‘Try it before you buy it’ at Oswald’s Medical Supplies

Well, you're in the medical supply business, so what does that mean?

So, like I just mentioned, crutches, wheelchairs.

We've always kind of rented those items since I can remember as a kid.

My grandfather, great-grandfather, we always had those laying around the pharmacy.

Um, but in the past 10, 15 years, working with my father and now, uh, myself running the store, we saw a need for that for people looking for medical equipment that m- maybe they couldn't get through insurance, or really you didn't know where else to find it.

And of course, you can get a lot of this stuff online, but that's where we kind of found our niche is you can come into our store.

We've slowly grown our showroom over the years from just a couple four-foot sections to now we've got 5,000 square feet.

We expanded 10 years ago to open up a whole showroom where people can come in, check the stuff out-

Yeah

... try it, make sure it fits.

Well, we know a little bit about that in my family and pretty much everybody's family, and sometimes the need for the devices or objects, I guess, that you sell happen rather suddenly.

Like Mom-

Mm-hmm

... took a fall.

Now we need a wheelchair.

I don't know anything about wheelchairs.

Yeah, yeah.

Uh, so it'd be nice to have a, a store that you could go to and see what they got.

[laughs] Yeah.

And that's, that's what you guys do.

Yeah.

It's, it's an acute need often, and it's not something you're gonna wait for to be shipped to you, and you also wanna talk to someone who knows, who's experienced with it, you know? And we've got great relationships with manufacturers that are well-established, and, you know, we'll- we pretty much have what you need.

And if we don't have it, we'll be able to find it for you.

And there's a zillion different kinds of wheelchairs out there, too.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, you're in the medical supply business, so what does that mean?

So, like I just mentioned, crutches, wheelchairs.

We've always kind of rented those items since I can remember as a kid.

My grandfather, great-grandfather, we always had those laying around the pharmacy.

Um, but in the past 10, 15 years, working with my father and now, uh, myself running the store, we saw a need for that for people looking for medical equipment that m- maybe they couldn't get through insurance, or really you didn't know where else to find it.

And of course, you can get a lot of this stuff online, but that's where we kind of found our niche is you can come into our store.

We've slowly grown our showroom over the years from just a couple four-foot sections to now we've got 5,000 square feet.

We expanded 10 years ago to open up a whole showroom where people can come in, check the stuff out-

Yeah

... try it, make sure it fits.

Well, we know a little bit about that in my family and pretty much everybody's family, and sometimes the need for the devices or objects, I guess, that you sell happen rather suddenly.

Like Mom-

Mm-hmm

... took a fall.

Now we need a wheelchair.

I don't know anything about wheelchairs.

Yeah, yeah.

Uh, so it'd be nice to have a, a store that you could go to and see what they got.

[laughs] Yeah.

And that's, that's what you guys do.

Yeah.

It's, it's an acute need often, and it's not something you're gonna wait for to be shipped to you, and you also wanna talk to someone who knows, who's experienced with it, you know? And we've got great relationships with manufacturers that are well-established, and, you know, we'll- we pretty much have what you need.

And if we don't have it, we'll be able to find it for you.

And there's a zillion different kinds of wheelchairs out there, too.

Yeah, yeah.