Today it is much easier to buy olives and olive oil. You can buy them at just about every grocery store. In antiquity it was likely that if you were middle class you were a farmer so you probably would be growing some portion of olives. If you didn't grow olives you would have to buy oil from a farmer. I went out to multiple grocery stores to look at what olive type products they offered. Every grocery store has olives and olive oil. Some nice stores even have all types of stuffed olives and some flavored olive oil. I visited four grocery stores to look at the selection. In order of least nice to nicest: Publix, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, and Morton's Gourmet Market. Each had some selection of olives and olive oil but some were extremely extensive.
The pictures above are from Morton's Market in Sarasota, FL. They had an extensive collection of olive oils, as well as the olive bar and the stuffed olives above
At Whole Foods they also had a massive olive bar with every kind of olive you could want. They had the largest selection of olive oil too.
At Publix there was a lot of olive oil and a few pasta salads and olive dishes for purchase.
Trader Joe's didn't have any olive dishes or an olive bar, but in addition to a large selection of olive oil they had a few flavored oils as well.
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