''V'r. W^ ^ ' i^f. ^'flltaj^^pVp jp/^' '^^ k'SB^ jP" t *^^ •'€ DECEMBER ISSUE 1993 J- ^^^' —, :/*?• 1 n Savac Win a holiday in Hong Kong Photograpliic winners '^>i, M~'yf^'0^SgW'HMmM£^?^f^^^S^i^• O SAINSBURY Savacentre l-l#MIIEI3i\SIE ^JLT*^- •^•. ..;-... •,' ;..:,-."'^ •.4wSi^li^>^L-i-*^,.\..,^.,w:''f^i 'j^i^i^^' SA/3s:3/4-^/lO What a bumper issue is this Christmas Journal. Frontline has been squeezed into these few lines Julie lights up the small and there is only room to say: screen Christmas is coming Julie Walters is the star of Christmas the Journal's getting fat this Christmas's celebrity pud but do put your Hong Kong competition entry OVER STORY TV ad. 'We thought Julie not fancy in the editor's hat! would be a fun person to cooking it LONDON COLNEY'S SANTA BILL NORTHWOOD KEEPS THE CHILDREN BUSY WHILE see page 23. have presenting this in Easter. CUSTOMERS COMPLETE THEIR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. year's Christmas ad and Forty five minutes is all we wanted a woman after you need to cook this Last Ernie Wise and Robert Minute Christmas Pudding. CONTENTS Morley in the previous And for all those who were two years,' explains wondering whether she HEADLINES A very m^fy advertising manager fails to blow out the match Joanna Cruice. WRITELINES 6/7 & 35 on purpose: no, it was a Christmas to all Julie comes to the genuine out-take retrieved BRANCH OPENINGS: rescue of anyone who from the cutting room MARKET HARBOROUGH ers would like home-made floor. HAMPDEN PARK EASTBOURNE > AM HEMEL HEMPSTEAD HOMEBASE 8/9 CANLEY 10 Cranberry with your ostrich? REOPENING: Here's an alternative to the traditional Christmas LOCKSBOTTOM 10 turkey - roast ostrich. NEWS IN BRIEF 11 |i|?S-Js TONY SHIRET ON Sure, it has a few imagine how many weeks SAINSBURY'S SHARES 11 drawbacks, such as getting you would be feeding off A SUPERMARKET IS BORN - a six foot bird into the the leftovers - cold ostrich NORTH CHEAM FROM oven, and counting cook­ and mayonnaise sand­ START TO FINISH 12-14 ing time in days; and wiches for a month. SPECIAL FEATURE ON But the idea is not so SAVACENTRE 15-20 far-fetched. The meat is GREEN SCENE 21 considered quite a delicacy Successful choices in Belgium, Holland, PHOTOGRAPHIC |CHO|CE^ France and the US. There COMPETITION RESULTS 22/23 are already 30 farms in PUZZLES PAGE - WIN A Britain rearing ostrich, and HOLIDAY IN HONG K0NG24/25 interest has been building in the media over recent CHILDREN IN NEED 26 months. CHECK THIS OUT Don't rush down to JS just yet to check out the price per pound: we don't NEW LINES currently stock ostrich. As Tim Crawley, poultry LIFELINES buyer, explains,'We were contacted in September by Ann Widdecombe a South African ostrich ARCHIVES Just over a year after of the three pilot districts presents the plaque to former Employment Sec­ on the scheme. Ann farmer but I think people chairman David retary Gillian Shepherd Widdecombe also expl­ regard ostrich in the same EDITOR Sainsbury with (I to r) YVONNE BURKE launched Choices at ained how staff are more way as a pet - it is a bit Judith Passmore, Streatham Common store, likely to make the right emotive, and somewhat ASSISTANT EDITOR Maureen Wareham, career decisions if they expensive at £8 - £9 per Carol Slimm, Richard another Minister has EDITORIAL visited JS to mark the are better informed.'This pound.' ASSISTANT Willetts and Sheila KERRY COHEN Bingham, all from success of the career is why I am pleased to see Says Craig Culley from Merry Hill JS. guidance scheme. that Sainsbury's has the British Domesticated Ann Widdecombe, jointly developed the Ostrich Association, Parliamentary Under Choices programme with 'Ostrich meat is extremely PRINTING GREENSHIRES PRINT LTD Secretary of State for the Department of healthy - half the fat of Employment, presented Employment, as part of beef but with a similar Dudley's Merry Hill store the Investors in People taste, and extremely low in JS JOURNAL with a plaque comemm- initiative.' cholesterol.' We might yet J SAINSBURY PLC see this flightless bird take STAMFORD HOUSE orating the event on The Choices progr­ STAMFORD STREET November 9. She spoke to amme will be in all off, but only if prices crash LONDON SEl 9LL TEL: 071-921 66G0 staff at the store, one of the branches by May 1995. land first. OASIS I.D.: 'JS. JOURNAL' most successful branches MPs decide on Sunday In optimistic mood outside trading Parliament on the day MPs voted, (I to r) Carole On December 8, the House Sutherland, Talbot Heath checkout assistant; Steven of Commons debated the Dann, Coldham's Lane Sunday Trading bill to staff restaurant section reform the 1950 Shops manager, and Avril