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JS Journal Jul 1967 JS JOURNAL July/67 House magazine of J Sainsbury Ltd S<V~ v- f ,-• i /4~ In the Birthday Honours list for 1967, a Knighthood, for his services to the arts, was conferred on Mr. R. J. Sainsbury, Chairman of the firm. On behalf of the staff and our many other readers we would like to congratulate him on this recognition of his contribution to the nation's cultural life. 2 This long perspective of racking stretches for over a hundred yards BUIMTIIMGFORD across the non-perishables warehouse of our new depot. Goods are received at the far end New Depot Gets Going and put away. Orders are then made up, and despatched from the loading bay at the near end. The architects and engineers who columns have steel crossheads alternate high and low level designed the new depot produced (centre of picture) to support roof slabs. The beams, acting as a structure, unique in Great these 80 foot beams. Our windows, give great spaciousness Britain in being built almost entirely photograph shows what will and light to that area, which of precast concrete units, to give become a production area on the occupies the other half of the us the greatest possible clear first floor in the perishables depot's 500,000 square feet. floor space. This openness of section. The roof here lies flush design was made possible by with the top of the beams. using vertical concrete columns to In the non-perishables warehouse carry Vierendeel beams which, the beams are glazed and the in turn, carry the roof. The roof is of the monitor type with Under the great, internal spans of the 40°F. Coldest area will be for project were Kenchington, roof, temperature controlled units quick frozen foods which are Little and Partners and the are being built in the perishables stored at —5°F. The cold stores architects, Scott, Brownrigg and warehouse which comes into have room for over 2,000,000 Turner. Donald Rudd and operation in the autumn. The metal cubic feet of goods. It's a lot - it Partners were consulting engineers grids of partition walls will be would fill 360,000 domestic for all services other than filled by plastic panels sealed into refrigerators. These stores and refrigeration and cold stores. position. High above are cooling their refrigeration plant were The general contractors were units hanging below a false designed by JS Engineering John Laing Construction Ltd. ceiling. This warehouse as a Division. The consulting Building began in April 1965. whole is kept at a wintry 35°F to engineers for the Buntingford Cost of the depot was £4,000,000. Tunnel below, runs underground staff restaurant and laboratory. In the main block is a recreation carrying services from the boiler There is also a battery charging hall for table tennis, badminton house in the motor engineers' room and a repair and and darts. About 2000 staff block to the main block. Heavily maintenance workshop for the will be needed to run this depot insulated hot-water pipes, right mechanical handling equipment. at capacity and it will be able to of picture, have enormous loops The buildings altogether cover deal with 75 vehicles at a time - to take up expansion and about eight and a half acres of 'ours and theirs' both coming contraction as temperature the site. Roadways and parking and going. varies. Besides the two areas take up another twelve warehouses the main block has an acres. A football field and cricket administration area with offices. ground is being laid out. Upper picture. Looking across however, are delivered to and It also houses the boiler house the motor engineers' block despatched from the opposite and the incinerator. towards the north front of the side of the depot. The handling depot. This is the bay where flow for them is on a 'IT plan to Below. Early in the morning of lorries coming in with prevent refrigeration losses Saturday May 20 Sainsbury, non-perishables unload. Goods which a direct air flow through lorries heading south into the go through the depot in a the building would cause. The North London area with the first straight line flow. The loading motor engineers' block houses a deliveries of non-perishables area for supplies going out to the motor vehicle workshop, a from the new depot. branches is exactly opposite vehicle washing plant and an (see page four). Perishable goods. air-conditioned paint shop. X Wealdstone self-service at after trading on the previous Wealdstone 16/20 High Street which opened Saturday, the two in the High on April 11th. JS started trading Street and a third a mile away in in this street exactly sixty years Pinner Road, North Harrow. ago at No. 30, opening a second The new branch has 11 check­ shop known as 'Belmont' in 1937. outs and a shopping area of Three service shops were closed 6,700 square feet. Picture below shows the interior of the new shop. Centre left is the manager Mr. Pescod who joined JS in 1938, and became manager of Pinner in 1950. He then went to Marble Arch and left there two years ago to become a spare manager in self-service training. Next to him is assistant manager Mr. Tomb, on the far right, First Clerk, Miss Tull. Below left is Mr. R. Curtis deputy manager, centre assistant manager Mr. Bundy and on the right Mr. Kitchingham, head butcher. The following article, which appeared in a recent issue of the magazine 'Management Today', created a great deal of interest both inside and outside the firm. It is probably the only occasion that an article of such length and detail about JS has been published. While the Directors do not necessarily subscribe to, or agree with, all the views of the author they feel the article is of such interest as to warrant reprinting in the Journal — which we do with grateful acknowledgments to the magazine. Our trouble is that we have an old and a new figure per square foot of shop space that is the shop system, and an old and a new warehouse envy of most, if not all, other food retailers. system', says an executive of J. Sainsbury, the In the past Sainsbury has underestimated the grocers. Earlier this year, when Lord Sainsbury growth in demand for its wares, has underbuilt retired from the chair of the century-old family its new stores and has also left perilously late concern, he left it about half-way through a the modernisation of its all-important long-haul conversion from a string of 250 distribution system. But more recently the pace old-fashioned service shops into a chain of of renewal seems to have caught up with the roughly the same number of self-service pace of increase in business, and the changed stores. This operation, entailing a massive face of J. Sainsbury in ten years' time (a face increase in turnover as well as an almost total whose future outlines are already clear) raises physical rebuilding of the company, is being some interesting possibilities for the following carried out at a pace, and in a manner, phase of the company's history. designed to preserve both the tight control of After steeling itself for decades, again for the Sainsbury family on the firm, and also the reasons of strict managerial control, to tight control of the firm's headquarters, operating within a radius of 120 miles from Stamford Street, London, on all aspects and London, J. Sainsbury will by then find that the areas of the business. 120-mile radius from its new, decentralised Such tightness of managerial control would depots is widening its potential area of have been impossible to maintain without the operation. This will still not answer the (for Sainsbury) fortuitous invention of the perennial question put to the Sainsburys: computer. This has been made to serve 'When are you moving into the North ?' managerial ends at J. Sainsbury in a way that But, as another executive says, 'once you begin is unfortunately all too rare in British industry. to decentralise distribution, there is no Opposite page. But with the help of computers - it will soon necessary place to stop'. The produce have four - the company has managed so far Where J. Sainsbury does stop, if it stops, will department at to preserve, through all the inevitable stresses ultimately be decided by the members of the Solihull branch, of reorganisation, a margin of profit and a sales prolific and remarkably tight-knit Sainsbury opened 1966. 11 family. For four generations now the family has is today a punishing experience for peak hour Fork lift truck shown an ability both to produce first-rate shoppers. It has gaps in the lines of goods in operation at managers and to axe those kin who showed through lack of selling space, and the Basingstoke no aptitude for the business. As a result, the check-out queues stretch half-way back into Depot. Sainsburys have become, along with perhaps the shop. Hence the old and, in the the Pilkingtons and the Cadburys, one of the managerial sense, not entirely complimentary most famous dynasties in British industry, with joke about 'Nobody shops at Sainsbury elder son often succeeding elder son as because of the queues'. chairman. But the inevitable inter-firm More recently J. Sainsbury has been opening comparison is between Sainsbury and new self-service stores at a rate of about Marks and Spencer. 10 to 12 a year (11 in 1966). This is slow This comparison is not an accident - compared to some of Sainsbury's competitors Lord Marks, the late chairman of M & S, and - Tesco, for instance, opened over 40 new Lord Sainsbury were admirers of each other.
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