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SANTA TAKES TO THE ROOFTOPS. BUT WHAT IS HE SAVING?

CONTENTS

"EADLINES . ** Ticket sales for the first draw of the lottery on WHAT'S HAPPENING I THE MARKET November 26 vastly exceeded expectation. So too WRITELINES i8/ 9 & 31 did the number of jackpot BRANCH OPENINGS: winners and there were no OLDBURY HOMEBASE instant millionaires. BIGGLESWADE Winner, Shaun Chapman. NEWHAVEN Long queues were seen at confident of eventually WHISKY TALKING over 100 JS branches with winning the jackpot! YOUR WINNING POEMS play stations on the day of Among the many JS the draw. A total pot of £10 winners (over a PLAY OUR 1994 GA.„ £5.9m was shared between million people across the riN A FOOD HAMPei seven people, each netting country won the £10 PHOTO COMPETITION £839,254. instant prize) were RESULTS Plenty of staff also Tamworth price controller AMAZING FACTS ABOUT took their chances and Anne Reeves, who CHRISTMAS -.TEST YOUR among the winners was managed to win twice in a FRIENDS >wl.^ Shaun Chapman of Stam row; Southend personnel VOX-POP: HOW TO HAVE ford House loading bay. manager Sue Littlejohn - A HAPPY CHRISMAS 22/23 He won £500 and comm who was hastily arranging HECK THIS OUT 24/25 ented to the Journal, 'Not a world cruise on her tenner, and Tunbridge •IliDREN IN NEED bad for a £5 investment - it THE NATIONALj will go towards a few Wells' Karen Thorne, •EW LINES LOTTERY Christmas presents.' He whose four tickets yielded Basildon MP David Amess (right) joins deputy store intends to continue playing her two £10 prizes in the SSA OFFERS manager Kevin Robb in Basildon JS on the day of the first draw. National Lottery's launch. and declares he is ^i/rZDCOM^ X It seems the world has divided into two types of you're alone and give yourself time. people: those who can and those who can't. Hold the image so that it touches your nose. Let Thousands have been caught by the 3D bug and the eyes relax, and stare vacantly off into space, as if can see with ease the hidden images in the looking through the image. Relax and become magic pictures. Others are still struggling to see comfortable with the idea of observing the image, the point. without looking at it. When you For aficionado and novice are relaxed and not crossing your alike, we present our Christ eyes, move the page slowly away mas cover with a 3D image from your face, perhaps an inch hidden in the sky. every two or three seconds. Our picture is taken from Keep looking through the page. the Do You See What I See? Stop at a comfortable reading book of 3D Christmas sur distance and keep staring. The prises in the Magic Eye series. most discipline is needed when Now, for those who are new to the 3D something starts to 'come in', because at that images, let us be your guide: moment you'll instinctively try to look at the page For most people it's a real effort to see the rather than looking through it. If you look at it, start hidden pictures; so, if you can't concentrate with again. After several seconds, you'll perceive depth, all your colleagues sitting around saying, 'Can't followed by the 3D image, which will develop almost you see it yet?', find a quiet place, make sure like an instant photo! BffflffiB Flagship relaunched The new improved and enlarged flagship Cromwell Road store was launched in style on November 17. MESSAGE

FROM CHAIRMAN DAVID SABSfSBURY Best wishes to you all for a very happy TO ALL STAFF AND VETERANS OF Christmas and New Year. I would like to express my warmest THE SAINSBURY GROUP thanks for the part that everyone has played in the company's continuing success this last year. I hope that 1995 will bring good health and happiness to you and your families.

DAVID SAINSBURY

Journalists check out the new Special Selection lines (above) and Cookshop (right).

Forty food writers came to see the new features, such as the foyer area, new style kiosk/customer Over half the fleet of 800 involves stripping, sanding, service area, hot chicken tractor units and 1,200 repairing, applying under and meat counters, trailers bearing the coat then a special durable extended bakery and fish Sainsbury's name have topcoat, baking the paint counters, all housed in a Journal) and the Cook- in the store's new staff been painted in the and finally applying the store one third larger than shop displays, which were restaurant. corporate colours. transfers. The repainted before. Even the domestic also being launched that Resourceful manager The transformation will vehicles will stand out at area has been transformed: day. The Special Selection Philip Leach modified his be complete by the middle night as the transfers are the offices and enlarged of gourmet foods has now children's beach mats for of next year and will cost reflective. The move is part staff restaurant have been rolled out to ten more the Cru Classique wine around £2 million. Basing of the harmonisation of the moved upstairs. stores. The visitors were range when the straw stoke depot's Chris Neath corporate style: now the Journalists lingered at able to sample some of the decorating the display was explained to the Journal blue and champagne of the the new Special Selection exclusive lines in the found to be unsuitable. that it takes 11 days to vehicles match the colours (previewed in November's range during a meal hosted paint a trailer. The process of the stores. Manager makes £7m profit in half a day Bridgend store manager was extremely intense - regular consultation John Hughes made over some people even brought between all the team £7 million in half a day to their own computers.' members. reach the final of the John has won similar John and his team of Supermarketing maga business games before and Central and Western area zine's Store Management is confident that his team accountant Peter Haysey, Team of the Year has a good chance in the Bridgend deputy Sharon Competition. final: 'The trick is in not Merry and Colchester Unfortunately, it was not trying to build your profits Avenue dry goods deputy real money - John and his from the word go - just Rose Titcombe beat teams team were playing a keep your bottle and stick from six other super business game in the to strategy while others markets to be the only JS south-west regional heat of take panic measures team to reach the final, the competition. Says towards the end.' He also which is to be played on The winning management team (I to r): John Hughes, Rose Titcombe, Sharon Merry and Peter Haysey. John, 'The atmosphere attributes his success to January 25. Art sale relocates to South Bank Sainsbury's sponsored The market aims to Says sponsorship manager the Contemporary Art develop a sense for collec Alastair Creamer, 'The Society Art Market for ting contemporary art in change in venue saw a lot the 11th time in new buyers by offering of first-time customers November. This year, the works at prices as low as visit the market this year sale moved from Covent £100 in a supermarket style and correspondingly the Garden to the Royal atmosphere: works are sales were up on previous Festival Hall Galleries on sold, wrapped and immed years.' the South Bank. iately replaced by another. Trade Marks Act defines the shape of things to come

