I would like to take issue with you on this. If the pharmacist is giving out this information, it is most likely due to the manufacturer's insistance or Wal-Mart directive. I know of a Wal-Mart Pharmacy where the Pharmacist was not only VERY supportive of the low-carb WOE, but he had also tried Atkins himself. And I believe that it's Wal-Mart as a corporation - not the Pharmacist - that decides what products to stock.

However, generalizing - and disparaging - Pharmacists as a group for what may not even be the individual pharmacist's choice is not fair.