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    This demonstrates our commitment to our pension schemes by ensuring appropriate funding levels... The increase in members' contributions, together with the changes to future benefits, will achieve a more appropriate and balanced sharing of cost and risk.

    These stores give us over 175,000 sq ft of new space, and have an average size of around 20,000 sq ft. They will provide an opportunity to strengthen our market position in town centre locations and deliver future growth. We look forward to welcoming 100,000 new customers and 1,220 new colleagues to Sainsbury's.

    Our head is firmly above the trench. We're talking to landlords, we're talking to local councils.

    He knows what everybody does, all 11 positions on the field. He has great leadership skills, he never gets rattled. I wouldn't want another quarterback on the team. Nobody. I'd rather have Mike.

    It feels good, I guess, to live up to expectations, ... But the season's nowhere near over, and we're trying to get better.


    While the customer experience is much improved we still need to work on achieving consistency across all of our stores, and at an acceptable cost.

    I didn't see any discussion at all about school achievement, ... I don't think it's sound educationally, and I think she took the easy way out.

    I'm wearing number one next year. There's no battle. I wore it longer than Derrick did in high school.

    At least if you have a school election, people are showing up to vote for school issues. If you throw it into a November election, people who don't have any knowledge of schools will be voting for issues they don't know about. I don't think that's good.

    We are very pleased with our performance which represents our fourth consecutive quarter of like-for-like sales growth and therefore is an important further step in the recovery of our business.

    As the bank continues to grow we believe it is now the right time to look for new leadership.

    We showed that we could control the clock.

    Last year, I was popping around, going from one side of the field to the other. It's a little easier to just concentrate on one thing. ... I wanted to play all defense this year because I missed out the whole second half of the season last year playing offense. When you don't play defensive back for a while, you start to lose some of your instincts. Well, not instincts, but you start to second-guess yourself. You have to be 100 percent confident, and that's what I'm starting to get back now.

    That's the biggest rise in quite a while, probably the biggest since 2001. It's a very strong figure in the context of quite a weak market.

    Today's announcement marks a change in how we will serve our customers and the start of a company-wide training programme equipping every colleague to improve the customer experience in store.

    Donnie is so smooth and laid-back, and at the same time he plays extremely hard. He gives that vibe to everyone else ... Nobody can get too rattled with him back there.

    We've both got a nose for the ball. We're both fast.

    Tim has been with the bank for more than four years, and has led us through a period of enormous change.

    There were a lot of people saying a lot of bad things when I came in, like 'Why are you going there' and 'I feel sorry for you, Joe doesn't know how to coach,' but I did my research. I think the group of freshmen that came in, we were mature enough that we wouldn't be looked upon as freshmen.

    This is an important stage in our recovery, and we are pleased that our progress is also confirmed by good market share growth over the same period of time.

    Either people have gotten too busy or too lazy. For most elections, people are not paying attention. We have a great right to vote, and people have lost sight of how important it is. I think, in general, that's true.

    We were clear last year that we needed to fix the basics of our offer for customers and we have made good steps forward.

    Speed kills. That's something they've been missing here on the perimeter the past couple of years.

    It's frustrating. It's almost impossible for me to break on the ball because he throws it so hard.


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