are all registered trade marks. Chris Arnold of the legal department explains the impact of the new legislation on Sainsbury's, 'Registration protects trade mark owners from some one else using not only the exact same design on the same products but also from use of a similar design on a similar product. We like to give customers the necessary information, ^^Ô/'i/ti^ êîfW^^î^ both in written and design form, on our own brands to identify the product iiflfeFtfbrdshlfe precisely. The new legisla tion will mean we will continue to ensure the A special Valentine offer for romantic souls is distinctiveness of our new designs. Overall, the effect being offered by Fanhams Hall for the weekend of on JS will be marginal - the February U, 1995. legislation will act to A new Trade Marks Act products. The new promote greater emphasis which came into force on legislation gives brand on the distinctiveness of October 31 permits the owners greater protection brands and packaging registration of sounds, from copying. Novon, Gio design.' smells and shapes of and Sainsbury's Classic V Arrive at Fanhams hunt in and around the It's freshers at Hall on Saturday, Hertfordshire country February 11, at 4pm side has been arranged. Sainsbury's for afternoon tea. after which a buffet '# A champagne recep lunch will be served at Applications are now tion follows at 7pm 12.30pm. being taken for Sains with a Valentine fancy The price is £60 per bury's Vacation Training dress dinner dance at person with a 10% and Scholarship scheme. 7.30pm. There will be discount for JS Veter It is open to all second prizes for the best- ans. To make a reserv year students working for dressed couple. ation, send a letter and JS and studying any VATS students in a role-playing exercise during the final After spending the £20 deposit per person degree. It is an 'earn as day conference at head office in the summer. night you will be to: you learn' programme treated to a hearty The General Manager, giving practical work pants will be considered corporate resourcing on breakfast at Sam. Fanhams Hall, experience with struct for £1,000 sponsorship in 0171 921 6744. The W For excitement and Ware, Hertfordshire, ured management train their final year. Forms are closing date for applica fun, a car treasure SG12 7PZ. ing. Many VATS partici- now available from tions is February 24, 1995. A case of wine post haste The Wine Direct scheme for home delivery of JS wines by the case has been extended nationwide following the continuing success of offers in- Sainsbury's The Maga zine. Customers may choose from 68 wines Peter Ibbotson at the Palace with his family: daughters selected by JS buyers, and Anna (far left) and Helen (right), and wife Jessica. order by post or by calling 0282 611 211. The wines Director receives OBE are then delivered direct The Queen pinned an seconds and really gives to their door. Delivery is OBE medal to the lapel of the impression she is free on orders of two or store format director Peter interested in you. I was more cases. Leaflets are Ibbotson on November 15. not at all intimidated - she now in all stores. We announced in the seems very approachable, July Journal that Peter had is immaculately groomed CORRECTION been awarded the medal in and surprisingly small!' Now let's clear up any the Queen's Birthday The Journal asked confusion. We referred in Honours for his services to Peter the inevitable ques the October Journal to the APPOINTMENTS energy efficiency. Also tion: will this change him? manager of Newbury as DAVID QUARMBY, joint present was composer Tim He replied with sincere Mike Salmon. He is in fact managing director, joins Rice, receiving a Knight modesty, 'Not at all - I Mark Salmon, contrary to the board of Savacentre hood. Says Peter, 'It was shan't be adding the letters our correction in the and will take over from tremendously exciting and OBE to my door, that's for November issue which Tom Vyner as chairman in a great honour just to be in sure. No, I will carry on restated he was Mike! January. Buckingham Palace.' plugging away making Mark Salmon, manager of Peter had a brief chat with Newbury, should not be whatever contribution I confused with Mike the Queen and comments, can to the government Salmon, manager of 'She has a wonderful departments and JS in the Burpham! Our sincere ability to make you feel cause of energy apologies to both. David Quarmby very special for 30 efficiency.' News in brief J The Chancellor of the on Thursdays, Fridays and Exchequer Kenneth Baker The latest Classic Cola Saturdays. in his Budget statement of promotion offers a CD for Also on December 1, November 29 raised the only £3.99 with the Scottish licensing law was duty on a litre of petrol by purchase of any multipack relaxed so that alcohol may 2.5p. Ten pence is added of the drink. The be sold from Sam to 10pm to the price of a packet of recordings include 'classic Monday to Saturday and 20 cigarettes bringing the American artists' such as 12.30pm till 10pm on average price to £2.64. JS Louis Armstrong and The Sunday. intends to hold back the Walker Brothers. increase until the new Sainsbury's was declared year. J Sainsbury pic completed top of the shops by readers on November 15 the of Family Circle magazine. Argyll Group, owner of purchase of 16.7% of the Of the 1,504 respondents to the Safeway chain of equity of Giant Food Inc, the consumer poll in supermarkets, announced the 161 store US super August, the highest propor on November 30 half year market chain, as third quarter interim every day except Sunday. tion - 38% - said they results for the six months announced in the October figures which showed a Until now, shops have shopped regularly at to October 15. There is an 1994 JS Journal. The 3.4% increase in sales been permitted to open Sainsbury's. They also far £8m increase in profits to company has elected as compared with the same 36 until 9pm one day a week preferred JS to any other £205.3m and like-for-like directors: J Sainsbury weeks in the previous year. and until 8pm on all the competitor in London: 54% sales in existing stores fell chairman David Sainsbury; other days except Sunday. shopped regularly at JS and 0.3%. The results Sainsbury's and Shaw's On December 1, the The change in law is second favourite was Tesco disappointed the City and director Dino Adriano, and Deregulation and Contrac unlikely to see dramatic at 33%. Sainsbury's was the share price fall on the director of Shaw's, Harry ting Out Act came into changes for most super also voted most clean and day was the biggest fall of Beckner. Giant also force, which permits shops markets. Selected JS stores tidy and best for store the FTSE 100 companies. recently announced its to open 24 hours per day have begun closing at 9pm layout. •"^ri- \"JML ' ^^ ' IISI1 ... ^_, rp ^^Siil Bi ^tjt '^%(«5S*.. Meet the department which provides the eyes and ears for the company on a number of vitai subjects. Financial appraisai is a small but talented team which ,\ f i. ^•^'"^/Vâ analyses a wealth of information and helps the company's decision makers to plot their course. It was to this team we turned for a clear idea of developments in our industry through 1994. J;: ^fl V .^-^

How did the City react to Standing, left to right: Sainsbury's interim resuits financial analysts and wiiat happened to the Alan IVIcKenna, share price? Madeleine Gunn, Alison Bush and FA: Sainsbury's results Steve Cool(. Seated were well received in the are members of the City. JS' results and treasury team Sue current trading were ahead Bailey and Michael Lindsay. of most expectations and the share price rose 12p Left: Group treasurer on the day. David Roberts.

Why are there more restrictions on buiiding How will Sainsbury's react to new planning Financial appraisal: There the expense of whole new stores? restrictions? are now five warehouse salers. Expansion of the clubs In operation. warehouse clubs has not FA: During 1993/94, the CostCo has opened been as rapid as first Government revised two stores at Thurrock and thought and this may be Planning Policy Guidelines Watford and Cargo Club due to the fact that sales (PPG6 and 13) aimed at has opened stores at expectations have not reducing car travel and Croydon; Wednesbury, been achieved and increasing the 'vitality and near Walsall, and Bristol. planning permission is viability' of town centres. It is likely that CostCo more difficult to obtain. The interpretation of these will also open stores in The CostCo at Thurrock guidelines by the Local Liverpool and Sheffield. will soon reach its first Authorities means that the anniversary and it will be The impact on JS major retailers are now interesting to see how stores has been minimal finding it more difficult to and it is thought that many of the original secure planning FA: There are still many JS is increasing much of the warehouse members rejoin. permission for new sites locations where JS resources committed to club sales has been at outside town centres. would like to build a new improving the facilities store. In future, more and product ranges of emphasis will be placed older supermarkets. In A year ago, anaiysts said discounters were set to have a great Influence on the on locations either in the current year, 46 industry. What impact have they had on Sainsbury's and the sector as a whole? town centres or in edge- store refurbishments will of-centre locations. be completed and an I I I • r " increasing proportion of space will be devoted to I results, Kwik Save fresh foods in over 80 admitted that the stores. Next year, there industry is experiencing will also be a major the most competitive programme of trading conditions for refurbishments and many years, and this is store extensions which likely to impact are planned to provide profitability. Its current an additional 60,000 sq trading figures showed ft of sales area. that like-for-like sales Finally, JS will volume was down over continue to expand its 5% and that price FA: Kwik Save is the Discounters are that its store opening other retail interests - deflation was over 3%. largest discounter and finding the current comp programme had ceased, Savacentre, Homebase accounts for over half of etitive climate in basic Shoprite finally conceded In addition, Argyll has and Shaw's - and will the discounters' share of food products very defeat and its Scottish withdrawn from the open over 1,000,000 sq the market. JS has difficult. Following a and northern England discount sector by selling ft of sales area in its competed alongside Kwik number of profit warnings stores were acquired by its chain of LoCost stores subsidiaries next year. Save for many years. and an announcement Kwik Save. In their latest to Spar and the Co-op.

6 What the financial appraisal team does Reporting to Group treasurer David Roberts and senior manager Richard Mailett, the financial appraisal team has a number of responsibilities:

NEW STORES COMPETITOR ANALYSIS

The Chairman's Committee reviews and approves the They keep a beady eye on the competition. The team development programme for new supermarkets and monitors and analyses the financial results and other the extension of existing stores. Financial appraisal activities of our competitors for circulation to the analyses each proposal and advises the Committee directors. It liaises with other departments to keep on its findings. To reach their 'diagnosis' they gather abreast of new pricing initiatives and store development information from departments such as site programmes. assessment and the property division and use sophisticated computer systems to judge the viability CORPORATE PLAN AND STRATEGY of each store. Financial appraisal is also responsible for The team co-ordinates the preparation of the Corporate Senior manager Richard ensuring the computer systems are using up-to-date Plan and other discussion papers reviewing various IVIallett. assumptions to produce their findings. strategic issues which are presented to the Directors' Conference each year. Where will profit come INVESTOR RELATIONS The Corporate Plan is a three year financial forecast from in the future? for the Group based on various assumptions about the Financial appraisal prepares the material used to future performance of ourselves, our subsidiaries and FA: JS will open 20 stores communicate the Group's financial results to food retailing as a whole. in the current year and shareholders, the City, press and staff. This includes A ten year projection is also prepared. plans to open between ten drafting the press release, the presentations that are and twelve stores each given to senior managers, press, stockbrokers' OTHER PROJECTS year thereafter. Even with analysts and institutional investors, and a 'Question the reduction, JS still has and Answer' dossier that gives directors information Financial appraisal receives requests from directors to a substantial opening on a wide range of issues - financial and non- review a wide range of issues such as evaluation of programme. Improving the financial. Financial appraisal also liaises with new formats like Central and new accounting efficiency of our existing investors, stockbrokers' analysts and other City guidelines. The team researches various topics, supermarket business and commentators. ___ — -rrr;^ prepares papers and makes recommendations where increasing sales by appropriate. improving the offer and the level of service to our OUR VERY OWN TREASURY customers means that existing stores can be Also reporting to David Roberts and Richard IVIallett is a made more profitable. In small treasury team which manages the UK Group's addition, improving sales investment of cash and borrowing needs on a day-to-day in existing stores through basis. On a typical day this might mean moving funds refurbishments and around the banking system of between £150-200 extensions will also million. The team assists in major funding initiatives contribute to profit growth. such as the recent launch of a $150 million 'Eurobond' There are also very to help finance the acquisition of shares in Giant Food substantial opportunities Inc, the US food retailer. The company is presented for growth in the with numerous complex proposals from banks for subsidiaries, Savacentre, borrowing and investment of cash and these are Homebase and Shaw's. carefully analysed in conjunction with the tax Savacentre at London department (senior manager John Lavelli and Jackie Colney has experienced Wells). an excellent sales uplift The treasury department also deals in the foreign following its recent exchangemarket and advises the buying departments conversion (JS Journal Nov of likely moves in currency rates so that JS can pay its 94) and Savacentre plans suppliers in foreign currency if needed. to continue this refurbish ment programme as well as opening one new store per year. Homebase is trading Is the City optimistic initiatives. Some in the exceptionally well in a about the food retailing City are now concerned difficult market and plans industry in general? that the difficult planning to open 15 new stores environment may make next year. FA: The City is more future sales growth more Shaw's is also optimistic about the food difficult. JS, however, is performing well and is now retailing sector than a devoting more resources realising the benefits of year ago when they were to extending and developing its own brand very concerned about refurbishing existing range. A new store format 'price wars', the effect on stores and, unlike its is being developed and margins and market competitors, has a the first store will open in saturation. Although 1994 successful diversification Massachusetts next year. has been very programme in place to It plans to open eight competitive, there have enhance the growth of the stores next year. not been any major pricing Group. WRITELINES

