That rat chewed through the last bits of a dead junkie and needed an OxyContin fix bad.

The rat must have had a Chase card.

Maybe the rat was applying for a cashier position.

If he went in to pick up his bubonic plague medication, the pharmacist will have humiliated him by yelling out his name and prescription for all to hear, poor little rat.

:)

That's how they do it at DR!

I call for a DR boycott. Seriously they are evil

And the parks are just teeming with squirrels - rats with nice fur coats and better p.r.

Oh. Great. That's my Duane Reade.

Dear Duane Reade: you don't need 4 billion locations. You just need more than one cashier per store.

So, a rat enters Duane Reade and gets some shampoo. He goes to the counter to pay.

Cashier takes his money and says to him: "We usually don't get many rats buying shampoo".

"Yeah, and at these prices I'm not surprised"

Thank you very much and good night!

the rat would have a better personality than 99% of the people that work at DRs.

Two classic gothamist stories: stickers in soho and rats(mice) in a store.

I just saw a mouse on mercer and houston just minding his business, hiding a car, in broad day light ...even!

it's fine, they are just the cutest lil things!!!

All these rats in the city and the Port Authority can't figure out something better to do with the cats around JFK than to kill them. Idiots.

Rats need aspirin too.

...to get some Ice Breakers gum.

Why is this news?

If it happened within the past 24 hours, the rat is surely still on line.

and people are surprised by this? C'mon now. This is NYC.

Perhaps he confused it with the National Institute of Mental Health?

They should give it a job. I bet a rat could hold 2 items up to a scanner faster than the slow-motion robots DR normally employs.