AKRON, Ohio -- On the heels of grocery chain Earth Fare’s announcement earlier this month that it was closing all of its stores, Akron-based Mustard Seed Market said Thursday it has agreed to buy nearly 200 products from the Earth Fare private label brand.

Mustard Seed, which has locations in Akron’s Highland Square neighborhood and in the Montrose-Ghent area, will carry Earth Fare’s food products and household supplies “for a limited time.” A company spokesman did not indicate how long the products will be available.

Earth Fare, an Asheville, North Carolina-based company founded in 1975, operated more than two dozen stores across the country, including three in Northeast Ohio: on West Market Street in the Montrose-Ghent area, on Everhard Road NW in North Canton and at the Westgate Shopping Center in Fairview Park.

“Offering Earth Fare private label products is a unique opportunity for Mustard Seed, and we are happy to pass along significant savings to our customers on products that meet our Golden Standards,” said Mustard Seed Market and Cafe CEO Gabe Nabors. The organic grocery chain, founded in 1981, considers its “golden standards” to include selling products free of high fructose corn syrup, free of artificial flavors and coloring, free from harmful chemicals and preservatives, free of saccharin and aspartame, meats free of hormones or routine antibiotics and cruelty-free cosmetics.

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