SAINSBURY'S HAT TRICK EARLY BIRDS CAPTURE THE 'mfni mh SUBSIDY

William Grew, meat manager, Wolverhampton. The company provides a subsidised breakfast for all employees who start work before 7am. Could you please explain why this subsidy only extends to an English breakfast and not

A a continental type breakfast. We are promoting K(mmmijmm\m. healthy eating yet we discriminate against people who choose to eat healthier. I believe the subsidy should either be abolished completely or Lewis Benjamin, customer at Leicester grapher set up the our family and 'JS the extended to a breakfast of I made a paper hat for impromptu picture for the family firm'. Best wishes any type up to a set Rhianna, a small and camera and none of the for many more years' amount. cheeky visitor, and her fun food was being made for successful trading. Paul Foulger, catering on wearing it was so public consumption. I am services manager, sorry to spoil the illusion infectious I reached for replies: but the chairman was not BOOK WENT my camera. The subsidised breakfast really cooking! Nonethe DOWN A BOMB It wasn't until the film for staff commencing work was processed did I spot less we will certainly be Ted Evans, former prior to 7am is at a set the Sainsbury connection. more careful in the future employee, Wiltshire price of 52p. The contents The PR angle proved about clothing rules. Having read The Best of the English Breakfast irresistible. Butter In The World, I was go up to a cost of around £1.25. Staff can choose 'BUTTERING' UP interested to read about 66 any breakfast items and DRESSING THE GRAND Watney St and Mr Guest they will still cost 52p DOWN CHILDREN the manager, because I was there in 1940 as a unless their choice comes Bill Cooke, district food young counter hand. Red to less than 52p. IVIary Teasdale, veteran, & store safety officer buttoned at 16. Woodhall Farm As a DFSO I am forced to Happy 125th to everyone. I was boning bacon RETAIL IS STILL comment on the photo I have just collected my when the copper told us DETAIL graph on p. 13 of the anniversary book and it is about the bomb under our October issue of the marvellous, much bigger shop. We thought he only Miles Metcalfe, night Journal. I say 'forced' as than 1 expected. I know it wanted a cup of tea. Mrs replenishment assistant, when staff on high risk will be used by young and Marples (I think that was Beckenham. old alike. open food departments the name of our I quote the following from saw it, I was immediately I retired 16 months housekeeper) told him to the back of the packaging ago and my grandchildren inundated with comments bugger off! for a Sainsbury's new are asking for ideas for about hair in hats, no hats, Made in Naples Real homework and what Blackfriars soon had no visitors' coat, watches happened in the olden us fixed up with a stall in Italian Pizza: '...amid the and jewellery. Why do we days. With nine grand the market and it was days extravagent atmosphere of time and time again get children visiting from six before they got the bomb the Bay of Naples and it's these posed pictures to sixteen, this book will out. Half the stock was splendid coastline...'. showing breaches of help a lot. missing when we went We are all used to the company food safety My family are still back. Bill Guest balanced high-flown gobbledygook procedures? joining the JS payroll. the books alright. of meaningless merchand Two daughters are still I was bombed out ising guff. But, as you and Diane Lamb, consumer working with JS and now eventually and had to join your readers know, public relations, replies: the next generation has my sister in Wiltshire. The extravagant is spelled with You are absolutely right started being employed nearest Sainsbury's was an a and there is no about the attire of the with my eldest grand Oxford so I had to leave. apostrophe in the chairman and our home daughter Dawn joining as Now I've got my possessive its. economists in the picture. a student. Here's to many grandchildren working in Superfluous apostro Actually our photo more years together with Chippenham. phes and careless spelling

8 CUSTOMER LETTERS

Mrs McVean, customer about a problem with some Swindon. My father was a at Beaconsfield tights I had purchased. grocer himself in the days I would like to thank the I would also like to before supermarkets and staff of this branch for mention the gentleman on he is always amazed at the dpowiedzlalrioicr their kindness when I was lift/car park duty. I am only amount of shopping wnosci taken ill while shopping. 28, not infirm or disabled, people carry away in their azach. Your packer, who I yet he helped me in a very trolleys. He continues to believe is called Rob or enjoy his Saturdays courteous way with my for pengar ocl Bill Woodley, was shopping in and out of the shopping in Sainsbury's. particularly kind - offering lift. m lamnas to drive my mother and It is lovely to be treated me home and to help as I was in your store and Mrs Lohan, customer at retrieve my car at a later to receive the service and Crawley > The Shipping Company Is not date. This kind of attention I did. These photographs were responsible for money and other generosity and chivalry is taken when we travelled so welcome when you feel by the Polish car ferry M/S valuables, which a' ^guarded. vulnerable and embar- Margaret Williams, Rogalin from Oxelosund staff used the trolley to with the travel bug may assed. customer at Bridgemead in Sweden to Gdansk in move clean bedding to the lead to suspicion of all JS Congratulations on Last month, my father was Poland on August 6 this cabins. employees departing from your choice of staff and 100 years old. I take him year. Apart from being Perhaps this could be airports and ports with their commitment to with me to shop at surprised to find a the start of a new column - rather cumbersome bagg customers. Sainsbury's every Satur Sainsbury's trolley in such 'The farthest sighting of age in their quest to beat day morning. He sits in the an unlikely place, we were one of our trolleys' - or last month's feature! coffee shop while I go amused by the notice perhaps you know Pauline Woodman, around with the trolley. above the trolley's new differently. customer at Harpenden The staff got to hear about home. I have shopped at your his birthday and when we Someone had gone to a Susan Jackson, PA to Veronica Lewis 'very branch for a year now and arrived on the day before, great deal of trouble to David Quarmby who first busy woricing person' and have always found your we were surprised by a anchor the trolley to the received the letter, customer at Northwich staff most helpful and specially-reserved table. wall to prevent it moving replies: I have just been through efficient. The manager Mr Baldwin in rough seas - some of the I'm afraid we can't Sainsbury's store in five Today, I found them presented him with a bottle upright metal bars had challenge you in your minutes flat, including to be outstandingly good. of champagne, a birthday been removed from the claim to 'the farthest checkouts! Amazing, I would like, in particular, cake complete with candles front of the trolley to allow sighting of one of our wonderful, incredible. This to mention the supervisor/ and a bouquet of flowers the horizontal bar to trolleys'. I don't suppose was a busy Friday manager on duty at 5.30. forme! engage under a retaining we'll ever know the lunchtime. The difference She was both helpful and What a kind gesture. I fixture screwed to the wall. hazardous route it took to is staggering. Keep up the considerate, way beyond thought you should know The handle of the trolley get there. good work. what I would have what a caring store had to be raised to free it. Your suggestion of a expected when I told her manager you have here in We noticed that the cabin column featuring trolleys on barker cards, merchan Helen Marsden, BRAIN BOX? I seem to remember a dising and packaging have senior manager staff suggestion scheme become as common as that corporate design, Phil Mitchell, trial somewhere. What curious abomination replies: senior business analyst, happened to it? Being head premia (for premiums) on It is indeed unfortunate Blacl

9 BIGGLESWADE Opening date: 8 November 1994

Address: Bells Brook, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire

Opened by: Joint managing director David Quarmby

Store manager: Mike Zwager Newhaven, which has been without a JS for 20 years, was one of the first Project manager: John Williams NEWHAVEN stores to get the opening treatment from the new local public relations Staff: 238 (169 new staff) Keith Rodel knows P Is for department. Many of the customers on opening morning had memories Sales area: 20,000 sq ft packing them In! of Sainsbury's in days gone by. The first 125 were presented with a copy of The Best Butter In The World. Local PR invited author Bridget Williams Car park: 328 spaces along to sign copies and chat with customers. The new department's Sue O'Brien explained, 'We will work with stores, new and old, so they NEWHAVEN can be closer to the local people. We want openings to be an exciting event for local people, not just another day's shopping.' Opening date: 15 November 1994

Address: The Drove, Newhaven, East Sussex

Opened by: Joint managing director David Quarmby

Store manager: Andrew Major

Project manager: Keith Butler

Staff: 300 (270 new staff) Cathy Sales area: 24,389 sq ff Cutbush Gar park: 367 spaces gets into

10 Everything is new for Oidbury IHomebase. Tiie store is now 600 yards down ttie road, moving from a stand-alone location into a 'new model' store in a retail park. Though the sales area is only a little larger, the garden centre is half as big again. All the original staff have transferred to the new store and are joined by eight new

.f»r«9:M^IEM«£*J> colleagues. Fifteen members

John Smart (left) and have been there since the original opening 11 years ago. trainee Chris Lambert They are sad to leave the old site but, as manager Andy decl< tlie halis with Brough explains, they are very enthusiastic about the Homebase decorations. change. They now have scanning tills instead of manual ones to speed through all their new customers, better access from the main road and a shiny new store. Says Andy, 'We do many things now as well as we did them before: we do most of the things even better!'

