[joezydeco]

I'm guessing the surplus ran out. I would go to the Chicago area stores a lot and could easily recognize which companies were dumping spare/reject assemblies and other shrapnel related to their work. Those companies all moved to Mexico or Asia, so there's nothing left to dump.

[ghaff]

That sort of happened with Army surplus stores too for largely different reasons. Don’t even know of one around where I live any longer.

[gopher_space]

There's more competition and no real need for companies to do online or reserve sales of their surplus. They might have been able to place orders or holds previously.

[joezydeco]

The "surplus" at AS&S was more about manufacturing surplus. Spare parts and bulbs, loose switches and chips, wires, unpopulated PCBs with mystery origins, etc.