Becky Craze, the shop floor assistant who was offered the opportunity to change the way Sainsbury's sells, talks about her highs and lows on I'm Running Sainsbury's
I’m trying in-store, to move up in the actual company, because I just think, well, after the experience I just had, you know, even though it didn’t have the impact I wanted, it’s shown me I have got good ideas. There’s definitely development areas, like is shown on the show, and I have to work on that. And I’m only 22, I’m quite young, but it is a case of every little thing I can get out of it, I will try and get out of it - I won't be like 'Oh it's for the money', cause it's not about that - it’s like the company I've worked for for 7 years. It’s about taking opportunities where I can get them.
But I would like to go back to college probably, do counselling, because I do feel I’m quite good at talking to people [laughs] and I'm quite good at listening…
At the moment I'm moving up in Sainsbury's and taking the opportunities, because there are opportunities now in store for me, and it’s a company that I’m quite familiar with and I'm comfortable with.
Have you cooked the cobbler since the show?
D’you know what - I’ve cooked it so many times! I'm not fed up with it, but you know, there's only so many times you can. I think it's an acquired taste, like Marmite - you either love it or you don't. I quite like it but I can't just cook it for myself and eat it on my own because it’s quite a hefty meal to make. I did cook it once and gave it to my family and they were like 'Oh god, not again'!
As soon as it finished and as soon as I first saw it I was like ‘Oh god!’, but now I’ve watched it again I don’t think I’d look back and change it. The whole thing of me getting miserable and crying; it's who I am - I can’t go back and say, 'I wouldn’t cry on camera'. Everything that happened in the week happened for a reason, and it was out of my control, I couldn't have pushed it any harder – if people don't want it, they don’t want it. This is the wrong time to, you know, offer the customer that convenience just yet…
[Laughs] I actually said when I was in Holborn [Sainsbury’s head office], 'Er, is Jamie around?!'. No, I just thought about it like, going to work every day as I do… I mean I had no idea what I was doing. If I hadn’t been in Holborn I would never of… every day I was like, ‘What am I doing? What am I doing?’ and everyone in Holborn was like, ‘OK, we’ll help you’. I literally had no idea how I was going to implement it and everyone in Holborn helped me, so I would never have had the guts to go, ‘So, Jamie, come talk to me about this!’.
Well, because it was a brand new product. Even I said it would be OK to go back to one, because I had one in mind to do, but I thought if it’s a whole new product, it might as well be a whole new recipe. They gave me the opportunity to make new recipes and I thought I might as well take it - I can come up with these ideas, they can help and we can put something new out. I thought it would be better than just going back in time and picking an old recipe from, like, four years ago.
Well, I made four initially - and obviously the beef one didn’t go through because the suppliers weren’t ready for it - but the whole reason the sausage one was picked was because everyone in Holborn thought it was the best one, so I went with what they said. I thought it was the best one out of all of them, personally, and it is an acquired taste but the amount that was in there is not overpowering, it was mostly just sausage and vegetables - and the apple was like a little extra bit, and the cobbler was something different to entice customers to try something new, where if I had gone back and said, 'I don’t think we should use apple in it' I think it would've been a bit boring. And when you taste it, it does taste pretty awesome - and that's not just because it’s mine!
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