There was a touch of theatre and a little farce to the opening of Biggleswade. Noel Pritchard, dry goods relief The Chiltern Radio roadshow was adding some drama to the proceedings with (right) and Mark Carlo, area rousing music during the opening of the store. Manager Mike Zwager could not display specialist. resist taking the microphone briefly, having been a DJ in the past. He certainly impressed presenter 'Red Hot' Emma Scott (who, rumour has it, may be transferring to London's Capital Radio - you heard it here first folks!). The touch of farce was lent shortly before the doors were due to open by a local traffic warden. Some members of staff had parked their cars on double yellow lines on a nearby lane to leave more room in the car park for customers' cars. Rita the meter maid (she declined to give her name) turned up and defied the popular image of her profession by being nice as pie. She explained that she was happy to let them stay but the local farmer had complained about the obstruction caused! A DROP OF .ttriet 0 e

I What could be more idyllic than sitting in front of a roaring fire with a wee dram of whisky warming yom* insides? But what makes this simple grain and water brew so special? This year - the 500th anniversary of the first recorded whisky - Sainsbury's has launched a '^ range of new malts for the Christmas season. The Journal left the London smog far behind and took to the hills of bonnie Scotland to search out the mystery of what the Scots call the 'water of life'. M nV^nl Vnay JurillMs /D«r gDWcSl

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I into Britain's fifth largest export. We glide Far left: Master blender and the Journal's guide past a blue sign showing the boundary of Ian Grieve. Moray County, proudly sub-titled 'malt whisky Above: The ironwork portals at the entrance to country'. Via Huntly, Dufftown and the Cragganmore distillery reveal that the complex Glenfiddich distillery, we pass the Speyside was built in the year Sainsbury's was founded - cooperage. This is where they make the barrels 1869. in which the whisky is aged. Next we pass Below left: Cardhu's Charlie Smith beside the Cragellachie White Horse distilleries. Ian copper-topped 'mash tun' where water and malt comments on the glass-fronted building reveal create the sweet 'wort' that is fermented and distilled into whisky (below right) before being ing its huge copper stills, 'When you pass at aged. night they look like four golden nuggets.' ur guide is the master blender of one of Soon we arrive at Cardhu, the spiritual O the largest suppliers to JS. Ian Grieve home of Johnny Walker. Here we meet kilted mysteriously he explains that the local air from Perth, an unassuming man with distillery manager Charlie Smith. A tour of the passing over the ageing barrels has a lot of extraordinary senses, is the mastermind behind distillery's stills and fermenting vats is a nasal influence. But when it comes down to it 'Scotch United Distillers' reformulation of Bell's. assault course - Horlicks gives way to home whisky can never be replicated because we As we begin our 300 mile journey of brew, then you catch a little dry rot, clean don't know what causes the flavour ourselves.' discovery, we begin to suspect where hospitals and the occasional sinus-searing blast Presumably that is why the techniques have Scotsman Colin McCrae learnt the skills that of carbon dioxide gas. Ian explains how the changed little over hundreds of years: 'I am the recently won him the Network Q RAC Rally! barley seed is steeped in water and dried to custodian of Cardhu's style of making whisky When the beautifully maintained A-roads and start its germination. The consequent malt and we don't give that up lightly', he adds. two-lane motorways (Ian explains this is to absorbs flavour from the peat smoke. The We whisk through the breathtakingly make sure all the supplies get through to the ground malt is then mixed with local spring beautiful Speyside country alongside the River lucrative oil industry) give way to treacherous water. The mixture is then fermented with Spey, water source for many of the distilleries minor roads, Ian handles the hairpins with the yeast and piped to copper stills. The and renowned for its salmon fishing. 'Whisky nonchalance of Robin Cousins in Holiday on evaporating alcoholic spirit, which surprisingly reflects the geography' murmurs Ian Ice. What is even more frightening is the sight comes out clear, is distilled twice and passed to mysteriously. But his comment begins to make of whisky delivery lorries swinging casually barrels, where it matures and picks up its sense as we work our way through the 30 or so around these bends every few minutes. golden colour from the cask. samples ranged dauntingly before us. We are The highest concentration of distilleries is 'But what really determines the flavour?' sitting in leather seats beside a roaring golden here in Speyside, one of the six major whisky we ask Charlie. He routinely cites that the fire in the dark lounge of the Cragganmore regions in Scotland. Over every hill are quality of the barley and different peat smokes Distillery's club. You really can taste the chill beautifully maintained granite cottages clust have an effect but really it is the quality of the winds sweeping across Islay and the softer, ered around a distillery: from an illicit 1700s local water ('whisky' comes from the Gaelic mellower texture of the lowland Glenkinchie as cottage industry, Scotch production has grown word for water: 'uisge'). Even more Ian talks us poetically through the drams.

13 It is a matter of taste whether you prefer Only whisky produced and bottled in Scotland Canadian whisky is distilled predomin blended whisky or malt. Ian Grieve to strict guidelines can legally call itself Scotch antly from maize with some rye grain. It is tells us that the malt was too heavy for Whisky. The Japanese most famously have generally regarded as far superior to the the English so they began to blend it tried to copy it - they tried to match the unique products of China, India and Japan - countries with grain whisky to make it more taste unsuccessfully by importing all the raw currently moving into 'aqua vitae' in a big palatable for the lowlanders. 'Malt ingredients, even the water. way. whisky is for sipping and blended is for American whiskies principally comprise Ireland is famous for smooth blended I Tennessee Whisky and Kentucky Bourbon. whiskeys (the Irish tipple is spelt with an 'e'). parties,' he adds. 'The malt is like the soloist and a blend like an orchestra of The Tennessee tipple, the most famous of Sainsbury's has a rare example of a malt in the players conducted by the blender.' which is Jack Daniel's, is distinguished by the own-brand Single Malt Irish Whiskey from 'charcoal mellowing'. The spirit is run through one of the few independent Irish distilleries, a charcoal-packed vat and aged in barrels based in Cooley. Black Bush and Jameson's charred on the inside. are classiclrish Whiskeys. JS JOURNAL Dreamer Amelia Wilkinson (aged 18) Dog Kennel Hill, Dulwich

He was the summer He drifted, insubstantial... Hazy, drifting. Then they crushed him. Like dust Sought his elusive freedom C 0 M P E T r T I 0 N Stirred up from the streets He knew his freedom To capture, cage it in. If reading your entries to the Journal's poetry competition His tears wandered. reminded us of anyttiing, it was of tlie need to take time out, to His frail existence As brittle snowflakes escape from the hullabaloo of modern living and refresh our Imagined, almost, Warmed by wounding. jangled nerves and weary spirits. At this time of year that seems Unreality. There his heart shattered. almost impossible. Nevertheless, we include this, our quiet Spun out his life Fine shards of glass, splintered, corner, in the hope that somewhere between the army of Between beams slithered customers and the preparations for your own Christmas you may as if to catch the floating Rung the ground like painful find time for a few minutes all to yourself- perchance to dream. dreams laughter he lived on... Flung out. The poems on this page are just a few of the winners. We hope to Cast out like sparks include more in a future issue. Ghost-like he flitted Of young fires. Haunting air; New stars: n i ^i WTJ^JJ^ On silver-flute notes Once captive freedom. When Love is Lost Louise Hill, Blackfriars The Mirror of Nature Adrian Kerecuk (Aged 17) When love is lost, a young girl When love is lost, an old man Swiss Cottage cries. weeps, { Her tears flow free amidst A soul passed by that death did Reflection in tine mirror The rainbow scares the breathed sighs. reap. of nature clouds away A dowry to her innocence, Bittersweet, a life gone by. • Tine eye of tine sky Into the transparent And there can be no War and peace the battlecry. recompence. A fear of loneliness brings rage, ^ Appearing on top of the water of the ocean. Until the night turns into day, The book of life has closed a waves, IJfVf- And all her tears are washed page. '? And in tine depth of the The landscape of an away Memories are all that's left, sea eye. A new love springs eternal for this poor soul a life bereft. youth. Old photographs and letters read. A thousand clouds Framed in warm sand, And this is the enduring truth, Bring death to life in lover's head. Producing a thousand In the centre That love when young just But such is human's will and wave crests. of a sparkling sunlit ^IIT fades away. grace. tropical forest. An act on stage, a comic play, That clings to hope in death's A cast of clowns, a magic embrace. The wind blows. trick, Whilst tears like rain will cease to ^1 The sky cries. A churlish spell on wizard's lip fall. The heart as flesh soon When love is lost, the heart doth mends and heals. call. And then returns to cast new Home Again reels. .\I s \x n \v . I .V « Marlt Ricliard Coombs Slid n :<.T • .\\' Kimberley Tif :vS['o<.> .v 1 : It was when I saw the English shores C T I V 1 H ! W I knew my war was done, ox The fragrant rose upon the breeze !Nt;ii f .XXX Seemed sweeter now we'd won. As my boat approached its resting place After miles and miles of sea. The gentle lap of briney Did its best to comfort me. Although we'd been victorious In slaying the enemy kind, My heart was still at conflict Over the girl I'd left behind. i\ Would she still remember me And hold me in her heart / Or would I be a memory Of which she'd want no part. C ••• My boat soon docked at quayside To the cheering crowds below ^^ And I searched the joyous faces For the girl that I loved so. And then I thought I saw her With her mass of flowing hair As I gathered my belongings And walked towards the stair. I was soon among the heaving crowd My heart was pounding fast. And there she stood before me Like a vision from the past. I swooped her up within my arms And gone was all my pain, I held her tight and knew at last That I was home again. 15 LET'S GO ROUND AGAIN

