Reunion being planned

Did you work in any of Sainsbury's Non Perishables buying departments from 1979 until the early 90s? If so, you might be interested to know that a few of the former inmates are in the early stages of planning a Grand Reunion for November 2009.

These were the days of Grocery 1 through to Grocery 4 and Non Foods 1 to 3. We've been digging around in our distant memories and have come up with names of quite a few of the Senior Managers of those days. Did you work for any of these? Or are you in fact one of these? ;o)

Gary Green
Jeff Eagelton
Charlie Pratt
Charlie Stevens
Mike Bates +
David Queen
Martin Sargeant
Martin Webb
John Ralston
John Ramsden
'Dag' Bumstead
Tom Vyner
Michael Rosen +
John Renshaw
- there must have been a couple of others that we've missed!

+ unfortunately, we know that Mike and Michael are no longer with us

Jill Hayes, née Carrick, and Maureen Dunn have started to build a list of names of people that they remember, and and whose contact details they still have. The hope is that as the news starts to spread we'll draw in more and more people from those days and we can send out an old-fashioned JS Contact Message :o)

So, if you're an ex-JS buyer from those halcyon Stamford Street days drop us a message through this blog and we'll go from there!

David Hatch on behalf of Jill and Maureen