We welcome 12,000 ne^PHdei k^MiL *j 11 Texas Homecare APRIL 1995 i *;i'Wv'-^<^jf^C^-J*"i ~~''SiM J SAINSBURY Savacentre IMMIIEIiASIE "SA/^S3/4'^/3 jgBASl! FRONTLINE m Getting to know you seen us before - our new Enter our JSTV competition on colleagues at Texas Homecare. page 18 and you could win a trip We want you all to feel at to Cadbury's Chocolate World. home in the Group and with the Also seeking your views in ^ Journal. This is your magazine too this issue is the Sainsbury's and we hope you will send us your Staff Association. As we near the news and views for inclusion. For end of the 20th century and CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: NOTTINGHAM HOM f% DAVE ROSS. LORRAINE WALKER AND GUY ROONEY the latest report on Homebase become a diverse and MEET THEIR TEXAS COUNTERPARTS RON BRAINBRIDGE, MARIA DEBELL AND DIANE GLOVER. You know what it's like when you and Texas, turn to pages 12/13. international Group, your social meet someone new. You're out JSTV is the latest medium for needs are changing. How do you to impress in a big way. Well, Group communications. In its want the SSA of the future to CONTENTS we're out to impress no less than early days, it is looking for look? Turn to page 25 for a 12,000 people who have never feedback from you the viewer. chance to have your say. H HEADLINES HOMEBASE OPENINGS PRESTON HAMPTON Carnival re-launch for Calcot WRITELINES 8/9 & 27 After re-launching Calcot GREEN SCENE store, JS joint managing - DRAIN BRAINS director and Savacentre chairman David Quarmby NEW SUPPLY LOGISTICS 11 >v«iceiif|.Q dances with Dino the TEXAS HOMECARE JOINS dino. Left is store director THE GROUP 12/13 Alex Camara and far left JANE ASHER is Sydenham store INTERVIEW 14/15 director Jon Hartland. MORE 125 PARTY proved highly successful SNAPS 16/17 at London Colney which COMPETITIONS, was re-launched last INCLUDING JSTV 18/19 summer. CHECK THIS OUT 20-22 David Quarmby was NEW LINES 23 joined in a ribbon-cutting ceremony by James SSA OFFERS 24 Sharman and Martyn SSA PRIZE Garroway, both of whom QUESTIONNAIRE 25/26 were members of a group PEOPLE 27 of schoolchildren who K originally opened the ARCHIVES 28 store back in September V 1981. Fred Flintstone and his pet dinosaur Dino got in on the act for photo­ Sainsbury's joint man­ March 31. added, such as a fresh graphers. The ceremony MANAGING EDITOR BRIDGET WILLIAMS aging director was in Calcot's interior has meat service counter, and was followed by the DEPUTY EDITOR heel-kicking celebratory been radically re­ a 'vidiwair at the store release of 1,000 balloons ANDY SZEBENI mood at the re-launch of designed and new entrance. Savacentre's from the front of the EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Calcot Savacentre on products and services new style has already store. ABBIE BOULTON Golden opportunity EDITORIAL SERVICES BY family and friends who RED EDIT \ /" have given their time and experience to the PRINTING community in such GREENSHIRES PRINT LTD Help the Aged areas as sport and the arts. Nominations must Help the Aged are be in to Help the Aged i launching a nationwide by July 7 and more JS JOURNAL search for people of 65 or details on the cate­ J SAINSBURY PLC over with outstanding gories, and nomination STAMFORD HOUSE STAMFORD STREET talents or achievements. forms are available on LONDON SEl 9LL They want to turn the their number, 0171 TEL: 0171-921 7033 spotlight on employees. 253 2926. OASIS t.D.: 'JS. JOURNAL' JS JOURNAL Last days of Celebrity recipes - in person Imperial Buyers have been treated to the true taste of Caribbean cuisine by TV personality Rustie Lee. The home economics department has begun a series of cooking demon­ strations and lunches hosted by cookery experts to give buyers the chance to see and taste the versatility of their Spot the difference: porl( products. ctiops labelled in new leg The workshops are and old lbs. held every four weeks and This month sees the demonstrations have so far beginning of the end for been carried out by the lbs and ozs in likes of Sophie Grigson Sainsbury's. and Gary Rhodes. New laws require all pre­ The next workshop packed goods to be sold in will be held on oriental metric units - litres or flavours and will be hosted kilograms - after October by Delia Smith. 