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in the Sporting Lives section. animals just at the right moment. Again, this Jo loved the overall winning picture photographer was either lucky or very because, she said There is so much going patient. It makes a great shot.' on. The more you look at it, the more you get Congratulations to all our winners and out of it. You can almost hear the noise of the many thanks to everyone who entered. activities - the children laughing and that little There's a JS pen for each person. Our boy clattering his sticks along the fence.' special thanks to Jo for her wise judgement! Many sporting pictures were rejected because there wasn't enough action: 1 like the polo players because they were caught just as the horses' hooves were off the ground. Good luck or good judgement - it makes for a great picture. The other picture is Meet Jo Laycock. She is picture editor of The good because it tells a story.' TV Times. With a bumper Christmas The construction pictures were difficult to schedule of viewing to convey to her readers, judge. 'I chose the futuristic picture because she was particularly busy when we met her. it's dramatic and intriguing. This is a brave But she was happy to join us in the Journal photographer - there is obviously a very bright office for a break which constituted a sky and plenty of colour but he or she has busman's holiday, judging your entries in our chosen to take it in black and white. Photographic Competition. 'Big Ben is a good technical effort. It could She deliberated long and hard, called for be a postcard.' the eyeglass, changed her mind, then There was many a delight to be had in changed it back again; but in the end she Judging the Contact category but Jo opted in was absolutely sure of her choices. the end for the brothers. 'There's really Congratulations go especially to Donovon something going on between them - protective Pennant of Castle Boulevard. Not only is he older brother; little brother looking up.' the overall winner but he also came second As for the hippos. 'It's not easy to get

20 ikik Winners of the •iinEaiisiiii Journal's own Worst Jokes in JS TURKEY TALK Christmas comes but once a year, but Cracker The number of turkeys sold by Sainsbury's over when it comes it brings an awful lot of Competition this Christmas is approximately equal to the weight of: extra work....The Journal takes a sideways A) Six blue whales year: B) 50 herds of African elephants look at some of the activities which go Q: Name a C) 300 Sumo wrestlers into ensuring that ten million customers crustacean may enjoy the festive season. The results A: King's DECK THE (SAVACENTRE) HALLS we came up with were far too good merely Crustacean How much Christmas garland does it take to to report, so grab a cup of tea (the Q: Why did the two Boa Constrictors get married? decorate the newly-refurbished London Colney? average JS staff canteen sells 100 gallons A) Enough to decorate the Severn Bridge A: Because they had a crush on each other from one end to the other of tea in a week), take a well-earned break from all that festive frenzy and have a go B) Enough to wind around the base of 0 GREAT GROTTOES at our quiz (answers are below). IVIount Everest How many children will visit Savacentre's six C) Enough to reach the top of the Empire Christmas Grottoes this year? State building A) Enough to fill 120 school buses Homebase doesn't do too badly on the dec iration fri B) Enough to fill Wembley Stadium for a either: The display lights in the 81 Homeb| « stoqR will chorus of 'Grandma, we love you' flash 132,094,800 times in the course of Istmas C) The entire child population of Cambridge season.... O FAIR FEW FIRS If you planted out all the Christmas trees sold by PLEASE MR POSTMAN Homebase and Savacentre, they would occupy a space equal to: Sales of Christmas cards are booming. JS sells A) Trafalgar Square enough for the entire population of Scotland to send B) Three times the new sales area of the Sainsbury Group in 1993/94 one to their favourite uncle, their bank manager, their C) The Gobi desert boss and their pen-pal on Christmas Island.

No MEAN (S)PIES If all the mince pies sold from the grocery Q HEY, BIG SPENDER O INCREDIBLE JOURNEY departments of JS branches were placed side by The largest recorded JS customer transaction side they would reach from: During Christmas week, the distribution ever was at IVIiddlesbrough in Christmas 1989. A) Newcastle to Aberystwyth division handles over 50% more cases than Was it: B) Fort William to Fishguard usual. Efficient use of vehicle capacity A) £124 spent on jelly babies for a C) Frinton-on-Sea to Eastbourne minimises the number of extra journeys, but playgroup even so, the extra mileage covered is equal to: B) £1,224 spent on puddings for a TROLLEY TALES A) An expedition to the South Pole (to summers' club On average, a JS trolley travels a distance of 270 check out whether penguins are better at C) £12,242 spent on hampers by a miles a week. How far is that in a year? pulling sleighs than reindeer). businessman for his staff? A) London to Brighton and back B) A return trip to the Moon (Stocks of B) Glasgow to Plymouth and back turkey are getting low since Buzz Aldrin O WELL STUFFED C) London to Buenos Aires and back and Neil Armstrong ate the first meal on If all the packs of stuffing sold by JS in a year the moon 25 years ago - cold roast were placed end to end they would stretch from: o NOEL NOSH turkey). A) London to Vienna How many carrots does JS sell in Christmas week? C) A complete circumnavigation of the B) Land's End to John O'Groats A) One for every person in Australia globe. C) Lapland to Slumberland B) One for every rabbit in Australia C) One for every koala bear in Australia Oh, and those cups of tea. Even the prodigious quantities needed to sustain JS staff over Christmas week only use the same quantity of water which passes over Victoria Falls in Vh seconds I Happy Christmas!

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LIZ DUFFY general assistant, Edinburgh Savacentre 'I wish all the children who benefit from the Edinburgh "Sick Kids" appeal would get better. There's a lot of terminally ill MAIVKIND children in the hospital and the nurses and doctors have so much patience and understanding with them.'

""^r^o-e,^ara LORRAINE BAILEY price controller, Croydon Homebase 'Christmas shouldn't be so commercialised, they should bring back some of the religion. JAMES GUMMING That bit seems to have been forgotten fresh produce replenishment assistant, somewhere along the way. Children thinl< High Wycombe they'll find Father Christmas in the Argos 'IVIy idea of a happy Christmas would be to catalogue.' win the lottery twice and go to the Bahamas, close the store for a fortnight and win the lottery again when I came back.' 'Happy Christmas' we say to one another at this time of year. 'Season's Greetings' and 'Peace and Goodwill' pr^ claim the cards loading dowfi our posties on their extra deliveries. But one person's peace is another person's boredom and one family's fun-filled chaos is another's

nightmare. What kind of • peace and happiness do you SANDRA CAMPBELL electrical manager, Edinburgh Savacentre BlU WILSON wish for? We put the 'I would like everyone to win the National senior fish assistant, Chiswick Lottery. Especially all the unemployed since 'I'm looking forward to spending question to staff from all many of them have almost nothing to look Christmas in Scotland with my sister, over the country. L forward to at this time of year,' and really relaxing.' AtEX FOXEU v,,tt assistant, Cas^ DIANA PATEL DIY manager, Croydon Homebase evening-W ^ottingh^-;;^ ^,,^ ,o just replenishment assistant, Chiswicke 'They should have international football 'A happy Christmas means getting loads of matches at Christmas. It would bring presents! Spending time with the family but people together from around the world in not sharing the traditional turkey dinner - competition in a friendly atmosphere!' most of my family are vegetarian.'

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JACKIE POWER checkout assistant, Edinburgh Savacentre ' MICHAEL ROBERTSON 'I find family gatherings very stressful, replenishment assistant, Chiswick especially when you are not used to 'Spending time with the family, eating a cooking for so many people - maybe traditional dinner with the turkey. Keeping poisoning the turkey would make for a more | all the traditions alive.' harmonious Christmas!' CHECK THIS OUT These boots were made for walking! Swansea's security officer Graham Ivett (left) gives Paul a at the end of the journey. After leg up on his return journey. arriving in Swansea on Saturday, he returned to Nonwich on Sunday (by car) and was back at work, where he was given a rousing welcome from his colleagues, on Monday morning. At the final count, Paul had raised £3,286 for this year's corporate charity. His advice for people who want to 'do something' - 'Just do it!' Beeston's best After losing a family member and completing the walk. a close friend to cancer, DIY Although quick to say he warehouse manager at Norwich wouldn't try such a walk again this Homebase Paul Self decided to year, he adds that he will be ready 'do something'. to accept a challenge next year. Hoping to raise £2,000 for 'When I finished the walk, I Leukaemia Research, Paul spent thought there was no way I'd walk 28 days walking the 333 miles again,' he said. 'Next time I won't between Norwich (the most camp, but rather stay in bed and Eastern Homebase store) and breakfasts.' Swansea (the most Western Although he walked alone for store). most of the way, Paul was joined Paul set off from Norwich on by his girlfriend Celia during the September 18 with only his last week and a half. She gave him backpack and tent. He endured the moral support he needed leg, chest and back pains, during the final slog. blisters and a tummy bug before But there was no rest for Paul Giving it best stiot

