Shawn's Blog

One of the basic principals of The Olive Oil Source is flexibility. We feel that the best service we can offer to our customers is to provide them with what they need and not require nor limit them to purchase everything from us. If they have a specific bottle they want to use that we don't carry or want to label bottles themselves, fine. If for example, they have a direct tie to an E.V.O.O. (or anything else) producer in another country and want to augment those products with ones we have, that's fine. There's no reason they shouldn't be...

One of the questions we get asked most often from potential new customers is what makes The Olive Oil Source different from our competitors. For me, what makes us different is what we are not. Virtually all of our competitors are people who have gotten into this business as merchants and bring a sales and marketing background to their businesses. For better or worse, we don't come from that background nor do we bring that mentality to the business. A perfect example of this is some of the E.V.O.O.s we're offering this year. Our Ascolano and Mission are coming from an...

Welcome to my blog. My name is Shawn Addison and I am the owner of The Olive Oil Source. I decided it would be a good idea to share some of what I do on a day to day basis. I want to show our customers the importance we place on quality in our business and why we are qualified to make the decisions we do. I don't want to bore you with an entire resume so here are some of the highlights of my background as they pertain to this business. Going way, way back, I have a masters from...