A Message From Alex April 2022
When you think of your self-care routines at home, how much plastic is involved? From your toothbrush and toothpaste tube to the shampoo and conditioner bottles—almost everything we use has…
When you think of your self-care routines at home, how much plastic is involved? From your toothbrush and toothpaste tube to the shampoo and conditioner bottles—almost everything we use has…
Next month we celebrate my Grandmother’s 90th birthday! My Grandpa celebrated his 90th in October of last year. They owned the pharmacy from 1975 to 1991. My Grandmother Jean was…
I had a long-time customer stop by the store last week and drop off a relic from the past. It was a letter from the pharmacy in the 1950s, signed…
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and a great New Year’s. With COVID-19 issues affecting everyone’s plans once again, my family played it low-key…
Yesterday morning I decorated the outside of my home with Christmas lights. In the afternoon, my wife Jenna and our two children went to Swan’s Quality Christmas Trees, the pop-up…
When I’m talking with our staff and need someone to run back to our USPS station, I’ll often say “run back to the photo counter and grab…” which is met…
In September my childhood best friend Greg visited me at Oswald’s. He was in town from Boston with his husband to attend a family member’s wedding. We spent a lot…
Last year we updated our logo and ’mission statement’ to celebrate our 145th year in business and to visually communicate how diverse our offerings truly are. Sometimes we joke we…
Last week I got an email from my friend Beckie with screenshots from the App NextDoor. If you’re not familiar, NextDoor is a social media app you can download on…
According to a recent Washington Post article, “American workers have decided it’s time for a change — a decision at least partly brought on by a more than year-long pandemic…
To celebrate Father’s Day, I wanted to look back at some of the things my great-great-grandfather, Louis Oswald (the store’s second-generation owner and namesake), accomplished during his time as owner.…
I got a call out of the blue from NBC 5’s Investigative Reporter Chris Coffey on Thursday the 22nd of April. He asked if he could stop by Oswald’s in…