Rhyl's sharp shooters traded their the competition, rather adding to Beeston's staff restaurant has bolognese is good for them. We SABRE guns for the real thing and the country atmosphere. 'It was won Nottinghamshire's first jiggle around the menu according swapped their JS blues for Barbour a great day out enjoyed by all. Healthy Living award. to the reductions we have on the jackets to dominate the second Thanks to Mr Ware for providing According to restaurant day.' annual district clay pigeon shoot. medals, trophies and lunch.' manager Melanie Allden, a lot The award recognised the The artificial pigeons, rabbits Brian's store won the top of the hungry staff enjoy the efforts of Melanie and her crew and pheasants didn't stand a female team prize. But Rhyl healthy meals she cooks in ensuring at least one third of chance when 60 staff from around snatched the male team prize without even knowing they are the menu fulfilled a set of strict the north west engaged in 'fierce and the store also took home the healthy! 'They like to try a lot healthy eating rules. They but friendly competition', as individual male and female of different things like curries passed rigorous hygiene tests Chester senior deputy Brian Thake honours, which went to Tony and pasta and don't realise and set over three quarters of describes it. A torrential downpour Bentley and Allison Lang. something like spaghetti the seating area to non-smokers. even failed to put a dampener on 24 Peak of fitness

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By selling Pudsey Bear merchandise and Pudsey straws, Wllmslow branch raised £679.

iking by completing a ored 21.8 mile walk \ meat manager Paul I. Meanwhile, back in , staff were going ere but covered h miles to take them Lands End to John \on an exercise

stomers were enter- throughout the week drinking races, a y castle and puppet ; for the kids, and a bull machine, sh produce assist Beasley raised £2 friends and family >red him to shave his

26 Glynis Warrender of Cwmbran took the plunge when it came to raising funds swam two miles! Giynnis collected £181 In sponsorship from family ar ise of her local swimming pool to complete the marathon -i THANET had a very success ful day with a great atmos phere. Customers were delighted to see how much effort was made by staff who devised lots of fun ways to raise money, including a guess the weight of the cake competition and guess the value of the shopping trolley competition. One member of staff knitted a 110 foot scarf (which is now being made into a blanket and will be given to charity). The branch raised a whopping total of £1,570. Arnold store tammusmraBwilRotal tota l £1,360 when three quarters of staff came to work in fancy dress. Joy Hadley came as Dennis the iVIenace, Robert Johnson came as a friendly punk complete with chains and his own hair spiked and they were joined by the Girls of St Trinians, Cinderella and some wandering highwaymen.

Sitting in a bath full of Savacentre efforts were cold baked beans is not everyone's idea of fun, but for four staff members of stupendous. At Beckton, a Blackpole it was a way of raising funds. Using teddy bear shape on the 150 cans of cold beans the team took turns to foyer floor was filled in lower themselves into the saucy tub. with customers' coins. Together with a raffle, the branch raised £1,337 Russell Gower, Austin With a trolley of Sainsbury's own brand products Selby and Pauline Martin first prize in a raffle and a 'Guess the Weight sped off from London of a Pudsey Bear Cake' competition, Colney in a Savacentre Tamworth staff raised £1,862. marked car to collect the Beaujolais Nouveau from France. They Derby's manager Brent Aston and deputy manager Darren Bateman (above) had challenged customers to guess their glamnned up for the day and manned(?) the checkouts. But when it all became a mileage for a pound and raised £1,200. bit of a drag, Darren, otherwise known as A. Tart repaired to the staff restaurant for a cuppa.

Children in Need at Warlingham featured Pudsey Bear, IVIr Although they hadn't finished counting when we went to press, staff at Stevenage were Blobby, a raffle, clowns, a weigh confident they had raised £3,000. the cake competition, a five and Moustaches were 'donated' by two members of management: if £100 could be raised for a half foot chicken, a Classic each set of whiskers, they promised they would shave them off. Staff and customers quickly raised the cash and a local barber arrived to 'do the deed' - right in the middle of the Cola taste test, a till supervisor foyer! riding on an emu, and a group of Also popular was the car wash service set up for a day in the car park and staff were most 12 staff dressed as the opposite ICIH!l|L|D|R|EiNl generous in providing prizes for the tombola stall and cake sale. sex, whilst tied together! IIINI INIEIEIDI

27 CLEARLY GOOD FOR YOU Most of the flower beds and trees outside have shed their flowers and leaves but you can always rely on the Poinsettia to provide a burst of colour at this time of year. The Poinsettia is famous for its bright red flower-like leaves but also comes in a range of other colours, sizes and in baskets or planted arrangements. There are over 20 available arrangements including log troughs, Kalanchoes, red roses and ceramic pots. Different stores will have You do it every year: stuff good for you, the new range of beverage' there really is no other numerous different combinations yourself on turkey and Christmas three flavours; Citrus Cooler, Ace drink like it that is clear, natural but customers will have to hurry. pudding tlien feel desperate for Apple and Very Berry are made and low in calories. They are only available for the something light and healthy to with only natural fruit flavours and The multipacks of four cans few weeks over Christmas. drink. JS has just the thing - new do not contain added sugar or are now on sale at 95p, two litre Prices range from £1.45 for a Free and Clear soft drinks. artificial flavours. Described by bottles at 79p . Flowering Mini Ceramic Pot Totally see-through and totally the buyer as a 'new age (which houses a Kalanchoe at the time of going to press) up to CREATE A a Poinsettia basket arrangement NEW LOO at £14.95.

it's nearly New Year and time for a change. Where STICKY better to start than in the bathroom? FINGERS Recently launched Feeling harassed with the Christmas at Homebase is a season? Take some time out to new range of indulge yourself and try one (or all!) bathroom of four delectable and delicious new accessories, ideal for desserts. turning the humble Daringly devious are the two 'smallest room' into a sticky toffee desserts - Sticky Toffee Gateau and Sticky Toffee Pavlova. showpiece. The range covers a range and fine bone china There is also a new wooden The gateau comprises a light number of collections and a wide Homebase Peony range. Both are range called Veneto which sponge filled and topped with cream spectrum of designs and available in either white or soft expands the existing wooden and covered in a sticky toffee sauce. finishes. cream. ranges. Sticky Toffee Pavlova is a toffee Products include soap Metal bathroom accessories Prices range from £4.99 for meringue dessert filled with real dairy dishes, towel rails and mirrors. include gold plated Windsor, a Peony china light pull, to cream, topped off with toffee sauce They are available in either the chrome plated Henley or chrome £54.99 for the Windsor gold and pecans. ceramic Homebase Elegance and gold plated Oxford. plated mirror.

28 WORLD OF WHISKY SOUP CAN DO ANYTHING Just in time for those cold winter nights is a treat to warm your SAINSBURY'S tummy, while not making a hole in your pocket - Sainsbury's Cream of ^ condensed soups. MUSHROOM Available In three popular SOUP y - M/ikes Double — ^ flavours - tomato, mushroom and chicken - the soups are good value for money at 39p. They come in a 295 gram tin but make up to twice that amount. The soups, ideal for using as a sauce, are a first for Sainsbury's and are the only own label condensed soups on the market. Both mushroom and tomato are suitable for vegetarians. All three include a handy recipe suggestion on the label.

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The malt whisky market is now two other new additions this growing each year and consumers Christmas season. Salnsbury's are discovering the enormous Single Malt Irish Whiskey range available not just from the (£12.45) is a rare example of a hundreds of traditional distilleries pot still whiskey from an indepen in Scotland (see pages 12-14 of dent Irish distillery. It has a this issue) but from around the smooth, rounded taste. The trio world. And the single malts are to is completed by a vatted malt. whisky what cognac is to fine The deeper-coloured and richer- wine. Royal Elgin (£21.95), a 21 tasting Sherry Cask Malt Whisky year old single malt from the (£11.69) is distilled in the Scottish Highlands, is the jewel in highlands and matured in the crown of the range and joins Spanish Oloroso sherry casks.

There's a new product for anyone Sticky Toffee Gateaux are on offer lacking a little lustre. Sainsbury at £1.39 and Sticky Toffee Pavlovas b5 Active range of shampoos, at £1.69 until January. conditioners and 2-ln-l products Have you ever wondered what have been created for normal or New York cheesecake tastes like? permed/dry/damaged hair types. Well now's your chance to find out. All contain panthenol, a pro Two delicious and mouthwatering vitamin that helps hair retain cheesecake treats have been moisture, creating a healthy, introduced. shiny and manageable look. Typically heavy and rich, the New The variants are easily York deli-style Vanilla Cheesecake is recognisable by their coded blue encrusted in a light digestive biscuit packaging: shampoo in light blue, shell and topped with crumbly biscuit. conditioner in dark blue and 2-in-l Vanilla and Chocolate Cheesecake is in powder blue. baked with chocolate chips, topped The b5 range is on with swirls of rich chocolate sauce introductory offer at £1.29 each and baked in a cookie shell. Both until January 7. Thereafter they are £3.95. will sell at £1.49 each.