1, and weighing and labelling machines are Rustie Lee's special ingredient now being changed. is a generous portion of fun. A staff training programme began this month and customers will Birthday boost for Calais learn of the switch via in- store advertising and a off-licence new leaflet: 'Moving to Metric - a guide to As the J Sainsbury Bieres, Vins et Spiriteux shop in shopping and cooking in Calais celebrates its first birthday this month it metric' couldn't have hoped for a better present. Produce and pick-and- The store has been voted Mike Conolly, 'The store's mix do not need to change Best Cross-Channel performance has been until 2000. Supermarket of the Year. particularly good since the Explains Keith Tom Stevenson's Cross autumn. We are now Bashford of the legal Channel 1995 Drinks looking at introducing a department, 'Our fixed Guide chose the shop on limited range of JS drinks weight products are the basis of the wide range into certain other already labelled in metric of wines available from Mammouth stores and and now metric units will around the world (most working increasingly predominate on catch- French off-licences sell closely with their owners weight items. This move mostly French wine - the Docks de France on future is being made to JS shop stocks wines from projects.' standardise our measure­ 20 countries). ments with Europe and I The shop now sells • Tesco has just opened am sure our customers will nearly four times as much its first off-licence store in have no trouble getting as the average JS BWS Calais in a shopping used to it.' department. Comments centre at the entrance to director of off-licence the Channel Tunnel. New discount on the cards New discount cards with Director, corporate person­ They will not be acc­ a maximum annual disc­ nel, Judith Evans, told the epted at petrol stations, ount level of ten per cent Journal that the cards will kiosks and national off £5,200 will be issued allow full- and part-time lottery terminals, nor in to all staff in October to staff discount at all JS, coffee shops and conces­ replace the current Homebase and Savacentre sions or for the purchase discount vouchers. stores. of gift vouchers. APRIL 1995 All the world's a stage L to r at the opening: Simon Hughes, IMP for Southwark and Bermondsey; Kate Hoey, MP for Vauxhall, and Environment Secretary John Gummer. The Oxford Stage Company get fruity More houses for at Bury St Edmunds head office area store with their Commedia deU'Arte The Broadwall Housing masks Development - part of the jiV. V South Bank redevelop­ With theatre companies The Oxford Stage ment scheme - opened sponsored as part of the Company visited Bury St Crystal Palace clean up officially on February 28. 'Sainsbury's Arts for All' Edmunds store where It was handed over to scheme improving the personnel clerk is Danielle Palm Housing Co-op in communication skills of Munday: 'We played September last year. staff, everyone gets to several games in the ware­ Ian Coull, JS develop­ perform better. The house as part of the staff ment director and scheme, launched last workshop - it certainly chairman of the South November, aims to deve­ kept us warm!' Adds cook Bank Employers Group lop new audiences for the Karen Miller, 'It was good (SBEG) represented performing arts. That to do something unexpec­ Sainsbury's at the open­ includes encouraging staff ted at work with people we ing. The company is an as well as customers to would not normally work active member of the take an interest. with.' SBEG, a group dedicated to the transformation of £250,000 at the end of the road the South Bank environ­ ment. The company has also been actively involved with the Corporation of London, the Southwark Council, IPC Magazines and Nicholson's Brewery in the establishment of a pedestrian underpass beneath Blackfriars Bridge. The underpass Last month saw the end of £250,000 cheque by will create a continuous the 125 Cookery Road­ chairman David Sainsbury Crystal Palace deputy large retail premises in the riverside walk running shows, hosted by Delia to Sian Lloyd who accept­ store manager Paul London Borough of from Westminster to Smith and chef John ed it on behalf of NCH - Baterip (centre) and fresh Croydon. The store is Tower Bridge, and on to Tovey, with a finale show Action for Children. foods deputy David Lilly enjoying a winning streak St Saviour's Dock. The at the Queen's Theatre in The money was raised accept a silver salver from this month: they were also walkway will open in London's West End. from the 125 prize draw: Mayor of Croydon Wally joint winners in last June, coinciding with the The show ended with for every entry received, Garrett after their store month's deli counter opening of the Oxo Tower the presentation of a Sainsbury's donated 5p. was named most hygienic competition (see page 18). Wharf. JSJOURNAL -4 LIFE - don't keep it to Star lights yourself The British Astronomical Association presented a Good Lighting Award to Marsh Mills store manager A new scheme, launched Mike Booth on March 16.