Poole, Act, and voted for the six Coldham's Lane kiosk hour option sponsored by assistant. the Shopping Hours Reform Council and supported by Sainsbury's. opportunity to lobby their Joint managing director staff up and down the MPs was heartwarming. In David Quarmby commen­ country who have worked one weekend at Wrexham, ted: 'Millions of customers hard and campaigned for 1,000 customers sat in the will be delighted with the this result - well done!' cold store entrance and outcome of the vote. Sainsbury's Group staff wrote letters to their MP People will be able to put a lot of hard work into defending Sunday trading! choose for themselves getting to this stage, and The six full time area whether or not they shop Sunday shopping camp­ coordinators have also done on Sundays. We will not aign manager Nick Green a :great job holding all the see a revolution in retailing also expressed his thanks: strands together. I would like to offer everyone in the or in the British Sunday - 'Since September, staff 'Without such support, Sainsbury's Group, as well as most of the shops that will have attended 83 MPs' MPs would never have open under the new law are "surgeries" and over 56 known how much people all veterans, my best wishes for a open already. As retailers stores have had desks in want to be able to shop on happy Christmas. I hope also that we are pleased that the new their lobbies for customers Sundays. I'm really grate­ law will be clear and easy to write to the local MP. ful to everyone.' you and your families enjoy good health to enforce. Over 143 MPs have visited The bill must still go and happiness in 1994. 'I would like to offer their local store. through a number of stages my congratulations to all 'The response from before it finally becomes David Sainsbury those management and staff and customers to the law next year. GOSH thanks Sainsbury's Staff offer pre-Christmas cheer JS staff swapped their \ 1 I / branches for the Sainsbury's stands at the BBC Good Food Cooking and Kitchen Show at Birmingham's NEC between November 25 and 28. constant tribute to the The 90,000 visitors to the Left to right on the JS generosity and hard work show were more than the wine stand are Patricia of JS staff. staff are used to on a usual Rhodes from Lincoln, Ruth A corporate donation weekend's trade but they Foster from Fosse Park, IMarion, Bill and Pauline outside the Great Ormond Street of £50,000 was also coped admirably with Simon Taylor from Hospital for Sick Children. Mosborough, Rebecca recognised in a new room pouring out wine samples Pinch from the wine in the Intensive Therapy and handing out recipe Sainsbury's has raised Wishing Well Appeal. department, Darren leaflets. On the wine over £65,000 for the Great Marion Lee, sales Unit, which will help save Rounce from Kimberley Ormond Street Hospital assistant at South Wood­ the lives of children who stand, visitors were able to and Faith Gauld, also from for Children (GOSH) in ford, and Pauline Lewars, have, or are particularly sample JS wines and they the wine department. the last three years and the district manager's secre­ vulnerable to, infectious could also buy food and generosity of staff was tary, accompanied Bill diseases. The new wing wine books on a nearby recognised by the hospital Allen from the SSA to see replaces three obsolete stand which JS shared with last month. part of the Variety Club hospital buildings and BBC Masterchef. JS Home alternated with Masterchef The new clinical wing wing dedicated to JS. A hosted its first operation at economists demonstrating finalists showing off their has just opened thanks to plaque behind the ward's the beginning of Novem­ celebrity TV ad recipes culinary prowess. charity donations to the staff base will be a ber. Geldof and Tinker sold on art market The tenth Contemporary The Journal snapped Bob sponsored the market which Art Society Market Geldof poring over works aims simultaneously to help attracted some famous ranging in price from only unknown artists sell their faces to see and buy works £100 up to £1,750. Dudley works and to attract people by well-known and Sutton, antiques expert who may never before have emerging artists alike. Tinker from BBC's Love- bought original art. In total, joy, was followed by a BBC they spent almost one Late Show film crew as he quarter of a million pounds. agonised over how to spend Explains arts sponsor­ the £500 they had given ship manager Alastair him. Creamer, 'The market had Between November 2 10,000 visitors over that and 7, members of the week: half of those on an public could shop for art at annual pilgrimage to find a the Smith's Galleries beside bargain.