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THE DELIVERY MUST GET THROUGH

A JS car passes through Parliament Square It has been a mild winter this year but few drivers of modem delivery vehicles, with during the great smog that descended over London in December 1952. their hi-tech tractor units and powerful heaters, pay too much heed to the weather Not only were drivers more exposed to the elements in the past but a few severe winters almost - but not quite - brought the stores to a halt.

he first Sainsbury's delivery vans The winter of 1962/3 was the coldest in Britain were Leyland trucks sold off by the for over a century. The extreme weather created Q unique challenges for the transport and warehouse RAF at the end of the First World War. There was no fitted cab, only a seat with a shield in front staff. The newly-opened produce warehouse at of the driver's legs. For sheer driving luxury a Hoddesdon suffered a baptism of ice in its first waterproof canvas sheet could be hooked up on operational winter. With temperatures falling to either side to keep out the snow and the rain. around 2°F (or -17'C. This was the first year the Drivers compared driving these vehicles, Meteorological Office used Centigrade in their which were fitted with solid tyres, to operating a weather reports!), the tomatoes 'froze as solid as pneumatic drill. 'One just sat at the wheel and cricket balls'. Transport of JS produce to the 32 juddered.' With a legal speed limit for heavy self-service stores, that carried produce at the This 1950s JS car was on the way to Tonbridge commercial vehicles of just 12 mph, a return time, was made from Hoddesdon by W. J. Sims. The fuel systems froze in 27 of their vehicles and when it was stopped by a fallen tree. Before it journey to Brighton could take 11-12 hours under could turn back it was trapped by two more trees drastic measures were behind. called for. Drivers risked their lives when The following day, Steve left with four JS lorries in they lit fires under fuel convoy to attempt the journey again. Steve recalled tanks to defrost the the single-minded determination to get through of fuel. By the time the union shop steward Johnny Keen. When they thaw came, the new stopped to snatch a warming snack at a transport warehouse was able to cafe, Steve was not even permitted to finish his claim that it had not succulent bacon sandwich before the convoy missed a single moved on. They arrived a little late to find the delivery, though they streets of Norwich empty: it seemed no-one had left may have infringed a their homes to struggle through the blizzard few of today's health anyway. and safety rules! Drivers setting out from Blackfriars in the winter of Blackfriars was still 1952-3 suffered an additional hazard as 'The Great On wintery days such as this, customers must have welcomed the sight of a the central depot for Smog' descended over London. The thick fog Sainsbury's horse van trotting through the snow to deliver their orders. distribution to the forced the lorries to slow to a crawl, shutting the Pinner c1925. branches at that time, drivers into a world of their own. There was little normal weather conditions. Imagine setting out and staff there tried in vain that winter to match relief outside London. The drivers continued to from London at 2.30 am on an icy winter's day for the admirable record of their colleagues at peer intently at the road ahead, wary of ice patches a run to Eastbourne or Folkestone, sitting out in an Hoddesdon. Twelve miles outside Norwich a or snowbound roads with fallen trees that might open cab with only two oil lamps to light the way driver making deliveries to the city's two stores force a detour. Whatever the weather, with five through the swirling snow ahead. was instructed by police to turn back; the city was tons of food needed at each branch, the vans had to snow-bound. He was instructed by Steve Cody, get through. the transport manager, to return to Blackfriars.

32 Everything is new for Oldbury Homebase. The store is now 600 yards down the road, moving from a stand-alone location into a 'new model' store in a retail park. Though the sales area is only a little larger, the garden centre is half as big again. All the original staff have transferred to the new store and are joined by eight new colleagues. Fifteen members

John Smart (left) and have been there since the original opening 11 years ago. trainee Chris Lambert They are sad to leave the old site but, as manager Andy deck the halls with Brough explains, they are very enthusiastic about the Homebase decorations. change. They now have scanning tills instead of manual ones to speed through all their new customers, better access from the main road and a shiny new store. Says Andy, 'We do many things now as well as we did them before: we do most of the things even better!' June Harper was at OLDBURY opening 11 years ago. Opening date: 14 October 1994 Address: Oldbury Green Retail Park, BIGGLESWA There was a touch of theatre and a little farce to the opening of Biggleswade. Noel Pritchard, dry goods relief Oldbury Ringway, West Midlands The Chiltern Radio roadshow was adding some drama to the proceedings with (right) and Mark Carlo, area display specialist. Opened by: Paul Shoemaker, rousing music during the opening of the store. Manager Mike Zwager could not regional manager Northern area resist taking the microphone briefly, having been a DJ in the past. He certainly impressed presenter 'Red Hot' Emma Scott (who, rumour has it, may be Store manager: Andy Brough transferring to London's Capita! Radio • you heard it here first folks!). The touch Project manager: Neil Hotston of farce was lent shortly before the doors were due to open by a local traffic Staff: 53 (8 new staff) warden. Some members of staff had parked their cars on double yellow lines on a nearby lane to leave more room in the car park for customers' cars. Rita the Sales area: 43,097 sq ft meter maid (she declined to give her Car park: 685 spaces name) turned up and defied the popular image of her profession by being nice as pie. She explained that SUPERMARKETS she was happy to let them stay but the Mike on the mike. local farmer had complained about the Store manager Mike Zwager BIGGLESWADE obstruction caused! talks to Chiltern Radio's Opening date: 8 November 1994 Emma Scott. Address: Bells Brook, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire 'Rita' and the farmer negotiate with JS staff. Opened by: Joint managing director David Quarmby

Store manager: Mike Zwager Newhaven, which has been without a JS for 20 years, was one of the first Andrew Major with Project manager: John Williams NEWHAVEN his management stores to get the opening treatment from the new local public relations team. Staff: 238 (169 new staff) department. Many of the customers on opening morning had memories Keith Rodel knows P is for Sales area: 20,000 sq ft packing them in! of Sainsbury's in days gone by. The first 125 were presented with a copy of The Best Butter In The World. Local PR invited author Bridget Williams Car park: 328 spaces along to sign copies and chat with customers. The new department's Sue O'Brien explained, 'We will work with stores, new and old, so they NEWHAVEN can be closer to the local people. We want openings to be an exciting event for local people, not just another day's shopping.' Opening date: 15 November 1994

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Store manager: Andrew Major In the office - the nerve centre for Project manager: Keith Butler operations on Staff: 300 (270 new staff) opening morning: Cathy Andrew Shewed, Sales area: 24,389 sq ft Cutbush chief display gets into assistant, and Jenny Car park: 367 spaces Vane, senior clerk.

