HALIFAX COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - The shelves inside Halifax Pharmacy are empty for the first time in over a century.

“It cuts into you to see a place like this go,” said Nathaniel Terry, Halifax County resident.

Nathaniel Terry has been using this pharmacy since the 60s.

The Halifax Pharmacy opened more than 130 years ago. It was the last independently owned pharmacy in the county.

Now that it’s closing, Terry isn’t sure where he’ll go next.

“I don’t really have anywhere to go except Walmart. I don’t have anywhere else to go,” added Terry.

It’s a problem many locals are facing now as, owner and pharmacist Stephen Anderson says, they serve over 10,000 people per year – one fourth of the county’s population.

But after years of rising expenses and losing money on prescriptions, Anderson

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