Two retail stores
Our Owensboro flagship on Wildcat Way and MadCity Scrubs in Madisonville — full-service scrub stores for two Kentucky communities.
Our Story · Since 2009
It started with a needle, a thread, and a 1,200‑square‑foot storefront.
Seventeen years later, by God’s grace, that little shop has grown into two hometown stores, a production workshop, and a line of apparel worn far beyond Owensboro. We’re humbled by how far it’s come — and grateful to still be exactly who we’ve always been.
The Beginning
Before the store, there was Kandra.
When Kandra opened her doors in 2009, Owensboro already had its share of scrub stores. What she brought was a lifetime of craft — years spent in production embroidery, seamstress work, and the patient art of handcrafting a garment by hand. She put that gift to work, and trusted the Lord with the rest.
In August 2009, she opened a small 1,200‑square‑foot shop off Yale Place and served the people who needed it most: the nurses, techs, and caregivers of her own hometown. We don’t take credit for what grew from that first stitch — we’re simply grateful for it.
“We’ve been blessed far beyond what we set out to do — and we don’t forget it.”
Josh · on his mother, Kandra, founder
The Journey
Seventeen years, one thread.
From a single small storefront to a production workshop and two stores — not a straight line, and never something we did alone. Just one faithful step after another.
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2009
The first door opens
Kandra founds The Scrub Shoppe in a 1,200‑sq‑ft space off Yale Place in Owensboro — a craftswoman’s shop for her hometown’s caregivers.
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2013
Room to grow
Outgrowing the first space, the store moves to Towne Square North — 3,700 sq ft, and just the beginning.
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2018
The Uniform & Gift Market hits the road
We launch our mobile division — bringing on‑site uniform sales directly to hospitals and medical facilities, meeting caregivers where they work.
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2019
Two big moves
The Scrub Shoppe Nashville opens in an 8,000‑sq‑ft space, and late in the year the Owensboro flagship moves to its current home on Wildcat Way — a 12,000‑sq‑ft retail and production space, including a 2,000‑sq‑ft curated boutique.
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2022
Forty-two days we’ll never forget
Out of nowhere, one of our embroidered sweatshirts catches fire on TikTok. In 42 days more than 8,000 orders come in — enough to sell our manufacturer completely out of stock. We were as surprised as anyone, and thankful for every one of them.
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2024
Family first, hometown home
As Josh and his wife start their family, we bring the business home — consolidating back to Owensboro, where it began.
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2025
A second hometown
Josh acquires MadCity Scrubs in Madisonville from the Glover family — a 3,800‑sq‑ft store, and a second community to serve the way we’ve served our first.
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Today
Still the store Owensboro welcomed us to be
Seventeen years in: two stores, over 15,000 sq ft of retail space, a 3,000‑sq‑ft production workshop, a mobile market, a boutique, and a wholesale line. More than we ever asked for — and still the same family, grateful to serve.
2009Founded in Owensboro
15,000+Sq ft of retail space
3,000Sq ft production workshop
8,000+Sweatshirts in 42 days
What We Are Today
Where the years have taken us.
We never set out to build something big — only to make good things for the people who wear them, and to do honest work. By God’s grace, that one small shop has grown into all of this:
A 3,000 sq ft workshop
Industrial embroidery, screen printing, DTF, heat press, and laser finishing under one roof — we don’t order our decorated apparel, we make it.
The Uniform & Gift Market
Our mobile division, on the road since 2018, bringing uniform sales on-site to hospitals and medical facilities across the region.
A curated boutique
Roughly 2,000 sq ft of our retail floor given to curated gifts and finds — because the people who care for everyone deserve a little something too.
Wholesale & custom production
We supply other merchants with apparel produced exclusively for their brands, and our wholesale line, Wear As Directed, carries our work onto sales floors nationwide.
The same family, the same faith
Founded by Kandra, carried forward by Josh — still family-run, still stitching care into everything, and still giving thanks to God for every bit of it.
The Turning Point
The 42 days that opened a door we didn’t expect.
When 8,000 sweatshirts sold in six weeks, it humbled us. People weren’t just buying a sweatshirt — they connected with the care behind it: the embroidery, the original designs, the work of real hands. We took it as a sign to share that gift more widely. Today we’re blessed to produce apparel for other merchants to sell under their own names, and our wholesale line carries our work to stores far beyond our own.
Explore Wear As Directed Wholesale →Come See Us
Two stores, one hometown feeling.
Owensboro, Kentucky
The Scrub Shoppe
Our 12,000 sq ft flagship, workshop, and boutique — where it all still happens.
Open in Maps →Madisonville, Kentucky
MadCity Scrubs
Our second hometown store — the same service, the same care, a new community.
Open in Maps →Still here. Still grateful.
To God be the glory — and to the caregivers who show up every day, thank you for letting us serve you.