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Branch operations' Sharon were extremely sore. We started Jenkins and Biggleswade climbing Scafell Pike at 5.00pm manager Mike Zwager climbed but it got dark really quickly the combined height of over two because of the low cloud and we These boots were made for walking! miles when they scaled the were pelted with hailstones. tallest mountains in England, 'Snowdon was a tough climb Swansea's security officer Scotland and Wales as part of too. It was pouring with rain all Graham Ivett (left) gives Paul a at the end of the journey. After the annual Three Peaks Walk. the time so the mountain tracks leg up on his return journey. arriving in Swansea on Saturday, Explains Sharon, 'We had to became small rivers. We didn't he returned to Norwich on be up at Sam to start climbing even see any trains on the railway Sunday (by car) and was back at Scotland's Ben Nevis by side when we came down, the work, where he was given a torchlight. It took three hours to weather was so bad. rousing welcome from his get up in thick mist and drizzle 'As soon as we came down colleagues, on Monday morning. and only two hours to get down. from one mountain we were At the final count, Paul had We were then on our way to the travelling again. By the end of it, raised £3,286 for this year's Lake District. Our legs were after 32 hours on the move, I was corporate charity. His advice for aching after just this one knackered. But it was great fun people who want to 'do mountain - what would they be and I think I would do it again.' Sharon warms herself around a something' - 'Just do it!' like after we had climbed all Mike and Sharon's blisters well-earned cuppa near the Jean, Pam, Rose and Carol (I to r) three? were not in vain - they raised £450 summit of Snowdon. have 103 years' service between 'As it turned out, our legs for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. them. Beeston's best Four staff at Derby JS in the Eagle After losing a family member and completing the walk. Centre so impressed the local a close friend to cancer, DIY Although quick to say he Derby Evening Telegraph with warehouse manager at Norwich wouldn't try such a walk again this their amazing milestone of 103 Homebase Paul Self decided to year, he adds that he will be ready years' service between them that 'do something'. to accept a challenge next year. the paper came to visit last Hoping to raise £2,000 for 'When I finished the walk, I month. LIFELINES Leukaemia Research, Paul spent thought there was no way I'd walk Parn Bowman, sisters Carol 28 days walking the 333 miles again,' he said. 'Next time I won't Orme and Jean Steven, and Rose between Norwich (the most camp, but rather stay in bed and WHEEL OF FORTUNE Lambert all worked at the original Eastern Homebase store) and breakfasts.' self service store in the Many of us have heard of Rotary really popular like Kissimee in Swansea (the most Western Although he walked alone for Cornmarket, with its marble Clubs but few know what they are Florida but you get a warm welcome store). most of the way, Paul was joined counters and hand-made tiles and as a Rotarian wherever you go.' Paul set off from Norwich on by his girlfriend Celia during the all about. District security manager infamous manager Mr Gorham. Fred first became involved with September 18 with only his last week and a half. She gave him in the Northern area Fred Carlisle 'He used to creep up behind you Rotary as officer in charge of C1D in backpack and tent. He endured the moral support he needed recently became president of his and make your legs go like jelly Merseyside. His close contact with leg, chest and back pains, during the final slog. local St Helens Club and here he with an on-the-spot check' recalls the less fortunate members of the blisters and a tummy bug before But there was no rest for Paul describes their work. Pam from her 34 years of service. local community meant he became Adds Rose, 'We loved Mondays. instrumental in the Club's activities. Giving it t The shop was closed so we spent he name Rotary refers to His adopted charity is the Life all day cleaning. We could sing the system of meetings Education Centre. The project aims best shot while we worked and had a lot of established at the turn of to teach inner city children to say no job satisfaction when we stood the century by a young to drugs by touring local schools in a back and looked at our section Chicago lawyer. Paul large caravan packed with state-of- Fred (right) receives his badge of gleaming like a new pin.' Harris. In the original organisation the-art audiovisual equipment. office from the outgoing St Helen's the men would meet in turn at each Explains Fred. 'The programme Rotary Club chairman. RED DWARF WINNERS others" workplaces to improve their covers illegal and legal drugs and presents for shoppers for a donation business contacts. Those workplaces aims to show children how easy it is or taking pictures of kids with father 'Go ahead punk, make and clubs today span 150 countries to disturb the delicate equilibrium of Christmas.' my day,' say (I to r): and now exist, as Fred puts it, "For the human body. When I was in the Every week, Fred's Club receives Warrington's Marcia guys who have done well in life to CID 1 saw guys on mortuary slabs many letters asking for help and the Jackson, Chester's Joy put a bit back into the community and watched parents trying to come Club Committee decides how to Done and district and be part of a club with a good to terms with their kid's death distribute the money. Does it buy a quality co-ordinator social structure.' through drugs. I hope our funding of wheelchair for a local girl or does it Jane Kenyon. Fred has found out for himself this programme can prevent parents send a young person on Operation Rhyl's sharp shooters traded their the competition, rather adding to Beeston's staff restaurant has bolognese is good for them. We how Rotary spans the globe when he wondering why they failed their son Raleigh? 'We are the custodians for SABRE guns for the real thing and the country atmosphere. It was won Nottinghamshire's first jiggle around the menu according Congratulations to the visited Kenya on safari a few years or daughter. the local money so we try to keep swapped their JS blues for Barbour a great day out enjoyed by all. Healthy Living award. to the reductions we have on the smegheads who correc ago, 'I looked up the address of the 'Our committee chairman is a donations local. Rotary is also jackets to dominate the second Thanks to Mr Ware for providing According to restaurant day.' answered the question in the Mombasa Rotary Club and was surgeon so we all regularly visit involved in "schemes to promote annual district clay pigeon shoot. medals, trophies and lunch.' manager Melanie Allden, a lot The award recognised the October issue: Chris Barrie picked up hy one of their members at hospitals to talk to the patients. The international understanding" and is The artificial pigeons, rabbits Brian's store won the top of the hungry staff enjoy the efforts of Melanie and her crew plays Arnold Rimmer in the Red the airport. We shared a meal and a nurse tells us who needs cheering up attempting to eradicate polio by the and pheasants didn't stand a female team prize. But Rhyl healthy meals she cooks in ensuring at least one third of Dwarf series. Redhill's drink and swapped stories. It is and we just talk to them and listen, as year 2000.' chance when 60 staff from around snatched the male team prize without even knowing they are the menu fulfilled a set of strict Rosemary Wallace wins the amazing how much they have to do if they were our mother or father - Rotary's motto is 'service above the north west engaged in 'fierce and the store also took home the healthy! They like to try a lot healthy eating rules. They first prize of The Making of Red over there, it being a much poorer I'm happy to rabbit away with them! self. Says Fred. These words sit but friendly competition', as individual male and female of different things like curries passed rigorous hygiene tests Dwarf book, BlackfMars' country than ours. I probably would "During Christmas, we have our easily with someone employed by J Chester senior deputy Brian Thake honours, which went to Tony and pasta and don't realise and set over three quarters of Nicholas Hoffman takes the not have been able to attract such main fund-raising push and we do Sainsbury - a firm that certainly describes it. A torrential downpour Bentley and Allison Lang. something like spaghetti the seating area to non-smokers. paperback of the 'inside story' attention if I went to somewhere things like wrapping Christmas knows a thing or two about service.' even failed to put a dampener on of the series, and Mark Kenny of Savacentre head office wins 24 the Red Dwarf Quiz Book. 25 WORLD OF WHISKY SOUP CAN DO ANYTHING Just in time for those cold winter

nights is a treat to warm your SAINSBURY'S turnmy, while not making a hole in your pocket - Sainsbury's Cream of condensed soups. MUSHROOM Available in three popular SOUP / - Mat,, Dautl, ' , flavours - tomato, mushroom and chicken - the soups are good value for money at 39p. They come in a 295 gram tin but make up to twice that amount. The soups, ideal for using as a sauce, are a first for Sainsbury's and are the only own label condensed soups on the market. Both mushroom and tomato CLEARLY GOOD are suitable for vegetarians. All S three include a handy recipe AINSBURVS FOR YOU i suggestion on the label. Most of the flower beds and V MOST STORES trees outside have shed their H flowers and leaves but you can always rely on the Poinsettia to WHISKEY provide a burst of colour at this ACTIVE time of year. The Poinsettia is famous for its bright red flower-like leaves but also comes in a range of other colours, sizes and in baskets or planted arrangements. There are over 20 available arrangements including log troughs, Kalanchoes, red roses and ceramic pots. The malt whisky market is now two other new additions this Different stores will have growing each year and consumers Christmas season. Sainsbury's You do it every year: stuff good for you, the new range of beverage' there really is no other numerous different combinations are discovering the enormous Single Malt Irish Whiskey yourself on turkey and Christmas three flavours; Citrus Cooler, Ace drink like it that is clear, natural but customers will have to hurry. range available not just from the (£12.45) is a rare example of a pudding then feel desperate for Apple and Very Berry are made and low in calories. They are only available for the hundreds of traditional distilleries pot still whiskey from an indepen- something light and healthy to with only natural fruit flavours and The multipacks of four cans few weeks over Christmas. in Scotland (see pages 12-14 of dent Irish distillery. It has a drink. JS has just the thing - new do not contain added sugar or are now on sale at 95p, two litre Prices range from £1.45 for a this issue) but from around the smooth, rounded taste. The trio Free and Clear soft drinks. artificial flavours. Described by bottles at 79p . Flowering Mini Ceramic Pot world. And the single malts are to is completed by a vatted malt. Totally see-through and totally the buyer as a 'new age (which houses a Kalanchoe at whisky what cognac is to fine The deeper-coloured and richer- the time of going to press) up to wine. Royal Elgin (£21.95), a 21 tasting Sherry Cask Malt Whisky CREATE A a Poinsettia basket arrangement year old single malt from the (£11.69) is distilled in the NEW LOO at £14.95. Scottish Highlands, is the jewel in highlands and matured in the crown of the range and joins Spanish Oloroso sherry casks.

It's nearly New Year There's a new product for anyone Sticky Toffee Gateaux are on offer and time for a lacking a little lustre. Sainsbury STICKY at £1.39 and Sticky Toffee Pavlovas change. Where b5 Active range of shampoos, at £1.69 until January. better to start than in conditioners and 2-in-l products Have you ever wondered what the bathroom? FINGERS have been created for normal or Feeling harassed with the Christmas New York cheesecake tastes like? Recently launched permed/dry/darnaged hair types. season? Take some time out to Well now's your chance to find out. at Homebase is a All contain panthenol, a pro- indulge yourself and try one (or all!) Two delicious and mouthwatering new range of vitamin that helps hair retain of four delectable and delicious new cheesecake treats have been bathroom moisture, creating a healthy, desserts. introduced. accessories, ideal for shiny and manageable look. Daringly devious are the two Typically heavy and rich, the New turning the humble The variants are easily sticky toffee desserts - Sticky Toffee York deli-style Vanilla Cheesecake is 'smallest room' into a recognisable by their coded blue Gateau and Sticky Toffee Pavlova. encrusted in a light digestive biscuit showpiece. The range covers a range and fine bone china There is also a new wooden packaging: shampoo in light blue, The gateau comprises a light shell and topped with crumbly biscuit. number of collections and a wide Homebase Peony range. Both are range called Veneto which conditioner in dark blue and 2-in-l sponge filled and topped with cream Vanilla and Chocolate Cheesecake is spectrum of designs and available in either white or soft expands the existing wooden in powder blue. and covered in a sticky toffee sauce. baked with chocolate chips, topped finishes. cream. ranges. The b5 range is on Sticky Toffee Pavlova is a toffee with swirls of rich chocolate sauce Products include soap Metal bathroom accessories Prices range from £4.99 for introductory offer at £1.29 each meringue dessert filled with real dairy and baked in a cookie shell. Both dishes, towel rails and mirrors. include gold plated Windsor, a Peony china light pull, to until January 7. Thereafter they cream, topped off with toffee sauce are £3.95. They are available in either the chrome plated Henley or chrome £54.99 for the Windsor gold will sell at £1.49 each. and pecans. ceramic Homebase Elegance and gold plated Oxford. plated mirror.

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