It could just be that the Medicine Shoppe is a franchised but locally owned
business. Its manager wants your business badly.  Whereas Eckerds is a big
chain outfit that has all the business it can handle and the dispensing
Pharmacist doesn't make anything extra from filling one more expensive
prescription.

Don't you wish you could shop around among doctors and hospitals and get
similar discounts?  If pharmacy were run like most of them every pharmacy in
town would want $407 to fill your prescription.

When I worked in my dad's pharmacy I saw him sometimes sell a prescription
at our actual cost to get a customer's business.  You make nothing on the
first prescription but you then have a regular happy customer.  Could be
your case with Medicine Shoppe?