Farro Fresh chief executive Bryce Howard says the comapny was flooded with messages from customers asking it to buy the Mount Eden site.

Boutique grocery chain Farro Fresh is buying The Grocer's Market in Auckland's Mount Eden from its receiver.

﻿TGM Trading, The Grocer's Market's trading company was placed in liquidation in February after its director Aaron Drever​ failed to make contractual payments to the Nosh Group receiver.

TGM liquidator Damien Grant of Waterstone Insolvency said TGM owed $250,000 to 30 suppliers.

DAVID WHITE/STUFF The Grocer's Market in Auckland's Mount Eden will soon be the sixth Farro Fresh store.

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Farro chief executive Bryce Howard said Drever contacted him to buy the store in February before it was put in receivership and TGM in liquidation. Purchase discussions had been ongoing since then, he said.

The store closed last week and staff contracts were terminated.

CHRIS SKELTON/STUFF The Grocer's Market director Aaron Drever failed to make monthly payments to the Nosh group receiver.

Howard said he would like to hear from former workers.

The store would be renovated and re-opened in two months, he said.

Farro had been looking for a site in the suburb for about five years, he said.

It did not buy the former Nosh site when it was in receivership last year because it had just opened its fifth store in nearby Orakei, Howard said.

"It probably wasn't the right time."