in World War One!
  We first started recruiting female
  colleagues during World War One.
  In 1915 a training school was established
  to give them the best possible start and it
  was a great success! By the...

• Our People: Exceptional Colleagues
  35

  exceptional
  Colleagues
  Lisa Hayward, South Parade Local.
  paul Muench, Sale. steve scrowston,

• Our People: Long service 25 years
  35

  Long service
  25 years
  Glenn Adams, Deal. stan
  Armstrong, Slough. sylvia Attree,
  Hornchurch. Lynn Badham, Nine
  Elms. Margaret Baglow, Cwmbran. diane Barnes, Coldhams Lane.
  Carole Barrett, Apsley Mills.
  Kathleen Batten, St...

• Our People: Long service 40 years
  35

  Long service
  40 years
  desmond Anderson, Springfield.
  Janet Beddar, Chipping Norton.
  John Boreham, Ilford. Marianne
  Goddard, Wandsworth. ralph
  Herridge, Bury St Edmunds.
  nigel Holloway, Horsham. Kevin
  King, Lytham St Annes....

• Our People: Promotions
  35

  Promotions
  Oliver A’court, Holborn store
  support centre. peter Bassnett,
  Dartmouth. ian Bell, Farringdon
  Local. Matt Bowen, Holborn store
  support centre. Georgia Cameron,
  Holborn store support centre.
  Mohsin Chughtai,...

• Our Values: We are Making it Happen
  36

  Grand
  designs Behind every new launch, there are
  colleagues who’ve got the knowhow to
  make it happen. Like GM designer Alex Law,
  Coventry store support centre, who tells us
  about her role – and her recent work on...