Most stores bought from candy or tobacco wholesalers. So if the manager or owner of a store didn't want a particular series of sort of pack they didn't buy them. With many places today being chains those decisions are sometimes made at the main office.
When I ran a Cumberland farms (Late 83) there were no cards available to me at all. And the town I lived in only had one store that carried the last series of Star Wars cards.
In 73 I'd just moved to Western Mass. I think we had all 660 together, but we moved in sept 1, so it could have just been the high number packs that included the other series. I don't recall the team checklists in 73.
Of course our area was odd. The 75 minis were supposedly not issued anywhere near us, but we had them briefly.
Steve B
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