(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – A sign with the company’s logo stands outside a Rite Aid store in Salem, N.H., on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Philadelphia, PA) Sixty-eight Rite-Aid stores located in Pennsylvania and six other states are closing after a filing that took place in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey on Friday. Forty-four of those stores are in Pennsylvania. The drug store chain started proceedings for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on May 5th. Forty-seven Rite-Aid stores located in Pennsylvania and eight other states will also close, including the one at the Pittsburgh International Airport.