No doubt this reflected Thatcher's background as a grocer's daughter who'd risen on her own talent and effort.
But you have to wonder how much of the premium sticks to the grocer's fingers.
She once spoke about the grocer's daughter "overcoming the odds and challenges of the status quo".
Margaret Thatcher hated deficits with all the power that a grocer's daughter might be expected to hate indebtedness.
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Mr Sharp is proud of the parallels between his own humble upbringing and those of Margaret Thatcher, the grocer's daughter.
"It was a fundamental part of her image - emphasising the value of hard work, her background as a grocer's daughter, " says Prof Toye.
The higher wholesale prices are likely to hit the grocer's meat cases in the weeks ahead, according to analysts, and many think demand will continue to cool.
Thatcher -- born in October 1925 in the small eastern England market town of Grantham -- came from a modest background, taking pride in being known as a grocer's daughter.
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"Those of us who grew up before Margaret Thatcher was even in Downing Street can sometimes fail to appreciate the thickness of the glass ceiling she broke through - from a grocer's shop in Grantham to the highest office in the land, " he said.
Mr Campbell concludes that it was more probably a lonely time, during which the grocer's daughter made a few contacts as president of the Conservative Association but may have read little and was traumatised by the snobby condescension she met from the progressive young things at Somerville College.
Making fun of stammering was once common, with Ronnie Barker's grocer Albert Arkwright in Open All Hours a classic example.
Almost the entire cast will travel to Salford Cathedral on Tuesday to celebrate the life of the star, who played the Street's grocer Alf Roberts for 37 years.
Aside from convenience stores and some niche sellers, the territory's supermarket business is controlled by two huge chains: Park'n Shop, the stores owned by Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa Group, and Wellcome, which belongs to Asia's biggest grocer, Jardine Matheson-controlled Dairy Farm.
In five years, Tesco.com has grown to become the world's biggest online grocer.
Adopting a different business model to most of its rivals, Tesco.com has grown in five years to become the world's biggest online grocer.
Safeway is the UK's fourth-biggest grocer, but it has been capturing an ever-increasing market share.
The collapse of online grocer Webvan, once Niman's biggest client, has hurt.
Nearby are handicraft shops, a handful of galleries and a petite tile-lined grocer who has survived the neighbourhood's many changes over the years.
Returning to London two years later, he experimented with his milk recipe and, having perfected it, sold it to a Soho grocer, whose successors sold it on to Cadbury's.
Individuals named were hairdresser Joseph Tyrrell, of Prescot Road in Liverpool, grocer Rafique Maroof Raja, of Thornton, Kirkcaldy, pipework specialist S Stewart, of Woolton in Liverpool, David Alan Jay, who trades in property maintenance in Cranham, Essex, and coach operator Brian Clifford Tattersall, of Bolton.
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